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by lapetitejort 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillococcinum > There is no compelling scientific evidence that Oscillococcinum has any effect beyond placebo. Does not sound promising
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by lapetitejort 6mo ago
Can you give an example of a well-known homeopathic and/or folk remedy that has been adopted into regular medicine, maybe in the last 20-50 years?
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by lapetitejort 6mo ago
Some other historical street view websites: https://yesterdays.maprva.org/#11.5/37.5438/-77.4392 (specific to Richmond, Virginia, however deployments for other areas are in work) https://pastvu.com&#x2F
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by lapetitejort 6mo ago
Before focusing on rats, who are too light to set off mines and live long pampered lives, I would focus on the 73 million pigs and 87 million cows in factory farms [0]. [0]: https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/us-factory-farm
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by lapetitejort 6mo ago
Sounds like the obsession of reinventing trains and trees. Surely training a rat is cheaper than a portable real-time NMR device, right?
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by lapetitejort 6mo ago
As a naive tourist, I did not know this. I drove up to Sequoia National Park in March 2011 hoping to camp. The roads were plowed, with eight feet tall snow on either side of the road. I drove up to a visitor center and asked where to camp.
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by lapetitejort 6mo ago
The observer effect prevents Booson particles from traveling towards the observer
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by lapetitejort 7mo ago
Public transportation solved this before cars were commonplace. Implement ubiquitous and free public transportation in every urban center (where 80% of the American population lives [0]) and you'll save billions from not having to manu
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by lapetitejort 7mo ago
I just visited the closest one to me during lunch. There was just a single dot in the middle of a huge county building. I had to walk through security to get there. I asked if there was a payphone around and the guard said no. Luckily someo
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by lapetitejort 7mo ago
You might be interested in Poe's Law [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by lapetitejort 8mo ago
When has a state AG successfully cancelled a merger? Did any state try to prevent Microsoft and Activision's merger?
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by lapetitejort 8mo ago
Yesterday I had two hours to work on a side project I've been dreaming about for a week. I knew I had to build some libraries and that it would be a major pain. I started with AI first, which created a script to download, extract, and
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by lapetitejort 8mo ago
All of this without pack animals or the wheel.
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by lapetitejort 8mo ago
Fort Pulaski in Savannah, Georgia also has cannonballs embedded in the brick walls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Pulaski_National_Monument
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by lapetitejort 8mo ago
> Have you thought about extending the public site scope beyond insurance maps? The maintainer is generalizing outside of Sanborn maps [0]. [0]: https://www.ohmg.dev/
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by lapetitejort 8mo ago
I do not think driverless will solve the main transportation problem we are dealing with as a society: we are giving up more space for cars, space that humans cannot use. We build more highways, widen roads, increase speed limits, and expec
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by lapetitejort 8mo ago
They released a map [0] of their heating network. Maybe you can find your house on it? [0]: https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediu...
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Old Insurance Maps – Georeferencing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps on Modern Maps(oldinsurancemaps.net)
75 points by lapetitejort 9mo ago|23 comments
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by lapetitejort 9mo ago
Sanborn Fire Insurance maps document cities in extreme detail. Not only are the positions and shapes of buildings accurately mapped, but also rough outlines of the rooms, their construction materials, and even small details like if the buil
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by lapetitejort 9mo ago
Hence the last sentence of my post: > Advocate for safe biking infrastructure in your area. We built dangerous highways. We can build bikeways as well.
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by lapetitejort 9mo ago
Bikes without software will be around for the foreseeable future. They're the cheapest and most plentiful version of bike. In the unlikely scenario that all bikes somehow become electric, old bikes are much easier to maintain than old
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by lapetitejort 9mo ago
Bicycles do not have software to install a kill switch. They do not have license plates to be read by surveillance cameras. They do not require costly insurance to legally ride. They are not powered by fossil fuels. Buy a bike. Learn to mai
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by lapetitejort 9mo ago
Doesn't look like anything to me
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by lapetitejort 9mo ago
How about a nice trip on a train?
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by lapetitejort 9mo ago
Call me a mathematical extremist but I think pi should equal 6.28... and tau, which looks like half of pi, should equal 3.14...
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by lapetitejort 9mo ago
Since then a million other "million _____" websites popped up. I saw a site selling one million text lines for $1 apiece. Last I saw they sold one line, now the site is gone [edit: INCORRECT]. Found the site: https://ww
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by lapetitejort 9mo ago
And the other side teases prosecution and never follows through
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by lapetitejort 9mo ago
Point and clicks with no internet connectivity. Practice unloading and reloading SD cards in came someone comes to destroy evidence
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by lapetitejort 9mo ago
I had a fridge slowly die on me. Previously I had hand-picked an amazing set of washer and dryers that I'm sure will last me decades. Then I searched for the perfect induction stove. Then a microwave with convection heating. I paid mor
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by lapetitejort 9mo ago
A local window blinds company ran an ad before a movie. Clearly AI. Besides the obvious fake humans, how can I trust that the AI blinds in your ad match your real product?

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