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by smcin 3y ago
"demurred", if you prefer. "objected". "expressed concern". "pushed back". Your choice of verb.
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by smcin 3y ago
> they will aggressively try to remove your property rights from it.... similar to the NYC squatters rights thing. I think that's bad-faith reading of the quote from one arborist, not the CA Governor or Treasurer or Dept Director
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by smcin 3y ago
But they only had two films to base it on; they would have had to make that decision a few months after the RotJ scene filming ended but before it released. And presumably since the forest was privately-owned, somebody would have had to pay
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by smcin 3y ago
Hey that's nasty, it's nice road-trip material, redwoods, coast, historical towns; Mendocino to the south, and Oregon to the north. Some people live there by choice. You know you've been in SV too long when your first associa
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by smcin 3y ago
Yes, Muir Woods rejected them, they're a National Monument under the NPS, and rarely allow commercial filming anyway, and the article says they freaked out at the request for pyrotechnics. Whereas the Del Norte forest was land privatel
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by smcin 3y ago
(That maps shows that film location and many others, almost all right off Highway 101: E.T. (1982), Outbreak (1995), The Tree of Life (2011), The Majestic (2001), After Earth (2013), the canoe chase scene from Last of The Mohicans (1936)...
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How the California forest that was Endor in 'Return of the Jedi' was obliterated (2022)(sfgate.com)
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by smcin 3y ago
Belated 2022 article, just stumbled over this one. The forest was in Del Norte County, the northwestern tip of California; also Humboldt County. Many people wrongly think it was filmed in Muir Woods, Marin County (close to ILM), which the f
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by smcin 3y ago
Jordbruksverket = Swedish Board of Agriculture
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by smcin 3y ago
> The highway patrol recently contracted Flock Safety to install the cameras, which appear to use a wide array of high-tech features that go beyond simply reading motorists’ license plates. The cameras feature “improved vehicle recogn
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by smcin 3y ago
Not really, who said the residents are the only potential bidders? Public or private museums or collectors might be interested. 1868-1990s covers almost the entire history of California as a state, the photos alone shoule be interesting. In
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by smcin 3y ago
Or if you're too lazy to install the emulator, just play it from his webpage: https://steve.fi/software/lighthouse/
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by smcin 3y ago
Restorative Justice means different things in different [US] states and counties, for different types of crime, it depends on whether the state's attitude to felony convictions and expungement is medieval or not (like in FL, KY), and t
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by smcin 3y ago
No, parent means "going public [about their polyamorous relationship]".
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by smcin 3y ago
Without a copy of the book, I don't remember which parts were based on Kahneman’s own work, and I don't see that we can/should just skip the other chapters. R-index guys said [0]: "Table 1 shows the number of results tha
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by smcin 3y ago
If you google "Which Kahneman claims were wrong" , here are the first two of 4.97m hits" https://slate.com/technology/2016/12/kahneman-and-tversky-re... https://replicationindex.com
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by smcin 3y ago
No, the less cynical take is it says "the second half of the book drags on and you can skip most of those chapters." Which has been generically true of much business nonfiction for decades now. How people choose to apply that know
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by smcin 3y ago
Sure, but be sure to check they're vaguely objective, not just shills, compensated reviewers or affiliates.
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by smcin 3y ago
Not just self-important, but the anecdotes are designed to be bite-sized to be easily retellable, like the 2016 NYT Abraham Wald/ beware survivorship bias on graphing bulletholes on WWII airplanes viz which locations were more damaging
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by smcin 3y ago
"How to skim a privacy policy to spot red flags" https://archive.is/QSiLh Useful article
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by smcin 3y ago
What's the one-line on that: there is consensus that Shapefile is on its way out but no consensus on its successor, not GeoPackage or anything else? Where can we simply see as of today, what % of geospatial files in use are Shapefile,
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by smcin 3y ago
Except nobody uses them. Another previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33935140
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by smcin 3y ago
Yes the LibreOffice CSV import dialog showing you a what-if preview of what you'd get as you play with different settings, is pure amazing.
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by smcin 3y ago
> for geospatial data... GeoPackage was "the Format of the Future" 8 years ago What's the current consensus? Can you link to a summary article? (Some still say GeoPackage is: https://mapscaping.com/shapef
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by smcin 3y ago
Well what would be a more accurate title? "CSV format should only be for external interchange or archival; columnar formats like Parquet or Arrow better for performance"? People are busy; instead of hinting "something more ro
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by smcin 3y ago
> That being said my workstation is pretty big and can handle 10s of gigs of csv before I care. How much RAM do you have? What's the ratio of [smallest CSV file which bottlenecks]/[your RAM]?
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by smcin 3y ago
In the podcast: 14m28s: comparing historical GDP data and [national-team] soccer goals Also book: Stefan Szymanski, "Football economics and policy" (2010) https://www.google.com/books/edition/Football_Eco
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by smcin 3y ago
I found the episode, but although it cited some sources, can't see an actual publication with that finding, but other sources plus some plausible conjecture by people who are fairly informed: Freakonomics Radio Episode #338 "How t
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by smcin 3y ago
It's fun and clever, but is it true?!?! [or if you think it doesn't matter whether it's true and replicable, it's great salon chatter material, but that wouldn't be science, it would be something above Malcolm Gla
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by smcin 3y ago
> "freeloading and relying on the U.S. to protect them from everything?" The US famously has routinely run a billion-dollar deficit in its dues to the UN since the late 1980s through the early 2000s [0][1][2], and then again

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