dghughes

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   by dghughes 4y ago

   Also incredible most of the titanium came from the USSR but through indirect routes and suppliers with the Soviets being unaware.
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   by dghughes 4y ago

   Easybake toy ovens used incandescent bulbs to bake brownies.
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   by dghughes 4y ago

   I have an old floor lamp that I converted from halogen to LED. It has a dimmer knob but even when off it didn't turn off the light it was very faint. I thought it was the potentiometer/knob leaking current. I think I also had the
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   by dghughes 4y ago

   I like ancient history and languages and I find it so funny how writing systems often developed from bad puns. Words that have sounds similar to what you are describing eg. pictures of a bee and leaf for the word belief.
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   by dghughes 4y ago

   And Mike Farrell.
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   by dghughes 4y ago

   It's a good idea PR or not. Seeing employee stress is good since just because work is being done doesn't mean the employees are able to do it effortlessly. Stress on employees I think is overlooked as long as the work is done. Or
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   by dghughes 4y ago

   I'd call it more don't make what was one press of a button into five taps on a touch screen. Plus gloves in winter regions we wear gloves 6 months of the year.
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   by dghughes 4y ago

   I'd say at that point just give up on eating bread. Something bread-shaped and fluffy could be made of anything.
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   by dghughes 4y ago

   Yahoo video chat in the late 1990s was pretty wild for sexual openness.
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    The funding for my entire Canadian province for all healthcare; two main hospitals, two small hospitals, a dozen clinics, a few nursing homes for one year is $850 million. So that single US hospital takes in over 7X more than we get per yea
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    Massive harm of the environment by companies that farm it. Orangutans' habitat for one.
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    I'm not in the US and it is staggering to see how much one hospital take in just one single hospital. Tisch Hospital New York NY Net patient revenue 2022 $6,273,707,636
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    Just don't ask France about loans the USA has with them for the war...the Revolutionary War!
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    Kinzhal cost $2 million USD per missile and Russia supposedly hit a private home with one. Even Iskander missiles cost about the same. It may be an error in reporting it may have been "standard" cruise missile. But even so for a m
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    I'm OK with some regulated advertising. I'm not OK with ad companies wanting to know my life story. Ad companies claim if I don't give up to them every bit of my life what I do, say, eat, work,leisure, my location, etc. then
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    99% of the CRA website traffic is now Mar/Apr the site is slammed by probably 20 million of the 38 million of us who adults pay taxes.
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    I have an HP colour laser printer MFP just small home one. HP changed something a few years ago forcing people to log in to use their printer. I can't recall what happened but I was able to find a workaround or HP changed or cancelled
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    Around these parts (Maritimes S.E. Canada) they call herring "herr rn" it helps if you don't open your mouth when you try to say it. They also have a giant vacuum cleaner type thing four stories tall as loud as two jet airpla
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    I've seen that. They (Border/Customs) scan shipping containers looking for any weird density issues that are not normal.
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    The Indus Valley Civilization had toilets that could be flushed using a pipe coming from a water source above it. That's from about 6,000 years ago.
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    I wonder if an antimatter collector could be built in space. Collect antimatter in a magnetic bottle and put that in a missile. Launch small, fast, powerful antimatter missiles via maglev towards asteroids. A triangular spaceship is not nec
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    Polynesians made it to what is now Chile in the early 1300s. They left chickens there the bones were discovered in archaeological digs. Chickens are are native to SE Asia. And they took back sweet potatoes native to S. America which appeare
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    I do pay for premium and get YouTube Music with it too. And I don't feel entitled to get it free never said or implied that.
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    YouTube has become horrible experience practically unwatchable unless you pay for the monthly Premium service. And this is coming from me a person who grew up watching TV stuffed with ads. I can't imagine with young people who never wa
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    Kombucha tastes like a circuit board so making them into circuit boards is a good idea.
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    Just keep asking why. A human will get pissed off an "AI" won't.
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    There also should always be an option to turn off traction control on gravel roads too. You want the gravel to pile up in front of tires it slows you much faster. And snow is a pain too. Ford Transit vans were terrible for no manual over ri
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    Yes food for sure since bioavailability may be an issue. Nutrients, minerals, fibre, and protein are there but how do they interact and how does your body respond to a slurry of it.
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    If it's anything like my small Canadian province rents are astronomical for a small quite town. Often $1,200 for a one bedroom apartment. We're a tourist town and many homes have been bought up by people running short term rental
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    by dghughes 4y ago

    Although I prefer actual units be used instead of vague small, medium, large sizes for clothes and or barelycorns for shoe size. Just give me metric units!