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How China Miscalculated Its Way to a Baby Bust(wsj.com)
3 points by LastNevadan 3y ago|0 comments
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Hermit crabs are 'wearing' our plastic rubbish(bbc.com)
4 points by LastNevadan 3y ago|0 comments
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China's Imagination Deficit(project-syndicate.org)
4 points by LastNevadan 3y ago|0 comments
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
My favorite example in English is this sentence: "I peered at a pair of pears on the pier." As a native speaker, the sounds in peer/pair/pear/pier are slightly but detectable different. But non-native speakers can
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
I'm sometimes amazed by how many people work at some of these companies. Nine percent is about 1,000 jobs. So, a back-of-the-envelope calculation implies that about 11,000 people work there. I don't doubt that running eBay is mo
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Federal Appeals Court Slams FBI's Actions in Security Deposit Box Raid(ij.org)
18 points by LastNevadan 3y ago|3 comments
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Zero Jet Aircraft Crashes: 2023 Was One of Aviation's Safest Years on Record(simpleflying.com)
3 points by LastNevadan 3y ago|0 comments
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
I remember being an electronics store once and seeing some cables intended for audio that described themselves as being "low oxygen" cables. My god, the nonsense that people fall for!
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
I have been using Optery (YC W22) and are happy with them. It's more money than I wanted to spend on this. But they have cleared my name out of more than a hundred sites. The article linked here refers to ten data brokers. But there
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Chinese-developed Nickel-63 nuclear battery has a 50-year lifespan(tomshardware.com)
3 points by LastNevadan 3y ago|0 comments
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The over 150-year mystery of why urine is yellow has been cracked: study(nypost.com)
1 points by LastNevadan 3y ago|1 comments
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Flowers Are Evolving to Have Less Sex(nytimes.com)
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Tuvalu, a sinking nation, is offered an escape route. But there's a catch(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by LastNevadan 3y ago|0 comments
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Chinese-developed 'golden veil' could make missiles look like passenger planes(scmp.com)
7 points by LastNevadan 3y ago|3 comments
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Analysis: China's spy agency now watches for doomsayers(asia.nikkei.com)
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
There was a family in Siberia who went off-grid and lived in the Siberian forest for 42 years. They were discovered by the Soviet authorities in 1978. https://allthatsinteresting.com/lykov-family
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Neumann Drive: A Pulsed Cathodic Arc Thruster for Spacecrafts(neumannspace.com)
112 points by LastNevadan 3y ago|46 comments
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
Along this topic, there is an interesting film called "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" [1] based on the true life story of Lee Israel [2], who forged letters from famous deceased writers and actors. She was eventually caught and plead
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
I used DJGPP quite a bit for several projects at work a few years ago. Worked really well. I was happy to use modern versions of C++ compilers for DOS apps.
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Lawmakers Press Biden Administration for Tougher Curbs on China Tech(nytimes.com)
1 points by LastNevadan 3y ago|0 comments
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The Indian siblings taking the chess world by storm(bbc.com)
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
A similar film is Silkwood, which is about the life of Karen Silkwood, who reported concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety in a nuclear facility where she worked. She was severely harassed by her employer and then
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The Hole: A tiny NYC community forgotten for decades(bloomberg.com)
105 points by LastNevadan 3y ago|28 comments
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
https://archive.is/SIe26
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The reincarnation of totaled North American Teslas–in Ukraine(wired.com)
1 points by LastNevadan 3y ago|0 comments
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An entire state's population just had its data stolen by a ransomware group(mashable.com)
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The first commercial carbon-sucking facility in the US opens in California(bloomberg.com)
62 points by LastNevadan 3y ago|105 comments
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by LastNevadan 3y ago
I had the same reaction! Before I clicked the article, I was thinking that a bunch of Twitter or Salesforce people were going to jail.
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Nvidia develops AI chips for China in latest bid to avoid US restrictions(ft.com)
4 points by LastNevadan 3y ago|0 comments
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It's Time for a Single QR Code for All the Payments(bloomberg.com)
1 points by LastNevadan 3y ago|0 comments

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