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by SECProto 3y ago
They highlighted spinach for the kidney stones (i.e. oxalates). Per your chart, they are at 970 mg/100g, so two pounds of spinach would be roughly 9000mg of oxalates.
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by SECProto 3y ago
> Where did I say I thought that? It was in the comment you replied to, you only explicitly addressed the first part, but implicitly agreed with the latter as well: > how many 19-year-olds do you know who want to live in a dorm settin
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by SECProto 3y ago
> So I can die on the road with enough energy to drive another 50 km? My gas car has a 42 litre tank, if i wait until the light has come on and the gauge is on (and then drive another 20km past that), I can only get 38.5 litres in.
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by SECProto 3y ago
> I can't speak for Europe but as far as the USA, the evidence seems to show the _silent_ majority actually prefer the suburbs instead of 5-story buildings. Where in the US is made of "5-10 storey blocks with internal courtyard
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by SECProto 3y ago
summary of that, from 1:22: "For watching a movie, in a movie theater/in an appropriate speaker setup, shit is awesome. Love it for movies, it's so cool. But for music, it has not, and will not, ever take off."
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by SECProto 3y ago
> Threads is a mobile-only app, like Instagram Instagram can be used in a desktop browser just fine.
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by SECProto 3y ago
What kind of a system were you installing? We had a heat pump installed three years ago for less than $5k Canadian. Can't remember if we got a rebate on top of that or not.
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by SECProto 3y ago
counterpoint, my yaris has a 42L tank. The light comes on around 36L to 37L in. I know if pretty well so I've pushed it to 38.5L (another ~30km past the light) but never risked going any further.
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by SECProto 3y ago
> Thoughtful and well-argued piece I disagree, it read more like a stream of thought on why public transport and walking sucks, followed up with why car driving is great, a short aside on how bicycle riding isn't even an option beca
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by SECProto 3y ago
> In USA and Canada, it seems to largely be an instinct to say "Don't take off your shoes, please!" out of politeness. As a Canadian, I think every household I've been in you take your shoes off at the door. Experienc
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by SECProto 3y ago
And predating that by a year is M.C.Kids for NES [1], which I remember from my childhood [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.C._Kids
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by SECProto 3y ago
As an RX580 user, I was hoping for a bit more memory - as it stands, this doesn't feel compelling for me to upgrade. Maybe there'll be a 7600xt or something, but I'll be holding out another year or three (and turning graphics
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by SECProto 3y ago
I don't know much about the earliest car roadways, do you have a link with some info? Granular gradation is still a major part of modern roadway construction, there are just certain standards that are very typical so they get used with
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by SECProto 3y ago
Great video. Most neat parts for me: - Removing the ballast from a section at a time to do the cleaning means that the rails and sleepers are floating in the air (~1:30 to 2:35) - They're doing all this work, including transferring was
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by SECProto 3y ago
You clearly don't drive in a location that heavily salts roads! Here, a 15 year old car with 50,000 km is only marginally better than a 15 year old car with 200,000km - and it's mostly because the lower mileage car has probably be
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by SECProto 3y ago
that peak (late 1960s) is where the youngest boomers started to have children while some of the silent generation still were. This [1] animated chart makes it even more clear. Just for comparison, Canada [2] is even more exaggerated As to t
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by SECProto 3y ago
> Are generations really demographic pulses as you describe? Here[1] is the US population pyramid. You can clearly see the small increases and decreases at various ages - a demographic pulse, as you said. There is a significant decline i
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by SECProto 3y ago
"The Water Knife" by Paolo Bacigalupi, though near-future speculative fiction, gives a pretty solid explanation of the issues. Junior rights don't matter much when there isn't enough water
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by SECProto 3y ago
> Only in the absurd world of carbon credits is this required - something that is nearly impossible to do any other way - that contributes practically nothing to global CO2 vs the incredible benefit to society it proffers - has to stop.
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by SECProto 3y ago
Interesting, only the old triangles work for me on Firefox (Android 12). They all show correctly on Firefox in Windows 10
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by SECProto 3y ago
It's not clear. It's possible that even if you don't use the fitness at all, you'd still have to plug in once a month. Or maybe your situation would work, i.e. it could regenerate an hour worth over the span of a week.
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by SECProto 3y ago
> unless I'm reading what Casio announced wrong. According to them, the watch will recharge enough with the solar panel quickly enough to use the fitness functions for 7 hours a week(1 hour a day). You are reading it wrong. What it
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by SECProto 3y ago
I was curious about the "grid at 3x220" mention so I did some research. Couldn't find what you meant by this, but did find a page from the electric utility in Brussels explicitly saying there are no problems or work required
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by SECProto 3y ago
I'm Canadian, and I like CanCon rules. While this new law has major flaws, I still view it as a net positive.
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by SECProto 3y ago
Yes, my previous phone was a Samsung, and I dropped them because they no longer come with these two features. My current phone is a OnePlus (basically rebadged Oppo). I also considered the Moto G series, but their selection in Canada is awf
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by SECProto 3y ago
That really isn't how orbits work... At any given time, there are as many starlink satellites overhead at Meerkat National Park as there are at any other point in the world around 30* north or south.
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by SECProto 3y ago
> This right here is Android's killer app Similarly, for me, android's killer app is that I can still get a phone with an SD card slot and an aux jack - so my music is with me, without needing to rely on a flakey old phone righ
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by SECProto 3y ago
> when I moved here it was cheaper to pay the roaming fees for my US phone in Canada than it was to switch to a Canadian telecom. Was it data quantity that made that feasible? My Canadian plan is $45/month and has unlimited phone ti
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by SECProto 3y ago
Yes, debt financing is awful, and something that has guaranteed long term revenue but large up front capital costs is something that should be publicly owned (i.e. a crown corporation like OPG), not financed by private debt.
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by SECProto 3y ago
> Unfortunately the nuclear power plant operator losses money even faster than they are right now. Note that Ontario Power Generation, who owns all the nuclear plants in Ontario, has a positive net income of roughly 20% of gross, and is

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