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by xyzzyz 4y ago
The article you linked seems to quibble on what “old growth” means. Apparently, they only consider something to be “old-growth” if it’s both old and big . According to BC government, however, a quarter of BC is old growth. And, apparently,
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
That’s not what the linked article says.
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The article says that they only burned waste from logging process. This might be unclear, because the article is written in a (probably purposefully) confusing way, but they very much did not cut and ground up massive old growth timber for
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
This is extremely strange article from American perspective, but it probably hits British sensibilities. As I understand it, a company got a logging license in BC, cut down a square mile of forest, sold most of the logs to a lumber company
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> I have yet to see good evidence IQ tests measure anything more than "how good at IQ tests you are", See, for example, Schmidt, F. L., & Hunter, J. (2004). General Mental Ability in the World of Work: Occupational Attainm
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> IMO, the only way to move forward is to correct past wrongs by heavily investing in affected communities economically and afa education and health. As if we hadn't been doing that for past 60 years, with extremely underwhelming (i
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
You are not tied to the company for healthcare. You are tied to a company. This means that healthcare is not much of a leverage to keep you tied to any particular company. Similarly, I am not required to go through the company in order
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> In locations of significant fall out the Sv./hr could be high enough to induce radiation poisoning. Yes, but those won’t be the vast red marked areas on the map you posted, it will be much more localized. > A better example tha
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Your theory is that fallout will kill more people than the explosions themselves. Let’s test it on Hiroshima and Nagasaki explosions, each of which causes immediate casualties on the order of 100 000 people. Did the fallout from each of th
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> The big fear isn't being a target. There are very few areas that would not be completed irradiated by substantial fallout taken by the winds. Airbursts would magnify this effect. It's safe to assume that in any real cook off
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> [Intuitionism] and constructivism are a much better framework for reasoning about mathematics. Just for the sake of non-mathematicians, allow me to note here that despite intuitionism/constructivism being around for many decades,
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Ukraine invasion showed that Russia really doesn’t need much in a way of excuse to start a war. I don’t understand why people talk about “casus beli” as if life today was Europa Universalis game. When power want to start a war, they do.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
They are in fact basically never used for clandestine violence in places where they are legal (which is most of the US). On the other hand, there is a clear legitimate use of them: protection of hearing when you are shooting your own guns
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
He is making fun of California laws prohibiting suppressors being idiotic.
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> Using that approach, they developed an alloy with higher ultimate tensile strength and vastly higher (x1000) resistance to creep at high temperatures (1100 C) compared to the best available superalloys That sounds really cool. Do you t
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
What a great example. Only reason this did not happen is because the Supreme Court managed to call foul, belatedly though as it had. Can we always depend on Supreme Court doing the right thing and limiting the government’s overreach? The a
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
This is true because the non-political departments of US government have ultimately very limited power, so there is little incentive to either capture them or destroy them by partisan actors. Political operatives would much rather control
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I did some testing, and you are correct that they are slightly different: >>> print("{:.30f}".format(sin(pi/4, 0, 0, *standard_coeff))) 0.707106781186567889818661569734 >>> print("{:.30f}".
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> When you approximate functions by polynomials, including the trigonometric functions, the Taylor series are never used, because they are inefficient (too much computation for a given error). Other kinds of polynomials are used for func
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
The point is not to actually enforce these laws. If that sounds schizophrenic to you, that's because it is.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Yeah, if you can buy what you want at big box hardware store, then do, prices won't get much lower than that, and you'll get something that's certified to a standard. McMaster is useful if your time is worth too much to waste
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
So you’re saying that there is something extremely simple they San Francisco Police Department can do to solve a crime case, but it just can’t be bothered? That’s just unheard of!
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Next time he’ll buy $20 worth of bolts and pay $80.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
In Polish, Sunday is „niedziela”, and Monday is also „poniedziałek”, so it actually makes more sense than in Russian :) I suspect “niedziela” («неделя») was the original, proto-Slavic word for the day of the week, as some variations of it a
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
If. Many people will take a risk, as the risk will pay off in most cases that aren't totally egregious. Most shady scenarios are not "people will certainly die if I sign off on this", they're rather "eh, this is som
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
And surely, there will never be anyone who’ll just cynically use their professional credential to make a lot of money this way. Of course, there are plenty of people who do shady things like this today, but clearly obtaining professional ce
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
When professional certifications are required to write car software, you won’t have top tier people writing it. Instead, you’ll get mediocrities who will jump on the certification as a way to secure a sinecure at a company requiring it. Con
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Dunno about AWS, but GCP uses live migration, and will migrate your VM across physical machines as necessary. The disk volumes are all connected over the network, nothing really depends on the actual physical machine your VM is ran on.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Federal loans do not have limits on amount. This is false. > Loans are non-discharged (you can't shed them in bankruptcy). They’re also not collaterized. As a taxpayer, I’d be very much against a non-collaterized loan that anyo
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
To US government. It holds a lot of short term debt that it continuously rolls over into new short term debt. If the rate go up, new short term debt will become much more expensive to service. Here is a simple example with made up (but not

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