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by ikr678 5y ago
All I want is a chronolocial feed of all friends' posts (with ads interspersed since that appears a necessary evil). I frequently miss life updates from people I'm in low contact with, and instead get endless suggested paid nonsen
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by ikr678 5y ago
>I'd expect the only way to protect an apple from that fate, would be to trademark the name, and the rightsholder only licenses the name to apples from cultivars that breed for taste and don't sacrifice taste for looks. >Thi
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by ikr678 5y ago
Withholding content in solidarity sort of hurts Blizzard's attempts to keep interest in their E-sport franchises. I'd prefer they didn't actually stream either, but they make their living from Blizzard products in a more prec
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by ikr678 5y ago
In most other countries, that same level of critical care would not even come close to $10M. The sticker price of healthcare in the US is so wildly inflated as to be meaningless.
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by ikr678 5y ago
In Australia, we call this 'cultural cringe', and also express strong preferences for foreign produced media. I personally would rather stare at a blank wall than read fiction by local authors- it is always too familiar a setting
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by ikr678 5y ago
Loyalty is no longer rewarded, so there is no incentive toward loyal behavior (at least in the workplace). Same for other professional services - businesses regularly offer discounts to new customers but not existing ones. Why should I stic
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by ikr678 5y ago
Not using bundled/sheathed ABC overhead cable? Or was that too expensive relative to the remaining risk.
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by ikr678 5y ago
I work for a utility with ~260km of gas pipe, ranging between 60 year old cast iron to brand new polyethelene pipe, and everything in between. We aim for <2% UAFG (unaccounted for gas) and our regulatory requirement is <2-4% depending
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by ikr678 5y ago
Cooking is a negligible amount of the gas use, but in warmer states gas networks will do rebate deals with developers to get gas appliances into new homes to keep the domestic networks expanding. There can be transmission loss in these netw
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by ikr678 5y ago
It's not the influencer, more the internet in general. If you have a 100% offline hobby, where your outputs are your own, and you never digitise them to be shared, let alone monetised into a hustle, you don't exist as far as this
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by ikr678 5y ago
Aside from the obvious (meat, nuts), fortification of processed foods is more common in the US than other countires, and the FDA has some mandatory fortification rules. Breakfast cereals and flour are required to be fortified with iron, amo
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I understand it to be harmful, but in a way that contaminates the environment around it. A bad colleague can be a dick, in isolation, whereas a toxic colleague would be someone whose behaviours poisons their surrounds and brings out bad beh
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by ikr678 5y ago
I was under the impression that cramps are from an imbalance of potassium, calcium and magnesium. Supplementing the one you are lacking generally resolves the problem, but its hard to know for an individual without trial and error unless yo
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by ikr678 5y ago
Getting the pipeline route established is a pretty significant upfront cost. Easements, land purchases, agreements with all the various stakeholders are expensive. Even not reusing the existing oil pipeline, being able to repupose the corri