lawtguy

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by lawtguy 7y ago
Scott Manley has a good video on the Stratolaunch (it's a little bit old though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw84qJIGZeo The flight of the Roc launch plane is very impressive, but they have a real problem with the
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by lawtguy 8y ago
According to this blog entry ( https://minimumwage.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/30/new-minimum-wage-... ), the lower minimum wage is for youths is to prevent youth unemployment. This was based on some data the governme
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by lawtguy 8y ago
3-5 million would put Kaepernick in the same category as Chase Daniel, Matt Schaub, Mike Glennon, Chad Henne, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Drew Stanton and Colt McCoy. That doesn't sound like crazy money given the company he'd be in.
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by lawtguy 8y ago
Part of the problem with drawing conclusions about 'Oumuamua is that it's the first interstellar object we've detected in our solar system. Because of that, we don't really know if 'Oumuamua is a regular kind of in
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by lawtguy 8y ago
There's been no legislative change, but the the Trump administration appears to be enforcing the rules as strictly as possible. Per this article from Marketplace ( https://www.marketplace.org/2018/10/05/b
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by lawtguy 8y ago
It looks like the NYT article is taking from this CBO report: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files?file=2018-06/53919-2018ltbo... . You'll notice that in the article and in the report, it's shown as "Ne
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by lawtguy 8y ago
California is actually below average for per pupil spending. In 2015, it was ranked 31st out of the 50 states + DC. See page 23 here: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
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by lawtguy 8y ago
Becoming a teacher takes a whole lot of education. You have to get a 4 year degree plus 1 year of graduate work to get your teaching credential. For all that education you get: > In 2016, for instance, the average teacher’s starting sa
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by lawtguy 8y ago
The FAQ on Boom's web page has some answers on how they think their airplanes will make money: https://boomsupersonic.com/contact#faq-section It looks like they are hoping to make money by having a more efficient, slig
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by lawtguy 8y ago
1976 is the only time since the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that a Democrat has won a majority of the south. !976 was definitely not a regular election. The Democratic candidate was white evangelical southerner. The Republica
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by lawtguy 8y ago
Here's Mr. Kholsa's take on it: https://medium.com/@vkhosla/martins-beach-a-matter-of-princi... And here's the Surfrider Foundations timeline of events: https://www.surfrider.org/pages&#x
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by lawtguy 8y ago
Take a look at the City of Philadelphia's Department of Revenue annual report ( https://www.phila.gov/media/20161122003302/2016-Annual-Repor... ). Page 18 is the revenue from liquor tax since FY08. You'l
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by lawtguy 8y ago
Java and C# have the `finally` block which is essentially the `goto fail`. Typically it is used like: try { doSomething(); } catch (Exception e) { handleException(); } finally { cleanUpResources(); } When the c
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by lawtguy 8y ago
Main issue would be car seats. Uber offers the option to request a car seat in a few metros, but besides those you'll have to bring your own. I imagine most Uber drivers wouldn't be all that happy waiting for your to install and
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by lawtguy 8y ago
In the US, the combination of globalization, automation and lack of support for private sector unions means workers outside of the creative class have very little bargaining power. I'm sure workers will get raises, but I don't se
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by lawtguy 9y ago
The statement about rising IQ is the Flynn Effect[1]. The fact that IQ has risen over the past 80 years or so is well accepted. Exactly why this is happening is open to debate. The fourmilab link you mentioned seem to be based on the book
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by lawtguy 9y ago
The 13% you mentioned I'm assuming is the percentage of the US population that is foreign born. That is not the highest in US history. Take a look at page 3 of this: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/pdf/cspan
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by lawtguy 9y ago
I also live in California and I also send my child to a private school which costs upwards of 30k. California currently spends about 10k per student for public education. That makes 30k sound crazy, but in 1970 California spent 5500 which
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by lawtguy 9y ago
Your chart is gun deaths per 100,000 but the other chart posted was total gun deaths in Australia, so that's not a fair comparison. Here's the gun deaths per 100,000 for Australia: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearm
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by lawtguy 9y ago
Some additional data taken from the National Center for Education Statistics ( https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_318.30.a... ) Bachelor's degrees by sex from 2013-2014: Mathematics,
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by lawtguy 9y ago
The MMO City of Heroes did something similar to this. They called it the streak breaker: http://cityofheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Attack_Mechanics#The_Stre... Basically, the higher your chance to hit with an attack was, the
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by lawtguy 9y ago
Steam doesn't require DRM. It certainly supports Valve's DRM and third-party DRM but it doesn't require it: http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games If you consider being required to login int
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by lawtguy 9y ago
You're not allowed to print fake money that looks like too much like real money. See https://www.marketplace.org/2015/03/10/business/tricky-busin... . From the article: "Essentially what this l
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by lawtguy 11y ago
> In addition to this, they all pay employees, which contribute even more tax money to the system (which is never discussed in articles like this). Generally, the taxes other people pay on your expenditures doesn't count towards you
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by lawtguy 11y ago
Good article. I thought it was well written and definitely on target about to disagree effectively. Maybe in a follow up article you could provide some examples (either real or made-up) of ineffective and effective disagreement? Personall
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by lawtguy 11y ago
I have three thoughts: 1) Regardless of what Martians want, they'll be heavily economically dependent on Earth. Complex materials, chemicals, drugs, microprocessors, etc. simply won't be manifacturable on Mars for a long time. A
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by lawtguy 11y ago
Since No Child Left Behind was passed, there has been heavy focus on testing. Because of this schools have been slowing removing everything from the curriculum that doesn't appear on the standardized testing. That includes things lik
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by lawtguy 11y ago
This world view is a very 19th century clockwork universe one: if we know all the initial conditions in sufficient detail, we can predict the outcome. There are two problems with this: at a fundamental level, quantum mechanics says you can
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by lawtguy 11y ago
In my experience it's typically more like this: "Well, there's probably nothing wrong, but there are some test we can run to be sure." The patient agrees to the tests because it gives them peace of mind and they mostly d
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by lawtguy 12y ago
ESR's general observation that the ancients often saw homosexual as being about dominance is probably correct. However, the framing makes it sound like this is specific to homosexual relationships. In fact ancient cultures often saw

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