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When we recently looked into self-storage to store our junk, the high prices per cubic foot (in a very HCOL area) made us recontextualize our junk in terms of how much rent each it…

The problem is that "sustainable" is always based on past observations. There were 40+ years of observations for these crab and a stable fishery. But if the environment changes for…

On the Pacific NW coast where this is happening, cool marine air will push in and eventually overwhelm the system holding in the heat. The change can be quite abrupt, as the two sy…

> It's not considered a "number" when society thinks of it in a higher conceptual abstraction than a number. Which just shows that "number" itself is a conceptual abstraction, no h…

It's been over 30 years since I spent much time in a darkroom but just starting to read that article and my smell-memory conjured up that very distinctive developer/darkroom chemic…

In the early 80s, I knew "Yoda" before I knew "Lola". Thanks to Disney's persistence, my kids now know and giggle at "Yoda" (picked up from the internet, not me) and only vaguely k…

Our lab has been collecting an ecological time series every January for 35 years. Continuity is critical for monitoring change and the health of the population (under hunting, so t…

I've been a long-time member of a smallish but active forum (I won't post the address, maybe several hundred regulars). We've had very rational discussions and good exchanges of vi…

U.S. government salaries are publicly available. Google and you can get a search tool and find the salary for any employee.

I read it as normalizing the null hypothesis, which is that exercise doesn't increase brain size.

The problem is that Reddit Admins have glommed onto IAmA as a celebrity vehicle, including providing Reddit resources (e.g. helpers for celebrities) to strongly blur the line betwe…

"Because of the passage of an upper-level trough to the north, with Irma starting to feel the steering effects of the westerly flow of the midlatitudes." Described in detail with f…

Well that's one way to look at creating jobs, I suppose...

If you'd enshrined those speeds 10 years ago, you would have chosen lower numbers and we'd have a basic uniform service that was slower. Have we reached the "good enough point" wit…

We also have no notion of correlation/causation here. If a rep has shown herself previously to support my interests, by speeches, ideas, or whatever, I'm more likely to donate to h…

I picked up a few during that run, as I remembered picking one up from Radio Shack in the 80s and having fun with it. A really delightful chip to explore, you can get so much out o…

A variant of rubber-duck debugging: Ask the question and hit Send. Invariably, no matter how long I've thought about it, the obvious answer will occur to me minutes (or seconds) af…

On the other hand: "We are taking a break! The past few days have been extremely difficult and full of anxiety. Thank you again America!" Chilling effect achieved.

Connection method seems an odd choice. In terms of cultural changes, I'd pick from not remembering a time before (1) Amazon/web-selling, (2) laptops over desktops, (3) Google or (4…

Then the second paragraph states directly that this category is over-broad, and that lumping so many age groups is problematic, and dissects younger versus older "millenials". Some…

Here, they took a 3-lane two 2-lane+bike. Center wasn't turn lane, it was an alternating-direction in morning/evening. It was definitely part of a citywide "make bike lanes" initia…

In this city's case, they've dragged their heels on public transport - nothing near what I found in Amsterdam, for example. Slowing down car drivers by 5 minutes will not get them …

Except: I don't see any evidence that it has worked at all - at least not in the 2 years the lanes have been there. Nice idea, but data would be nicer. (aside: always nice to see d…

In my city, they've just taken some two lane roads down to one lane and eliminated car turning lanes, to add bike lanes. Those bike lanes see maybe 1 bike every 15 minutes, while t…