stmfreak

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by stmfreak 9y ago
There is only actual damage if you are exceptionally unlucky. Almost everyone speeds to varying degrees, with wildly successful runs of luck. Ergo, speeding is not a crime, it is an easy revenue target for greedy municipalities with overpai
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by stmfreak 9y ago
This is as much a marketing press release as an interim report on the efficacy of HPV vaccinations. For the points you mention as well as the 70+ lifespan ahead of vaccine recipients.
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by stmfreak 9y ago
I prefer being stuck in traffic than sitting on the pissy seats of public transportation. Waiting in the rain for my connection downwind from the smokers. Standing on the train because some piss soaked bum is sprawled across two seats... th
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by stmfreak 9y ago
Many people think the current buzz in AI is about intelligent machines instead of highly repeatable pattern recognition. I suspect we are several major advancements away from sentient machines and in a few years the buzz over ML will die do
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by stmfreak 9y ago
More likely this story is designed to undermine natural pro-gun sentiment amongst U.S. Citizens who we can now dismiss as being influenced by Russian Twitter bots. This is the same tactic used to explain Trump's victory in the election
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by stmfreak 9y ago
I don't have a problem with Chicago enacting gun free zones and stopping all people and vehicles entering the city for cavity searches to stop the flow of weapons. I think it would be an illuminating experiment.
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by stmfreak 9y ago
Even if it were the same schools, year after year?
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by stmfreak 9y ago
Black Mirror did an episode on the consequences of voting for truth. Or was that The Orville? In any case, Lott is using data to support the unpopular side of the gun control debate. It is not surprising to find a gazillion hit pieces under
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by stmfreak 9y ago
Also, residents of East Nowhere tend to carry guns and shorten the careers of professional muggers dramatically.
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by stmfreak 9y ago
Except that over half of those 0.05% of murder victims lived in close proximity to one another Uber similar socioeconomic conditions. It is very much correlated with geography, which is why people pay absurd prices to live in areas with red
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by stmfreak 9y ago
I find it difficult to understand how taking money from people who earned it, even if used to "forgive" loans borrowed with expectation of repayment, is a means to increase economic activity. How is this different than the broken
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by stmfreak 9y ago
I believe the moral of the story is that with education and encouragement, kids should not get dehydrated enough to ever require an IV.
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by stmfreak 9y ago
Agreed. Hard to sue from the grave. Keep asking for second opinion. By the time most people go to the doctor it is getting serious.
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by stmfreak 9y ago
There are not any clear signs. Normal flu is the same as deadly flu, until it is not. That is the frightening part. We are helpless against bad luck.
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by stmfreak 9y ago
You are also dealing with low volume fabrication which means setup and tooling costs don't amortize across many components. I wouldn't be surprised if they cost $1M each.
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by stmfreak 9y ago
To be fair, most of that strategy is inherited from healthy cell function. As your body grows and cells become further removed from blood supply, they have to send out a demand signal to encourage vascularization of the under supplied regio
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by stmfreak 9y ago
I don't think training on ethics is required, nor would it be sufficient if not accompanied by a substantial change in accountability. Today's police are virtually untouchable. They know it, and act accordingly.
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by stmfreak 9y ago
Some might call that money "enabling."
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by stmfreak 9y ago
I've come to realize that hard work is not what we get paid to do from 9-5 each working day, but what we choose to do with our spare time that either improves or degrades our position in life. And it is the thousands of choices from ea
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by stmfreak 9y ago
So if it all melts, we could see 1200ppm? That doesn't sound that scary.
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by stmfreak 9y ago
The article claims there are fewer cars entering the city than a year ago and yet traffic has gotten worse! Seems we can predict the outcome of additional incentives against driving: even worse traffic!
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by stmfreak 9y ago
And yet the MSM and politicians repeatedly suggest using the TSA's no-fly list to deny people their 2nd amendment right to weaponry.
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by stmfreak 9y ago
This only reveals further the complete joke that is the TSA. Protecting us from small-time importers of counterfeit goods? Oh my!
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by stmfreak 9y ago
The real killer is that the $64B total project cost was the initial estimate. And costs are now up 77%! So we are likely north of $100B total cost. And bond repayments triple that to $300B over 30 years. Funds which are currently being dive
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by stmfreak 9y ago
Fools placing animals rights over human property rights will be coming after meat next.
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by stmfreak 9y ago
Just goes to show how little the FDA can even imagine to protect us against.
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by stmfreak 9y ago
Came here to say exactly this. Thanks. Researched this years ago with our first child and discovered that most of the FUD about U.S. infant health care boiled down to honest reporting by the U.S.
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by stmfreak 9y ago
They've gone back to the beginning and redesigned from the ground up what a website should truly feel like.
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by stmfreak 9y ago
That was one guy amongst 536 politicians. And he lost because a corrupt system scuttled his campaign.
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by stmfreak 9y ago
But why?

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