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by frank2 7y ago
From some time in the 1950s or early 1960s to a few years ago, the US consumed more oil than it produced. I am going to guess that for more than half of that time, it produced less than half of the oil it consumed. Then US companies figured
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by frank2 7y ago
In South Florida wood-framed buildings are rare and most small buildings, e.g., houses, are made from concrete masonry units -- or at least that was the case when I left in 1984. "CBS" it used to be called: "concrete block st
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by frank2 7y ago
Some N95-rated masks don't have an exhaust vent.
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by frank2 7y ago
>If the doctor now publicly claiming 699 treatments with 0 deaths using HCQ turns out to be a blatant fraud I think he may well lose his license given the situation. I don't think the boards of medical quality assurance of the 50 st
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by frank2 7y ago
Maybe we should lobby Uber to add functionality to their mobile app to eliminate the need for a legacy phone call. Maybe after a few popular apps do that, the phone companies will start to fear losing relevance and finally take effective ac
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by frank2 7y ago
And switching from coal to number 2 heating oil also improves air quality -- drastically.
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by frank2 7y ago
I just wanted to see if you have thought through the implications of what you advocated.
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by frank2 7y ago
Would you support forbidding cars in neighborhoods designed around the car, e.g., most American suburbs planned after 1950, or would you limit the ban to neighborhoods planned after the start of the ban?
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by frank2 7y ago
I am glad I don’t bathe in your tub.
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by frank2 7y ago
a factory full of people using gloves and alcohol sanitizers will spread the virus unless the people are trained and experienced in sterile technique.
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by frank2 7y ago
I am pretty sure COVID will strike again next winter.
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by frank2 7y ago
Good point. My comment would've been better with "editor" instead of "text editor".
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by frank2 7y ago
I wish I could copy math from the document I am reading, then paste it into a text editor like I can with ordinary non-math text on most web pages.
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by frank2 7y ago
Many believe that one of the most important innovations of the last 10 years is the Rust programming language and in particular its borrow checker, which is the result of a long investigation by programming-languages designers into "li
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by frank2 7y ago
I dislike it. I can handle white backgrounds and black backgrounds, but pages like the OP which have large regions of both overstimulate me.
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by frank2 7y ago
>Why do you think governments went to rationing during war time? I doubt it was to help individual citizens and families survive a crisis.
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by frank2 7y ago
The page works fine for me (with Ublock Origin enabled). Here it is. --cut here-- "This Crisis Will Spill Over and Result in a Disaster" Economist Nouriel Roubini correctly predicted the 2008 financial crisis. Now, he believes tha
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by frank2 7y ago
A blind programmer named Karl Dahlke does something similar: he pipes linux console output directly to a speaker to get a quick overview. (then he uses text-to-speech to delve into the details.) I think this hack is less discordant than Dah
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by frank2 7y ago
You don't understand why the government of Iran would resent the US so much that they would contribute military resources to harm the US?
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by frank2 7y ago
I don't know, but if the answer is no, then a vaccine against it is not going to confer immunity either.
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by frank2 7y ago
A flat wing at 45 degrees produces massive turbulence above and behind the wing, which in turn greatly increases the drag-to-lift ratio compared to a standard airplane wing. Also I suspect that ailerons and other control surfaces become muc
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by frank2 7y ago
>Open source just means you have or can get access to the source. No, that is "source-code available". "Open source" was defined over 20 years ago by this document and that is still how most software people still use
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by frank2 7y ago
>Open source implies nearly unlimited rights for the developer, like BSD, MIT, or Apache. Wrong: the GPL for example is defined as open-source by the Open Source Initiative (source: https://opensource.org/licenses ) -- a
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by frank2 7y ago
The impression that Emacs and Emacs Lisp are heavyweight comes from the 1980s . (Since then Emacs Lisp has gained the ability to talk to GTK+ and to the GUI toolkits native to Mac and Windows, but has bloated up very little otherwise.) Com
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by frank2 7y ago
Microsoft could decide to terminate their access to Bing APIs at any time resulting in DDG’s immediately losing most of their users. DDG does not have their own crawler or index.
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by frank2 7y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that an air purifier with a squirrel-cage fan (the kind of fan needed to pull enough air through a HEPA filter) makes a very pleasant sound that is good for masking, e.g., banging noises from neighboring apartme
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by frank2 7y ago
Wikipedia: “In France, historical records compiled by rural historian Jean-Marc Moriceau indicate that during the period 1362–1918, nearly 7,600 people were killed by wolves”.
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by frank2 7y ago
When invoking the deno command, the user has the option to grant or deny the command access to the file system, internet, environment. >loads code from the internet and runs it no questions asked I think this is a reference to the fact
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by frank2 7y ago
>Brown rice is better than white rice The cultures that have for thousands of years depended on rice for most of their calories have used mainly white rice.
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by frank2 7y ago
Getting even more off topic, your comment is completely right except for this: “a body initially at rest relative to the Earth at altitude 300km experiences an acceleration of 0.89g towards Earth” which is false in the general-relativistic

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