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by fredup 12y ago
It is certainly an exaggeration. A more accurate number could be 7-9 years. Israel uses 1016 million m^3 of water [1] or about 800,000 acre feet on agriculture per year. While studies have shown that California as a whole could save 5.6-6.6
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by fredup 12y ago
I'm not trying to make a point. I just got the impression that upwards of 200,000 people were incinerated in the bombings, but I was skeptical of that number. I investigated a bit and just wanted to leave a note that the number was inc
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by fredup 12y ago
You wrote that "they were incinerated along with the hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians", which implies that at least 200,000 Japanese civilians were incinerated in the bombings. The 129,000–246,000+ killed figure you cit
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by fredup 12y ago
> (which was ignored and they were incinerated along with the hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians). This is inaccurate. Much fewer than 200,000 people were killed immediately (totaled across both bombings), including both inciner
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by fredup 12y ago
You almost certainly aren't going to see the show. In theory it should be simple to identify who you are in conflict with if the ticket is not general admission. They would just have to send an usher to the seat. However, it is difficu
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When net neutrality backfires (qz.com)
2 points by fredup 12y ago|0 comments
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by fredup 12y ago
I think you need to do the algebra. You can't make a blanket statement like you want to. You have taken things to an absurd extreme and gotten one result, I can "relax the assumptions" to the opposite extreme and get the oppo
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by fredup 12y ago
"Soccer players should kick toward their weaker side more frequently than their stronger side." I thought this was an interesting result, so I took a look at the source. It turns out it is a toy problem where the goalie always sto
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by fredup 12y ago
Journalists have been, and continue to be the gatekeepers. In the days before Wikipedia it is easy to imagine a journalist visiting Brazil and talking with a friend in the local coffee shop about the raccoon-like creatures he just saw when
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by fredup 12y ago
In trying to "fix" this problem have TVT potentially made themselves liable for all the content posted there? They now assert "ownership" of all the content. In order to be protected by Section 230 of the Communications