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by yaakov34 10y ago
You can get vehicle miles driven by state directly, and also such data as fatalities per road user and per miles driven: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit... However, you won&
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by yaakov34 10y ago
I agree with one of the posters below: this is a population heatmap, exactly as identified by XKCD ( https://xkcd.com/1138/ ). Florida, which you mention, is highlighted in red only because this is a small-scale map with
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by yaakov34 10y ago
The same study says that low BMI is also associated with lower lifespan, and the statistically optimum BMI for white people is 23 to 25 (there are racial differences in all the numbers, which I think also challenges the idea of assigning mo
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by yaakov34 10y ago
It is a fact that the effect exists, but I think that you are also victim to the popular idea that this effect is extremely powerful or even overwhelming, making "taking care of yourself" a powerful morality tale. Here is a quote
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by yaakov34 10y ago
How about you think about what you just said for a minute. How is this a situation of "nothing to lose"? You are talking about an extremely sick person who, based on the fact that he has extremely advanced heart disease, probably
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by yaakov34 10y ago
There is also this commonly held notion that if you "live right", with healthy habits, food, and exercise, you will live to 98 in perfect health, and probably die of an instant heart attack while in bed with a young lover. It&#x27
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by yaakov34 10y ago
That's not really true for pancreatic cancer. It is absolutely notorious for escaping even when it's detected early, and even after a (seemingly) complete resection. This was in fact Randy Pausch's case: he had a resection wi
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by yaakov34 10y ago
So does mine. I just spent a few minutes researching this on Payscale, which confirmed the impression I already had: someone with a degree from a good school and a lot of experience can easily get an offer around $150k from one of the bette
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by yaakov34 10y ago
That's just not true, not by any stretch. Certainly not for the median salary, and not even for the average, even though that's distorted by the long tail of very high salaries. There are easily-googled studies out there which put
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by yaakov34 10y ago
Musk is the biggest shareholder in SolarCity, and his cousins are the top managers (and also shareholders) there. The decision to merge SolarCity with the much more powerful Tesla ensures the future of SolarCity, at least in the medium term
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by yaakov34 10y ago
> The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), thought to weigh at least 100 tons, I don't know why presstv would write it that way, the specs of the missile have been publicly known for decades, and it weighs 209 tons. I guess th
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by yaakov34 10y ago
Honestly, this just sounds like a good reason to not be logged into LinkedIn ever, if I needed an additional one. Name and job title sent to random websites? No thanks.
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by yaakov34 10y ago
Yeah, we'll definitely want a "dementia moonshot", or a few, before we attempt to create a generation of centenarians. However, cancer incidence climbs terrifyingly rapidly when people reach their 60s - long before we are rea
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by yaakov34 10y ago
I am going to go against the grain of the usual sympathetic responses to this type of articles, and I am going to say that this is a case of pernicious and pointless casuistry. Apparently, this now passes for some kind of deep thought on th
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by yaakov34 10y ago
> had a positive void coefficient of reactivity Had and still does. There are 11 RBMK blocks still operating.
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by yaakov34 11y ago
Actually, liquid oxygen is almost 40% denser than kerosene (1.14 vs 0.82 g/cm^2). And this is the reason most rockets [1] put oxygen on top/forward: they want the center of gravity to be as far forward as possible, ahead of the ae
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by yaakov34 11y ago
There is correspondence between Mozart and his father about a cabal of Italians (especially the court composer Salieri) hindering him. I would say this reflects worse on the Mozarts than it does on Salieri, who spent almost his whole life i
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by yaakov34 11y ago
History didn't start with that movie, you know. Salieri's work was not performed e.g. in Russia, where the influence of Pushkin's "Mozart and Salieri" was particularly strong, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
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by yaakov34 11y ago
Salieri's confession itself was never anything more than a rumor. Following his delirium and suicide attempt, it was said that he confessed to a priest that he poisoned Mozart, but there is no such written note or testimony (I suppose
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by yaakov34 11y ago
A great illustration of how the slander works: "we can never know". Of course we do know, to the normal standard of historical proof, that Salieri didn't kill Mozart: any sane historian would note the fact that Mozart died af
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by yaakov34 11y ago
Is there a more slandered person in all of history than Salieri? This is the man who murdered the world's greatest musical genius in his prime out of jealousy ... except that he fucking didn't, and the notion is ridiculous. The ma
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by yaakov34 11y ago
I can't picture a white person being an ally if white people are explicitly excluded from leadership. BTW, do you want to get started on explaining away "we can't teach white male managers empathy or compassion"?
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by yaakov34 11y ago
I'm happy to indulge, although HN is not the most convenient forum for long discussions. The reason that I didn't, and don't, want to make this about Nicole Sanchez is that, unfortunately, I don't think that she is uniqu
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by yaakov34 11y ago
She certainly doesn't say "only white" and she explicitly excludes white women ("some of the biggest barriers to progress"). You can make convoluted excuses for her, but it's obvious that she sees white people
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by yaakov34 11y ago
Ideological intolerance is part of it, but it's clearly not the only part, given that the very first point in her slide is "this is not work for white folks to lead", i.e. she doesn't want white allies. I don't see
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by yaakov34 11y ago
Another quote is "it is very hard to even interview people who are 'white'". This is absurd and disgusting. I haven't lived in the US for a while, but lately, I keep hearing all these expressions of straight up raci
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by yaakov34 11y ago
Agree absolutely with your sentiment. However, CERN's kind reaction is not atypical and is usually extremely self-serving. This kind of minor stuff is often seized upon to demonstrate self-righteousness and establish a defense for futu
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by yaakov34 11y ago
I think you posted the same video twice, but I'm not disagreeing that domestic animals generally act less purposefully and intelligently than wild animals - they've lost the survival skills that they needed as wild animals. For ex
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by yaakov34 11y ago
There are already lots of videos of these foxes on Youtube. I don't know about the minxes, but the foxes basically behave like domestic dogs, possibly with more energy. They don't sit and drool. On the other hand, it's almost
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by yaakov34 11y ago
They already sell those as pets, as you can see by googling "Russian pet foxes". Unlike a lot of exotic pets, it seems that they do fine as long as there is a fenced-in backyard and a local veterinarian who is willing to work with

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