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by driggs 3y ago
This is in the FAQ, which you don't even need to click to read from the front page: https://aerolite.dev/applite/index.html#details > Q: What information does Applite track? > A: None.
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by driggs 3y ago
That's because the loophole doesn't exist. It's an obviously flawed interpretation of the 2018 Farm Bill which isn't likely to hold up in court when it's finally tested there. Here's a commentary by drug policy
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by driggs 3y ago
I was more interested in that fascinating map captioned "The most remote places in the US". Here's the source, which is based upon "travel time to cities" on a global scale: https://sci-hub.ee/10.103
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by driggs 3y ago
I think that almost nobody in the year 2023 would assume "a piece of wood" given the phrase "GPS Log", blue collar or white collar. That's what makes it a good pun.
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by driggs 3y ago
I'd like to think that this whole project came about from the pun "GPS Log". As in, it's not just a GPS tracklog, it's a literal wooden log. Brilliant!
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by driggs 3y ago
WV is among the bottom 5 poorest states in the US, with West Virginia University critical for providing affordable in-state college education. WVU is urgently dealing with a $45-million budget shortfall. I know two graduates of the Puppetry
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by driggs 3y ago
With "hiker" in the name, I had hoped to see onboard GPS. Nope!
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by driggs 3y ago
I parsed this title as "lightning bug gun" and wondered why I didn't recall a bioluminescent insect powered weapon in that game.
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by driggs 3y ago
> I want syntax that will keep people from using collections.namedtuple() just for its attribute API and ignoring/regretting its index API. The author is proposing a worse dataclass, because they don't want to ignore positional
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by driggs 3y ago
Don't let all the physiology distract you from the HN-relevant information theory(?) in the `Consciousness and Integrated Information` section near the end: A recent theory suggests a principled reason: information and integration
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by driggs 3y ago
Noting that the parent comment states that they can't remember autobiographical memories from the same day, which sounds closer to SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory) than Aphantasia, though research shows that there&#x27
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by driggs 3y ago
I've been happily using the `Bing Chat For All Browsers` Chrome extension for many weeks, and have been very impressed with the new AI powered Bing and its chat agent. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail&#x2F
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by driggs 3y ago
Because its depth was discovered by researchers in 2021. The Mayans knew that it was a blue hole. They didn't know that it was among the deepest known in the world, simply that it was one of many blue holes.
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by driggs 3y ago
What makes blue holes so fascinating, in my opinion, is the historical perspective they provide. These were once deep air-filled vertical shafts, formed by the longterm erosional/dissolutional power of falling water under the influence
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by driggs 3y ago
Highly recommend the documentary "The Creeping Garden" for an insightful look at slime moulds and intelligence: http://www.creepinggarden.com
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A Guy from Montana Overturned 150 Years of Lichen Biology(theatlantic.com)
2 points by driggs 3y ago|1 comments
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by driggs 3y ago
> Biology textbooks tell us that lichens are alliances between two organisms—a fungus and an alga. They are wrong. [Toby Spribille] has shown that the largest and most species-rich group of lichens are not alliances between two organism
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by driggs 4y ago
This idea is unlikely to work unless the entirety of the pressurized volume is encased in a giant "balloon" or some sort of sealant coating the entirety of the cave's surface. Lava tubes are formed from flowing molten basalt,
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by driggs 4y ago
I came here to post the exact same sentiment and the ordered phrase "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle". Yes, it's bad that this was advertised as a specific recycling program and involved parties knowingly or unknowingly diverged from
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by driggs 4y ago
There are migrant gangs of Matsutake poachers roaming Northern California and Oregon. Working for the National Park Service / USDA Forest Service, we'd have unrelated scientific monitoring equipment destroyed and stolen by these g
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by driggs 4y ago
> Objects demonstrating extreme capabilities routinely fly over our military facilities and training ranges. We don’t know what they are, and we are unable to mitigate their presence. Occams Razor suggests that if these objects appear al
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by driggs 4y ago
The best way to (mis)understand The KLF is to invest 45 minutes immersing yourself in their incredible unreleased film "The White Room": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wngp8zou_M The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
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by driggs 4y ago
If vaccination prevents you from catching covid, then it has prevented you from spreading covid to those you would have otherwise. If vaccination causes you to experience an early immune response, versus several asymptomatic days while un
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by driggs 4y ago
It's so sad that Java 8 had the chance to really fix the null problem, but gave us only the half-assed `java.util.Optional<T>`. Rather than implementing optional values at the language level, it's just another class tossed i
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by driggs 4y ago
Thank you for pointing out that insightful detail! The control group was 50% of the population who didn't get an invitation. The experimental group was 50% of the population who got an invitation for colonoscopy, but turned out to be s
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by driggs 4y ago
> ... who committed the offense of simple possession of marijuana ... regardless of whether they have been charged with or prosecuted for this offense You're missing the joke!
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by driggs 4y ago
You are confusing social communication with echolocation. Humans have the former but lack the latter. Bro. Yes, it's 3D point cloud precision. (Source: I study echolocation in bats, and many of the classic texts cover echolocation in c
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by driggs 4y ago
You are confusing the two different uses of `in`. There's no reason to use a set for a temporary iteration container; but using a set is ideal and - in theory, for large n or expensive equality check - more performant as a temporary
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by driggs 4y ago
That's an insane amount of a very potent greenhouse gas. Seems like it'd be better to strike a match and flare it off as CO2 instead of methane, which has 80 times the greenhouse warming effect of CO2. Thanks!
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by driggs 4y ago
Does anyone know the rate at which these leaks are spewing methane into the atmosphere, and how quickly this pipeline can be shut off (if it isn't already)?

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