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by knodi123 6y ago
It's a regular part of Maori culture in New Zealand, and tourists can do it in places like Rotorua. They call it Hāngi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%81ngi
902.
by knodi123 6y ago
You think so? I thought joke culture says you need to pick a pre-approved reason to explain dumbness. I changed it to "rookie".
903.
by knodi123 6y ago
It's like the old joke about the rookie cop who's too nervous to investigate a big spooky warehouse at night. He shouts into the darkness "is anybody here?" A few seconds later, he hears a voice say "......no"
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by knodi123 6y ago
yeesh. I'd have just thrown it into the freezer, or if that didn't work, I'd have filled the bath and put it in there! I've had my own "alarm from hell" situations, mostly with smoke detectors (one was in a ro
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by knodi123 6y ago
They clarified the IR thing was something they were told, but which they later tested and found not to be the case. /shrug
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by knodi123 6y ago
> this feels like a significant feature that would boost the long term health of a lot of torrents Except for so many that are a single archive file. It seems logical that you'd want to compress what you're sending as much as
907.
by knodi123 6y ago
https://i-kh.net/2020/08/26/the-magic-of-ion-channels/
908.
by knodi123 6y ago
Yes. Arecibo is mentioned in the episode description, and the x-files episode is mention on the Arecibo wiki page. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751154/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_
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by knodi123 6y ago
ouch!
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by knodi123 6y ago
you said that if people touch their mask or adjust it, "I don't see how they're achieving much more than safety theater that way." Covid is primarily airborne. If you prevent your breath and your coughs and your spe
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by knodi123 6y ago
> Wouldn't it be possible to get much more accurate temperature readings by having people open wide and imaging the backs of their throats Old-fashioned oral thermometers warn that they'll be inaccurate if you've drunk a
912.
by knodi123 6y ago
Does that matter? I thought the point of having the entire public wear masks is to stop the wearer's breath from spreading germs, not stop the wearer from coming in contact with germs. Obviously medical professionals or other people
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by knodi123 6y ago
> using a weak science (handwriting analysis) and then adding ridiculously high numbers to it (1/2.666E21) is a really bad way to decide on this. Ah, but ridiculously high numbers get such a nice emotional reaction from a jury. I on
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by knodi123 6y ago
> The ones that were listed as being actually from Apple and sold by Amazon were no cheaper than buying at the local Best Buy or Target or I think Walmart Isn't that basically a rule for apple peripherals? You can't buy them
915.
by knodi123 6y ago
> will probably get you your pupil distance if you ask. I just walked into a lenscrafters in the mall and asked for mine. Guy measured it and scrawled it on a card. Didn't even have to wait. But if interpupilary distance is all y
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by knodi123 6y ago
> Current welfare wastes a lot of money on admin/staff/fraud investigations and none of that would be needed with UBI Not to mention a lot of other social programs that would be folded into UBI and eliminated overnight. Socia
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by knodi123 6y ago
It doesn't exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, does it?
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by knodi123 6y ago
> We're better off with something like UBI Okay - but are we replacing them with UBI? It feels analogous to ripping a person off of life support while saying "some day, you'll get an organ transplant. I prefer that to kee
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by knodi123 6y ago
I did suggest "have your gun-sat in an opposite-direction orbit to the target". Yes, that would dramatically increase the kinetic energy.
920.
by knodi123 6y ago
Just having a theoretical conversation now, but > antisat weapons that only ever raise or lower their orbits and fire .22s at their targets. raising your orbit is the hard and expensive part, it takes a lot of propellant, which generally
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by knodi123 6y ago
> The Air Force X-37B is not a missile or weapon. No, but that seems a little bit disingenuous. Aircraft carriers are neither missiles nor weapons either. We can recognize things as military assets that are neither missiles nor weapons
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by knodi123 6y ago
A similar principle from the ancient boardgame of Go is, "Your opponents best move is your best move." i.e. sometimes it can be hard to see what the most advantageous move is for you. but if you can see your opponent's most
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by knodi123 6y ago
assembla is full of endlessly frustrating bugs
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by knodi123 6y ago
that's a perfectly valid answer, but it raises the additional question of why actual cheap haircut shops use scissors and fingers instead of a flowbee-style piece of equipment, too. :-)
925.
by knodi123 6y ago
Maybe a dumb question, but I just don't see - from a pure haircutting perspective, how is the scissor approach better than a flowbee? i.e., why not just have regular electric clippers inside the vacuum channel?
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by knodi123 6y ago
lol, and then hacker celebrity Cliff Stoll chimes in with some nice words. This website truly is kinda special.
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by knodi123 6y ago
that has a particularly irritating slant that I've observed in a lot of articles in this space. literally. it's slanted. Drives me bonkers! I spend so much time carefully aligning my documents on the scanner bed , and closing
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by knodi123 6y ago
yeah, my understanding was that most paper packaging these days was lined with a very thin layer of plastic or foil. but "pure paper" is what they're claiming... maybe there's a new tech? or maybe they're doing th
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by knodi123 6y ago
> I'm a fan of using painters tape.... pretty low profile, easily removed, stays on really well The cleverest solution I've seen that is 1.) easily toggled, and 2.) harmless to screens is a coworker who built a little vinyl ve
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by knodi123 6y ago
And here's DH just a couple years ago, > If you ask me in principle if it’s possible for a computing hardware to do something like thinking, I would say absolutely it’s possible. Computing hardware can do anything that a brain could

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