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by seadan83 3y ago
Why call this a "pipe" number? Anyone know the etymology?
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by seadan83 3y ago
> Unless you are so brainwashed (as many still are) that you think that the total lack of privacy and agency in modern America is both good, and somehow fitting to the intent of the Constitution as written. Please bring data when making
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by seadan83 3y ago
I'll repeat this ask - Do you have any examples where access to a given food was limited that was _not_ super contentious? I'm honestly not aware of any examples. > Oh your idea of “super contentious” is “got a vapid clickbai
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by seadan83 3y ago
The comment with citation you are responding to shows a clear down line. The year over year trend is pretty strong and goes back a couple decades now. Perhaps you are thinking of violent crime which did go up in 2020. That is also down in 2
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by seadan83 3y ago
> The second is seeing T in your equation as a fixed quantity and assuming people are rationally capable of solving that equation perfectly over time. I think this combines with #1, but I also suspect you've seen enough people who&#
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by seadan83 3y ago
I really appreciate your considered response and the dialog we are able to have. I don't think we actually disagree that much (perhaps only maybe on whether the war on drugs is worse than the drugs themselves); but overall we are at ri
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by seadan83 3y ago
> Where? Not in the US it’s not & it’s much more common to do so in the rest of the world too. I can't find personally any examples in the US where regulations that limited access to certain foods was not met with an unholy back
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by seadan83 3y ago
Limiting access to any kind of food AFAIK is extremely controversial! For starters there are the massive astro-turf campaigns that make a lot of noise. Beyond this, food regulation is catnip for the culture wars. > Taxes on sugar‐sweeten
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by seadan83 3y ago
Mandating treatment gets people into treatment, it does not mean they are treated. Detox centers (AKA treatment) are myopic, they get you detoxed but kick you back out to your shitty life that made you do drugs in the first place. Follow up
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by seadan83 3y ago
> There may have been better strains available, but I sure couldn’t get my hands on them. The point is those strains certainly did exist. You are right to point out they were not as prevalent though. > the enormously increased availab
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by seadan83 3y ago
Sorry to pile in a bit, it's tough as there is a lot to comment on. > "I read comments like this almost every time SpaceX is mentioned here, and climate crisis extremists bang on about it endlessly. It’s impossible to ignore, i
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by seadan83 3y ago
So, let's see the hard evidence of how thoroughly the problem of launching rockets has been studied. What percentage of the SpaceX budget is dedicated to studying why SpaceX should not launch rockets? Journalists are great, but it&#x27
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by seadan83 3y ago
I'll note that exploring space is very different from commercializing space. > You really honestly think you’re the first person, or this is the first time anyone has stopped to wonder about it? I don't think that, I didn'
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by seadan83 3y ago
I like how y'all are thinking the complexity was in the web crawling. It was actually just a simple act of crawling over source files! Amazon was looking to remove their customer support phone numbers from all web pages (to save money,
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by seadan83 3y ago
I am not sure where to start with on this article. There are a lot of extraneous and tired points being trotted out that really clouds the underlying point. Essentially the point I took is some people could use serious help, and they get la
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by seadan83 3y ago
I was once asked in an Amazon interview a famous problem of theirs, find all phone numbers on their website. This was a real world problem they ran into. The first engineer there went about it in java, took days and pages of code (and still
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by seadan83 3y ago
[1] is interesting as an approximation. The source of electricity is really important for EV. If more teslas are in a place with clean energy, it could be even better. Though, everyone that bought a tesla, they would have bought a gas vehic
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by seadan83 3y ago
Generally for EVs it matters where the electricity comes from. (From memory), coal fired electricity has a EV break even at 110k miles, hydro power break even is down at 20k. (I'm on a phone, but can try to dig out the article that loo
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by seadan83 3y ago
Evaluations from SpaceX employees needs the biggest grain of salt. Their jobs depend on a certain result and their boss is notoriously pushy. Journalists are not scientists. Did you mean FAA rather than FCA? The FAA did ask SpaceX to do a l
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by seadan83 3y ago
I applaud the attempt to quantify. Couple nits: - frequency estimate should be more aggressive, should be looking for an upper bound on all numbers to quantify max potential impact. I would crank that up to once a day or more. - a hole allo
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by seadan83 3y ago
TL;DR: (1) In terms of global impact, the amount recycled is in some ways completely irrelevant (namely, recycling does nothing for the pollution that never even makes it into the waste disposal system to begin with). It's overall far
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by seadan83 3y ago
> That doesn't mean that recycling has "backfired". It did because it made people think that recycling was the best and most effective thing they could do out of the 3 R's, to the point where there is not the emphasis
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by seadan83 3y ago
I feel the same way about getting an AC and have held off until I also can get solar panels. Is that an option for you?
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by seadan83 3y ago
Fwiw, The jet stream circumnavigates the globe, there are multiple as well https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/global/jet-stream
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by seadan83 3y ago
> If you add 3x as many normal cars on the road the traffic incidents would increase in the same way! Are you sure? In a lot of cases you would get traffic jams. The rate of incidents in a traffic jam are likely different from non-traffi
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by seadan83 3y ago
I used to badmouth the MBAs at tech companies to no end, that they don't get it, just do management planning porn, aren't around for the consequences, favor sounding good over being substantive, and generally could all be fired. I
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by seadan83 3y ago
Having joy & wonder from what you build (and the value it provides) I believe is tangential to work-life balance. Why is work-life balance pertinent when the question is: "can we stop focusing on being 'productive' and fo
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by seadan83 3y ago
I'm not sure you have brought that reason. A sample size of 3 where only one did better than "fairly well" would not be my reason to advocate for "Agile" to be the "industry standard." Across my sample siz
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by seadan83 3y ago
Trying to engage more constructively... Do you think that this is essentially a scare-piece (and is no way supported by the relatively limited data that is available [which is a concern in of itself])? Second question, what if the word &#x2
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by seadan83 3y ago
I think that is a touchy angle. The statement is probably better as "most people shouldn't need a car" The touchy part is be ause the logic often goes, because 100% can't get off cars, the necessary infrastructure to all

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