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by seadan83 2y ago
Drivers license or a hunting license are acceptable but student ID is not acceptable to vote does not make sense. Further, it is a superficially reasonable solution to a non-problem. Fwiw: "time and time again, voter photo ID laws are
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Totally. Combine with a nice sweater, a headset mic, a giant screen behind them, an audience and boom! Insta credibility. Looking like it is a TED talk is just as good as being a TED talk - and of course then all true! Deep expertise.. (may
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Did that work out well at all? Any silver lining? My first thought is: "branches" & "tags" - wow... Would branches/tags have just been easier to work with? Were they working with multiple services in a multi-rep
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by seadan83 2y ago
Big brick is a metaphor. Not compressed, but solid. Essentially enough plant matter that you can't walk through it, plant matter that is "solid" from ground to the tree branches. For example, on this site: http://
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by seadan83 2y ago
Oil production is at all time highs (AFAIL). Further, drilling locally for oil does not directly reduce local prices. It is still shipped abroad to the highest bidder. That is ignoring the refinement issues that not all oil is equal and nee
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by seadan83 2y ago
Any other notable events that happened in the 30s that could have driven deflation? Could tariffs be linked to that event? (To be less coy, the great depression occurred in the 1930s. Counter tariffs led to less exports, which further hurt
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by seadan83 2y ago
> indeed, there is more to your Nvidia stock than its counter value in USD With large percentage ownership, I agree. Namely board positions and votes. Failing that though, honest question, what is the value other than speculation (and th
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by seadan83 2y ago
While tempting to link the two, you really can't. Post-hoc rationalization fallacy. I've come to appreciate that all of Yahoo finance/stock news is true bullshit. Markov process, random fund manager deciding to move money, t
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by seadan83 2y ago
Interesting. Was the smoke less toxic? With lower populations, the smoke impacted less population? Is a large part of this the fact that fire supressiondid did not occur on industrial scale? How comparable is the situation? I've heard
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Most private owners are tree farms, right? Those burn like crazy. I've seen very few well managed tree farms, they do exist. Anecdotally, after observing several thousand linear miles of west coast forest, just a handful were well mana
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by seadan83 2y ago
Yes! Necessary for a number of trees to reproduce. Morelle mushrooms are another example, their spores are fire activated. Look fo them in burn areas the following spring. West coast trees evolved to drop their lower branches. They naturall
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by seadan83 2y ago
Can you provide more evidence that logging suppressed the modern super fires? It strikes me as implausible and unrelated: - fire fighting costs is now exponentially more AFAIK - that revenue from the 90s might not have gone back to forests
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by seadan83 2y ago
Not enforcing federal law is different from violating federal law. Marijuana legalization is more gray. ICE for sure is active even in so called sanctuary cities.
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by seadan83 2y ago
To your last paragraph - it's not just dead wood that is the issue - right? In CA, there is a lot of shrubbery that turns brown and grasses. Second, (west coast) forests that have not burned in a while look like a big brick of plant ma
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by seadan83 2y ago
Your point of stopping fire suppression has something to it. Though, 3 issues I see with complete disengagement: (1) there are whole towns that would burn down, avoidably so if some fires were not suppressed (2) modern fires are rangers and
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by seadan83 2y ago
Were the camp fire or the town of paradise burning down counter examples to your points? IIRC those were not terribly wealthy towns. Could you clarify? Second, how do you know it is just one million homes? I'm interested to learn more
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by seadan83 2y ago
Surprised bright morning late not mentioned. Camping usually resets circadian rhythm in as little as 3 days. Bright sun in the morning gets a person up with the birds, no lights at night puts a person to sleep. Artificially, similar can be
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by seadan83 2y ago
No, the onset of symptoms is several hours after exposure. There is no magic time per se of heating. Just get the pan hot enough.
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by seadan83 2y ago
Where is the quote from? Gravity exerts a force, therefore by newton's second law there is acceleration. Nothing says the acceleration is purely angular. The closer the pass to the planet, the greater the acceleration. Wiki explains it
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by seadan83 2y ago
Good points. I would go further and say it is the integral of emissions over time that we would be most concerned with. From that perspective, over the last 200 years - it is problem children, and rising problem childs.
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by seadan83 2y ago
FWIW (just to clarify on this one area if I may) >> There's no "fixed budget" of energy that is ethically ok to use. > Not even 0.00001 W? How is it ethical to live in the first place in such case? The idea of no fix
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by seadan83 2y ago
Thank you for adding the numbers (pretty sure the pdf issue is just me, old ass phone) The population density explanation makes sense. Though, that density is very unequally distributed. Factors like square area with fewer than X people (ho
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I stand corrected > Think about it, why would cargo have a higher priority than human traffic? My understanding was essentially it came down to who owned the tracks. More money in freight, more of it, hence priority given by private ente
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A lot of the former, which then makes it habit and also the latter too.
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There are several room options for the SEA to CHI train leaving tomorrow, Monday Oct 28th, from $600 to $1100 depending on room size. Them. Being booked six months out might be a misperception or dated, it seemed easy to find.
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by seadan83 2y ago
I'm quite positive freight just has right of way because of the rail ownership. Are you quite sure it is the other way round?
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Is a big problem for passenger trains in the US, freight has priority. Creates these long stops. Worse, if a passenger train is late, then suddenly it has to wait for a large unexpected and unplanned number of freight trains.
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Why? IMHO the best travel is not about how fast you can get there. Seeing the land from the ground is an immense experience. More so than a car since interstates are dug out, the land trains cross is amazing. Wild horses in the southwest, m
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by seadan83 2y ago
'Greenfield' as in the programmer terminology. Essentially a new location, untouched virgin land. Sorry to mix terminologies, that would have been ambiguous. Nitrogen pollution is from the nitrogen that blows and runs off of farms
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by seadan83 2y ago
Indeed - the fact they were cut down nearly to the point of extinction is something of a tragedy. The trees that replaced them are not fire resistant. Thus is counter evidence for the idea that humans need to be cutting down anything to imp

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