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by valarauko 4y ago
What's the 'ghost bus' phenomena? I'm in NYC and don't use Google Maps.
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by valarauko 4y ago
> 4. Service changes are accurate and automatically included in the routing I'm not sure if this is the case with Citymapper. Transit does offer alternatives, but I don't think I've ever encountered this with Citymapper, i
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by valarauko 4y ago
I think Transit works great for status updates for buses or trains you're already familiar with. If I'm travelling an unfamiliar route, it's always Citymapper. Plus the fact that Citymapper suggests which part of the train to
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by valarauko 4y ago
Transit's UI is superior to any other comparable app, but I find CityMapper's routes superior (at least in NYC). I've also had issues with Transit surfacing incorrect bus routes based on cancelled buses (but scheduled) which
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by valarauko 4y ago
Lots of countries have "Romeo & Juliet Laws" that decriminalizes sex with minors if both parties are within a few years of each other. For example, France has the age of consent at 15, and decriminalizes sex with under 15s if
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by valarauko 4y ago
> I'd be fine with "no minor on social media" < 16. I think is pretty broad, but do you suggest no depictions of under 16s on any online media? It's one thing to restrict minors from participating on social media,
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by valarauko 4y ago
My discomfort arises from centering this on the idea of a child's consent. While I admit your point makes sense, it also feels like a slippery slope - "No Chris Hansen, she was one of those rare breeds of 15-year-olds who is capab
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by valarauko 4y ago
> That should almost be illegal in my opinion since the child can't consent. Genuine Q: at what point can the child consent? A lot of people here are talking about a media blackout of their children since the child can't consen
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by valarauko 4y ago
The Stop & Shop app also has recipes that can add ingredients to the shopping cart. In addition, the app gives you 3 levels of pricing for ingredients: budget, regular, and premium.
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by valarauko 4y ago
https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/144263153022495948...
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by valarauko 4y ago
The field has advanced incredibly since then - uniparental markers like mitochondria or Y are a helpful clue, but we have so much genome wide information now. Indian population genetics is still in its infancy, though, since Indian governme
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by valarauko 4y ago
If you have the raw sequence, services like yfull.com can help provide more detailed information. At this point, new haplotypes are being called every month. When I sequenced my own haplotype about 20 years ago (I was in the Indian lab part
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by valarauko 4y ago
I think there's a material difference between Hyatt refusing to host an event, and banning individuals for social proximity.
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by valarauko 4y ago
... not that Coke Zero has erythritol
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by valarauko 4y ago
The linked article gives a reasonable possibility: Jody Herman, the paper’s lead author, told Spectrum News there are several reasons for the jump in the youth transgender population estimate, including that the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavio
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by valarauko 4y ago
I think there are a couple of different things at play with espresso beans in regard to aging. Flavor compounds: my understanding is that flavor compounds continue to develop post roast, with the consensus suggesting that 5–10 days post roa
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by valarauko 4y ago
tbf the Hario V60 can be exacting, and is sensitive to technique. It makes repeating from cup to cup difficult - more so than the Chemex. I've used a V60 almost every day for the last 10 years, and I admit that I've gotten some ve
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by valarauko 4y ago
Not my experience at all, at least with pourovers. Others have done blind taste tastes with beans upto 6 months out from the roast date (light roasts), which seem indistinguishable on pourovers and immersion brewing. The taste tests suggest
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by valarauko 4y ago
> In other words, mantle plumes are parts of the mantle that are hotter than the other identically composed mantle around them. The parent's link suggests that alternate views exist, that the mantle plumes are indeed chemically dist
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by valarauko 4y ago
Out of curiosity, how does a flat tax country like Estonia manage incentives? It's the main thing that balloons the US tax policy - not by design, but for whatever convoluted quirks of history the US has settled on using tax incentives
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by valarauko 4y ago
I'd seen recommendations on here in the past for FreeTaxUSA so used that for the first time this year - already got my refund as well! It's free for federal filing, and $15 for each state filing. The interface is easy enough to un
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by valarauko 4y ago
I found it took some curating to get the algorithm to what you're interested in - like videos you enjoy, and aggressively mark videos you don't (hold and select "not interested"). In my experience, by the end of day, the
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by valarauko 4y ago
Agree with everything you're saying. For what it's worth, the concerns about the high fluoride in groundwater are almost entirely about unborn infants - adults seem to suffer no severe issues from drinking it. With teeth, high flu
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by valarauko 4y ago
Tangential anecdote: I had a co-worker in India who grew up in a region with excessive naturally occurring fluoride in the groundwater. As a result, he had blotchy dark brown teeth - not stained, the substructure of the teeth were brown all
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by valarauko 4y ago
Out of curiosity, why would growing up on bottled water lead to terrible dental outcomes? I grew up in India, where the water supply isn't fluoridated, and I didn't see dental health that was significantly worse than the US. We pr
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by valarauko 4y ago
> That women are taught that this is a biological imperative is astonishingly ignorant of human history. I'm confused as to what you're referring to here - breastfeeding, or wet nurses? Or that only the biological mother can fe
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by valarauko 4y ago
I think one of the major advantages of ggplot2 is the ecosystem - often somebody has already implemented the figure type I'm looking for as a ggplot2 extension. This is not to say that ggplot2 or R are capable of plots that can't
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by valarauko 4y ago
> The reason the Indian government is afraid is because they know the secular Southern India will secede if they found out they're ruled by a religious North Indian madman who killed 750-2000 Muslims. This is a bizarre characterizat
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by valarauko 4y ago
> 50k salaries in NYC. Even at 60k its basically poverty pay, and you need a Masters!!! While I agree with you, I would suggest there are plenty of people in NYC who are just as qualified and get paid even less. For example, grad student
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by valarauko 4y ago
I know that the matplotlib API combines two distinct styles, but it is little comfort when I'm struggling to wrangle a plot. To this day, I have to look up the API to do anything even slightly non-standard. Contrast with ggplot in R wh

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