EL_Loco

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by EL_Loco 7y ago
> "If you’re one of the eight or nine people on the planet who has never interacted with Alexa" What?? Replace "planet" with "United States". I doubt outside Europe and North America Alexa is that pervasive.
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by EL_Loco 7y ago
Snow sled boy cool too
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by EL_Loco 7y ago
Is there any type of ultrasound-like equipment used by archaeologists that scans below ground and allows some crude-resolution view of whats below?
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by EL_Loco 7y ago
I haven't read much into this, but the Blackfly looks at least as promisin as the competition: https://www.opener.aero/ edit: Forgot to add that it has already flown over 20,000 miles with payload (in about 2k flights)
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Value Gap Between Americans and Europeans(pewresearch.org)
2 points by EL_Loco 7y ago|0 comments
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by EL_Loco 7y ago
Me too. Maybe I'll google it when I have the time. Would be quite surprised if things got sorted out and the world became somewhat a nice place to live.
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Some guy played Civ2 for a decade, here's what the world looked like(giantbomb.com)
4 points by EL_Loco 7y ago|2 comments
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by EL_Loco 7y ago
'scaffolding' is a good term for this. It's hard for me to enjoy a movie, as I can see all the structure unfolding and can predict a lot of what's going to happen from the first 15 minutes or so. The good thing is that t
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by EL_Loco 7y ago
The split keyboards and ortholinear keys aren't that much better. They're mostly ideas about what would be better ergonomically, but they haven't been as thoroughly thought out as they seem. For the split keyboards, look at
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by EL_Loco 7y ago
What do you mean by 'fade out universally'?
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Forest kindergarten(en.wikipedia.org)
114 points by EL_Loco 7y ago|44 comments
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by EL_Loco 7y ago
>the C-Series planes are much better than similar Embarer aircraft, both longer range and more comfortable Also quite more expensive and less fuel efficient. The comparison is more complex than that.
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U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018)(smithsonianmag.com)
280 points by EL_Loco 7y ago|399 comments
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Global Passport Power Rank 2019(passportindex.org)
89 points by EL_Loco 7y ago|85 comments
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Are FAANG already considered too big to fail?
2 points by EL_Loco 7y ago|0 comments
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by EL_Loco 7y ago
Could be, yeah, but I can't see how to implement that with USB's friction model of retention.
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by EL_Loco 7y ago
If my laptop already had usb-c and could be charged through it, why would I want an extra, different format charging port? Why not add a micro-usb one, for three different charging ports?
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by EL_Loco 7y ago
Regarding point 2, I don't know... the whole "I'm not better than anyone else" should be only part of your sentiment. If you think "I'm not better than anybody, including the least educated parcel of the popula
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Plastics recycling with microbes and worms is further away than we think (2018)(cen.acs.org)
137 points by EL_Loco 7y ago|77 comments
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Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Every Year(smithsonianmag.com)
131 points by EL_Loco 7y ago|85 comments
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by EL_Loco 7y ago
>Public school system does not have such luxury This is a very important point. Private schools can simple expell troublesome students. At the public school one of my kids goes to, there's a 10 year old who sometimes gets very agres
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by EL_Loco 7y ago
Bananas in the U.S. come from Guatemala, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Colombia, and a few others, but not from Brazil. As for global production, India, China and the Philippines account for almost half of the world's production. The majority o