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by jetrink 7y ago
Ha, I was just wondering about this recently. It's great to see that someone is exploring this idea. 1. https://i.imgur.com/MYQ1uTl.png
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by jetrink 7y ago
They aren't just tossing the bodies on a compost pile. It's a very specific process that involves a lot of oxygen and high temperatures (60C-70C). Pathogens do not survive if it's done properly.
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A big one is that the page is served by the CPU it describes.
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by jetrink 7y ago
I wonder how equally distributed that cost is. If it follows a Pareto distribution, which would be my first guess, then it would be costing 20% of the population over $2000 per year. If so, it would be relatively insignificant to the econom
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by jetrink 7y ago
When 50% of the population smoked, smoking in bars was accepted. Non-smokers who didn't want to spend an evening wreathed in smoke didn't go to bars. Those who did knew what they were in for. I think approaching people to try to g
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by jetrink 7y ago
See also: GPS vs GLONASS time encoding. GPS rolls over every 19 years, so devices, cars and even Boeing aircraft saw their GPS-based clocks turn back to 1999 last month. Meanwhile, GLONASS epochs are only four years long, so every device th
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by jetrink 7y ago
I'm self-employed, so I get insurance through the marketplace. The plans that qualify for use with an HSA are more expensive than plans that are not legally HDHPs, but just happen to have a $6000 deductible and $7900 max out of pocket.
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by jetrink 7y ago
I think that that list was in order of decreasing desirability and his opinion of color blindness was "I don't want that" and his opinion of weird neurological symptoms was that he would pay anything to make them go away.
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by jetrink 7y ago
Just yesterday, a street downtown buckled from the pressure of stormwater running underneath it. 1. https://wgntv.com/2019/05/01/video-captures-street-buckle-in...
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by jetrink 7y ago
A real-life Tortoise and the Hare story! (In the sense that slow and steady progress won the day. I do not wish to imply that Peffers team has any of the negative qualities of the hare.)
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by jetrink 7y ago
It's funny that the NYT headline is "As Rents Rise, Artists Are Reviving the Idea of the Medieval Guild," as one of the primary functions of the medieval guild was rent-seeking. The closest modern equivalent of the guild is p
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by jetrink 7y ago
I pay close attention to precipitation forecasts due to the nature of my job. In the midwest, National Weather Service forecasts up to seven days out are reliable and useful. If the NWS says there will be a rainstorm in a week, there usuall
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by jetrink 7y ago
People don't comment on it out of politeness, but they do notice. Then, consciously and unconsciously, they draw negative inferences about you. They might suspect that you are not well organized or that you are lazy. You are free to be
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by jetrink 7y ago
I think this whole piece is a pretty bizarre exercise. > I consider [podcasts] an enemy of music. [...] With all of the world’s unheard songs beckoning us with their endless mystery, why would anyone choose to waste their precious listen
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by jetrink 7y ago
Create a selection using the rectangular selection tool, then navigate to [Edit->Stroke Selection].
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by jetrink 7y ago
> If someone in 1900 had made similar curves, I wonder how they would look to us. On that count, I wonder if there are similar projections from, say, 1950 that we could look at and see how they turned out. Thomas Malthus attempted to des
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by jetrink 7y ago
In the United States, you can also work directly with your credit card company (or bank, in the case of a debit card) to stop a recurring charge. This is possible due to the Fair Credit Billing Act [1]. You might also be refunded for recent
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by jetrink 7y ago
How can an incident require turning back immediately (and requesting a specific runway!), but not require declaring an emergency? Here's an incident[1] from yesterday where an American Airlines flight declared an emergency after a tire
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by jetrink 8y ago
I think the SOP is to have a second Yubikey registered and stored in a safe place and/or a set of one-time codes that you can use instead.
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by jetrink 8y ago
“Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely. [...] Any sound that Wins
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by jetrink 8y ago
> especially in San Francisco we'd rather they be out walking around It's not a question of preference. Our constitution is incompatible with treatment programs that involve indefinite imprisonment when the individual is not a
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by jetrink 8y ago
What about allowing anyone to decide to be hidden? The feature could still exist without its being associated with a specific gender.
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by jetrink 8y ago
> A keyed hash, GHASH, is then computed over the additional data and the cipher text. That hash is encrypted with AES too, and you get an authentication tag. What is the purpose of encrypting the keyed hash? I'm assuming there'
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by jetrink 8y ago
Not this stock. It's split into two classes, one of which grants vastly more voting power than the other. Zuckerberg still personally controls a majority of the votes.
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by jetrink 8y ago
I completely agree that those areas should allow more 5-10 story buildings, but let's not kid ourselves about what they would look like. They would be One-Plus-Fives [1]. 1. http://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2015&#x
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by jetrink 8y ago
That is exactly his point.
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by jetrink 8y ago
Agreed, sometimes it's obvious why a particular article caught the poster's attention, but for this one, it would be nice if they gave some context. How did they hear about it? Is there an interesting fact hidden in the article th
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by jetrink 8y ago
In what way is carrying a dedicated device not realistic? My second factor lives on my keyring and is only a bit larger than a typical door key. Everyone carries keys.
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by jetrink 8y ago
> As for CO2, the plane flying slower is more fuel-efficient. It's counter-intuitive, but an aircraft can be more efficient at higher airspeeds. The reason for this is that, unlike a ground vehicle, an aircraft in level flight must
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by jetrink 8y ago
Their web player has also started to have stuttering and frame dropping issues for me. It only works smoothly on Microsoft Edge, so hopefully they get it figured out before Microsoft swaps out the rendering engine for Chromium.

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