Is there really a significant number of apartments that are vacant due to habitability reasons? I believe there are a lot of vacant units out there even in hot markets, for various reasons, but mostly perfectly livable.
It was a rhetoric to “I don't see these sorts of claims as falsifiable.”
Creationists regularly posit that Evolution is not falsifiable. Popperian falsifiability is being abandoned these days and instead Neumann’s definition of Science and scientific theory is increasingly embraced.
#5 - Don't check the demographics of the whole state. Schools only draw from the local area and CT, like most states is pretty segregated. I don't know where the author is from but for example, most schools in Hartford have a white minority.
Yeah, I knew that about CT but he mentioned there were "many" Black students. I don't know why exactly but from his phrasing it doesn't sound like he was at a white minority school.
USGS describes the site as a "large playa," and the Science abstract says they were "stratigraphically constrained and bracketed by seed layers" so I interpret that to mean they were made in wet sand and buried under layers of more sand.
> "Drive like everyone is trying to crash into you"
That advice (for cyclists) was also in one of Neal Stephenson's early novels, Zodiac... I've found it useful. Now I just get annoyed when drivers insist on yielding to pedestrians and cyclists when they don't need to, it would be faster if they didn't and they aren't blocking any other traffic. The driver feels like they've helped, I guess, but the pedestrians are not safer.
This will be on the table the day after Texas votes for a Democratic candidate. Not before. Hopefully we can get the first-past-the-post language out of it before then.
Portland, Oregon already passed a similar law. Both of them seem a little ambiguous to me: they both clearly ban the city's use, and ban the city from allowing corporate use in public places, but do they ban the private use of facial recognition by individuals on public property? Does failing to specifically ban this constitute authorization?
It's been reported that protesters in Portland OR and other places have been using facial recognition to identify police who don't have visible badges -- so I am wondering if this is banned.
>but do they ban the private use of facial recognition by individuals on public property? Does failing to specifically ban this constitute authorization?
I bet that would easily be considered unconstitutional by the courts.
Surely the companies that print the symbol and "Please recycle!" on non-recyclable plastic wouldn't label non-compostable silverware as compostable...
I've successfully run "compostable" plastic through the dishwasher several times and haven't seen any sign of decay. The county I live in offers composting service and begs people to please not put "compostable" plastic in it.
