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Wasn't Germany's WWII "synthetic fuel" just coal derived gasoline?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stochastic_terrorism He could have anticipated his actions would lead to these outcomes.

Presumably we're banning braces as well then.

An interesting thing about the linked quora question is that they do show a few examples of times scientists were generally wrong about something. If you look at them, they seem to…

Writing in context of preceding comment, which seemed to be predicated on them having a special capacity to raise prices in response to land taxes. I did wonder briefly if a land t…

Writing in the context of preceding comment. Landlords increase prices as much as they're able, they don't decline to increase when they could to maintain some fixed margin. I'm no…

LVT is generally conceptualised as proportional to the value of the land, not it's area.

> they all increased their rent Why would they not have done this before, if they could? Landlords aren't trying to maintain some fixed margin, they want as much as possible, alway…

"Better" is just presupposing the conclusion: that there is something inherently superior about certain styles. That thinking is precisely the "language ideology" the authors are c…

> It let me buy a property which I wouldn't be able to without HTB Possibly you're taking the wrong counterfactual here? "If I hadn't HTB but everyone else did" vs "If no-one had H…

OTOH an individual parent has to expend a lot more effort to create controls than a government. An individual parent can't mandate technology companies install controls that automa…

You have, say, 10 different drugs you might use along with Ivermectin in a "multi-drug regime". From these 10 drugs, you can generate 10-choose-4 = 5040 different 4-drug regimes. A…

Perhaps the world has changed somewhat in the last 10000 years.

Because directly blaming Cuba would be all downside, no upside. If they directly and straightforwardly blamed Cuba, Serious Readers might actually wonder about their basis for doin…

Do you think that the majority of people read the full article? Do you think the CIA thinks the majority of people read the full article? Do you think the CIA engages honestly with…

Immunocompromised might not be able to get a vaccine because the mechanism for vaccines is the immune system, which tends not be be working so great in the immunocompromised.

Cursory googling: CHAZ/CHOP: 2 deaths Capital Hill Riot: 5 deaths

Are you just generally writing about green energy, or about the Telsa battery (the subject of this discussion)? As the ancestor comment noted, the battery saved money, and saving m…

A somewhat surprising corollary: if you have methane and you can burn it, it's better to do that than vent it directly. (Of course, better still to leave it in the ground, if that'…

Perhaps a simple ban on converting fiat -> to bitcoin would go a long way? It wouldn't be absolute, black markets are a thing, but there are costs to participate in a black market,…

> You physically can’t put an IP address into an MX DNS record Per TFA, > some mail servers do configure an IP address. Many mail servers are lenient when it comes to this misconfi…

This policy ("send a picture of your black skin") sounds like what they found they needed to do prevent black voices from being drowned out on a site so overwhelming white as reddi…

My argument was narrow: to counter "seems to be a new thing". The argument of "the scale of these fires is unusual, but if there is an unusual cause, it's an unusual amount of arso…

I guessing that judging and shaming a corporation's contribution to "poorly behaved offspring" is right out though

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