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by black6 8y ago
This is OT, but do editors exist any more? Second sentence in and there is a glaring mistake: "... including one who severed the top a finger ...". I notice this across the web AND in print publications. I'm an engineer, not
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by black6 8y ago
The major flaw I see in this analysis is believing the only way to build wealth by "investing" in home-ownership is increasing property values . It completely ignores the equity one builds while paying down a mortgage. If one int
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by black6 8y ago
IoT -- where the S stands for Security!
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by black6 8y ago
The monoculture status quo certainly takes some of the blame. In a balanced ecosystem, no one pest can gain a foothold because the ecosystem supports natural predators, and the foodsource is spread out enough that the pest population won&
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by black6 8y ago
All the pictures show the units operating in lush, green environments, which would indicate high(er) humidity where moisture extraction from the air is trivial. I'd like to see some action shots from the middle of the Atacama or Taklam
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by black6 8y ago
I was born and raised in Arkansas, and I still live in deep brown recluse territory. It's a "out of sight, out of mind" deal with the 8-legged friends. Subconsciously you know they're around -- I could find several in my
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by black6 8y ago
Sanford is not on the list of People I Know Whose Showing Up on HN Would Not Surprise Me.
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by black6 8y ago
For those interested, there is a good series of essays on The Space Review detailing the National Reconnaissance Office’s effort to integrate Space Shuttle operations into its spy satellite servicing schedule. Part 1: http://thes
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by black6 8y ago
Story straight out of Confessions of an Economic Hitman — third-world island nation gets IMF’d into a partnership with a multinational corporation to upgrade its energy infrastructure. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing to make the move to r
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by black6 8y ago
That's great. Information on which brands are not contaminated is behind the ACS paywall. Good job, academia.
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by black6 8y ago
> If people want to reduce the tax burden on folks with low incomes just scraping by, the way to accomplish that is by increasing taxes on corporate profits, very large incomes, large inheritances, etc. However, the wealthy in this count
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by black6 8y ago
Isn’t it fantastic to be lectured from up on high by the hypocritical elite? Us dirty, common, poor people are the problem, and people like Gates could be assured of living in utopia for eternity if only we’d listen to their “Do as I say, n
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by black6 8y ago
It's really taken off since the 80's. I like to compare it to minimum wage[0], as that's what your average student can expect to earn while in school, if she has time for a job. 0: https://hornor.space/2020&#x
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by black6 8y ago
You are correct. Resident tuition and fees at most[0] public[1] universities[2] trends[3] between[4] $4000-5000 per semester . 0: https://irep.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2017/09... 1:
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by black6 8y ago
Precisely. It's not as if you are Buzz Aldrin, trying to walk away again and again and continuing to be harassed by a moon landing conspiracy theorist. The 1's and 0's are easily silenced.
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by black6 8y ago
The solution to pollution is dilution!
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by black6 8y ago
Snags (dead and fallen trees held up by their neighbors) make excellent firewood and in some cases useful lumber, as it has already been cured!
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by black6 8y ago
Coppicing and pollarding are sustainable methods of producing wood for rocket mass heaters, which operate best with kindling-sized sticks of wood. Rocket mass heaters are extremely efficient. The wood undergoes almost complete combustion an
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by black6 8y ago
> One of the things that government ought to do is force people to do what they don’t want to... It doesn’t matter what is past the ellipses, because in the absence of a crime against another, a government should never force its people t
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by black6 8y ago
Now I'm intrigued about the meta -ness of the idea WRT Black Mirror...
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by black6 8y ago
Don’t video games already fill the niche for interactive video-based entertainment?
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by black6 8y ago
The hubris of mankind believing he can bend the climate to his will is still strong today.
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by black6 8y ago
Same deal when I was in the Army. Soldiers started smoking Spice and K2, which was just some plant substrate laced with a compound cooked up in a Chinaman’s laboratory, always one methyl group ahead of the regulators. Much scarier than any
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by black6 8y ago
Every large outdoor event I’ve been to recently has had at least one drone buzzing over the crowd at some point — and that’s been verboten from the start.
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by black6 8y ago
Where is the marketing page for chemists? The reaction Feedstocks + Green Energy --> Reaction --> Large Quantities of Alane is lacking in detail.
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by black6 8y ago
There’s plenty of time — you just have to focus on the things that really matter. I have a 30 minute commute, so I’m away from home for 9+ hours every day. My wife is a stay-at-home mom and we have two children who aren’t old enough yet for
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by black6 8y ago
This is the whole point of advertising on Facebag -- targeting a demographic. THIS IS WHAT THEY SELL.
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by black6 8y ago
It must be an up-and-coming Internet trend/meme ( a la what color is the dress?) in the health community. One of my coworkers just transitioned from a ketogenic diet to intermittent fasting.
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by black6 8y ago
> I wish it were possible to prohibit these clipboard shenanigans. It is in Firefox, at least: about:config dom.event.contextmenu.enabled = false dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled = false
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by black6 8y ago
> The big red patch in the south is very likely largely influenced by lower African American lifespans. There is certainly a strong correlation[0]. [0]: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2015/06/12

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