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Continuous production of [formic acid] via electrocatalytic CO2 reduction(nature.com)
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by black6 7y ago
I remember to this day when I went round and round with a calculus teacher in high school who told me "sin(x) + 2" was incorrect. Then answer she wanted was "2 + sin(x)". I argued that addition was commutative, "2 +
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The Time Has Come for a Real Wealth Tax [pdf](cosmicweenie.com)
2 points by black6 7y ago|0 comments
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WTF Happened in 1971?(wtfhappenedin1971.com)
101 points by black6 7y ago|44 comments
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by black6 7y ago
Waveform Lighting and Hyperikon are my go-to for quality, high-CRI LED bulbs in just about whatever color temperature and base you desire.
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by black6 7y ago
> They lose more money per customer than any other, even world-beating-loser Uber. Any other what ? It's like a poorly written tweet of an article.
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by black6 7y ago
The most frustrating is “select all pictures with bridges” when not one picture contains more than one bridge.
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by black6 7y ago
As a Coast Guard vessel the Polar Star falls under the Department of Homeland Security, which is why the article made a pointed jab at Trump for the partial gov’t shutdown that halted the sailors’s pay (DoD was fully funded, DHS was not).
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by black6 7y ago
In medias res is great, and The Matrix pulled it off as well as A New Hope, but the Animatrix provides the much-needed backstory to make sense of everything.
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by black6 7y ago
And he sure is branding himself well! All the pictures are of him looking pensive out in nature.
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by black6 7y ago
In my experience they prefer to get under clothing, especially in tight spaces like between you and the waistband of your underwear, or a hatband, etc. They’re small and light enough that it’s hard to perceive the difference between a tick
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by black6 7y ago
This parallels my favorite Mr Money Mustache article, which happens to be about work trucks[0]. There seems (to me) to be so much money ill-spent on façades. https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/04/28/what-doe
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by black6 7y ago
The full title is grammatically correct, as '"Digital gangsters"' is modifying "Facebook" to be a plural noun. Later on, though, we have this mistake: "The publications is [sic] among several media outlets
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by black6 7y ago
A PDF is more portable, smaller file size, and it brings along the fonts it requires to display as-you-created-tt on another computer, which may not have them installed. Plus you don’t have to worry about the errant slide transition working
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by black6 7y ago
The best advice I ever received re: PowerPoint was: "Don't present with PowerPoint. Use it to create a PDF from which to present."
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by black6 7y ago
> Podcasts should just be an RSS feed that anyone can consume Just the way the Podfather, Adam Curry, intended.
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by black6 7y ago
Cengage pissed me off in that I had to purchase access to the online system in order to do my homework (organic chemistry course). I couldn’t get over the fact that I had to pay a third party for the ability to submit my homework to my pr
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by black6 7y ago
Aha. I have a better understanding after reading the actual SpaceX presser[0]. The SuperDraco thrusters are to be used only for a launch escape scenario, so they would only be used once before a ground refit of the capsule. That being the
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by black6 7y ago
FTA: “...instead of a mechanical check valve (simple but still not 100% passive), the barrier between pressurant and oxidizer (as well as fuel, most likely) will be replaced with something known as a burst disk.” A burst disk comes from a d
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Yanky 72 Mishap Animation [video](military.com)
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by black6 7y ago
> Mozilla – for their proposed approach to introduce DNS-over-HTTPS in such a way as to bypass UK filtering obligations and parental controls, undermining internet safety standards in the UK In other words, for keeping the Internet true
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by black6 7y ago
La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.
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by black6 7y ago
Tupolev made the one-off Tu-155 using liquid hydrogen and liquefied natural gas as fuel for its turbines.
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by black6 7y ago
> Guess we should go back to paper maps Knowing where you’re going before you take off is generally a good idea. A paper map may not be the solution—pulling up an online map and figuring out your route before getting in your vehicle is o
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by black6 7y ago
“Every man I meet is my better in some way, and in that I learn from him.” Ralph Emerson’s secret of the true scholar.
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by black6 7y ago
There are existing instances which have been described as “nazi alt-right quadroons” and instance moderators can block other instances, so it’ll probably be business as usual.
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by black6 7y ago
Yah me too. I expected more “get shit done” and less “let’s meet to plan when we’re going to talk about putting together the design committee”. It’s an over-staffed bureaucratic nightmare with too many “helpers” and not enough “doers”. To b
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by black6 7y ago
It's not just televangelists; the local variety of parson is just as exploitative. I grew up in the Mississippi Delta—every "Reverend" drives around in a Cadillac while most of his congregation struggles to make ends meet. Th
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by black6 7y ago
Poster child for the child abuse the climate alarmists have wrought upon a generation. Are the lasting psychological effects of instilling so much fear in so many children really worth it? We’re not all going to die on account of climate ch
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by black6 7y ago
> It's these little things that make your professors stand out The calculus text at my university was a “custom” edition that came unbound and shrink-wrapped and still cost as much as a regular new text. My calculus IV professor sai

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