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by deftnerd 6y ago
I've had the same experience in general. my lips often get chapped in sub freezing weather, but that hasn't happened this year.
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by deftnerd 6y ago
The problem with drug prices isn't because of the drug manufacturers, it's with the middle-men and private insurance companies. At least, that's what the manufacturers are saying For instance, with the manufacturers of insuli
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by deftnerd 6y ago
I've long desired the functionality that the Echo & Echo Show provide when it comes to audio playback and intercom/video chat functionality. Unfortunately, I'm too suspicious of Amazon (and Google, for that matter) using
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by deftnerd 6y ago
If this does grow, it might be worth getting another domain just for email purposes such as "read-cv-email.com".
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by deftnerd 6y ago
What seems most likely to me is that kook negotiated an employee agreement where the Navy would provide the same level of patent expertise and pressures to any personal patents that he wished to file.
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by deftnerd 6y ago
You could make the same argument about so many different things. E-cigarettes or junk food is not a net win for civilization. What about addictions to video gaming? Donating to political parties that you think are against progress? It boils
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by deftnerd 6y ago
I usually freeze my jam into large blocks using tupperware and then transfer them into vacuum sealing bags. After sucking the air out, I let them defrost and then they stack nicely as flat packs of jam, ready to be cut open. No glass to bre
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by deftnerd 6y ago
I've always felt that the Trump presidency served as an effective form of "Chaos Engineering". Regardless of your views of Trump's politics, his administration and method of leadership has exposed a lot of flaws in how o
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by deftnerd 6y ago
I use Plex to store my TV, Movies, and Music. One nice feature is that you can have your own music AND integrate Tidal to augment your music collection. It works pretty well.
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by deftnerd 6y ago
There is a lot of case law regarding digital media, such as movies, tv, books, etc, stating that the digital version doesn't lose value despite the ease of copying it. It's an interesting conundrum that "big business" cl
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by deftnerd 6y ago
I'm surprised they weren't stopped by police to investigate a very suspicious heavily loaded cart on the Subway. It easily could have been 300lbs of explosives on that cart.
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by deftnerd 6y ago
that's incorrect, you're allowed to also have access to evidence the prosecutor doesn't reference directly. For instance, if there is some evidence that someone else committed a crime such as existence of security footage or
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by deftnerd 6y ago
I was once approached to develop a darknet market. I spent a few weeks scoping out the work, unpaid, before I turned down the opportunity due to the legal and ethical problems. I did spend that time pondering and scoping out the work becaus
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by deftnerd 6y ago
> Actually it's pretty easy to generate intense neutrino beams. You just have to accelerate protons and smash them into a lead wall. This produces all kinds of particles, including for instance muons. Since muons are charged, you ca
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by deftnerd 6y ago
It's quite common for people's places of business to be distant from the place they live. For industrial farms, forests, and mining operations, there is no need to the workers to live right next to it. They can live in the nearby
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by deftnerd 6y ago
What I haven't seen is an analysis of how long it'll take for the temperature to rise enough for the permafrost to be entirely thawed. The freeze/thaw cycle wrecks havoc on infrastructure and buildings. Bringing infrastructur
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by deftnerd 6y ago
I was quite fond of Kuro5hin.org, a discussion community that just kind of petered out.
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by deftnerd 6y ago
They are only strong at specific points, namely the corners and to a lesser extent, the edges. If you have a load on top, or an impact on the sides, they deform easily and that can cause structural collapse. In situations where people bury
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Even if 222nm has its purposes, the market is crying out for inexpensive and plentiful UV-C 253nm LED's. You can get UV LED's in different wavelengths, but 253nm is the very effective for disinfection (even though it does suffer f
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Not just decreased usage of diesel, but it'll make those remote units less vulnerable to supply route attacks. Presumably, if the reactor generates enough power, it could also be used to supply power to the surrounding community and ho
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by deftnerd 7y ago
This has been a feature that I wish existed. I often like to 'favorite' a post, and wish there was an RSS feed so I could use various automation tools to easily combine those favorite links into bookmark collections.
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by deftnerd 7y ago
CH4, aka Methane, is one Carbon atom and four Hydrogen atoms. There is no Helium in Methane, just Hydrogen.
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by deftnerd 7y ago
It feels like there might be other possibly uses of old or unwanted foam mattresses. Perhaps they can be cut down to standard sizes for home insulation batting? As insulation between raised garden bed containers and the ground? Insulation b
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Sunrise Studios, who made the Anime, has a streaming agreement with b-ch.com - But the entire site is in Japanese, and I don't know if they have any regional IP blocks. https://www.b-ch.com/titles/3225/
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by deftnerd 7y ago
The "conspiracy" portion of my brain makes me wonder if it's possible that Apple phones have lower power levels if the location services determines that the phone is in a location with a known anechoic chamber. There can&#x27
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by deftnerd 7y ago
In a bright environment, a bright LED is useful. Instead they should also have a light sensor used to determine the ambient light level, and then adjust the status LED display accordingly. My Samsung TV does this with its "powered on&q
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Makes me wonder if there is any roll-over with the additional cores. If you have a dual processor machine, with 34 cores in each processor, you would have to get 4 licenses, 2 of which only cover a combined 4 cores. It seems less than ideal
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I don't personally believe that non-ionizing radiation can cause any damage, but if I put on my "brainstorming" hat, I can think of some things to test to at least rule them out. Non-ionizing radiation doesn't have the p
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I'm of the personal belief that most likely, non-ionizing radiation has no affect on living tissue, but I don't see anything wrong with more open and peer-reviewed research into the subject. It would be nice to know what dangers t
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Similarly a hand-wavey "the time portal is sparked through the physical quantum entanglement of the same particle through different points in time"

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