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by matheweis 3y ago
Wasn’t LK-99 a copper doped lead apatite? Is this different?
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by matheweis 3y ago
It’s not just Christmas lights, a surprising number of LEDs off the shelf flicker and strobe in various ways, even expensive ones..
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by matheweis 3y ago
Looks like yoy inflation is about 3.5%, and purchasing age population increase is between 0.5% and 1.5%. What other metrics should one be looking at to push that over 7%?
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by matheweis 3y ago
If Reddit improved their own search, they could probably compete with Google.
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by matheweis 3y ago
I linked to the discussion, the top comment of which is about Seattle. I can vouch from experience that the top comment is accurate.
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by matheweis 3y ago
Lengthy discussion from a few months ago: “'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35595026
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by matheweis 3y ago
Chemicals from tires is also believed to be largely responsible for the loss of salmon in urban streams: https://www.washington.edu/news/2020/12/03/tire-related-chem...
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by matheweis 3y ago
Ah yes, and when they do retire there will be no one to take their place..
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by matheweis 3y ago
Energy is a factor for sure ( most of the article goes into why), and also environmental. Dishwashers (and clothes washing machines) used to use phosphates, but those detergents have been banned for residential use at least in the US.
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by matheweis 3y ago
For a less apocalyptic point of view I’d recommend UW professor and meteorologist Cliff Mass. Fair warning that he’s a bit of a lightning rod for controversy due in large part to his relatively centrist views on exactly these and similarly
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by matheweis 3y ago
> Light bulbs remain consumable items. And worse, they cost ten to twenty times as much as comparable incandescent bulbs, and they honestly don’t even last as long..
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by matheweis 3y ago
> An LED bulb provides the same amount of light as an incandescent while using 90 percent less electricity It’s a nice idea, pretty cool to light the entire house for pennies an hour. > and lasting 25 times longer I refuse to believe
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by matheweis 3y ago
Well, for now, at least, they collect it, and eventually it gets leaked, for example what happened with Toyota: [ Toyota: Car location data of 2 million customers exposed for ten years ] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by matheweis 3y ago
It’s contributed by the same author. Not exactly a duplicate , but sort of?
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by matheweis 3y ago
ACA restricted doctors from owning hospitals under the guise of preventing fraud in the form of self referrals. https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Fraud-and-Abuse/PhysicianSelfRe...
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by matheweis 3y ago
Somewhat, but I suspect that it’s not as bad as it may seem. The pandemic made it clear that there are naturally forming windows of better collaboration around longitudinal time zones. Outside of +/- 2 time zones becomes fairly difficu
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by matheweis 3y ago
Depends on where the data comes from. A bunch of Toyotas have a telemetry module (basically an LTE modem tied into the can bus and the head unit), but the introduction date varies. Tacomas for example didn’t have it until 2020. I’m not sure
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by matheweis 3y ago
Speculating: a few of the related images have electrical wiring in them, could be both a literal interpretation as well as a metaphoric one. https://www.instagram.com/p/CqWMXGLIVEp/ https://www.instagra
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by matheweis 3y ago
At a minimum the author has been a professional photographer for over 30 years, and an art professor for over 6 years. If he believes that the industry needs a reckoning and that this is the best way to accelerate that, I think he deserves
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by matheweis 3y ago
Linked from the author’s instagram: > Fox News: World in pictures: 43 jaw-dropping photos from Sony World Photography Awards finalists https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/wonderful-world-pictures-j... > Image 5 of
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by matheweis 4y ago
Is propane that bad? We have propane plumbed throughout houses everywhere here in the us, and while accidents happen they are extremely rare. I would think that with a closed loop system the risk of a serious problem would be quite low.
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by matheweis 4y ago
> Speech recognition, machine translation, machine vision, for example. All basically solved problems in the last few years. Is this true or is there just a massive gulf in application at the moment? For one trivial example take somethin
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by matheweis 4y ago
Second half of the article is in fact about closing down some of the gaps that enable scam calls.
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by matheweis 4y ago
Complete lack of evidence? There is very solid evidence for substantial harms, not the least of which is death. The only thing that is unclear is the probability of that outcome, but based on the approximate number of publicized deaths it i
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by matheweis 4y ago
Not an economist either so I might be using incorrect terminology, but let me try to explain. Specifically I’m interested in whether everyone is getting wealthier or if some groups are effectively getting poorer. (Ex. If everyone is net wea
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by matheweis 4y ago
It’d be interesting to see this in adjusted real values (ideally asset classes of your choice) rather than proportional percentiles. It’s one thing if everyone is being lifted up because of efficiency improvements in energy, distribution, e
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by matheweis 4y ago
> It implies that more taxes will be needed to pay for infrastructure The dollars that need to be diverted to infrastructure could be invested in education, social programs, parks, and so on. As I understand it, the “unsustainable” argum
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by matheweis 4y ago
> Right now our provider is getting DdoS'ed, so my employer is not reachable. > It got me really curious what the right mitigation to being unreachable is. Sometimes what can be done technically and the best solution are not alwa
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by matheweis 4y ago
> Old watches used radium dials. Some new watches have luminescent dials that contain tritium, also a radioisotope.
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by matheweis 4y ago
A chess app with an engine that learns your weaknesses and uses them against you would be _amazing_.

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