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by kahirsch 4y ago
By far more energy goes to heating than air conditioning, but a lot of heating in the US is natural gas (or oil in the northeast), especially in the colder places. About 43% of household energy use is heating and only 8% is air conditioni
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by kahirsch 4y ago
I've always found it funny that books use Arabic numerals for copyright dates, but movies, where you often have just a second to see the number, usually use Roman numerals. Did that just say "MCMLXXVIII" or was it "MCMLX
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by kahirsch 4y ago
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-do... Undisclosed settlement, probably "low six figures" (between $100,000 and $500,000).
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by kahirsch 4y ago
It's not obvious, but the raw data is downloadable from https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html
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by kahirsch 4y ago
What does "DOMI NUSILLU MINA TIOMEA" mean?
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by kahirsch 4y ago
Here's another Wikipedia-related game: https://www.redactle.com/# You have to guess what the title of the page is, with most of the words redacted. They are filled in as you guess.
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by kahirsch 5y ago
I had a paid subscription but canceled because of their attitude on this. When dropbox.exe can't sync a file because of some file permission or other access problem, it just consumes huge amounts of CPU trying over and over. There is n
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by kahirsch 5y ago
This not accurate. The PCR test was designed to be extremely specific to SARS-CoV-2. The CDC's PCR test was physically tested against human coronavirus (strains 229E, OC43, NL63, and HKU1), MERS-coronavirus, SARS-coronavirus, bocavir
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by kahirsch 5y ago
Here's a picture with side-by-side comparison and things numbered: https://i.imgur.com/zw6n7C7.png EDIT: I just left this without comment because I had to go eat dinner with family, but notice how in the first picture
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by kahirsch 5y ago
People were spreading misinformation about the link. Just to be clear, there is no recall. The test is not defective. The test can be used through the end of the year. The CDC recommends using tests that can detect flu as well as COVID. The
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by kahirsch 5y ago
> In the US it's illegal to print your own currency and use it for commercial purposes. You can't make people accept your own currency, but you can print it and use it for commercial purposes if people want to accept it.
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by kahirsch 5y ago
The day this was published in Parade magazine, I was sure that she was wrong. Even though I was a computer programmer then (1990), I didn't own a computer. I drove across town to my parent's house to use my father's computer
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by kahirsch 5y ago
Could you be a little more specific about what you mean by "best" and "most advanced"?
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by kahirsch 6y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952 Bitcoin consumes 'more electricity than Argentina'
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by kahirsch 6y ago
After Google acquired Deja, the search was good and improved over the next couple of years. Then around the era of Google Plus (2011), the search degraded and eventually the advanced group search page was deleted. This was certainly past th
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by kahirsch 6y ago
That's not really an explanation, though. The web interface works today and will continue to work through April 3. So, if Google wanted it to continue, it would.
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by kahirsch 6y ago
Google Pay was a great way to send money to my kid in college. Since we both had debit cards, it was instantaneous and free. It was easy to use from the web interface. Now they're doing away with the web interface. They don't say
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by kahirsch 6y ago
for x in {5..10}; do ...
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by kahirsch 6y ago
It was the Big Eight for most of the 20th century.
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by kahirsch 6y ago
https://gilligan.fandom.com/wiki/Splashdown
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by kahirsch 7y ago
It was used once in 1884 and the writer there specifically said he invented it. There are no other recorded uses of the word before The Simpsons.
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by kahirsch 7y ago
https://unsplash.com/s/photos/star%C3%BD-hrad%2C-nezbudsk%C3...
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by kahirsch 7y ago
Could you expand on that? I've never heard about this.
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by kahirsch 7y ago
Claim: > The Federal Reserve Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913, when most lawmakers had already left the Capital for their home states The bill passed the House of Representat
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by kahirsch 7y ago
Yes, I've been doing this since I saw it in the BSD source back in the '80s.
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by kahirsch 7y ago
Yes, the podcast attributed it to NASA being a new organization and there being nobody with experience in most of the jobs. There were aircraft engineers and a small number of rocket engineers before, but NASA needed vast numbers of new emp
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by kahirsch 7y ago
When the Boeing CEO had his press conference in April, he said "we've confirmed that the MCAS system as originally designed did meet our design and safety analysis criteria and our certification criteria."[1] I yelled at the
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by kahirsch 7y ago
Video? Do red light cameras have video now?
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by kahirsch 7y ago
(2015)
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by kahirsch 7y ago
This American Life started in 1995.

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