genericuser314

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by genericuser314 5y ago
"...due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations" It isn't true that children whose permanent residence is a trailer park are counted as homeless.
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by genericuser314 5y ago
Most facts are incomplete, it's almost impossible to give all the context to any given data point unless you just give people a URL and tell people to read for themselves. For example, it's an incomplete fact to say that "if
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Utah tech executive resigns after anti-semitic email rant(fox13now.com)
87 points by genericuser314 5y ago|123 comments
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by genericuser314 5y ago
Type in "Other agricultural workers" and then compare the result to other professions.
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by genericuser314 5y ago
Or, just a different sort of integrity than you had in mind.
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by genericuser314 5y ago
Anecdotally, I can confirm that my employer requires me to: 1.) Not allow my phone to be unlocked by fingerprint/face. 2.) Not carry USB sticks or similar portable storage devices on my person, to only transport them by courier. 3.) No
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by genericuser314 5y ago
Based on political contributions, police officers have donated their money to Democrats and Republicans almost in equal proportion for quite awhile... until 2018, when they became overwhelmingly Republican. https://archive.md&#x2
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by genericuser314 5y ago
to arbitrarily remove... for arbitrary reasons. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Popular English has taken a real hit in the last few years.
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by genericuser314 5y ago
Here's a chart of Lake Tahoe water levels since 1900: https://www.usgs.gov/center-news/water-science-lake-tahoe-ba... .
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by genericuser314 5y ago
> There must be hundreds of thousands of bolts 99,356 in USA & Canada, per this number: https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/chevrolet-bolt-sales-figures-u... I was curious about this so I looked it up, you might think it i
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by genericuser314 5y ago
I was being too indirect. Your framework doesn't have predictive value. 'This person had an extremely favorable outcome, therefore they are elite' is a retrospective judgment, it can't be used to form a hypothesis. It is
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by genericuser314 5y ago
My partner is a civil engineer so I go to a lot of ASCE happy hours and it is common wisdom among civil engineers that for every $100 you spend on infrastructure, you get like $113 to $117 in economic activity. I also believe that almost al
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by genericuser314 5y ago
Isn't your definition an example of a No True Scotsman fallacy? Aren't you liable to wind up in situations where you find yourself saying "Ah-hah, now that person I thought was not one of the elite is now one of the elite bec
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by genericuser314 5y ago
The degree to which our ethics should be consequentialist, or they should evaluate intent is worth discussing, but as consequences become more significant intent becomes more insignificant. I don't care if someone 'looks bad'
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by genericuser314 5y ago
I think in any scenario where "nuclear war destroys a large portion of highways and communication equipment" then Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin will all be smoking craters. Here's the 1990 FEMA assessment of nuclea
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by genericuser314 5y ago
It's impossible to know what would have happened if they hadn't, but if Julius and Ethel Rosenberg helping the Soviets achieve nuclear parity prevented the US from "using them when the opponent couldn't retaliate in kind
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by genericuser314 5y ago
> FAQ 2.1: The Earth’s temperature has varied before. How is the current warming any different? > Earth’s climate has always changed naturally, but both the global extent and rate of recent warming are unusual. The recent warming has
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AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis(ipcc.ch)
2 points by genericuser314 5y ago|1 comments
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by genericuser314 5y ago
I think that's because of different vaccine uptake by age cohort. People 65+ have always been most likely to require intervention and they are also the most vaccinated age cohort - ~80% vaccinated in the US. [0] [0]: https:/&#x2
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by genericuser314 5y ago
Maybe you're thinking of Russell's teapot, which is the idea that the burden of proof lies upon a person making unfalsifiable claims? That's specifically for unfalsifiable claims. Or maybe you're thinking of the burden o
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by genericuser314 5y ago
I don't think its "first witnessed", I think its 80% of blossoms are open. https://twitter.com/sayakasofiamori/status/13739565776071311...
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by genericuser314 5y ago
"...it is particularly frustrating as my personal FB account is tied to not only my Oculus library (which I can no longer access) but also my FB business page" Oof!
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I tried selling the boardgame “Secret Hitler” and my FB account got banned(reddit.com)
28 points by genericuser314 5y ago|3 comments
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by genericuser314 5y ago
* emasculating
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by genericuser314 5y ago
Summary: "Once approved, the drug may not be marketed or promoted for so-called "off-label" uses – i.e., any use not specified in an application and approved by FDA. Pfizer promoted the sale of Bextra for several uses and dos
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by genericuser314 5y ago
Should add (2009)
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by genericuser314 5y ago
I think you're making a category error in your analogy. DuckDuckGo is much more like Google than "dig a well" is like municipal water.
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by genericuser314 5y ago
"A deterministic AES mis-computation, which was “self-inverting”: encrypting and decrypting on the same core yielded the identity function, but decryption elsewhere yielded gibberish." Imagine debugging this.
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Cores that don’t count [pdf](sigops.org)
4 points by genericuser314 5y ago|1 comments
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by genericuser314 5y ago
"for each thing "everyone knows" by the time they're adults, every day there are, on average, 10,000 people in the US hearing about it for the first time." ~ https://xkcd.com/1053/

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