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>Nope. When you enter someone else’s place of business, you have no expectation of privacy. This is only somewhat true. At the spa for instance, you very much have an expectation o…

>CA has the highest poverty rates in the country By what metric? looking at the census data, it appears the poverty rate of California, while not great, is certainly not the worst.…

>what about regular pictures? They’re supposed to take candid moments of the real world I'm not sure that is an accurate representation of photography as a medium, nor has it ever …

Formal Science?

Not exactly. THe ACLU actually does work in the area being discussed [0]. I believe the criticism is that people did not donate for that reason, not that the ACLU doesn't do anythi…

As it turns out, Adderall is amphetamine.

That example isn't even compressed, which could drastically reduce its size.

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Not to be obtuse, but wouldn't what is basically an anthropomorphic doughnut be fine in two dimensions? Or do you just mean that that would not likely be the digestive tract of suc…

Possible linguistic pedantry; he used " a " set of natural numbers, but " the " set of real numbers. It's equally difficult to represent the set of natural numbers.

I would be surprised if it didn't end up being C#, but I have no real foundation for that sentiment.

To be fair, the practice of flying in fish from Tsukiji could easily be more related to prestige than quality. There are three major fish markets in Tokyo, and nobody cares about t…

They quantify the difference in samples here: HMP GG PGP AGP Total Samples 4,788 531 683 4,658 http://americangut.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/mod1_main....

Mesopotamia would have had farming [0], but if you consider the requirements just a group of people, I think there were settlements of sorts back well into the paleolithic. but not…

I think putting San Diego in a different group than Los Angeles was also rather odd... Edit: now that I look at it, I would also question their "Urban Corridor" from Los Angeles to…

We could also just start flipping coins. Probably nearly as effective and far cheaper. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-01-06/news/ct-met-ca...

>but the Federal Government is completely sitting on it. Arguably in a democracy we Americans should all be blaming ourselves for that. Because of the whole voting/paying attention…

Technically viruses are not considered "alive" either

Plan A, while fairly conventional, got shot down by the IRS. http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-09/yahoo-s-ali...

And they are logograms, or at least they compose a logographic system.

I think it's more an issue of proportion and scale than number of towers. If there are 8 new projects, but the population looks to grow enough to fill 10 new projects, then there s…

I'm no longer a student there, but Shannon Alfaro was great at anything parser/language design related, and Gopi Meenakshisundaram was great for graphics. Eric Mjolsness is probabl…

I'm really happy this position was given to a woman.

"If the FCC successfully reclassifies broadband under Title II, private investment and important innovation would come to a standstill." My big issue with this was that within the …

That makes sense; my only thought was that if you are graphing "anomalies" you might want to filter out non-anomalous behavior. Higher highs or lower lows are actually to some degr…