Tharkun

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by Tharkun 8y ago
Ugh. Dark themes. Can't get used to them. Fine for general terminal use, but impossible for me for larger amounts of text. Can't really articulate why , but it's uncomfortable for me.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Removing the filling seems like a great way to inhale more of the stuff. How do they prevent that from happening?
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From what I understand, it can sequester carbon because its roots run pretty deep. But then what? Won't the soil become saturated with carbon? Or isn't that an issue?
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Here's the thing. Environmentalists have been warning about climate change for generations now. Calling for replacements for fossil fuel and for drastic cuts in emmissions and consumption. Basically nobody acted. And now the situation
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by Tharkun 8y ago
> Plants do not contain cholesterol. Yes, they do. Source: Cholesterol and Plants by Behrman et al.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Not to mention tea pots and cups. There's an almost endless variety of materials, shapes, sizes, glazes, finishes, decorations etc. My personal favourite tea pot is a traditional chinese blue clay pot. And a potter friend made me a set
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Some people would probably claim the latter. The blue pee was temporary, and mildly disappointing from what I remember. But I'm assuming it's reasonably safe if it's included in chemistry sets...then again, mine also had merc
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I'm pretty confident my 'home chemistry set' included something by that name back in the late 80s. One of the experiments I remember is drinking some of it in order to render my pee blue.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Source? Exercise certainly makes me sleep more .
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I wish more people would feel unsafe when flying and stop doing it as often. Might help put a dent in climate change.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
You know this, and you've apparently experienced this several times. So maybe stop wearing boots when flying? I always carry a pocket knife, but not when flying. Not just because I want to avoid anal probing, but also out of courtesy t
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by Tharkun 8y ago
If your ISP doesn't let you run your own mail server, they're not an ISP.
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Yes, the F16s are able to drop nukes. There are several F16s permanently on stand-by in the Belgian air force base where US nukes are stored.
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> US border guards might deny you entry if you admit to previous cannabis use What? How? Why? That makes no sense.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Any book that features a tommy gun toting tomcat is worth a read, regardless of whether life got you down. It's one of my favourite books, and it's one that can reread multiple times, each time revealing new insights and reference
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Ambient levels of UV can damage your skin (think sunburns and skin cancer). There is no reason to assume it wouldn't damage your eyes. So wear sunglasses. Off on a tangent: I always wear sunglasses outside. I don't deal well with
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Not many countries are capable of building their own fighter jets. Many use hand-me-downs from the US or Russia. Some more 'favoured' partners can buy them outright, but terms & conditions apply... There are rumours about US i
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by Tharkun 8y ago
These are not difficult political questions. The US through NATO are forcing Belgium to buy F35s, and that'll be that. Out of all the jets allegedly in the running, only F35s can be used to drop US nukes. The very same US nukes which h
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Many people don't get this, but calories aren't a very reliable measure of available energy. Measuring the caloric content of food is a pretty weird process, and is some kind of "one size fits all" measure of energy whic
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Exactly. Your body is very good at storing energy (fat). It's also pretty good at burning fat while running, especially at the slower pace that is typical of long distance running. You can eat a couple of thousand kcal in one sitting,
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Mine draw around 10W idle, about 15W when active. My Linksys and TP-Link trinkets draw under 2W idle (which I'm guessing is my power meter's minimum value), and not much more when active.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
It's a great piece of hardware, of which I've used dozens for various purposes. But they draw ~10 times more power than, say, a cheap Linksys wifi router. So if all you're after is a SoHo wifi router, it might not be the best
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by Tharkun 8y ago
So ... which SoHo router manufacturer can we actually trust? It seems pretty common in this industry to either not supply security updates, or to only supply them for a very short amount of time.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
> Your argument would have more power if music weren't freely available on the radio. It used to be common practice for governments to tax owners of radios (and TV sets later on). So music certainly hasn't always been freely av
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That's a good point. I guess trucking lighter wood around makes more sense than heavier concrete, but still. I've also noticed prefab sections of brick facades being trucked around.
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CLT is being made from mountain pine-beetle infested wood in the US. So not quite as useless as you seem to be implying ...
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> Imo.. what is missing are clear advantages, a reason to bother. There are quite a few actual advantages. Speed of construction is one. The ability to prefabricate large elements (like entire walls) off site is another. In some areas of
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Top income tax bracket in Belgium is 50%, but this is after the employer has paid ~30% of that in social security contributions. So your 35K EUR net salary costs your employer roughly 100K (I rounded up, so this is an exaggeration). And y
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> - Very bad international food. Even in major German cities, the food (outside of German, Middle Eastern, and some European cuisine) is simply not on par with places like the Bay Area or London. Thank you for saying this. Whenever I tel
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Mandatory helmet usage reduces ridership. The inverse is not necessarily true.

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