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by kulahan 1y ago
I wonder how big that 1% of wiggle room is. I wish I had some way to conceptualize this a little better. 49% sounds bad, but where do we typically sit? If it's 44%, I don't care nearly as much. If it's 5%, I'm freaking o
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by kulahan 1y ago
I'm not in the market myself; a number of friends buy them on eBay, but I don't know how to differentiate between good and bunk. I would assume that if they're selling 50 of them, though, that it's a good guess. Still, I
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by kulahan 1y ago
I literally cannot imagine why people think being purchased by an incredibly wealthy regime looking to extend goodwill to manage their global image would… destroy you? Like yeah this is definitely a money thing, but to assume day one will b
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by kulahan 1y ago
Probably because it's a completely unrelated question. Height and weight are only similar in that they're both descriptors of something physical. That's... pretty much it. Height is basically immutable. More of it is not bad.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Everything in tech is a depreciating asset. If you're talking about GPUs used for mining crypto, yeah - most people run them well below max load, keep temps stable, and pay close attention to their crypto farm. Buying a used crypto far
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by kulahan 1y ago
Most animals these days are killed as efficiently as possible - a quick stun for chickens, a bolt through the skull for cows, etc. The problem with commercial meat production is pretty much always the mega-farms that have them in horrible
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by kulahan 1y ago
Certainly a huge part of the color choice in the US is to increase sales. A neutral color is just easier to sell. In the Faroes, this probably doesn't matter. Just pulling a guess out of my rear.
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by kulahan 1y ago
I wonder how much you would enjoy exploring old mountain bunkers. I bet there is a TON of that aesthetic. Might be worth a look to see if you can find any!
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by kulahan 1y ago
Surely we can all see the difference between a whole bunch of websites being paid for (lots of ethereal bits) and lots of actual computing hardware? Even if AI dies off, I imagine there are tons of uses for those same farms. Computing power
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by kulahan 1y ago
Exercise can push off hunger pangs for quite a while. Your body wants you to know it’s hungry, but if you’re exercising (read:probably hunting according to your brain), the pangs fade because they would simply be distracting.
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by kulahan 1y ago
I find I’m happiest not eating until about 6 pm. Usually one large meal and one small late-night snack. I’m a little surprised there wasn’t much evolutionary pressure to align eating schedules considering how social we are but meh. Maybe ev
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by kulahan 1y ago
It's a joke about both Frodo the Chimp and the Jane Goodall institute were defending her more enthusiastically than necessary
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by kulahan 1y ago
I think I finally kinda understand what it means when someone says they're personally touched by the loss of a celebrity. I really will miss this lady.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Everyone's fighting for Jane Goodall but Jane Goodall apparently
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by kulahan 1y ago
TIL! I basically don’t drink anything but makgeolli and soju these days, and I’ve never been much into wine, but that’s such a neat approach. Whoever was choosing which wine overproduction to buy was a real monster it seems.
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by kulahan 1y ago
You’re right, but the topic was whether or not it’s implied, and it pretty clearly is.
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by kulahan 1y ago
If you say it? I wouldn't infer that. If the president, media, teachers, influencers, the richest people on the planet, and my parents say it? I probably would. I think it's disingenuous to imply this wasn't strongly reco
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by kulahan 1y ago
Two Buck Chuck was a famously inexpensive and delicious wine from... Trader Joe's, I think? Though last I heard it got moved to Three Buck Chuck. It's my dad's favorite. Incidentally, he once went to a wine auction with a ric
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by kulahan 1y ago
Now that you mention it, I do remember occasionally being able to pick up on a faint red light in the remote control back when I was younger. It was easier to see with a phone’s camera I think?
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by kulahan 1y ago
As I understand it, we’ve already started designing new instruments to see through that dense hot soup. The biggest problem is that it gets massively more dense and hot the closer you get to the beginning (whatever the hell “the beginning e
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by kulahan 1y ago
I’m confused, how would she have seen the IR beam? Wouldn’t she be seeing some other effect, or was this literally so powerful it was in that realm of two-photon absorption
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by kulahan 1y ago
The Catholic Church is still the largest non-governmental provider of healthcare in the world.
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by kulahan 1y ago
I am unironically stunned
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by kulahan 1y ago
I was thinking about that for this scenario. Dude could easily have just paid rent in cash and never shared much (real) personal info with the landlord; literally what happened here is exactly what you posit.
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by kulahan 1y ago
I should've clarified it was an example, not that literally that one highly particular thing is what all American students are bad at, or that knowing .75 == 3/4ths == 75% somehow causally affects your future or whatever.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Sure: https://www.nagb.gov/naep/mathematics.html Additionally: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ 22% of 12th graders are considered proficient in Math. This means: NAEP Basic - Apply single-step perce
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by kulahan 1y ago
I recently read something that stated we've never really had more than 30% of students in the US at a level of mathematical understanding where they can tell that 3/4ths and 0.75 are the same thing, conceptually. I cannot stop thi
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by kulahan 1y ago
The Nords are a pox upon us all. TIL though, thanks - I probably should've been clear I only meant in English :)
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It's clearly not illegal.
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by kulahan 1y ago
It really has nothing to do with capitalism. There are special grants in the US for researching rare diseases, specifically to ensure money isn't the barrier. As an aside because I'm pedantic about the language, apostrophes are n

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