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by swalling 3y ago
Gestures might seem trivial but depending on context cultural miscommunication here can have deadly results. For example, the Middle Eastern hand gesture for "stop" is totally different than American hand signals. The confusion pr
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by swalling 3y ago
The actual data is that SF has unusually higher rates of property crime compared to other major cities. https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francis...
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by swalling 3y ago
Not all companies have public share prices, first off, since only about 1% of all incorporated entities are publicly traded. Secondarily, well-run public companies do not focus their teams on the share price in the short term. They focus on
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by swalling 3y ago
There are two common categories of SEV0 in goatherding: 1. Escaped goat. Goats are amazing climbers and there is really not a fence invented that can defeat them if motivated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkuNn8iXOwM 2.
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by swalling 3y ago
If you have to seriously worry about bugs becoming public you fucked up big time. Having ridden in their cars with the self-driving mode, it's obvious that Tesla simply makes shoddy, unsafe vehicles. Trying to hide the issues rather th
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by swalling 3y ago
> Literally every company in the world wants to avoid creating a record of defects. No. The most effective companies in the world are the ones with the fastest feedback loops, and in the absence of directly measuring customer use of the
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by swalling 3y ago
Conservation groups like the Mountain Lion Foundation or the Sierra Club are legitimately terrible at advocating for balanced, holistic solutions. They’re the literal definition of special interest groups. There should be alignment of inter
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by swalling 3y ago
The simple answer is that either we pay for them using the money we would have spent on controlled burning, or we give away the grazing rights for free at least. Most ranchers who do brush control grazing get paid for doing so. This is the
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by swalling 3y ago
Source on the fact that CA backstops earthquake insurance? I have heard over and over again that earthquake insurance isn’t worth the exorbitant price because the carriers will be bankrupt in any actual catastrophic quake.
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by swalling 3y ago
The simple reality is that not only does human incompetence get in the way of safety here, but burns probably just aren't a very viable option. Historical controlled burns ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Amer
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by swalling 3y ago
The entire annual plan is public. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_... (The "infrastructure" goal is the one related to engineering).
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by swalling 3y ago
This kind of campaign is overblown. They mention the topic of the Gaza flotilla raid in the video. If you read the actual article on this topic, it's pretty balanced, and mentions in the introduction that Israel was condemned by the UN
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by swalling 3y ago
> Basically any change you make it insta-reverted by some bot or over-zealous power-crazed editor. You sound like someone who was pushing a particular point of view about politics, which is precisely the kind of edits that are set up for
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by swalling 3y ago
You’d have to look at the annual per capita numbers. Anyway I agree it’s possible cars today are way more deadly. We have no way of knowing, but we know for sure that it wasn’t all wine and honey pre automobile.
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by swalling 3y ago
One indicator is that horseback riding today is one of the most dangerous things you can do. The injury rate for recreational riding is higher than American football, car racing, and skiing. https://tsaco.bmj.com/content&#x2
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by swalling 3y ago
> They crowd streets, belch carbon, bifurcate communities, and destroy the urban fabric. Will we ever overcome our addiction? Betteridge's law of headlines says no. Even extremely well-planned and progressive cities like Portland (w
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by swalling 3y ago
From https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/business/elizabeth-holmes... : At one point, I tell her that I heard Jennifer Lawrence had pulled out of portraying her in a movie. She replied, almost reflectively
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by swalling 3y ago
The prevalence of psychopathy is significantly higher among white collar managers than the general population (4% vs. 1% according to one of the few empirical studies https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002
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by swalling 3y ago
My real guess would be illegal fishing boats. https://galapagosconservation.org.uk/about-galapagos/conserv...
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by swalling 3y ago
Direct link to the video: https://www.facebook.com/galapagoswhaleshark/videos/45772650... Sounds primeval, though I’m sure it’s actually something boring like a jet ski passing overhead.
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by swalling 3y ago
Recently Wikipedia editors in Belarus and Saudi Arabia have been jailed —in one case sentenced to 32 years— for editing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_imprisoned_for_... The Wikimedia Foundation resists
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by swalling 3y ago
Toyota owners: you can opt out of this data collection in their app or by calling them. https://support.toyota.com/s/article/Can-I-optout-of-Toyot-1... Unfortunately as far as I can tell it only actually stops aft
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by swalling 3y ago
This is pretty much bunk. https://trainright.com/is-ultrarunning-bad-for-long-term-hea... You can have serious acute injuries from running via physical accidents or mismanagement of hydration. You can also die driving to
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by swalling 3y ago
Perhaps shockingly, African hunter gatherers and sedentary Western office workers have the same daily energy expenditures as far as we know. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405064/ In other word
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by swalling 3y ago
Dag is amazing but he's probably not the world's oldest ultrarunner. Bernd Heinrich is 83 and recently wrote a whole book (highly recommend) about running and aging, Racing the Clock. There's also the Bay Area legend Eldrith
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by swalling 3y ago
Headline is "Tech Workers Aren't as Rich as They Used to Be" and to save you a click, the TL;DR: is the death of ZIRP erased the inflated paper value of public and private tech stocks. Key takeaway here is you should never pl
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by swalling 3y ago
Do the napkin math on how many of the residents (don't forget children and old people) in your neighborhood bike year round vs. the number who use a car daily. Being on a bike seeing the few other people who bike in the rain is a form
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by swalling 3y ago
We’ve already seen that vehicles like the Canta are abysmal failures in America. Smart Cars finally exited the US and Canada market in 2019 after years of poor sales. Meanwhile, cargo bike sales are climbing steadily.
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by swalling 3y ago
OP suggested that the solution should be to regulate in favor of cars like the one in the link. This is totally unrealistic and wrongheaded idea, because there are real use cases and needs that drive the decision to purchase larger, faster
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by swalling 3y ago
The typical household != the typical new car buyer. The average age of a car buyer is decades older than the average American, and >90% of them own their home. So they're likely to either be families or elderly. https://h

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