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by 0_____0 3y ago
1.4% of the 97MM~ acres of corn planted go to human consumption (figures a few years old). Big fractions go to biofuel and animal feed, a slightly smaller fraction to industrial feedstocks. Edit: in the US
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by 0_____0 3y ago
You should try bike touring if you can! If you love the immersion of driving, cycling, especially in wild environments, is 10x more intense in that regard. Every smell, the feeling of fog or drizzle or sun, the feel of the dirt or road unde
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by 0_____0 3y ago
discussion of self harm in this comment Money well spent. And congrats on getting sober. I'm about a year into a my own journey, actually sort of the reverse of your situation - I went on a big bicycle trip (3000 miles) and the sense
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by 0_____0 3y ago
I chafe at the US (and NA) tendency to stray from otherwise global standards, but in this case I'm not convinced it really matters. Car companies are already really good at localizing vehicles to regions, so that's not an argument
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by 0_____0 3y ago
I worked in this space for years. The answer is no. If you evolve a multirotor design to be more and more efficient you will end up with fewer, larger rotors, until the time comes that you require variable pitch to have sufficient control b
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by 0_____0 3y ago
Known to whom? You might be a sophisticated consumer but go hang out at the DMV and ask yourself how many of your fellow countrymen would really question yelp reviews.
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by 0_____0 3y ago
Adding friction to the things you're not trying to do is the whole part of the article. You're creating tunnel "walls" of friction to make it so traveling down the tunnel is the most straightforward action.
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by 0_____0 3y ago
As someone who has heard of Mastodon but not really interacted with it, that's a really helpful metaphor!
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by 0_____0 3y ago
It's difficult to get large battery packs right. In order to limit the possibility of catastrophic runaway of the pack you have to have extremely robust inter-cell or inter-module thermal isolation and heat rejection. These features ar
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by 0_____0 3y ago
Group chats. Email. Good ol' hanging out at the pub. The lesson of the last decade is that any tech or platform that relies on advertising to exist will eventually become perverted to ends that oppose those of its users.
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by 0_____0 3y ago
Google news is the same. At some point it decided that I must follow every sniff and fart coming from a certain electric car tycoon, and there was no negotiating.
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by 0_____0 3y ago
I've been trying to figure out if other people get this too! Finally I'm able to corroborate this. Never thought of it as chalky, to me it's indescribable in a way that one might attempt to approximate with such a word. Not r
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by 0_____0 3y ago
Ventilation is required by code (International Residential Code and International Mechanical Code both lay out requirements for residential and commercial construction respectively). Any bathroom without either a window or mechanical ventil
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by 0_____0 3y ago
I don't really doubt the technical side, but what do you think will happen when a country proposes SO2 injection? It's a global solution to a set of localized issues that not all countries face, there will certainly be objection f
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by 0_____0 3y ago
Related: a historical instance of fire smoke so dense it darkened the skies (1780) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England%27s_Dark_Day
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by 0_____0 3y ago
What makes you think geoengineering is going to solve more problems than it introduces?
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by 0_____0 3y ago
My opinion: HN has a particular culture and attitude to discussion that can be grating for non-users. One example: HNers tend to approach topics as if they have a solid grasp on the context of a matter, and are often negative, hence dang&#x
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by 0_____0 3y ago
For the curious, 4K at 36" (pretty typical construction drawing size) is 106ppi. Playing around in GIMP I find 10px high type to be easily readable at this spatial resolution from about 2' away. It's not pretty but it's
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by 0_____0 3y ago
What has your experience with Altium been like?
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by 0_____0 3y ago
??? I run a 2015 ipad and I haven't run across an app that won't run on it.
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by 0_____0 3y ago
I mean it's their time, if they want to do something useless but harmless, why not? Unless this is their first step in a grand scheme to halt the evolution of language, I don't see a problem here.
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by 0_____0 3y ago
What? Why?
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by 0_____0 3y ago
Do LAN parties still exist? There used to be actual physical community around gaming and it's a shame it's died off.
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by 0_____0 3y ago
Not going to downvote, assuming you're saying this in good faith. This is really bad advice. Lots of people (usually men) do this — letting their partner be their conduit to social engagement, and not only is it lazy, it's harmful
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by 0_____0 3y ago
Be somewhere where people congregate repeatedly. Regular at a pub, bouldering gym, arts meetup. Really anything where you'll see the same people consistently. My rule of thumb that it takes something like 3 reasonable length conversati
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by 0_____0 3y ago
Really well, thanks for asking. It's amazing what a culture that takes safety extremely seriously, and has pragmatic systems in place to learn from incidents, can produce. Commercial air transport is THE safest mode of transportation i
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by 0_____0 3y ago
I live in Mass and while Prop 2½ does exist it isn't universal. Property tax in my municipality is based on current assessment, and the assessment is updated yearly.
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by 0_____0 3y ago
Yep. My hope is that other states learn from California's mistakes and correct their policies before they get tested by serious population growth in cities. Seems like that's happening to a degree (supported by examples in the art
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by 0_____0 3y ago
Ah that makes sense. I was doing B&W with basically a kettle and a glass thermometer, I had no electronic temperature control equipment. I think I would have found it extremely challenging to do C41 consistently without that.
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by 0_____0 3y ago
Have you read Dune? I hadn't, and I wonder if that made the difference. Either way you should definitely see Pig.

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