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  • This is also demonstrated well in the show Travelers with T.E.L.L.

    Basically, a quantum AI from the future uses historical records to determine the time, elevation, latitude and longitude to send people back. Obviously the Earth itself is the reference point being used.

  • US hit with mass shootings and fatal accidents on Fourth of July holiday any day of the week that ends in Y.

  • I wonder if those restrictions go back to the Great Depression? That's the case for the shotgun only areas in southern Minnesota.

  • Isn't the husband the investor? Wouldn't he be subtly saying he slept with her husband.

  • I have an internal voice/monologue day-to-day but visual when engaging in recall.

    Easiest way to describe it is when I read a novel it's all going in as words but if I think about a specific part later it's recalled as a picture my mind created out of the words. I read the book but recall the movie.

  • Where do they limit hunting to only bow or black powder?

    I know states in the Midwest have special seasons/times for bow/black powder hunting but the regular deer season isn't limited that way.

  • I can't speak to your specific examples since I don't work there.

    The reasons beyond CapEx considerations are things like security, compliance, warranty coverage expiration, standardization across the org, general employee satisfaction, hardware falling out of vendor support.

    I doubt the banks computers are single purpose or purchased specifically for each job role. Sure a 15 or 30 year old computer might technically work but there's no way it'll meet regulatory security compliance rules.

    The home user/hobbyist approach really doesn't scale to corporate IT.

  • Banks and corporations change computers every 3-5 years because accounting love to lease rather to buy

    3-5 years is a pretty standard depreciation schedule for IT equipment like computers, peripheral accessories etc.

    Computers and laptops (using Straight-line method): 31.67% with a useful life of 3 years.

    Computers and laptops (using Written Down Value method): 63.16% with a useful life of 3 years

    It really has nothing to do with leasing vs. buying.

  • Did they do what McDonald's did and switch from beef tallow to vegetable oil?

    I miss the old McDonald's fries but I like that their less terrible for you, but yet they're still not vegetarian/vegan.

  • Are the warrants legitimate? Are any of the claims made by DHS or ICE to be trusted? This is a legitimate question because I don't follow boxing and just assume at this point that anything ICE/DHS says is lies.

  • It's entirely possible that this is because of the 3,000/day quota they were set. If they deport them rather than just let them leave then they can credit that as a 'deportation'.

  • maybe a small park a 15 minute walk away

    This is really dependent on where you live in the US. I just checked and the house I grew up in was within a 15 minute or less walk of 7 parks and 15 minutes isn't really that far to walk. Especially in the US.

  • Honestly that quote sounds a lot like my childhood in Minnesota in the late 80s and early 90s.

    Some of that might be rosy retrospection but I wonder how much this has changed in the US over the years.

  • Nah, Wisconsin has weather that requires more cautious driving a big chunk of the year.

    A lot of the higher end states from the US in the graph are in southern parts of the country which are largely red politically which likely means reduced safety regulations, and have more consistent road conditions and weather through the year.

  • That makes sense but if you isolate it down to only the immigrant populations that data lends itself to the theory of ethnic background, or really genetic background, being a better indicator.

    The Netherlands has an immigrant population of about 4.8 million out of ~17.8 while the US has about 53.3 million out of ~340.1 million and that's only counting foreign born.

    In the end, I still speculate that ethnic/genetic background is a better indicator than country as this graph shows.

    Anecdotally, I'm an American male who is 6' 1" and my ancestral ethnicity is mostly German with a bit of Swiss. Growing up my friends were the same, mostly having German or Scandinavian ancestry, and I was the short one in the friend group. My friends all ranged from 6' 2" up to 6' 9".

  • I figured it would be hard to determine statistically, but figured it was worth mentioning for consideration.

    The UK has a population that's 72% British/Irish. The Netherlands has a population that's 74% Dutch.

    The 5 largest ethnic groups in the United States are White (Non-Hispanic) (58.2%), Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (12%), Two+ (Hispanic) (6.84%), Other (Hispanic) (6.11%), and Asian (Non-Hispanic) (5.75%).

    There are lots of factors that can influence height but about 80% of an individual’s height is determined by genetics and certain populations, like those in the Dinaric Alps (including parts of Eastern Europe), are predisposed to taller statures.

    For example, Uganda is generally considered the most ethnically diverse country and the average male height there is 5' 6.4" which is really close to the global average. Correlation by itself doesn't equal causation but it's a good place to start.

  • Eh, fuck this whole family.

    Why? What is the point of this comment or wishing bad things on these children, or this woman? Why support this behavior of targeting immigrants at all?

  • I've never used Torguard but I'm guessing it's probably pretty good too? The only ones I hear about a lot are the big ones (NordVPN and the like) and I'm always leery of the really large, common and corporate used VPN services.

    I ended up on Mullvad 7-8 years ago because of the recommendation of a SysAdmin I worked with at the time.

  • Ok, so I understand that but how does this fit in:

    Ethnic diversity is higher in US than in Indonesia.

    In the US, a country with greater ethnic diversity than Indonesia, the height is close to the global average, whereas in Indonesia it is significantly below. Correlation ≠ Causation but that statement does more to support the idea that ethnic diversity plays a role than it does to dispute it.

    If anything it says with increasing diversity height gets closer to global average which seems pretty reasonable.

    Same here. With increasing diversity (e.g. the US) height gets closer to global average versus a country with less diversity ("diversity is higher in US than in Indonesia") where the average height is likely more representative of strictly ethnic Indonesians.

    Again, I understand Correlation ≠ Causation but that's why I posted my comment as a question rather than a statement. That maybe this graph is skewed because it fails to account for that diversity and instead of going by country it would make more sense to go by ethnic background?