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by sgc 5y ago
Everybody else counts suicides. Also, not knowing your state I am willing bet there are confounding factors. The vast majority of firearm homicides are in urban areas. I am not going to be able to get the exact same figure as you since the
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by sgc 5y ago
If you are attempting to say that stricter guns laws lead to more firearm deaths, you would be quite wrong. California has one of the lowest rates per capita in the US. This law needs some improvements for sure, but here are the CDC stats f
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by sgc 5y ago
Made me chuckle. I know a guy who finds Netflix a total PITA and the streaming experience (sorely) lacking. So he pays for Netflix streaming and dvds, and then downloads what he wants to watch via torrents for the convenience.
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by sgc 5y ago
My edit was to indicate that the air burst might have been a distant inspiration for the Jericho story as well as the Sodom story. There are about 600-1000 years between event and writing by most estimates, so there was plenty of time for i
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by sgc 5y ago
That area is full of salt pillars. The geology served as an opportunity to create a moral and religious story. Could this have also influenced the story? Perhaps, but the salt pillars are quite large, obvious, and unique. Edit: I note that
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by sgc 5y ago
I don't know what the "correct" answer is (and highly doubt there is a one size fits all answer). But there are thousands of developers not using them as well, so this argument is not valid.
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by sgc 5y ago
No insurance required. It's a loss leader to get people into the store.
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by sgc 5y ago
Around here it's free and the pharmacy gives you a $5 coupon for getting it. They definitely see it as an easy way to get people through their doors.
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by sgc 5y ago
We want to be able to get natural light and air into the house. I can make a safe room if I need to, but this is an always-on threat and we can't respond with whole house unhealthy environments. Grounded metal (copper or aluminum) scre
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by sgc 5y ago
How big do windows / glass doors need to be before that is more or less compromised?
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by sgc 5y ago
I used to think that obviously coastal real estate would plummet in value after a few high profile losses. After this pandemic I no longer think it will happen except very, very slowly. But the beaches will be gone for perhaps centuries, th
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by sgc 5y ago
This is such a terrible argument. 1. You very well might never know you have. People with extreme views don't advertise them everywhere and at all times. 2. There is plenty of video evidence of literal crowds of such people in various
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by sgc 5y ago
Ok, I'll bite. I actually use it on my laptop I'm typing on. I installed it because it was basically ubuntu and I didn't feel like configuring themes at that time, and I didn't really care. However, I have long decided I
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by sgc 5y ago
But we are also running hepa filters inside for the same reason.
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by sgc 5y ago
Children under 12 are a major group that drop vaccination percentages down significantly everywhere. The hope is that once this age group can also be vaccinated, we can find the new normal and let people individually hedge their own bets.
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by sgc 5y ago
I received the same thing yesterday.
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by sgc 5y ago
They are mainly Federal lands and so it is mainly Federal policy and practice that would be to blame in the US for that aspect of the causes. But the most obvious international common denominator is hotter, drier, windier weather - although
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by sgc 5y ago
They can reduce that risk by having very long tubes that can be re-positioned from the surface using ships to take water from different locations while the currents replenish the other locations. Or just have several tubes to draw from. Lik
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by sgc 5y ago
Your comment made me chuckle because it started "I imagine" and then reached a "so" as a "therefore". Virtually every time you integrate anti-freeloading measures, everyone pays the price to catch a relatively
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by sgc 5y ago
They are contained by front door, which has a metal lattice to create a Faraday cage. Of course they drop off in open air, but leaking microwaves are not safe.
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by sgc 5y ago
They are not closed loop, they just push some water from the hot water line back down the cold line, where it will wind up back in the water heater and be used. They are no more prone to disease than you existing system.
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by sgc 5y ago
It's not that rare, I see it several times a year. It is presumed that all foundation bolts are shot after about 50 years on any foundation in terms of their seismic performance. If you pull out an old foundation from say the 1950s, th
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by sgc 5y ago
Do we have precedent for this? Can you truly not sue if you enter an agreement with someone to provide them with data that restricts their rights to use it, but the data is actually in the public domain? What about implicit agreements like
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by sgc 5y ago
For me their killer feature is ease and certainty of returns. If I am buying online I need to option to return items that are not as they appear, and Amazon offers that quite readily. So I think the major hurdle for other businesses is gett
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by sgc 5y ago
That is fair enough. However it would still backfire, because the general public can't listen to anything responsibly. If we report the vaccine is 99.5% effective at preventing serious illness, people will not listen to ANYTHING about
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by sgc 5y ago
Well this has gotten old. You stated that the current form of measurement was not very good. I pointed out that we care about transmission and mutation for long term eradication of the disease - hence the measurement that is used. It's
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by sgc 5y ago
If you have the virus in you, there is always potential for illness, transmission, and mutation. Even if chances are reduced, not getting it in the first place is better; and all else equal, a vaccine that does a better job of stopping infe
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by sgc 5y ago
Getting the disease is being infected. It is important that people not get it in the first place, so they can't transmit it to others.
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by sgc 5y ago
Preventing infection is very important in reducing spread of the disease to others. Vaccines in the end work best when we reach herd immunity, and that occurs by preventing most infection, and thus the possibility of mutation.
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by sgc 5y ago
Oh, all good then. Nothing to see here.

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