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by acyou 2y ago
When they first figured out that turtles use magnetic fields to navigate, they placed them in kiddie swimming pools in someone's backyard and placed large electromagnets next to the swimming pools. Multiple turtles reliably oriented th
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by acyou 2y ago
This is well done, very intentionally written with as little information as possible. If you're looking to get more information than what the title says, look elsewhere. It's designed to get people frustrated and in a flame war. L
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by acyou 2y ago
They are using less electricity than expected. The article neglects to specify whether this is due to higher than expected efficiency, or higher than expected downtime. Not that there is necessarily a problem with the technology, but energ
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by acyou 2y ago
Are we going to see our institutions flexibly re-align themselves basically every US election cycle? Or do the recent changes at Facebook and Amazon, and this essay, herald a long-term shift to the right in USA politics? Where individuals,
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by acyou 2y ago
Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it isn't still there somewhere. If you are looking for something and it isn't where you last found it, you usually wouldn't assume it's "gone". Yeah,
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by acyou 2y ago
Canada works well as a buffer state between USA and Russia. Canada acts as the USA attack dog in foreign policy. Don't forget which countries won the war and still rule globally with nuclear powered aircraft carriers, strategic bombers
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by acyou 2y ago
Archiving is probably a more accurate description, the content is likely still there somewhere but can no longer be adversarially web crawled.
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by acyou 2y ago
That is why being #2 in technical product development can be great. Someone else pays to work out the kinks, copy what works and improve on it at a fraction of the cost. You see it time and time again.
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by acyou 2y ago
Net income -2.5 billion kr (2023) Good thing they aren't growing, they appear to have scaled those negative margins, and it's time to dial it back. Will AI also be able to hyperscale a negative margin business?
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Taiwanese firm halts plan to build $1B battery plant in B.C(cbc.ca)
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by acyou 2y ago
A $1-billion lithium-ion battery cell production plant that was planned for Maple Ridge, B.C., has been shelved. The parent company, Taiwan Cement Corp., announced the construction of the Canadian plant with much fanfare last year, with Pr
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by acyou 2y ago
I am old enough to remember when AMD was nowhere, and Intel was the only game in town for both consumer and server chips, laptop and desktop. I think it was 2011. Then 2013 rolled around and I built a desktop with an AMD processor, because
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by acyou 2y ago
I bet those same ecologists that endorse eliminating Aedes aegypti have taken their fair share of mosquito bites, too. Not that it takes anything away from their credibility. Wow, the Wikipedia article on Wolbachia is absolutely fascinating
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by acyou 2y ago
For those interested, I would suggest checking out Spillover by David Quammen. It goes into detail on why eradicating/eliminating zoonotic diseases isn't really feasible without also eradicating the host populations. I stumbled on
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by acyou 2y ago
Everyone needs love, care and attention, and physical contact. Some more than others, babies more than most. Why do we kiss, hug, and hold or shake hands? It's not for no reason or because we feel like it. There are definite and extrem
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by acyou 2y ago
There are acute risks and long term risks. Yeah it's dangerous to kiss a baby. No one is saying it isn't just as dangerous to bubble wrap them. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss an evolved behavior. Most likely if the parents
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by acyou 2y ago
The study found that heart muscle decreased in both lean and obese mice. So any observed muscle loss might not be just from losing body mass and not having to work as hard. But if you're already lean and then go on a calorie deficit (a
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by acyou 2y ago
The paper looks like it has a large sample size, but it actually has a sample size of only 48 testers/flippers. Some of the videos of those testers show very low, low-rpm coin tosses, we're talking only 1-2 flips. Where they also
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by acyou 2y ago
During military conflict, preserving lives of valuable and highly trained personnel has been paramount for USA. With a huge amount of resources and manpower available to the US, effectively the entire western world, materiel is essentially
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by acyou 2y ago
If you're familiar with USA military history, the Americans are (were) famous for not doing things by the book for the right reasons, and letting common sense prevail, as well as incentivizing good outcomes. “A serious problem in plann
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by acyou 2y ago
Why does the hydraulic system need 2000 psi and the fueldraulic system only needs 50 psi? Then they needed to double hydraulic pressure to 4000 psi for the new rocket, but never explained the key considerations. Seemed like it would be the
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by acyou 2y ago
I also have a feeling that the pH of rehydration drinks should be low (acidic). To an extent, my body knows pretty well what's good for it. The salt+water tastes terrible, add a little acid and it's delicious. Maybe it takes a lit
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by acyou 2y ago
This is so dumb, I can hardly believe that it is real. I would need to talk to someone who had experienced it firsthand to fully believe. Water (stew) is... in every aspect possible a superior cooking medium. How could this ever have been e
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by acyou 2y ago
Google search doesn't even work inside of our intranet. For example, the filename will not return in the results when entering the exact search string in various places inside of Google Workspaces - Docs, Sheets, etc. That should tell
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by acyou 2y ago
If you're willing to play, here are plenty of lenders who will finance this purchase. If it affects your earning power to that extent, you should probably pony up and save in the long run, probably just a few years until you see return
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by acyou 2y ago
We shouldn't forget the history of SQL. I wasn't there, but my impression has been that it was originally written so that non-technical users (business decision makers) could write queries and have access to data in order to make
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by acyou 2y ago
Great, but that robot isn't doing an actual task? I sort of struggle to see how getting good positioning accuracy from a high backlash system under zero load can have a useful application. Maybe just lack of imagination on my part. Th
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by acyou 2y ago
I don't think these fabric awnings have great performance in: Maintenance Fire Wind and weather resistance of fabric Appearance Weather protection for building siding Conversely, buildings nowadays are covered in fixed awnings that are
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by acyou 2y ago
Yes, just need to watch out for the ethers, NMP, various other volatile additives. And even worse, the HF. That's the one that melts your bones. Lithium ion electrolyte is extremely hazardous when inhaled. I would not attempt to handle
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by acyou 2y ago
Agreed, I apologize that I wasn't more clear. It's just that the electrolyte composition forms the basis of safety. In an environment where end users are handling bare cells, you need to assume the cells are leaky/ruptured. F

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