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2311.
by ars 4y ago
You are correct :)
2312.
by ars 4y ago
What tale does it tell if [some of] my books are organized by the color of the spine? (It wasn't me who did it, but I left it that way when they did it.)
2313.
by ars 4y ago
Get a new toilet. The modern (good ones - not all are good), pretty much never fail to do a proper flush, and they hardly ever clog. I got the TOTO CST743S, and it basically never fails or clogs - the handful of times a year that it does cl
2314.
by ars 4y ago
I don't understand what goal that will accomplish. You might wash the walls of the toilet slightly, but that's not where the bacteria are, they would be in the center, in the bulk of the material. Plus toilets are designed to prev
2315.
by ars 4y ago
That's .... not what will happen. Instead you'll get the exact same regular violent flush, and then water will pour into the tank extending the time that water can aerosolsize, and worse, pushing any existing aerosols farther out
2316.
by ars 4y ago
> flush 'carefully'/slowly How does one flush "carefully/slowly"? The speed you press the handle doesn't change the pressure of the flush - at most it might extend it and waste water, by keeping the fla
2317.
by ars 4y ago
The article says: "Most of the wheat stands in western Kansas are dryland, meaning they’re not irrigated"
2318.
by ars 4y ago
Back in the day I didn't have a joystick and I wanted to play an Apple II game that needed one, so I edited the source code to use the keyboard for input instead. But I had never played the game with a real joystick, so little did I kn
2319.
by ars 4y ago
You can easily localize where the gravity originates and how strong it is. That part is easy as long as you are moving and can measure course changes as you move. Then you look in that direction and see what you can see. If you see nothing
2320.
by ars 4y ago
> from exactly opposite sides and their force will cancel out The gravitational force will only cancel out exactly in the center. Everywhere else, for example other planets, and when the Earth orbits, will easily detect the gravity. >
2321.
by ars 4y ago
Agreed. The gravitational influence of the black hole would be noticed years in advance.
2322.
by ars 4y ago
They could link it with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act and just broaden what's illegal. Add all media data, library book records, and location data.
2323.
by ars 4y ago
Google's income will not change if they don't track. If they can't track, then each ad has less value. But then the advertiser has more budget available to spend on advertising. Net result is no change for advertisers, or Goo
2324.
by ars 4y ago
Thank you, I was wondering what it was. To me MLS is a real estate thing.
2325.
by ars 4y ago
The vast vast vast majority of living creatures are not sentient, so that's unlikely to be true.
2326.
by ars 4y ago
And what justifies gold being worth any particular amount of money? The answer is the same: nothing. Except that that's not true for gold and it's not true for Bitcoin. Something has value if people want it. That's it. People
2327.
by ars 4y ago
> Are you claiming that murder was totally accepted as normal before Moses got the Commandments? Pretty much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide read the 4th paragraph. Or https://en.wikipedia.org&
2328.
by ars 4y ago
I've noticed that Google Maps Timeline utterly refuses to ever mark a Synagogue as a location you've visited. It always marks it as the city or neighborhood. Other locations show up just fine, but for a synagogue you also have to
2329.
by ars 4y ago
> is to make the carrying capacity lower. What's the point in that? You end up using the identical amount of resources, but having fewer people. What goal exactly did you accomplish?
2330.
by ars 4y ago
Because the internal combustion engine is surprisingly efficient. Did you know you release more CO2 walking a mile than driving a mile? It's surprising, but it takes a lot of energy to grow food, and then a lot of energy is lost by the
2331.
by ars 4y ago
In that case it's not the AI in control, is it?
2332.
by ars 4y ago
The article gives a list 6 ways it could "defeat" humans, but doesn't bother explaining WHY an AI would do that. Why should an AI care about accumulating wealth or power? And AI is not a human, it doesn't have human dr
2333.
by ars 4y ago
> can dig wells, practice permaculture, organize a farm, keep sheep, spin yarn, blacksmith, prep lumber, fire pottery and glass, hunt, fish, manage woodlands I'm very confused by why you think this is sustainable - this type of life
2334.
by ars 4y ago
It's not hot enough for that, it's usually only 10 to 15 degrees above ambient.
2335.
by ars 4y ago
Europe is pretty small - just pick a small subset of the US that meets your needs and enjoy it. The US has a huge variety. If a small section is good, you don't need the rest to change.
2336.
by ars 4y ago
Just in case you are not joking, the sewage is not exposed to radiation. Water essentially can not become radioactive, and the sewage is used to cool water, not (directly) nuclear material. As you probably know all heat engines need a hot s
2337.
by ars 4y ago
This article tries to pain a bleak picture, but with only a single house available for sale, and everyone anxiously waiting for the apartment complex to be finished, it seems the people are voting with the feet to stay. I know it's the
2338.
by ars 4y ago
I actually have a bunch of those places I can visit without a car, and I never do, because they are all small, and don't have the selection I want. The few I do visit are more expensive than they should be because their rent is very hi
2339.
by ars 4y ago
> That doesn’t make any sense and those two things aren’t related at all Sure it does, if you have a normal sized house, then you have space in front of the house, on the street where you can park. You also might have a driveway. And the
2340.
by ars 4y ago
The Netherlands are tiny and flat. A single city in the US (NYC) has half the population of the entire country of Netherlands. You don't need a car in NYC, so --- been there done that I guess! But the rest of the US is setup differentl

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