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Fauci said the following on 2020-03-08: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/outdated-fauci-video-on-fa... > When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people…

I agree that the time unit should be in the variable name. The code itself should do a good job of explaining "what" is happening, but you generally need comments to explain "why" …

There isn't a clear trend to more taxes in the US (scaled to GDP). Federal tax receipts were higher in the 90s (17-20%) than the 00s/10s (14-18%). Local and state receipts have bee…

~60/year of https://www.royallifesaving.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/00... https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/causes-of-death-in-childr...

I understand electrical and plumbing, but why does the HVAC need to be bigger/smaller?

The CA $950 threshold is when the theft switches from a misdemeanor to a felony: https://www.hoover.org/research/why-shoplifting-now-de-facto... In comparison, Texas has a $2,500 t…

The "better ways" listed in this book were often worse at the metrics the old solution was targeting. They won out because they gained flexibility by loosening requirements. Person…

The generous interpretation of "suburban America" is that both the author and interviewee live in the suburbs: > I grew up in Temecula, a California suburb > his house in Laguna Ni…

Euros were introduced in 1999, and the preceding "European Currency Unit" (just for accounting) was introduced in 1979.

I found it a lot easier to understand the harmonic and geometric averages when I learned about the "generalized f-mean". Many averages are arithmetic averages of a transformation o…

Taking the numbers from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626192... - Diesel has a peak efficiency of 40% but an average efficiency of 20-25% (depending on the…

JFYI, scare quotes are also indicating the it is "the literal language used". The quotes are added to say that you are quoting literally what other people/the culture uses, but tha…

You're correct about it being mandatory: > At the left front designated seating position (driver's position), a warning system that activates a continuous or intermittent audible s…

This report [1] is specific to " Firefighter Arson", so they're looking for things to screen for during hiring for firefighters. The section you'll be interested in is on page 20: …

"White male, age 17–25" is an entire trait. "Homosexual" is a *part* of a trait: "Alcoholism, childhood hyperactivity, homosexuality, depression, borderline personality disorder, a…

Why does a city need ~100 L3 chargers per km2? People don't need to drive as far within a city, so even home L1 chargers should handle most city residents needs. The L3 chargers se…

2016 means you're talking about ST3, and 2039 means you're talking about Ballard [1]. It looks like the date in ST3 for Ballard was originally 2038 [2], so it doesn't seem delayed …

Foucault was working in Tunisia from 1966-1968. HIV is thought to have spread to NYC in '71, and SF in '75 which is where Foucault probably was infected. AIDS was first clinically …

> Isn't 'th' just the aspirated version of 't'? 'th' is only an aspirated 't' for loan words in English. Most English words pronounce 'th' as the fricatives /θ/ or /ð/. https://en.…

> The relevant outgroups animating Afrikaner nationalism aren't the Zulu ... It was the perceived "threat" of racial integration driven by English liberals The article compared "So…

How were the differences between the colonial SA Afrikaners and the local SA Zulu smaller than the differences between the Yugoslavs and the Zulu, other than proximity?

Yeah, this line of argument is a perfect example of the "Motte and Bailey" fallacy. The structure of this argument works just as well if you replace "intolerance" with "segregation…

From section IX of the article: > ... Sure enough, if industry or culture or community gets Blue enough, Red Tribe members start getting harassed, fired from their jobs ( Brendan E…

The WSJ article is behind a paywall so I can't double check this, but you can have a 99% accurate test with a 20% misdiagnosis rate. The difference is that 99% is per-person, and 2…

This site is the “orange site”. The comment is saying that the gray text comment behaved like some people on this site behave; a behavior which people associate with this site. I t…