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culi
5y ago
Are there really people on HN not aware about Sci-Hub or is it that people are scared to get in trouble at work? https://sci-hub.se/10.1017/epi.2019.46
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culi
5y ago
Tried searching up "Elm (programming language)" and it brought up 3 companies near me. None of which actually used Elm. One of them was just some fashion company named "West Elm". I don't think the data is 100% accu
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culi
5y ago
Also relevant to anyone trying this approach to job hunting: https://stackshare.io/
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culi
5y ago
Does that take into account battery costs and the costs of building up our manufacturing capabilities to build all that? What about the fact that the average lifespan of a panel is about 20 years and solar panels contain very toxic chemical
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culi
5y ago
The actual correct translation would be "acquiescent"
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culi
5y ago
The obsession with solar panels is currently driving a major ecological catastrophe. Solar panels are known to leak lead in the environment. We also have no good way to recycle them once the cells are done for good (currently, the average l
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culi
5y ago
Yeah exactly. Cycads for example are a very poisonous plant. Yet there's an entire island in Japan where people use cycads for everything from flour to alcoholic beverages Maize is another good example of this. When white people took c
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culi
5y ago
This database looks really promising, thanks for sharing! I'll definitely try to get ahold of it Our stories are not actually all that different haha. I started the same way, mostly from getting into iNaturalist. I'm in SoCal righ
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5y ago
One aspect about this architecture, that I think it shares with some traditional Japanese architectures, that really strikes me is the modularity of it all. These houses are built with the foresight that parts will break and need to be repl
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Kath Kuni Architecture
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culi
5y ago
Interestingly, P. virginica is in the Araceae family which also contains taro (as well as the arum lily, breadfruit, elephant foot yam, and many more) Can I ask more about your curiosity about native foods? It's been a big interest of
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culi
5y ago
> the word was never even said by the speaker the first sentence of his speech starts off with "when you think of leadership" lol
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culi
5y ago
I'm not sure how much it applies to tech as an industry, but research shows that coops (or, "labor-managed firms") tend to last much longer and be more productive than non-coop companies as well. https://www.uk.coo
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culi
5y ago
Product Farket Mit
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culi
5y ago
https://www.britannica.com/topic/guillotine (/s)
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culi
5y ago
One interesting technology used in phytoremediation for accumulated heavy metals in soils: plants. Many plants are known as "hyperaccumulators" of various metals. Medicago sativa (Alfalfa) and Dittrichia viscosa (Yellow Fleabane)
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culi
5y ago
Keep reading, the article directly addresses this point
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5y ago
Here's the original study[1] that seems to be the primary source for this article. It's an important study from a respectable journal. To be frank, it's pretty disconcerting that the top comments on this thread are those writ
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culi
5y ago
> At OpenAI, an important machine-learning think tank, researchers recently designed and trained a much-lauded deep-learning language system called GPT-3 at the cost of more than $4 million. Even though they made a mistake when they impl