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by telchar 8y ago
An act which incidentally is credited as the most beneficial piece of US legislation to date in terms of addiction reduction and prevention.
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by telchar 8y ago
I've been very happy with the Audi DSG. Absolutely no complaints. Though when I need to pass on a narrow road sometimes I use the paddle to downshift before I hit the gas just to save the car from the split second it takes to realize I
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by telchar 8y ago
The people setting up doomsday bunkers should probably consider your point. I proposed a strategy they may resort to if they don't (or, as you say, even if they try).
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You could ask the same sorts of questions about why fiat money works (if this money has no intrinsic value why will the merchant give over his tangible products for it?). Yet people do terrible things for tyrants. I don't understand ex
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If we're considering doomsday scenarios here, the answer to your question lies in the traditional tactics of tyrants. Hypothetically, Zuckerberg is going to have family members of the people guarding him locked away somewhere as hostag
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by telchar 8y ago
I think dispersion plays into this. I could hardly live farther from my aunts/uncles/cousins if I tried (living within this country) and the same could be said for a large number of them. It's a lot harder to stay in touch at
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by telchar 8y ago
That really depends. I'm working sometimes on problems that physician researchers have been cranking away on for decades. We want to do better than their state of the art. That's not something you can throw a software engineer at.
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by telchar 8y ago
Don't know why you're getting downvoted for this - we have the same pain. We're not allowed to have a sysadmin or administer our own servers but IT is busy supporting thousands of non-computery-users. To them we're a fly
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by telchar 8y ago
When looking for data science jobs it's nice to know from the prospective hire side that your skills will be used well. Coming into a job only to find out you're way overqualified can be a downer, particularly in a field where you
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by telchar 8y ago
Sure, just offering an alternate opinion. Thanks for the links.
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Personally I find the "random shit on camera" is just fine, as long as the delivery is sufficiently appropriate. But my use case is usually to help me unwind and get to sleep so if the content is too interesting it's counter-
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by telchar 8y ago
I find the same thing about typically yelling-at-you advertisements, particularly when interspersed with ASMRey or otherwise non-bombastic content. Maybe we can do something about that (Google? You listening?).
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by telchar 8y ago
I call what you're referring to Hanlon's Safety Razor: Never attribute anything to malice. It seems like it deserves a name since in nearly any thread online involving a supposition of malice someone comes out of the woodwork with
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by telchar 8y ago
TFA discusses a natural experiment with water pipes. Cities near lead production centers tend to have lead pipes, so they compared cities with that characteristic and acidic water (which leaches lead into the water) and such cities without
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by telchar 8y ago
If you put one on a helicopter or drone you could sweep a large area quite quickly. That could be especially useful in situations where a person wasn't planning to be in the wilderness and thus would be more likely to have a phone on t
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by telchar 8y ago
I think you're underestimating the Tesla supercharger network. It basically solves both of those problems (if you have a Tesla) and live in the vicinity of one - if you don't live near one then it still solves the second issue. Th
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by telchar 8y ago
That's the point of the source you requested and I provided: there are some formulations of stainless steel that are actually kind of ok in salt water despite most being poor. No one is arguing that it's impossible to build a bear
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by telchar 8y ago
Here's a source for you that mentions that even some typical formulations of stainless steel are susceptible to corrosion in saltwater: https://www.clintonaluminum.com/304-stainless-steel-in-seawa...
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by telchar 8y ago
Nitpick, but 0.2KW/m^2/hr would be an acceleration, not a constant rate. You mean 0.2KW/m^2 - this is constant power output. W already includes a per-unit-time component. I'm nitpicky on this topic because of how many pr
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by telchar 8y ago
It's not that I want a terrible experience, it's that I can easily sort by price and I can't easily determine how comfortable a plane will be. Until a site allows me to sort by a weighted function of price and comfort it&#x27
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by telchar 8y ago
I think your point is easily solved with a capital gains deduction or marginal rate, where the first X of annual (or averaged annual) gains are exempted. So a person selling $50,000 (or whatever) or more would see a higher rate, thus people
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by telchar 8y ago
This is offtopic, but I have to point out that these sort of cynical pronouncements are somewhat dangerous. You are probably coming from a good place and trying to warn people about being too trusting, but I see a risk in these sort of stat
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by telchar 8y ago
That has nothing to do with the parent's question. Rising Chinese salaries don't cause executives to need more compensation than the did in the 70's relative to their (American) workers. If your point is that high American wo
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But you can reset it periodically with an all-consuming wildfire. I'm not sure how that fits into the analogy though...
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Personally, I'm already happily employed and have just started grad school (masters). My motivation, aside from being more competitive in the job market (I don't want to stay in this job forever), is that I enjoy challenges. But I
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by telchar 8y ago
Is it so crazy to want more tax to be collected, especially from the wealthiest who have recently benefited from a $1.5T tax cut? The federal deficit is in the vicinity of a trillion dollars per year currently. Any tax avoidance by gigantic
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by telchar 8y ago
Some biofuels, particularly corn ethanol, are bad for the environment. Given the low return on energy invested for corn ethanol, it's functionally a way to launder fossil fuels (e.g. diesel for tractors, natural gas for fertilizer prod
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by telchar 8y ago
Perhaps the presence of the virus causes the beta amyloid to be produced, or to not be cleared (because it's being used to trap the virus)? I'm no biologist but spitballing on why you might see a direct relationship vs an inverse
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Was he ever known to display any great amount of empathy? I don't know as much about him as many here I'm sure, haven't read the biography. But I have known people with BPD. If the answer to that question is no then I would t
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by telchar 8y ago
What's your evidence that those people are worse off having taken the psychedelics? You can't know the counterfactual isn't that those people who respond poorly to the drug would have had a similar mental break without it. Un

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