adamjb

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by adamjb 5y ago
On New Year's Day 1942 the Allies declared they were fighting "to defend life, liberty, independence and religious freedom, and to preserve human rights and justice" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarat
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by adamjb 5y ago
Been there, done that! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30045487
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by adamjb 5y ago
Here are the rest of the 25 letter sets, found using brute force with the same 1 vowel per word with no repeated letters trick. [['brung', 'waqfs', 'vozhd', 'cylix', 'kempt'], ['
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by adamjb 5y ago
That's just the paradoxical thing about it though. With induced demand congestion doesn't improve so travel times don't improve, so there is the same (dis)benefit to moving as there was before and living elsewhere doesn'
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Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically?(damemagazine.com)
2 points by adamjb 5y ago|0 comments
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by adamjb 5y ago
I live in a suburb with a power station that was converted from coal to gas in the 70s. My older neighbours have told me that they had to careful when hanging clothes out to try, lest they got so dirty that they'd have to wash them aga
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Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished(nytimes.com)
24 points by adamjb 5y ago|6 comments
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by adamjb 5y ago
I think it's reasonable that an Aussie publication interviewed an Aussie rider attempting a record in Australia
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What Are We Doing?(magazine.nd.edu)
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by adamjb 5y ago
That's exactly what they're (planning on) implementing at a rate of 2.5 cents/km
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by adamjb 5y ago
A related read about the Seleucid innovation of the monotonically increasing calendar https://aeon.co/essays/when-time-became-regular-and-universa...
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by adamjb 5y ago
Found a 6 degree path https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Victoria%20(3D...
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by adamjb 5y ago
They've both been Time's Person of the Year
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Transport noise linked to increased risk of dementia, study finds(theguardian.com)
95 points by adamjb 5y ago|82 comments
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by adamjb 5y ago
The last time AirGradient popped up on HN, the guy who runs it said if you get in contact and ask nicely they might have a spare one to send you.
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by adamjb 5y ago
Unless the exposure site is identified as a low-risk one where contacts are directed to isolate until they get a negative test, no. You have to do a test when going into iso and you have to get a negative test on day 13 to leave it. There h
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by adamjb 5y ago
The phone check in thing is for enforcing the two weeks home quarantine for returned travelers and close contacts of confirmed cases. While there are certainly slippery slope arguments to be made, let's not act like we've already
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Rebranding Chernobyl(thebulletin.org)
4 points by adamjb 5y ago|1 comments
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Data Brokers Sell Access to the Backbone of the Internet(vice.com)
14 points by adamjb 5y ago|0 comments
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by adamjb 5y ago
>Meanwhile the argument in opposition says that they were lying about the cost- instead of the $20 billion proponents were promising (they rounded up, of course, and assumed 1:1 federal matching funds), it would likely cost $90 billion,
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Air pollution from household products is cutting people’s lives short(ehn.org)
2 points by adamjb 5y ago|0 comments
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by adamjb 5y ago
That's not what the article is advocating at all. A table bend is basically a deadlift. It's all about keeping the back straight so the heavy lifting is done by the hips and legs.
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by adamjb 5y ago
>In one part they mention the study was done in 2015 (no link to article) on 24% where people did 61-101% better on some test. I think this is the study https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/27662232&
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by adamjb 5y ago
My first instinct is that its the same logic as to why gambling gains are tax free: because otherwise the losses would be tax deductible.
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Beyond the Nation-State(bostonreview.net)
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by adamjb 5y ago
Do you know when (year/season) the two DEMs are from for the Mount Olympus example? I think I can see noticeable glacial retreat
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by adamjb 5y ago
Why would its behaviour change? The hotwire is just replacing the button. The desk would react the same way if a human hit the button
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by adamjb 5y ago
Yeah, my rubbish bin's in my kitchen, thank you very much
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by adamjb 5y ago
"Offended" would be my suggestion. "Triggered" is only really used in this sense as part of bad faith culture war discourse, mocking the idea of trigger warnings.
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by adamjb 5y ago
Have you ever watched anyone play RollerCoaster Tycoon?

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