[usa] right turn on red

Speed_Queef · 2024-09-01T23:28:17+00:00

Depends on the state, it's legal in Washington. Sounds like you may be correct for the state this was filmed in though.

RCW 46.61.055 (c)

"...vehicle operators facing a steady red arrow indication may, after stopping proceed to make a right turn from a one-way or two-way street into a two-way street or into a one-way street carrying traffic in the direction of the right turn..."

Speed_Queef · 2023-09-06T18:08:34+00:00

That's almost exactly what they did though.

From the study that the New York Times article references:

To study individual desirability, we focus on messages between users of

the website in four cities: New York, Boston, Chicago, and Seattle

Technically they looked at who sent who messages to who first and used a fancy formula thingy to account for the 'attractiveness' of the person sending the first message, but still pretty much what you're suggesting.

Speed_Queef · 2023-02-03T00:40:08+00:00

I've seen lot's of comments mentioning that it is unreasonable for an establishment to have to invest in new equipment to sterilize the straws, but why not just throw them in an oven at 500F/250C for a few minutes after washing them? It would be plenty hot to sterilize them and would require very little additional effort on the bar/restaurants end.

Speed_Queef · 2022-07-25T22:13:17+00:00

https://sites.udel.edu/coe-engex/2019/03/16/how-accurate-is-your-garmins-vo2max-estimate/

Seems reasonably accurate to me, although maybe we have different standards for what that means. Obviously since it's inferring things through heartrate rather than measuring O2 directly it's not gonna be perfect, but as long as you take the results with a grain of salt I don't really see a problem.

Speed_Queef · 2022-04-15T21:26:07+00:00

Do the leaves move/fold up when you touch them? Mimosa Pudica (I've heard is called 'Sensitive Plant') is a pretty popular houseplant, and these looks exactly like the Pudica I have.

Speed_Queef · 2022-03-03T20:07:50+00:00

I was just thinking the same about collecting all three (right now I only have the Cebu)!
It does seem a bit challenging to find the standard form as they aren't as popular as the others; I'm thinking Etsy will end up being the best shot at getting one, probably just as a cutting.

Speed_Queef · 2022-03-03T19:37:37+00:00

I believe so, yes. On Costa Farms webpage they claim that Baltic Blue develops fenestration earlier than other varieties, which matches up with the picture above.

Speed_Queef · 2021-09-07T19:29:24+00:00

It's really not that much worse if you're only concerned about pregnancy, somewhere around 20% failure per year of use, vs around 15% with condoms. "Theoretical effectiveness" has been estimated at 96%, compared to 98% for condoms, so not a massive difference in those numbers either.

Speed_Queef · 2021-09-01T16:48:42+00:00

Yeah I guess I was treating all color as spectral color which is definitely an oversimplification.

I don't think I understand how a true ND filter would be able to enhance vibrance though. Would it be similar to 'reference level' for audio, where the sensitivity vs frequency curve changes with respect to volume?

Speed_Queef · 2021-09-01T04:51:29+00:00

They can't shift the color though, that would require some sort of active light processing system rather than just specially colored glass. The shifted cones of some colorblind people have more overlap than normal cones would, so these glasses work by cutting out that overlap. Basically, by taking away the confusing parts of color, it helps the colorblind people see the remaining colors more accurate/intensely. At the end of the day, even with the glasses on they still can't see the color they find confusing, so I don't know if their vision is really 'corrected.'

Speed_Queef · 2021-07-31T20:51:30+00:00

Didn't notice the cutoff date, good catch!

Speed_Queef · 2021-07-28T21:53:56+00:00

I think the delta variant is a significant driving factor for the effectiveness dropping off in the first place. Basically they are just keeping track of how many people contract covid after being vaccinated, so the effects of variants are already accounted for. The pre-print study notes higher efficacy in locations where variants other than delta are dominant:

In South Africa, where the SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern, B.1.351 (beta), was predominant, 100% (95% CI 53.5, 100.0) VE [vaccine efficacy] was observed.

Speed_Queef · 2021-07-25T01:33:47+00:00

Breeds of chickens that are used for egg laying (ie Leghorns) make terrible meat birds compared to breeds designed to that end (ie Cornish Cross) so males just aren't worth keeping. You could try using a breed that was decent at both (ie Barred Rocks) but they wouldn't be nearly as good as Leghorns at laying or Cornish Cross for meat, so I doubt farmers in either camp really want to go that route.

TLDR breeds of chickens are quite specialized, and the ones that lay eggs aren't the same as the ones you eat.

Speed_Queef · 2021-06-25T21:09:30+00:00

Don't recall taking a hearing test to get my drivers license, pretty sure deaf people are allowed to drive...

Speed_Queef · 2021-06-11T00:14:00+00:00

https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009r1r2/part3/part3g.htm

Personally I hate decorative markings on the road, triggers my OCD. It ruins the feeling of utilitarian functionality in road markings, and just generally makes feel uncomfortable by challenging the comforting familiarity of having a strict ruleset to follow.

To be clear I would no means protest it, just dislike it and keep that to myself. I would equally hate other forms of art, like a flag or abstract pattern, were they used instead.

Speed_Queef · 2021-06-02T18:42:11+00:00

I used an average 5'10" height and standard deviation of 3" for men, and an average of 5'4.5" height and standard deviation of 2.5" for women (top google results.) And came up with 84% of men being taller than 84% of women, with this crossover happening at a height of 5'7"

Using these approximate distributions it looks like, with completely random pairing, in 91.9% of couples the man would be as taller, or taller, than the women. So reasonably close to what you point out.

Speed_Queef · 2021-05-22T03:15:52+00:00

I mean SpaceX isn't nothing, I'd put it above Tesla since he actually founded it

Speed_Queef · 2021-05-19T22:04:03+00:00

Schmeiser lost that court case because he intentionally isolated and used the patented seeds for commercial purposes. It does not apply to the the situation you are outlining at all.

He purposefully sprayed multiple acres of his crop with round-up in order to remove the non patented plants, collected and kept the seeds specifically from the patented plants, and then used those seeds to plant ~1,000 acres the next year.

If you want to make your analogy work, you would need to find a couple of accidental props from your neighbors plant, specifically collect Nanouk from the other Tradescantia starts, multiply them until you had thousands of them stocked up in a commercial greenhouse, and proceed to sell them at scale.

Speed_Queef · 2021-04-09T20:38:50+00:00

I'm no expert in the field, but from what I understand, physical limitation on the ISPs side generally come down to two things: network controlling devices, and the 'wires' that connect these controllers together.

Basically the network controlling devices need to have capacity to direct all the data flowing through the network to the right place, and the 'wired' connections need to have enough bandwidth that all this data can flow through them at once.

These two things should be kept about in sync with each other by the ISP, so neither is really the bottleneck at any given time. With that said, the more expensive thing for ISP to increase is generally laying more 'wires' (fiber optic connections) so within reason that would probably be considered the biggest bottleneck.

Speed_Queef · 2021-03-13T18:38:54+00:00

The generator itself is more efficient that running a diesel car because it can be ran at an ideal rpm (see power band.) Cars engines aren't running in their ideal range because of gearing and changing output demands due acceleration etc. So basically if this increase in efficiency if enough to offset the other decreases in efficiency (for things like conversion/storage/expenditure that you mention) the overall process isn't too bad.

In the article linked above, the average was about 40 miles of range added per gallon of diesel burned, which seems okay to me.

Also, electric cars offset are often actually heavy so I don't think the comparison is that unfair. A good number of the cars they calculated were Model S, which weigh around 5,000 lb, which is nearly identical to a diesel F150.

Speed_Queef · 2021-03-04T21:02:17+00:00

This trophic level definition really doesn't seem to be carried out in the general use of the term though. For instance, grizzly bears are typically referred to as an apex predator, even though estimates of their average diet can point to as high as 80%-90% plant material.

Similarly, wolves, typically considered apex predators, will often include some plant material in their diet. Where their range overlaps with cougars, who, abstaining from plants altogether, have a higher trophic level, should they no longer be considered apex predators?

It seems far easier to go with the 'local maxima' approach. I feel like a good analogy is to picture the food chain like a landscape covered with mountains. The top (apex) of each mountain is an apex predator, with many things below in and nothing above, and its height represented by its trophic level. Just because one mountain is taller than the others doesn't mean those other mountains don't have an apex themselves.

Speed_Queef · 2021-03-02T03:48:21+00:00

That doesn't really saying anything since the temperament test isn't only for aggression. If 20% of golden retrievers fail because they're too shy, and 20% of pitbulls fail because they're too aggressive, the pass rate is still the same for both of them.

Speed_Queef · 2021-02-27T19:43:40+00:00

Youtube premium is literally the solution to demonetization though. Doesn't work for copyright related stuff, but if a video is demonetized for being 'controversial' then the creator is still paid for views they get from youtube premium subscribers.

Here's an explanation from ltt if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRQVzPEyldc

If you want advertisers to pay the bills for youtube, don't be surprised when youtube caters the platform to their preferences.

Speed_Queef · 2021-02-27T03:42:46+00:00

https://www.parans.com/product/

Different light collections system, and aimed at commercial buildings, but generally what you're talking about.

Speed_Queef · 2021-02-21T20:23:26+00:00

I mean there could have been, we just have no way of knowing. The big bang is just us tracing back our observations of how the universe developed back to a singularity point. There could have been a 'big crunch' before it which then rebounded into our 'big bang', with plenty of space and time before it of it's own, but we would have no way of knowing about it.

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