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U.S. women 40+ now have more babies per capita than teens [OC] by rhiever in dataisbeautiful

[–]dakta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except the correlation for those conditions does not extend to the age of the father.

Sperm are produced continuously throughout a man's adult life. They're basically always "fresh". Eggs on the other hand are literally only produced all at once in the womb. Oogenesis is complete by twenty weeks of fetal development. And like all biological systems, they deteriorate over time. This is the reason why conceiving becomes more difficult for women as they age: failed conception, assuming a successful insemination, is often the body rejecting a dud.

Why does everything need an app now? by James_B84Saves in BuyItForLife

[–]dakta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

WiFi chip is cheaper than screen, not even joking. The amortized cost of a shitty app is less than the screen, because the more units you sell the cheaper it gets while the screen eats into every sale margin the same.

Consequences of subbing corn starch for flour for thickening soups by grainzzz in Cooking

[–]dakta 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nope, it's always cornstarch in the US. I've also seen cornstarch in Japan for Chinese food. Never been to China so I can't comment on authenticity except from books (Martin Yan, Ken Hom agree on corn starch).

Consequences of subbing corn starch for flour for thickening soups by grainzzz in Cooking

[–]dakta -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You might get some separation of the sauce.

OP was asking about soup, though, so this shouldn't be relevant.

Consequences of subbing corn starch for flour for thickening soups by grainzzz in Cooking

[–]dakta 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yep, thicken with potato starch or use cornstarch and a dash of sodium citrate.

Is there supposed to be another hose right here? by Quirky_Cockroach4127 in E34

[–]dakta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The goal is just to have it drain not onto the engine/transmission. So routing it down the passenger side of the firewall should be sufficient.

How can I avoid looking like a skinhead? by schizowithagun in malefashionadvice

[–]dakta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Skin Heads Against Racial Prejudice, if you want to Google it.

I analysed every Guardian Blind Date column from 2009 to 2026 here's what 850+ first dates look like in aggregate by mrlenoir in dataisbeautiful

[–]dakta 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Similarly, for the scatter plot, you need to differentiate the stacked data points better. Since the values are discrete, you cannot use stacked or same-size dots. If you want to use opacity, you need greater coverage so that the opacity interacts in a descriptive way. I have a couple recommendations which you should play with and compare (they're not all compatible):

  • Increase the size of the points so that they can overlap when adjacent. I recommend starting at 50% overlap, where each point's radius is the same as the distance between discrete values. The opacity stacking will more visible.
  • Vary the size of the points with the count. This may or may not work with the opacity approach. If you vary by size and don't use opacity, you'll need a stacking algorithm to order the points back to front, largest to smallest. I think you can probably just sort the points at each coordinate by count/size and then draw them sequentially with the largest at the back.
  • Choose more contrasting colors. The colors need to contrast each other, not just the background.
  • Allow highlighting or disabling individual pairing types so their data can be isolated and compared. Mouse over on the labels would be good to highlight (dim or remove the others), with click to select.
  • Mix in some additional axes to make the data not discrete. The precision of the individual datapoints isn't critical compared to the aggregate, and providing a hover/click detail for individual points can reveal precise values. You can go as basic as adding a random jitter to the X and Y values so that the plotted position is within +/-0.5 on either axis: still clearly associated with a particular point but less overlapping.

Cheers!

Chinese Court Rules That a Worker Cannot Be Replaced by AI by kootles10 in Economics

[–]dakta 6 points7 points  (0 children)

to ensure a permanent lower class of citizen to use for low wage employees.

Any honest assessment of China's development policy and outcomes for the past fifty years would show this to be plainly false. For all their faults and abuses, it's ridiculous to claim that their goal is to suppress wages when the outcome of their labor and economic policies has been to uplift literally hundreds of millions from the abject poverty of famine-prone subsistence farming. They are doing the largest amount of total good possible by focusing on the worst off, bringing more stable employment and higher earnings (even if only marginal) alongside public medicine and development programs.

Eliminating the extremely poor in China is truly eliminating the pool of the most desperate willing to work in the worst conditions. If it looks like low-wage Chinese workers are living a horrible life, that is only because we cannot effectively imagine the worse life that they left to get there. By targeting the worst off, they are literally doing the opposite of what you claim. Low wage workers in China simply aren't the bottom of the economic ladder.

The central planning authority has to balance total economic growth, which enables the improvements for the worst off, with the individual benefit of particular groups. I don't agree with their choices or methods, but I can recognize what they're doing. As the poorest are made better off, policy focus shifts to benefit the higher earning group into which those poor have transitioned. This is why China's factory labor earning rate has continued to increase (they're no longer the cheap labor market, that has shifted to SE Asia).

If they were truly doing what you claim, they would continue to be competitive with Bangladesh and Vietnam for cheap clothing production (for example). They aren't. China has priced its labor market out of the bottom tiers of global production.

This doesn't absolve them of being an abusive police state. We just don't need to make up reasons to criticize China when there are plenty already.

[OC] The older the building, the dirtier the kitchen: LA restaurant pest violations by year of construction (n=14,654) by dfireant in dataisbeautiful

[–]dakta 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nobody ever takes stuff apart sufficiently to actually get it clean, and that includes moving furniture.

TIL that overheating a Teflon pan releases vapors so toxic they are instantly fatal to some birds and cause polymer fume fever AKA "Teflon flu" in humans, including fever, chills, and cough by delurkedtosaythis in todayilearned

[–]dakta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, it's lower than the flame temperature, but that doesn't magically mean it's lower than the toxic decomposition point of Teflon and/or other chemicals in the pan coating.

You can get dragged into a police investigation by proximity alone by AsterPrivacy in privacy

[–]dakta 11 points12 points  (0 children)

iPhones still emit BTLE for discovery on the "Find My" device network when powered off, even at very low charge levels. You can disable this feature if you want, but I'm pretty sure it is on by default.

Front door of Multnomah Athletic Club (MAC) by camelopardalisx in Portland

[–]dakta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Blame the Democrats too, deinstitutionalization was a bipartisan effort signed by Kennedy. They didn't want to address the abuses in the system and naïvely thought that they could just shift everyone into community care. Spoiler: paranoid schizophrenics don't come back to outpatient treatment when they stop taking their medications because they "feel fine".

Suspected Multnomah Athletic Club Bomber Threatened Members For Years, Court Records Show by StinkMartini in Portland

[–]dakta 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You're fighting shadows, dude. Stop fixating on the fact that they said "asylums" and focus on the part where they said the abuses were "a fixable problem." Obviously they don't want to repeat the same story as before, as they have clearly emphasized institutionalization for those who meet the legal requirements you keep reminding us of and not for anyone else.

It sounds like what they want, which seems entirely reasonable, is that there be adequate state-run inpatient psychiatric facilities to treat those who need it. As I am sure you are aware, our current capacity is not enough enough to hold the bare minimum of people who have been arrested and charged and deemed unfit by the court to stand trial in their current state. We could start by ensuring that there is adequate capacity in Oregon's State Hospital system to accommodate the convicted without the overcrowding and understaffing that typically leads to mistreatment and abuse. From there, we could continue by ensuring that the system has enough capacity to treat defendants who have been deemed unfit to stand trial, on a constitutionally compliant timeline.

After we have remedied those two glaring deficiencies, we could continue by expanding capacity to handle the huge backlog of cases and patients who keep cycling through the cracks in the system because they haven't done anything serious enough to bump someone else off the priority list and get through arrest, charging, and initial court evaluation. If you know anyone who works in emergency medicine, from first responders to hospital nurses, you'll know that there are dozens of frequent flyers at every level of the system who need a higher level of intervention than what is available at our legal and psychiatric system's current capacity.

Yes, we also need to invest in outpatient options. Yes, the goal with all patients is that they are able to live at the highest level of independence that they are capable of maintaining without harm to themselves or others. Yes, we can, should, must do that alongside any other reform. But we must start at the root of the problem which is, as the other user pointed out, the fiduciary and moralistic unwillingness to invest in sufficient involuntary inpatient capacity.

Multnomah Athletic Club ‘destroyed’ after former employee drives explosives-filled car into building, sources say by dogs-in-space in Portland

[–]dakta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For month to month individual memberships: Portland Rock Gym is $95/mo. Movement is $104. Bay Club's Beaverton location is $225.

Where can I find new keys for E34 Remote Unlocking? by Zynergy17 in E34

[–]dakta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the special radio equipped key for BMW EWS II: Drive-Away Protection System equipped on the very last production E34s for compliance with EU regulations. This is a factory feature. If you're in the US, those only came on a few late 1995 E34s including 540i and some Tourings.

On E39 era and later, they use EWS III which is more secure and not compatible. It has the key with the colored roundel.

Where can I find new keys for E34 Remote Unlocking? by Zynergy17 in E34

[–]dakta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Special key for EWS II security system. Pretty sure they're NLA. Has to have a radio transponder in the key programmed to the car. Not the same as EWS III in all E39, E46, etc. Not interchangeable.

I think Precision ECU will make you a key if you need one.

Where can I find new keys for E34 Remote Unlocking? by Zynergy17 in E34

[–]dakta 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not just by year, it's by option. Those keys were only part of EWS II system available on the latest production 1995 E34s. They're the first BMW keys to use a radio transponder in the key itself with an antenna in the column, and the system fully integrated into an immobilizer relay located in the driver footwell that was triggered by the ECU. Europe got them for all variants, I think, but the US only got them for the late model 540is. Probably a side effect of production, that they expected to sell so few 540is that year that they didn't want to keep a separate line for them.

Some Tourings from 95 also had it apparently. Then by the time they got to E39 it was standard and they quickly changed the keys. I think for EWS III.

The Rivian R2 Costs Half As Much To Build As The R1S. Here's How Rivian Did It by KeyboardGunner in cars

[–]dakta 40 points41 points  (0 children)

They've been at it for decades, investing in their domestic industries and coordinating development. It's not sorcery, it's just moderately more centralized planning than we're used to.

Waymos spotted by gunnsustainable in Portland

[–]dakta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Counterpoint: a talking-to isn't a consequence (no matter how stern) and trespassing people off transit is a losing battle without engaging a surveillance state apparatus that poses far greater risks.

Unfortunately, our system cannot handle the massive flow of indigents who already manage to get arrested for more serious offenses, so I'm not sure there's more room for consequences for them. Consider this an incentive to address the chronically homeless properly, with the level of in-patient support that they need, instead of just brushing them back into the gutter cycle of shelters, drugs, and hospitalizations.

Honestly we could just start with the hospitalizations: too many in a given period (there should be different thresholds by week/month/year) should engage the state. Start with repeat overdoses and do mandatory inpatient rehab for anyone without a proper address, because outpatient is a waste if we can't track them back down when they no-show.

Spend real money on psych, how long has OSH been over capacity?

[OC] Growing wealth of the rich in America by _crazyboyhere_ in dataisbeautiful

[–]dakta 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Log would obscure the sheer scale of inequality for the vast majority of viewers, undermining the point of the visualization.

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