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You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?(bearbin.net)
568 points by bearbin 5y ago|606 comments
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by bearbin 5y ago
Electrification really is coming along apace! First california bans petrol lawnmowers and generators, now New York bans gas heating. I wrote a blog post on the first topic recently [1] but I guess there really is an impetus for rapid change
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Practical Transformer Winding (2010)(ludens.cl)
125 points by bearbin 5y ago|36 comments
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by bearbin 5y ago
Ah, uMatrix saved me from that... Reader mode seems to work well on Firefox to stop the redirection as well.
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by bearbin 5y ago
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20211117171239/https://overemplo...
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No, California Is Not Going to Take Your Generator Away(bearbin.net)
1 points by bearbin 5y ago|0 comments
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-“an entirely negated search query” at DuckDuckGo(duckduckgo.com)
3 points by bearbin 5y ago|0 comments
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by bearbin 5y ago
Is this a window into the brain of the search engine? If it is, these are an exceedingly odd set of results to mark as the most relevant! Sadly Google does't exhibit the same behaviour, although Bing does (with identical results, highl
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-“an entirely negated search query” at DuckDuckGo(duckduckgo.com)
5 points by bearbin 5y ago|1 comments
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by bearbin 5y ago
Seemingly as part of the same push, the UKRI announced funding for an open research project I've worked on before: Dr Alex Freeman's Octopus [0], a more radical software platform that splits research projects into smaller compon
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by bearbin 5y ago
Anecodtally, street cleaning hasn't changed that much over the pandemic, with the streets being just about as dirty as normal. That said, over a longer period the main roads near me have been getting quite badly deteriorated due to a l
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by bearbin 5y ago
Electrical failure is relatively rare, but resistors are just as susceptible to mechanical and liquid damage, which is probably a more common failure than electrical degradation. Or a failure could cascade from another component and pop the
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by bearbin 6y ago
Wholly aside from the privacy and control implications of this antifeature, these dots are actually a significant impediment to the normal use of my laser printer. Sure, they aren't visible when printing on to white paper in a single p
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by bearbin 6y ago
Not really usable for wind turbines though, the energy cost would be significant first of all (compare the blade area of a wind turbine to a plane!) The bigger issue is maintenance. Wind turbine leading edges are a very hostile environment
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by bearbin 6y ago
Hardly, similar emergency authorizations have been applied in other EU countries, in actuality these exemptions were applied last year and the UK is late in doing this... Not sure how the EU really comes into this at all. https:/&#x2F
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by bearbin 6y ago
Site appears down, there is an archived version available: https://archive.is/yT3Pp
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by bearbin 6y ago
Although EAFs aren't exactly 0 carbon either - even if the electricity and transportation are zero-carbon, the graphite electrodes they use are consumed in the melting operation. Approximately 5 Kg of Carbon is burned for each tonne of
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by bearbin 6y ago
Indeed, that is a possibility. It's possible both for the virus to be engineered and spread from the wet-market, and to be zoonotic and spread directly from the lab (where a sample was stored). Perhaps the ambiguity there does contribu
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by bearbin 6y ago
But this (escape from a vial in a lab) isn't a strong claim, or at least no stronger than the alternative (the virus escaped from bat in a a wet-market)- why is there no outcry against the wet market hypothesis?
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by bearbin 6y ago
Whenever this topic comes up, the discussion seems to consist largely of _extremely_ strong opinions against the perfectly plausible hypothesis (don't forget, the evidence of zoonotic origin is equally thin on the ground). My question
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Defective by Design: Reflected Attacks on Email Privacy Using DMARC(bearbin.net)
1 points by bearbin 6y ago|0 comments
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by bearbin 6y ago
Actually, I realise there is another point here, namely the distinction between manufacturer, brand and retailer. Brands are somewhat confusing to analyse: a brand may manufacture its own products, or it may buy them in; a brand may sell it
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by bearbin 6y ago
Indeed, there's nothing _wrong_ with direct-to-consumer sales and there are certainly some advantages as a purchaser - not least avoiding any chance of getting counterfeit goods. But there are certainly downsides too. Especially with t
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by bearbin 6y ago
Aggregated retail is beneficial to both consumers, because they have a many competitive locations, at each of which then can buy many varieties of good. Similarly this benefits manufacturers, as they can specialise in manufacture rather tha
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by bearbin 6y ago
rickets , not crickets
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by bearbin 6y ago
It had HTTP originally, twitter just munged it.
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by bearbin 6y ago
Relevant context: https://twitter.com/zofrex/status/1319286955314614275 Apparently the name used to be \"><SCRIPT SRC=MJT.XSS.HT></SCRIPT> LTD
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by bearbin 6y ago
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET is the registrar I use. They're a web hosting company, so domain registration is not their only service, but they have an excellent company philosophy and customer-friendly policy set. I've been using them for
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by bearbin 6y ago
Yes and no. The recent issue with the NYT is certainly the immediate trigger of Scott Alexander's decision to change jobs; but it seems to me at least that this course of action was inevitable (once the blog became popular). If (you fe
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by bearbin 6y ago
For pedestrians, yes that type of road is fairly dangerous. But for cars it's not too bad, drivers know they need to pay attention and nobody is going at high speeds. It's also easier than you might think to see oncoming cars, esp

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