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by kulahan 1y ago
Honestly I can't see a solution beyond concentrating power to highly localized regions. Lots more mayors, city councils, etc. so there is a real chance you can meet someone who represents you. I don't fully believe anything I se
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by kulahan 1y ago
Thanks, not sure how I missed that. Still, a 60% drop in required temp! These gems are truly, truly outrageous.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Fifty Celsius is an insane drop. It sounds like the most important part of the article (and another cool quote) is this: >Until recently we knew how to grow it only at circuit-slagging temperatures in excess of 1,000 °C. So basically, th
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by kulahan 1y ago
So, what, nothing can be trusted ever??
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by kulahan 1y ago
I don't think it's particularly surprising that humans are better at things than robots, sometimes even purpose-built robots. The question is if robots are good enough that the difference doesn't really matter. It's thro
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by kulahan 1y ago
I use circle-K because it's like 3 blocks from me. The self-checkout seems to work fine. I buy alcohol on the rare occasion I drink, and even then the cashier just steps to the side for one moment to check my ID, presses a button, and
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by kulahan 1y ago
Who even reads all of that? Is it just all in there so someone who says "I really care about <extremely rare ethnic minority>, so I want to make sure they're represented", or is someone actually sitting down and reading
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by kulahan 1y ago
For anyone else curious WTH “invisible code” is… > invisible Unicode characters that make malicious code literally disappear from code editors.
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by kulahan 1y ago
TIL old people don't exist and the problems every bus on the planet faces are actually just fake
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by kulahan 1y ago
These are cool. I wonder how much they screw with satellites etc.? How predictable are they? It seems like it's just a deadly, mostly-invisible wall of energy flying around at unbelievable speeds!
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by kulahan 1y ago
I’m not sure if people are aware, but there’s a little-known secret about America not having state-funded healthcare. Did any of you know? Don’t forget this important fact! It’s related to every single American topic.
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by kulahan 1y ago
If you’ve never seen it, it just doesn’t exist. My mistake.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Gotta love these armchair psychologists who have no clue what they’re talking about. You made a whole psychological profile because I… came up with an example. Physically painful to have to converse in scenarios like this. The fact that you
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by kulahan 1y ago
Than spending it upending the entire transportation infrastructure when we have much more pressing problems? Then I agree. If you think buying a whole bunch of busses is going to solve some major problem... I have a bridge to add to your pu
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by kulahan 1y ago
Does anyone else hate busses, and the only response you ever get after mentioning this is "NUH UH BUSSES CAN BE GREAT"? A bus will pretty much always be inferior to a car. Mathematically impossible to run on time. It never gets
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by kulahan 1y ago
When the popular running theme of complaints is "it's impossible to do X because poor people all work 168 hours a week minimum", it's easy to excuse wasting your money to save time.
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by kulahan 1y ago
This is including the Model S Long Range (decent performance, more focused on efficiency) with the Model S Plaid (fastest accelerating street-legal car in the world?). It's really not realistic. The median is $68k, which is probably mu
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by kulahan 1y ago
lol, I was looking at fun cars for my most recent purchase, and Audi E-Trons are available for 50% off if you buy them just a year old. Apparently they stabilize in price after that, but GOODNESS GRACIOUS that's a big dropoff in a sing
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by kulahan 1y ago
That's not how QE works as I understand it. You can observe one entangled particle and know the spin of the other one, but setting the spin of one would simply break the entanglement. It's for receiving information only, not sen
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by kulahan 1y ago
Ah, so that’s how you know they’re all short on time
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by kulahan 1y ago
I'm bringing up obesity because the overarching topic is UPFs, which are a primary cause of obesity, which is the main reason they are bad.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Yes. A garden is a healthy and productive way to spend your free time. If you have land, EVERYONE should be growing some food. What are you suggesting they do instead? Scroll tiktok? >and extreme hours This is not the problem in rural
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by kulahan 1y ago
The news outlets, by and large, are not upset at the idea they need to keep to more restrictive areas (though they've already had their access limited by this administration). The concern is the "you can't report on anything
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by kulahan 1y ago
Denver absolutely has michelin star restaurants right now. It's a food mecca. edit: https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/colorado/denver_1261491/res...
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by kulahan 1y ago
In the Northeast corner of the US, there are tons and tons of bakeries. I was really bummed when I moved away and discovered most of the country just eats crappy bread. Still, almost every grocery store I've been to (even the lower-cos
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by kulahan 1y ago
It doesn't, actually. It says most people who are in food deserts are in urban areas. The vast majority of food deserts, however, are absolutely not in urban areas. Even if it were true, it still only affects 13 million people. There
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by kulahan 1y ago
I know - the extreme majority of them are in rural areas where you'd have to drive a couple hours to get to a grocery store. My MIL lives in one. Guess how they get most food? All that super-cheap rural land.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Thankfully, this is not a binary problem where those are the only two options :)
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by kulahan 1y ago
It's becoming more and more clear that exceeding the speed of light is not possible. This is almost certainly going to be the only real way to make it to distant locations.
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by kulahan 1y ago
I couldn't possibly disagree with your last point harder. What's with people and blindly trusting that the pharma companies found a holy grail medicine and didn't rush it to market well before the necessary research is in?

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