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by del82 3mo ago
I recently learned about using mussels for buttons when I visited the Mississippi River Museum in Dubuque, Iowa and have been wondering since: can Zebra Mussels be used for buttons? That would create (even more) economic incentive to go af
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Reese's changed its chocolate because of climate change(fooddive.com)
3 points by del82 7mo ago|3 comments
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by del82 7mo ago
Full title: Reese’s didn’t change its chocolate because of corporate greed. It was climate change.
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by del82 1y ago
I mean, I think the reason I would say the night sky is “beautiful” is because the meaning of the word for me is constructed from the experiences I’ve had in which I’ve heard other people use the word. So I’d agree that the night sky is “be
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by del82 1y ago
It's absolutely true that we should consider the source for this and any other reviews / studies / news articles etc., and be aware of their likely position. We should also recognize that, for all but the most mainstream poss
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by del82 2y ago
Omega Tau Podcast did a really great episode [0] on container shipping, including the optimization of container placement and route planning, highly recommended. [0]: https://omegataupodcast.net/146-container-shipping/
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by del82 4y ago
(I can't read the full article due to the paywall, but) another framing of this is: farmers can supplement their income by renting out their sheep to help solar farms manage the vegetation around the panels: https://smallfar
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by del82 5y ago
> it's substantially more work to clean and organize the code for publishing, it will increase the surface for nitpicking and criticism (e.g. coding style, etc). Matt Might has a solution for this that I love: Don't clean &amp
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by del82 5y ago
See also Kiryas Joel, New York: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiryas_Joel,_New_York
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by del82 7y ago
Propublica, because they do really amazing journalistic work, both in partnership with large for-profit news organizations as well as independently. The American Cancer Society, which does a bunch of amazing things, including having "H
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by del82 7y ago
This is great! Definitely therapeutic to be able to name-and-shame frustrating password experiences. Is the goal to actually get these sites to change their dumb rules? If so, I wonder whether it's worth adding a (politely-worded) su
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by del82 7y ago
Oscillates between 0.1 and 0.7 for me, and I'm changing nothing on my end (just hitting "Try again"). Does it have to do with refresh speed, I wonder? Privacy Badger and ABP on my work (less-locked-down) Mac.
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by del82 7y ago
Particularly interesting is the tidbit in the middle of the article that there is no freight rail crossing of the Hudson River south of Selkirk[0], near Albany. So any freight train that wants to travel between NYC (except Staten Island) a
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The Pizza-and-Beer Train: New York City’s Hidden Railroad(nytimes.com)
5 points by del82 7y ago|1 comments
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by del82 8y ago
Queens Boulevard[0] is like that, with through-traffic lanes and local lanes divided by a barrier, and it's very much not a pleasant experience to walk or bike near it. It's just so wide, loud, and dangerous[1], though there have
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by del82 8y ago
Not tipping the doctor, but the hospital: "Many hospitals conduct nightly wealth screenings — using software that culls public data such as property records, contributions to political campaigns and other charities — to gauge which pat
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by del82 8y ago
Going to college isn't all about "quality of education"; it's also about networking and building connections. Plenty of State Universities provide a high-quality education, but don't offer the same opportunities to
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by del82 8y ago
> If you do everything right, you'll get this malfunction under control. But it's easy to see how pilots whose plane is acting up unexpectedly can miss it, and it's reasonable to ask whether Boeing could've done bette
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by del82 8y ago
But the difference is not only do the pilots of a commercial airliner have vastly more training and experience than your average driver, but they literally have a list of things to try (and extensive training on following the list) in the c
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by del82 8y ago
That's fair, but what does the checklist say? I mean, say there are a thousand different malfunctions that could cause an uncommanded nose-down. This one happens to be #359, but the pilots don't know that, they just know that th
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by del82 8y ago
Based only on what I read in this article, I can kind of see Boeing's point? From what I understand, the procedure/checklist for an uncommanded nose down didn't change from the old to the new version, even with the addition
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by del82 8y ago
> *High tax isn't a problem by itself. The problem it that high tax states in the US don't turn around and deliver a proportionate amount of public good. I certainly agree that there's waste, and more taxes leads to more w
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by del82 8y ago
> Their whole business is to encourage folks that should not be day trading to day trade See also E-Trade's "Don't get mad, get E-Trade" commercials[0], which are clearly intended to give people the impression that st
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by del82 8y ago
https://outline.com/rjnnqM
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by del82 8y ago
OK, question from a fellow Emacs user: If a student asked you which text editor / IDE they should learn _ab initio_, would you recommend Emacs without reservation? I'm not sure I would. I'll certainly never stop using it, b
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by del82 8y ago
If it were only about hauling people then isn't a minivan as good or better? But U.S. manufacturers are abandoning minivans even more quickly than sedans-- only Chrysler still makes one, Ford and GM don't. The chicken tax and the
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by del82 8y ago
The linked story seems to have been updated to remove references to the Volt being cut: "The company also plans to stop building several models now assembled at those plants, including the Chevrolet Cruze, the Cadillac CT6 and the Buic
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by del82 8y ago
How? I mean, you can argue against tax incentives for corporations, but you can also argue for them. For example, you could say (as others in this thread have) that $48k per job over 10 years is a good investment, and will likely generate m
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by del82 8y ago
I grew up in Michigan and moved to greater NYC after grad school, and I want to push back a bit against the idea that nobody on the coasts even considers the middle of the country. My spouse and I would love to move somewhere less expensive
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Watch Beatboxers Break It Down Inside an M.R.I. Scanner(nytimes.com)
2 points by del82 8y ago|0 comments

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