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by tbihl 10y ago
I may be alone on this, but I assume that the de-prioritization of safety is a learned behavior. I don't check a town before I move to see if their water is potable (never lived in Michigan) because that's been a reliable guarante
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I'm guessing the value of concise texts depends upon your learning style. Personally, I like to read beforehand and mull over topics so that I can engage my professor in class, rather than just trying to keep up. This would be extremel
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This also tracks with lower obesity rates in cities and other places where walking is a fact of life. I didn't actually think there was anything informative about the article. It was just a prominent name stuck on what we already knew
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Is each antenna directional, or do routers only gain directionality with multiple antennas? I'm amazed that they can get such precise beamforming with only four or six antennas (maybe they didn't even have that many antennas in 20
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by tbihl 10y ago
But it would take an enormous volume of nitrogen to achieve significant positive buoyancy when the nitrogen is enclosed by much of anything. Air's mass is 28.97g/mol, vs. 28g/mol for N2. So, based on my vague recollection of
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by tbihl 10y ago
When I saw this title, the thing that jumped onto my head was child car seats. Beyond infant seats, child seats don't provide any significant benefit over sitting in the back with a seatbelt. The difference between those two is an ofte
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by tbihl 10y ago
I buy your argument that we value children too highly in relation to adults, but I think the connection to religion is under-formed at best. If nothing else you need greater specificity of blame: surely there's a common theme with high
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by tbihl 10y ago
For that, I recommend living in older neighborhoods and trying to get involved in re striping streets narrower. Cars speeding are a clear sign that the speed limit doesn't match the road design. When you make drivers feel uncomfortable
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by tbihl 10y ago
Well, I grew up in a small town of 20000 in Virginia, and I don't think things are, or were, like this at all. When I go home, I see children arrive at the YMCA to play basketball unaccompanied. They also arrive at the library alone. W
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by tbihl 10y ago
>I would really like to see silicon valley startups that offer a new and better forms of local government. I would like to see our political system get improved by disruption. I really believe politicians are vastly overpaid for the non-
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by tbihl 10y ago
Lol, I meant that I need the energy consumption of walking to support my carb-eating habit. I can handle the time commitment of eating mostly. As to the policy questions, I admit that I don't know how to solve that one. I know a start
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by tbihl 10y ago
In what way could this comment possibly be worthy of a down vote? It's complete and thought-provoking.
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I remember when I realized in my introductory circuits class that all the problems were just puzzles, and sleep beats the hell out of studying when it comes to preparing for puzzles.
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by tbihl 10y ago
Maybe parent is saying (7 working+ 1 lunch)*5 days as a 35 hour week.
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The constraint isn't the amount of raw land, but rather the necessity of productive density if we are to afford the level of public services that most of us are accustomed to. I have nothing against people living in sparsely populated
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by tbihl 10y ago
To take this a step further, you don't even have to be in a substantial city to get the walkable atmosphere. Granted you'll suffer a smaller variety of restaurants, but there are towns of just 10k or 20k that manage to get things
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by tbihl 10y ago
I think I must miss the point of articles like this. Is this author trying to warn us of downward spirals he's seen? Impart his priorities upon us? There are a lot of articles here that try to isolate and analyze pivotal traits or habi
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by tbihl 10y ago
I'm committed to my job for about the next six years, having already been in it about five years already. The people are great, the mission is pretty good, and the culture has some strong aspects. Having said that, I'm squirreling
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by tbihl 10y ago
My least popular comment ever was downvoted for trying to point out the problem with assuming that the people who fought against the healthcare bill are the same ones who hate the idea of SS/Medicare reform. Are we really so camp-y in
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by tbihl 10y ago
Whenever I find that happening on a comment, I comment on it to call people out. That seems to slow the decline (and judging from my points, people seem to appreciate it.)
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by tbihl 10y ago
First of all, it makes no sense if you've mandated the specifications of the product being sold via legislation. Having said that, a huge benefit would be the ability to buy insurance: actual insurance, in which you're paying a su
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by tbihl 10y ago
A family friend, who was at the time the chief neurosurgeon of a significant Canadian hospital, pointed out once back in the late 80s, "America will never make single payer work because you won't be able to place a cut off where y
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by tbihl 10y ago
The same people: "those barbarians over there," no matter where you're standing.
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Can you explain? I'm familiar with the mechanics and abilities, but probably not the tactics.
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by tbihl 10y ago
It seems like a good article overall, though I'm skeptical of some of his assumptions, and a few of his characterizations are decidedly more sinister than I think is warranted.
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by tbihl 10y ago
The generalization was stated as an absolute, and that's why you're getting well-deserved objection. On your second point: it is true that the students are not chained down and kept from self-study, but some might say that school
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by tbihl 10y ago
You may also be interested to know that there has been, for much of the recent past, a significant tax incentive to buy large SUVs (actually more to finance them.) If GWVR> 6000 lb., you could expense $25k, vs only $11k for smaller vehic
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by tbihl 10y ago
I'm responding because I hate when people think that down-voting is a signal for disagreement, and because I think half of your second statement can be addressed. State ownership of capital is the definition of socialism. In as much as
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I only spent a semester in another country (in Madrid), but I felt that the lessons were not all that challenging, but they were thorough. Meaning, in my courses there we were expected to know a lot, but once we knew that material we weren&
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by tbihl 10y ago
I'm in no way knowledgeable, but when I was younger, I remember my dad, who ran compliance at a financial planning/ life insurance place, frequently complaining about how much shady shit people could get away with because it was r

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