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by black6 2y ago
Why would we need more nickels? Transactions will end up being rounded to the nearest nickel, which will end up being a dime on one side or a nickel on the other as the smallest necessary coin. Seems like it all evens out.
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by black6 2y ago
Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old; Some like it hot, some like it cold, Some like it in the pot, nine days old.
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by black6 2y ago
Yah. That's what I meant. It's so nutso I can't keep the claims straight.
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by black6 2y ago
That biological sex is a social construct, for one, and elementary school children need to learn about it.
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Frozen Peas(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by black6 2y ago|0 comments
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by black6 2y ago
It depends on the number of PIDs and the speed of the data acquisition system. When I worked on the RS-25 engine project the engine had hundreds of PIDs, the low speed DAS was 250 samples per second, and the high speed DAS was 250,000 sps.
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by black6 2y ago
https://archive.is/R5l3W
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US Building Early Warning System for Geoengineering(nytimes.com)
2 points by black6 2y ago|1 comments
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by black6 2y ago
> Then it was abandoned. In the 1980s, convinced that tough antitrust enforcement was holding back American business, the Reagan administration set about dismantling it. The Robinson-Patman Act remained on the books, but the new regime s
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by black6 2y ago
If you have the Edge browser you can point it to edge://surf/
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2007 Boston Mooninite Panic(en.wikipedia.org)
201 points by black6 2y ago|128 comments
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by black6 2y ago
But with extra steps and points of failure.
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by black6 2y ago
You mean two, disconnected circles.
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by black6 2y ago
One of my takeaways from my time as a RATELO is the thought put into connector design. Everything in the Army was designed to plug into one thing and one thing only to prevent mistakes.
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What Is Geodesic Dome Frequency(ziptiedomes.com)
3 points by black6 2y ago|0 comments
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by black6 2y ago
Kudzu is an edge plant; it thrives in the boundaries between ecological zones. Where open land turns into forest you see it. Right there in the tangled thicket mass of bushes, shrubs, small trees and other vining plants. Deeper into the for
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by black6 2y ago
What use is a hurricane model if it must be kept secret for five years?
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by black6 2y ago
I haven't been involved in some time, but I saw a reduction in my tinnitus while experimenting with Steve Gibson's "transcranial neural stimulator." His idea has gone through several revisions (and names) since then, all
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by black6 2y ago
Loudest shopping cart ever.
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Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules shape-shift into versatile robots(eurekalert.org)
1 points by black6 2y ago|0 comments
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Reddit is a psy-op [video](youtube.com)
2 points by black6 2y ago|0 comments
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by black6 2y ago
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread. Anatole France
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Rise of DIY Pirated Medicine(404media.co)
5 points by black6 2y ago|0 comments
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by black6 2y ago
I've said it before: we need the Starship Troopers style public floggings for all crime. Eliminate expensive jails, and corporeally punish the offenders immediately and publically.
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by black6 2y ago
I think public floggings a la Starship Troopers would go a long way towards encouraging more social behavior. Much better than sending people to prison.
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by black6 2y ago
For each individual drinking glass it depends on how frequently it's handled. In a household a drinking glass may get handled once a week. In a restaurant or pub it can be multiple times a day. More frequent handling means more opportu
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by black6 2y ago
Anecdotally my homeowner's insurance increased 34% from last year. When I talked to the underwriters about the huge jump I was told that it was due to the increased cost of rebuilding associated with inflation.
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Share of total health spending, by percentile(twitter.com)
76 points by black6 2y ago|118 comments
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by black6 2y ago
and 5% of people are responsible for just over half.
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by black6 2y ago
> But that’s missing the point. It still means that the law itself is only available from one source, in one format. And while it has to be “publicly accessible online at no monetary cost,” that does not mean that it has to be publicly a

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