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by checker 4y ago
Wow that's incredibly depressing. Yeah glyphosate kills weeds by inducing unsustainable growth and forcing the plant to overextend itself and die as a result. So it makes sense that if you apply it to a crop you're going to harves
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by checker 4y ago
Farm weeds steal nutrients and sunlight from the crops.
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by checker 4y ago
How far off are we from having drones that mechanically remove weeds at a reasonable cost? It's ridiculous that we put up with spraying sketchy chemicals on our food. We can build loyal wingman drones to kill enemy aircraft but we can&
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by checker 4y ago
Strategy sounds legit but my concern would be that the (previously distracted) incoming driver attempts to dodge at the last second. Their car will hit your car with torque that could send it into oncoming traffic. But that angled impact al
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by checker 4y ago
I support your position, but I'm pretty sure he was cracking a tasteless joke at the thought of the specific people of Clarence and Ginni getting it on rather than all people of mixed races. It's a reddit-level comment that doesn&
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by checker 4y ago
He's free to whine about it, buy the company, or start his own platform. If he truly cared then he'd be lobbying for Congress to limit the "ban rights" of companies and individuals running platforms like Twitter (persona
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by checker 4y ago
The audience can respond any way they like without infringing on the speaker's rights or breaking any laws. It's not a right to work at SpaceX and it's not illegal to fire employees with cause.
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by checker 4y ago
It certainly sounds hypocritical if you're willing to play liberties with the definition of free speech. However, free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences of such speech. The audience can respond any way they like withou
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by checker 5y ago
Plenty of US places pay twice a month, so you get the monthly budget consistency and get your money sooner.
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by checker 5y ago
I imagine this organization and similar orgs. It would be interesting to see if the new legislation has helped decrease the number of backover accidents. This appears to be an example of technology solving a design flaw rather than rent-see
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by checker 5y ago
Ok yeah I can budge on warranty, but recall? If the part is flawed from the get-go, who cares if it was "broken" during a repair? Under recall it was clearly broken or bound to break imminently (assuming Apple can verify that the
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by checker 5y ago
I don't see anything on this post about how they will warrant self-repair, so I imagine Louis will be bringing this up. Years back I replaced the battery on my iPhone (I tried to have Apple replace it ... it's a long, infuriating
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by checker 5y ago
It's certainly an interesting concept. I'm not an expert but from what I've come across, it's currently very expensive to match the resolution of a 27" 4K monitor that's 2 or 3 feet away from your eyes. This is
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by checker 5y ago
Oh cool TIL. Yeah I didn't describe it well. The most egregious examples are: characters speaking Japanese while wearing Imperial Pacific uniforms and American pilots wearing aviators+bomber jackets, while fighting in the snowy mountai
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by checker 5y ago
Yeah sorry wasn't specific enough. AFAIK there were no Japanese imperial soldiers dressed in Pacific front gear fighting in the snow at Narvik Norway. Nor for that matter American pilots in bomber jackets.
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by checker 5y ago
It's a paid game, but EA/DICE are certainly sacrificing some existing gameplay elements (and story) in order to push Battlefield 2042's "Specialists" as a vehicle for in-game purchases. Earlier Battlefields had gene
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by checker 5y ago
So you could certainly write your own component framework, state propagator, router, module framework, build engine, and more. But you'll probably find that, at the end of it all, you have a SPA framework you can share with us. If you&
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by checker 5y ago
This concept exists in the American auto repair sector as core charges. I believe they work pretty well, but once the "core charge" becomes too insignificant then people will ignore it for the convenience. I suspect an organizatio
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by checker 5y ago
Thanks! I love getting answers like this from the community.
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by checker 5y ago
So if regular air is 80% nitrogen already, won't the tires move towards 100% nitrogen with each top off since the tires will be retaining the nitrogen more than the oxygen? Sounds like a marketing trick unless they're filling newl
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by checker 5y ago
Sounds like it's actually fewer steps when connecting+disconnecting to stop+start work.
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by checker 5y ago
Adding some other thoughts: - Trains get to skip traffic, but rental car might be cheaper if you're splitting it with friends. - Trains do break down or hit delays sometimes, but traffic is always a risk on I95. - Buses are the cheap
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by checker 5y ago
Reading Terminal Market is cool, but I'm not sure how it will be during pandemic conditions (it's usually pretty crowded).
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by checker 5y ago
The rich countries should emulate China's Belt and Road initiative, but instead of building ports and highways they should build electric grids and renewables in developing nations. Ideally without predatory balloon financing that resu
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by checker 5y ago
Ok yeah, just wanted to point out that assuming that the brain has to be the one burning these calories seems too narrow when it's the body as a system being analyzed. Definitely not an expert here, so your napkin math might be true.
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by checker 5y ago
These players aren't just thinking, they're competing. I'm not an expert, but it seems possible to me that they are probably experiencing adrenaline/stress that triggers calorie burn. Ever sweat during a tough exam &#x2F
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by checker 5y ago
Your focus on the brain is too narrow. Competition leads to adrenaline which triggers the body outside the brain to burn more calories (elevated body heat, etc). I'd bet these players have elevated body heat - ever sweat during a stres
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by checker 5y ago
Typo in title, should read Bennu not Bennui.
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by checker 5y ago
AMP-free link https://www.indystar.com/story/news/history/retroindy/2014/0...
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by checker 5y ago
The coolest part imo is that the the servers aren't communicating directly to one another. The client brokers the communication so that both IDP and SP can be on completely different networks (bridged by the client). You probably alrea

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