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by gascan 9y ago
A modern high rise- but only as long as you are confident there were not basic design/engineering/construction flaws? Which, for those of us who are not structural engineers and cannot review the work to see that it is indeed well
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by gascan 9y ago
I think they just feel that way because we hold them extended with one arm. In a backpack with tonnes of other stuff I doubt it would be that noticeable. Cast iron dutch ovens weight about 30lbs. How much do you normally carry in your bac
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by gascan 9y ago
I fully understand direct exposure can be lethal nearly instantly. It looks like what I didn't understand is radiation-blocking of a material (lead, concrete, water) is actually a decay function (half of the radiation makes it through
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by gascan 9y ago
Other characters only get stew, which is oddly omnipresent. In her satirical travel guide to fantasy literature, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, Jones jokes that stew "is the staple food in Fantasyland, so be warned..." I'm
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by gascan 9y ago
You mean the target market of fantasy novels is chefs?
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by gascan 9y ago
My god, did that happen to every trolley line? Makes me want them back all the more.
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by gascan 9y ago
It is almost criminal how underappreciated the Tragically Hip are as a band. This statement is somehow perfect.
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by gascan 9y ago
low enough that humans could manipulate the stuff, behind several feet of steel, lead and concrete shielding, without immediately lethal radiation doses. Wait, for real? I have zero training in handling fissile material, but I didn't
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by gascan 9y ago
as a job requirement If truckers are doing that, it's probably not a job requirement per se. My shallow understanding of the industry is you get paid by the load, especially if you're independent. Turning an old racing adage on
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by gascan 9y ago
The pattern I've seen before is all-caps tags inserted in the code, making for easy grep, e.g. FIXME, BUG, TODO. Perhaps it becomes habit.
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by gascan 9y ago
Makes me think, other kinds of lists would be interesting too, there's an opportunity there. "top 20 garish displays of opulence" is boring & inapplicable to daily life.
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by gascan 9y ago
They say the answer is "yes". It's even nominally offered as a feature in, e.g. Canon's RAW processing tool (called "DLO") Unfortunately, in practice it seems to behave more like smart sharpening than a discret
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by gascan 9y ago
Petition your local government to treat municipal water for microplastics. Petition your federal government to tackle the root problem of why microplastics end up in the water in the first place.
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by gascan 9y ago
Many, many cards have no annual fee. The ones that do, are usually worth it for the right customers- e.g. a travel card that comes with a lot of actually-valuable travel perks for the frequent flyer. Credit cards with an annual fee simply f
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by gascan 9y ago
I'll drink to that. See the link elsewhere in this thread arguing, based on literally 100% assertion and 0% evidence, that we are all probably 10-100x deficient on daily iodine intake.
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by gascan 9y ago
At least seek to be smart about it, and perhaps supplement with low values- 10% of DV instead of 10,000%. Toxic iron dosage can be as low as 2x the therapeutic dose, and men are especially at risk (most of us on this thread are probably men
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by gascan 9y ago
The exception makes the rule; D is the one vitamin I'm aware of whose primary source was never food. Thus, it would not be shocking if food sources were a challenge. An interesting question though- how many IU do you take? What's
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by gascan 9y ago
It's true, spinach is not all you need. You might be forced to enjoy some cheese to get enough K2.
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by gascan 9y ago
You probably already eat (chicken|beef|fish|turkey|egg) too though. (In fact, the spinach goes great with egg)
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by gascan 9y ago
Northerners with a vitamin D deficiency, 3rd-worlders with iodine deficiency, vegans with B12 deficiency, carnivores with K12 deficiency, women with iron deficiency, etc- yes, supplements are quite helpful, when you're acutely deficien
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by gascan 9y ago
Probably worth distinguishing between starch (sweet potatoes, oats, barley, rice) & simple carbs (white bread, candy, soft drinks, etc etc)
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by gascan 9y ago
You could instead figure out how to incorporate dark leafy greens into your diet a few times a week. They are basically multivitamins in plant form. Have you ever had blanched & sauteed fresh spinach? Blanch for three minutes with a lit
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by gascan 9y ago
I've also heard before (anecdotal) that in general in the EU, people have far fewer credit cards. As someone with several chip+pin cards in the US, it can be a bit of a chore ensuring they all have the same pin, and I wouldn't eve
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by gascan 9y ago
the harmful effects of alcohol are both grossly underestimated and severely overestimated. It’s the strangest contradiction. Makes me think of "If by whiskey"
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by gascan 9y ago
If they could just turn up the TDP and clock speed on their chips and get 2x the performance of Intel's best chips that easily- they would already own the entire desktop market.
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by gascan 9y ago
Not that tankless electric is any better in this regard, but the selection of heat pumps has been dwindling precipitously because despite their small cost adder, their economics are still not very compelling. Which seems really unfortunate.
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by gascan 9y ago
There's just the one choice for me. The per-therm price is really low so it's fine in the winter, but now that the furnace is the only thing on gas, I wonder if I can suspend service over the summer.
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by gascan 9y ago
Reads kind of like a name-drop.
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by gascan 9y ago
There's a couple angles to consider. - An electric water heater is the only way to go truly "net zero" - You can power it with solar panels - Your gas company might have a high fixed charge (e.g. I pay $20/mo just for th
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by gascan 9y ago
I would hate to think that just dumping all of the charges on the "tech guy" for everything would be what happens here. Remember when the entire worldwide VW cheating & coverup scandal was uncovered, and it was blamed on a s

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