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by today20201014 2y ago
> the ratio of the volume to surface area decreases the larger you make a container Did you mean to write the reverse? i.e the ratio of the surface area to volume decreases the larger you make a container.
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by today20201014 3y ago
> California made it illegal to charge the real risk adjusted price for insurance I'd like to know more about this. Do you have a reference?
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by today20201014 4y ago
You raise a good point. The consistency of California's weather reminds me a bit of the movie Groundhog Day. Seasonal changes are so subtle that it is easy to forget that years have gone by...
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by today20201014 4y ago
It depends where you are in California. In parts of SoCal 100F is pretty typical. And the air quality is bad.
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by today20201014 5y ago
Harvey Mudd is an undergraduate-only college. All the others are R1 institutions.
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by today20201014 5y ago
> The basic principle is that your negative rights are a prohibition of what others can do to you. Agreed - rights that are guaranteed by prohibiting certain actions, i.e. you have a right to $FOO, meaning that $BAR is prohibited. Compar
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by today20201014 5y ago
Thanks, but I guess I just don't understand how this concept - negative rights are things that the state shouldn't take away from you - fits the concept of a "negative" right given here [0]. Following that definition,
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by today20201014 5y ago
> Many Texans conceptualize government and state uses of force (ie prosecution that can lead to imprisonment) as restrictions on their rights. This "negative rights" conceptualization is pretty common in the US, but especially
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by today20201014 5y ago
I am hesitant to agree that it's a moral victory - maybe it's more of a victory about metaphysics? (also, what is a metaphysical victory? :))
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by today20201014 5y ago
I have a similar story; undergrad at a public state school and grad at a private Ivy. My experience at the Ivy was eye-openi. The loudest [1] Ivy undergrads came from private elementary/high schools and had a very dismissive view of th
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by today20201014 5y ago
In my experience summer in Minneapolis is fine. Comparing it to where I have lived I think for heat and humidity, it is milder than central Texas / comparable to Rhode Island Just comparing heat, it is milder than summer in the Central
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by today20201014 5y ago
Perhaps people experience cognitive dissonance when reconciling the things that you mentioned with beliefs about reincarnation ? I am relying on a rather common and uninformed understanding of Buddhism here, so I may be way off base. EDIT:
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by today20201014 5y ago
I'm an American; I don't like this, too. My experience mirrors what is described in the article, but only with people from Europe. Non-native English speakers from Europe look down on Americans, in a sort of "gate-keeping&quo
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by today20201014 5y ago
> That doesn't mean we're literally ascribing the power of levitation to them. Exactly, it's figurative language. My point is that when we read in scripture that > Moses asked God what his name was, God replies somethin
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by today20201014 5y ago
God is a being in Genesis. He walks through the Garden.
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by today20201014 5y ago
I can understand the belief that Eastern Orthodoxy is more of a "trunk" than more recent "branches", but what about core ideas that predate Jesus? e.g. the immortality of the soul was reasoned by Plato (Republic, circa 3
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by today20201014 6y ago
Power plants are also more efficient than cars/lawnmowers/etc. e.g. a combined cycle power plant can be ~64% [1], compared to ~40% for car engines [2]. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_cycle_power_
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by today20201014 6y ago
The republic-vs-democracy debate distracts from what we should be debating: is our system of representation fair? Obviously we are a "democracy" (we vote) and a "republic" (for most of history and the rest of the world,