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by atourgates 3y ago
I'm an Alaska (relatively) frequent flyer. That airline offers a free "messaging" plan, that lets you send and receive messages on apps like iMessage, Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp. Though, it somehow prevents images&#x2F
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by atourgates 3y ago
Shoutout to The Detectorists[1] - my vote for the sweetest show on television, largely centered around the concept of nerds with an obscure hobby dreaming of finding something like the Hoxne Hoard. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by atourgates 3y ago
I subscribe to the perspective that brain injuries are the injuries that matter most in sports, so that's what I focus on in the "what's more dangerous" question. I had believed that rugby carried a lower concussion risk
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by atourgates 3y ago
> The part of the equation that I think the article is missing is that air travel is an industry with an extremely high level of substitute options. Rewards programs are there to try and combat the fact that their products are 100% inter
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by atourgates 3y ago
I did a quick look to see if this only worked in tropical forests, or if this would be true in, say, Western North American forests. I didn't really find an answer. A study[1] in Virgina found that planting multiple varieties of trees
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by atourgates 3y ago
> Of course doing do would be disastrous for the supermarkets I'm not sure this would be true, at least in the United States. WalMart used to have a tool where you could scan your receipt in their app, they'd compare prices to
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by atourgates 3y ago
I agree completely, and the best antidote is getting a little knowledge about how home solar works. Something that should be well-in-reach of most of the HN crowd. A typical grid-tied home solar system has 3 big areas of component costs: 1
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by atourgates 3y ago
Depends on what you're talking about. For aesthetics? No question Apple's superior. For navigation? A tossup in my experience? For discovery of places and reviews? Google's so far ahead it's not even close. Apple's
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by atourgates 3y ago
Well, you used it incorrectly. It's clearly for a very specific set of circumstances: > The Midshipman’s Hitch Knot is promoted by Ashley (ABOK # 1993, p 325) as the only knot to tie in the following unlikely but critical circumsta
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by atourgates 3y ago
I came here to recommend this. Absolutely worth the 1-time $4.99-no-subscription-or-account-or-any-BS payment. They made a cool thing. It is valuable to me. I paid for it, and we're done. The app downloads once and doesn't need
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by atourgates 3y ago
Despite the author's criticisms, it seems like there's lots of opportunity for UAV-generated open source imagery, but I can't really find an active community for sharing it. Open Aerial Mapp[1] seems like a good start, but do
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by atourgates 3y ago
People aren’t dying of thirst, or hunger in the American Southwest. All damming the Grand Canyon would have done is destroyed an amazing natural area, and made it so we didn’t have to worry quite so much about watering our lawns and golf co
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by atourgates 3y ago
It doesn't seem like the "union demands" killed the company narrative tracks here, since the union demands were things like "You should actually make the contributions to our retirement accounts that you're obligate
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by atourgates 3y ago
Hard to get a sense of scale, but you can see them running across the ground in this video: https://youtu.be/Kw-enXeOnKE?t=101
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by atourgates 3y ago
That makes a lot of sense. I went in a road trip in our EV yesterday pulling a trailer for the first time. We basically drove down into a valley in the morning, and back up out in the evening. As you could imagine, we got basically infini
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by atourgates 3y ago
I thought this sentence at the end was quite interesting: > BHP’s modelling shows that battery charging time may be the biggest cost on the electric side, something that dynamic charging can reduce significantly. For an industry like min
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by atourgates 3y ago
An interesting take. The only bit I strongly disagree with is this: > One advice we got was to file an antitrust case against Shopify in a European Court. > Theoretically, we could’ve argued that Shopify uses anti-competitive practice
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by atourgates 3y ago
The strongest opinion I came away with (having never heard of design thinking previously) is that this author is sunk so far in his own soup of smugness that he is largely unqualified to judge whether or not Design Thinking is a worthwhile
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by atourgates 3y ago
I've heard stories of the healthy, positive and wholesome environments in restaurant kitchens. But still - by the article's definition, 8 strong pints would be the equivalent of 16 16oz IPAs in a day. I'm sure there are heav
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by atourgates 3y ago
Historically, how did people make higher ABV drinks? It's my understanding that most "wild yeast" will die off at around 5-6% ABV. Were people cultivating and sharing yeasts capable of surviving higher ABVs, or am I misunde
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by atourgates 3y ago
I found this article a bit hard to follow, though it's an interesting topic. The constantly changing units of consumption, historical timing, changes between daily and annual rates of consumption and similar made it difficult to unders
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by atourgates 3y ago
My biggest case against utiliy-scale solar is that it (can) displace important natural ecosystems. Whereas home or commercial solar nearly always is just displacing rooftops, or parking lot covers.
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by atourgates 3y ago
It was literally a "fan submitted" logo. Not even a Musk thought.
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by atourgates 3y ago
The upside of those absurd metaverses is that you can mostly just ignore them, and do your own thing.
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by atourgates 3y ago
I really dislike Musk - but it does seem like sometimes - he has a really strong vision. Tesla and SpaceX and StarLink are really impressive from a "had a vision for something on a broadly positive world-changing scale, successfully ex
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by atourgates 3y ago
Digital Fortress ruined Dan Brown for me. When Da Vinci Code came out, I knew essentially zilch about Renaissance Italy, or early church history or art or many of the other topics it touches on, and I thought it was fascinating! Then I read
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by atourgates 3y ago
We had a weeks long battle with fruit flies last summer. Tried every tip, trick, remedy and commercial solution we could find. We were up to our eyeballs in apple cider vinegar, fly paper, sprays, traps and the like. Nothing worked. Then w
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by atourgates 3y ago
I live near the Selway, and it really is the crown jewel of Western Whitewater. This post certainly doesn't oversell the difficulty of getting a permit to raft it. Your options are basically: 1) Enter a lottery to do it yourself, with
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by atourgates 3y ago
It sounds like the core issue behind the delay is that they’ve killed two dogs, and sometimes block emergency vehicles and public transit. Of course, I’m sure that human-driven rideshare vehicles do similar things, and that seems to be Waym
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by atourgates 3y ago
This bothers me so much. I’ve run into it a few times, exclusively on mobile, and it is completely useless and completely frustrating. I actually thought some of the “google is dying” handwringing was overwrought until I experienced this.

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