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And how would you control for the causal possibility that those who will eventually develop Alzheimer's early on might tend to have undetectable memory issues that prevent them fro…

Property taxes have a component that redistributes wealth from landlords to the working people, but it also has a component that penalizes making better use of the land. The former…

Reading between the lines, it sounds like it was probably one of "tip"/"point"/"head" and "shaft", or similar

Not simply "don't want to live here", usually also "can't, there are no opportunities for income here". I know lots of people optimistic that remote work would upend this, but even…

I thought we were moving toward depicting dinosaurs as having feathers? Or is there just too little evidence around what exactly that would look like to add it to visualizations?

Sounds like a slam-dunk case for SELC?

Isn't most new capacity solar these days?

In a working economy, an increase in demand for electricity would be met with an increase in investment and capacity, and (at least in the long-term) would benefit all electricity …

moto g 2026; yes it's Android. Main downside is the relative lack of RAM honestly.

I've gone through about 5 USB-C adapters which eventually broke inexplicably. They also have extra noise in the audio when the volume is low for some reason.

Waymo, Philz coffee, Partiful

I just moved away from GrapheneOS to Motorola because I decided I needed an audio jack again. There's definitely some annoying things about leaving, but at least now I can use agai…

I do wonder how much to trust averages on these statistics. I observe that I am much more risk averse than the average cyclist in my city. Perhaps my risk is really much lower, con…

Safety margins still will require some level of delay between cars that aren't mechanically linked. Even with perfect reaction times, the physics of driving (maximum acceleration r…

What do you mean by detrimental?

My initial charitable reading -- as someone who sometimes dabbles in decaf -- is that decaffeination has the bad side effect of stripping flavors, and likely many of the other biol…

It's quite regulated in the western US, but usually in the direction of guaranteeing water to incumbent landowners. Some people end up with really strong water rights, and they can…

Maybe this wasn't true an hour ago, but all the top 3 comments right now look supportive (if I am to count yours), and the next few are just mildly critical.

Yes, you're correct about that

If 90% is one nine and 99% is two nines, we can use the logarithm to compute how many fractional nines we have at 98.59%: about 1.9788 nines (almost two!)

> you don't pay them, self-employed and employers pay those If a tax is a function of the worker's income, it doesn't really matter (except for nominal terms) whether the worker or…

Does this take into account feature flags when summing LOC? It's common practice in Rust to really only use a subset of a dependency, controlled by compile-time flags.

Over-engineering? It's a fully mechanical bike bell that's made slightly differently. It's a very established and straightforward technology.

> the price of gold continued to rise as they did this This would mean they sold low and bought high, right?

A couple of the lines I ride in California have decent on-time rates (mostly I ride the line formerly known as the San Joaquins)