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by eric-hu 3y ago
Yeah that seems reasonable enough to me. I’ve seen parks and green spaces in Southern California that have warning signs about not drinking irrigation water. My earlier comment was motivated by a concern that tapping a non-potable water sou
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by eric-hu 3y ago
Right, I could have stated more explicitly. Watering possibly edible plants with pathogen polluted water seems okay. Watering them with chemically polluted water seems like maybe a way to ingest toxic stuff. Washing dishes seems dicey too.
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by eric-hu 3y ago
A Gaiwan is one traditional Chinese way of making tea, but those words are literally “covered bowl”. If you don’t want to buy one, you could makeshift your own: brew loose leaf tea in a cup or bowl and pour it into your drinking cup using a
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by eric-hu 3y ago
I’m curious: if the water isn’t considered potable, would you want to be watering plants with it? Is the contamination more often bacterial than chemical?
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by eric-hu 3y ago
They have nuclear power plants but switched them off after Fukushima. Now they use coal and gas plants instead.
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by eric-hu 3y ago
You just educated me on Michael Dell taking Dell private again. I didn’t realize he did so with the backing of PE. https://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2013/10/30/you-...
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by eric-hu 3y ago
In addition to this, tank water heater systems include a sacrificial anode rod. Water heater tanks include different metals in contact with the water, which creates a galvanic cell. Over time this corrodes the least noble metal. The rod is
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by eric-hu 3y ago
For those of us unfamiliar with the numbers, what do typical yields look like on silicon wafers?
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by eric-hu 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
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by eric-hu 3y ago
> Cloud Providers can be expensive. Do you have a story around this? If so, would love to hear more about it.
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by eric-hu 3y ago
I appreciate clean emissions, but I’m skeptical this will happen in 13 years time. Are there similarly ambitious programs that have worked in CA’s past?
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by eric-hu 3y ago
I see data for other continents too
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by eric-hu 3y ago
That would be Russell’s paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox
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by eric-hu 3y ago
Apparently there was someone who claimed Taken was based on him. It was a case of fraud though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_(film)#Controversy > In 2011, a self-proclaimed counter-terrorism expert was convic
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by eric-hu 3y ago
There’s a series of episodes of Smarter Everyday where the host goes on a US nuclear submarine and interviews the crew and shows some of the equipment. In one of the episodes, they talk to navigators, who explain that submarines can be invi
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by eric-hu 3y ago
Why is citrus to be avoided in composting? A quick Google says that’s a myth, but this is the first I’ve heard of it either way. https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/composting/ingredients/citr...
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by eric-hu 3y ago
It really depends on where you live. I lived in Taipei and cycled around everywhere in that city. There were sometimes bike lanes on the street, and sometimes wide sidewalks with bike lanes, and sometimes neither. Drivers were pretty reason
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by eric-hu 3y ago
AAA will change a tire for you, and I've driven past plenty of service calls where I saw exactly this happening. Also, run-flat tires are a thing. I get where you're coming from. People in the US mostly don't put in time to l
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by eric-hu 3y ago
One thing to add is that if you value the learning from trying a repair job, doing it on a problem in front of you is close to free. Taking a class would cost money.
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by eric-hu 3y ago
> I assume the ipo will allow him to eventually join the (multi-millionaire?) billionaire class. I would be pretty surprised if that happens. Digg sold for $500k. I'm expecting something similar.
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by eric-hu 3y ago
But to your point, why would anyone put their own content on a site they don’t own? > "if you don't own the content, it can be taken from you at any point, for any reason, and you have no recourse" Fully embracing this ide
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by eric-hu 3y ago
Apollo sold subscriptions for up to a year, and they would’ve had to burn money to honor those subscriptions. The cost was in the millions. They did ask for more time for the changes than the given 30 days, and Reddit refused.
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by eric-hu 3y ago
Oof, the Awair Element is 230 on Walmart and 275 on Amazon. That’s a fair bit more than the 60 that GP quoted.
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by eric-hu 3y ago
> Linux Kernel Software Engineer BYTEDANCE INC. What would ByteDance (TikTok parent company) need with a Linux kernel engineer?
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by eric-hu 3y ago
Do these $60 CO2 devices also measure air pollution like IKEA’s?
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by eric-hu 3y ago
Worth mentioning for those who were ignorant like me: Matter looks like an IoT protocol that’s cross platform across most home sensors and controllers (Apple home, Google nest, Alexa, etc)
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by eric-hu 3y ago
I’m not following your reason with aviation. Isn’t weight per kWh of hydrogen bad?
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by eric-hu 3y ago
> As for the haptic feedback, it felt a bit off. Earlier MacBooks had a satisfying clickiness and responsiveness, but that didn't seem to be the case with the current model I tested. I suppose this could be subjective, and perhaps s
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by eric-hu 3y ago
Have they actually cleared Bitcoin in writing?
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by eric-hu 3y ago
What performance gains are you referring to? No mention of that in the featured article

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