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by kurthr 3y ago
The mercury is denser than his hand but strangely, it doesn't go through? Similarly, it also doesn't go through salt grains until you stir them due to surface tension.
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by kurthr 3y ago
I walked across a street with a light I had to wait for starting in 1st grade. I was lucky it was less than a mile away. By 4th grade I had to walk most of a mile to a bus stop. By 6th grade I was riding 4 miles to junior high, then 5 miles
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by kurthr 3y ago
I feel like that's more true of ex-urbs. I lived in sububia and there were creeks, schools, pools, malls, a graveyard, train tracks, sport courts and churches, all within a 15-20min bike ride. Half of that was within a 15-20min walk, i
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by kurthr 3y ago
For all that is good, do not do this on an account that does anything else! Run it in the cloud, if you can on a separate IP, and stream it from there.
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by kurthr 3y ago
Yes, but annual earnings growth is only 5% nominal. Real is below inflation.
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by kurthr 3y ago
It's still less than half Lion and not quite as good as current LiFePo or NMC. Hope springs eternal.
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by kurthr 3y ago
It's majority suicides. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-...
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by kurthr 3y ago
Good thing that plot didn't show the US on it. Firearm deaths are more than 6x higher than any other at ~30pm annually.
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by kurthr 3y ago
Yeah, strangely google (and more local tools like Openrice or Tabelog) is much better for finding good spots. Locals are more discerning, but if you don't speak the local language it can get difficult. Travelocity is almost the opposit
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by kurthr 3y ago
It's sacks all the way down.
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by kurthr 3y ago
I had something similar happen. I'm fine with a blank screen and waiting 5-30sec. I don't want intrusive ads before during and after a 5 min video on water heater maintenance.
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges(arstechnica.com)
163 points by kurthr 3y ago|58 comments
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by kurthr 3y ago
Failing to work with police is a bit different. To be fair VW say they have a process and it wasn't followed (by them), which may well make them liable or not.
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by kurthr 3y ago
I think I understand your comment, since iMessage isn't SMS, but defaults to SMS for those not using it. There are opensource self hosted solutions like BlueBubble that allow reasonably secure communication through iMessage to the othe
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by kurthr 3y ago
You are correct! It was the Neutral Buoyancy Lab. I only visited once.
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by kurthr 3y ago
Yes, they are providing the "experience of open space" :) And apparently there's nothing funnier than an embarrassed astronaut.
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by kurthr 3y ago
There's a giant swimming pool in Galveston which has a full underwater replica of the ISS for astronaut training. There are other scuba divers that work with the astronauts when they practice maintenance. One of their jobs (like the in
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by kurthr 3y ago
Nice description. Completely free markets are rarely efficient, but well regulated ones can be. All sorts of risks and externalities can substantially increase transaction costs. Crypto currencies show that even the most basic (store of val
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by kurthr 3y ago
Remember, that's 100% efficient continuous 100MW. Realistically, you're looking at 3-5x that for peak power. With the current 10m drop, the head is too low to have anything like an efficient generator. Even the full 86ft drop woul
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by kurthr 3y ago
I did it myself, it's about 10MW continuous assuming there are 40 ships each taking about 3000 seconds to traverse the locks. Each lock is ~30x330x10 cubic meters or 1Billion liters (conservatively). A Watt is 1 meter(lift) x 1 Newton
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by kurthr 3y ago
Because the locks were built where they were over 100 years ago without the need for any pumps since there was an existing lake. The number of pumps, installation time, and power needed to run the locks (in both directions since the middle
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by kurthr 3y ago
Well, there is a bus stop 5 blocks away under the I10 overpass, which has service nominally once an hour. Maps says that it will only take 5 hours to get to your job in Culver city. Good thing you don't need parking any more.
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by kurthr 3y ago
Or (shudder) have more or less than the requisite single phone.
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by kurthr 3y ago
A co-worker's spouse took a job at a company like that. I heard about it at a company dinner. I knew that they were quite religious so I had to ask how that squared, and the response was, "Oh, I would never use the product".
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by kurthr 3y ago
If you're doing anything more than 2-4 layer PCBs, I'd make one more caveat... through-hole-via! It makes getting to test points much easier from both sides of the board, and if you're using pogo-pin testers, helps align the
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by kurthr 3y ago
It's worse than that as long as they can loan you money to cover this weeks debts at high rates and soon enough garnish all of your UBI. It would end up a wealth transfer to payday "financial institutions", if you allow debt.
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by kurthr 3y ago
Remember, the insurance companies are HAPPY to pay higher prices (in fact they have forced many small ObGyn into more expensive hospital practice) as long as their competitors do too! Health Insurance companies grow their bottom line by gro
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by kurthr 3y ago
The combination of paying of pocket or face horrific medical consequences along with ERISA limiting legal claims makes it unlikely the insurance companies face any consequences to their actions. Unless you're a wealthy litigation attor
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Getting Accelerated FDA Approval Wrong(science.org)
2 points by kurthr 3y ago|0 comments
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by kurthr 3y ago
2500 fewer units, no affordable housing, but more profits for builders and higher taxes for the citizenry because utilities/roads can't be sustained. If that's the YIMBY position, they might as well just say they're fund

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