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151.
by mhb 5mo ago
Or because the possibility of profits incentivized invention.
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by mhb 6mo ago
> So if you’re interested in keeping honey for hundreds of years, do what the bees do and keep it sealed Doesn't this make honey somewhat less unique? Aren't there many foods that will keep for hundreds of years if kept sealed?
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by mhb 6mo ago
Yes. Good episode about fake honey and its interaction with almond growing: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/beeconomics-101/
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Craig Newmark on Institutional Maintenance, Giving Away Control, the Internet(conversationswithtyler.com)
2 points by mhb 6mo ago|0 comments
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by mhb 6mo ago
I recall a comment from somewhere that it was cheaper to put up a large monitor over a hole in the wall than to pay someone to patch it...
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by mhb 6mo ago
The point is that, just like journalists if they are paid by the government, the police also have biases regarding which laws to enforce. I suppose you consider the BBC a shining example of unbiased reporting?
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by mhb 6mo ago
> He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. How is he even posing the question and having even a vague idea of what the proof means or how to understand it?
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by mhb 6mo ago
Is it worth it to buy a super-yacht?
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This To That: Because people have a need to glue things to other things(thistothat.com)
5 points by mhb 6mo ago|0 comments
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This Robot Can Beat You at Table Tennis [video](youtube.com)
1 points by mhb 6mo ago|0 comments
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This Robot can beat you at table tennis [video](youtube.com)
2 points by mhb 6mo ago|1 comments
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The Man Growing Organs on Demand(corememory.com)
1 points by mhb 6mo ago|0 comments
163.
by mhb 6mo ago
Also minus the cost of the unsold copies.
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The Wild Story of the Teton Dam Failure(youtube.com)
1 points by mhb 6mo ago|0 comments
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New York's New Budget Will Mandate 3D Printer Gun File Censorware(shootingnewsweekly.com)
3 points by mhb 6mo ago|0 comments
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Guinea worm is about to be eradicated(twitter.com)
4 points by mhb 6mo ago|0 comments
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Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (2018)(texascooppower.com)
53 points by mhb 6mo ago|14 comments
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Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes(construction-physics.com)
1 points by mhb 6mo ago|0 comments
169.
by mhb 6mo ago
It's Brooklyn. It's one room.
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by mhb 6mo ago
And then it's a business that is funded by political patronage.
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by mhb 6mo ago
An expression of surprise and appreciation that the author, an expert in his field, is actually a HN participant.
172.
by mhb 6mo ago
Thanks for the tip off to the Israel angle to this work. I knew it must have been in there somewhere.
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2SLGBTQQIA+ Sub-Working Group MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ National Action Plan Final Report(scholars.wlu.ca)
2 points by mhb 6mo ago|4 comments
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by mhb 6mo ago
I think it's unlikely that many Americans know who Netanyahu is or could find Israel on a map.
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Explanation for why we don't see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails(arstechnica.com)
4 points by mhb 6mo ago|0 comments
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by mhb 6mo ago
Yes. But this is not clever stuff. I'd expect the most simple-minded Bayesian filter to identify it.
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Making Mail Armour(lloydianaspects.co.uk)
1 points by mhb 6mo ago|0 comments
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by mhb 6mo ago
Surely you can steel man this yourself. Iran wants nukes. Iran has stated it would like to destroy the US and Israel. Israel is an outpost of Western democracy and our ally. Iran has missiles that can reach Europe. Iran is an ally of Russia
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by mhb 6mo ago
Long shot, but I'll ask. For a while Thunderbird spam filter will work fine. Then, spontaneously, it stops working and starts showing me many which are obvious, identical junk. And after flagging them as junk, it doesn't seem to l
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Helium Is Hard to Replace(construction-physics.com)
7 points by mhb 6mo ago|0 comments

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