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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
The amount of street lighting is a complex function (varying a great deal in space and time) of local budgets, changes to CFL/ led/ other technologies, and political desires on the one hand for the perception of fighting crime, an
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
Thank you for the link, but there are a few details in the article that conflict with my understanding. Sadly I don't have time at the moment to do the research and write a well documented essay on this subject. I note that that the
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
I and my fellow field biologists have never had a negative reaction to sulfur - but you might be sensitive, and this is not medical advice, etc. It works by slowly reacting to moisture and creating a toxic cloud of hydrogen sulfide near th
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
For many more mesh technologies beyond those mentioned here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network 2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15797079 2004 https://m.slashdot.
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
I am AB+ and CMV- which makes my plasma particularly valuable. I have donated at the maximal rate for decades. However I am in a quandary because they do not test for Lyme or other tick borne diseases and I do thousands of hours of field w
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
At some intuitive level this problem reminded me of other very different puzzles like [1] and prompted me to wonder if as a general rule the best tactic when one is faced by a riddle that appears impossible, is to try to think of solutions
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
Money has a very long history and discussions about money are deeply entangled in bitter and fanatical battles between political/ religious/ philosophical viewpoints. Many of those viewpoints ignore the counterintuitive ways that
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
I welcome other suggestions but for now I rely on Media Bias Fact Check [1] to learn about mysterious news sources (although they don't have entries for the two you mentioned). I agree with most of their assessments for the sources I
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
Make it one that uses AI to improve diction and displays speech to text subtitles (with choice of a second subtitle in another language) on your cell phone or another display of your choosing, and imagine the improvement in communication an
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
I would pay good money for a speech to text plus translated text solution - something like a dual subtitle AR set up. I am probably unusual in that translation is less of a problem for me than accuracy in hearing. I invariably wish the ot
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
This article describes one of several recent camera designs that allow polarized light photography/ videography (see [1]). However Tibbs et al [1] have recently reviewed how in many situations in nature (and in many published field st
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
The worst lost potential in the S9 may be GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, etc). 2018 was supposed to be the year of phones with multifrequency GNSS leading to centimeter accuracy (and more to the point for the average user, much better and faster perf
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
Generally it is best to be explicit in your opinions. I liked the article (longform and all) and don't know what bias you are talking about.
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
I'd appreciate any recommendations for ways to keep up with developments in femtosecond and faster lasers - both in the lab and what is available commercially, or a recommendation for a guru out there who is keeping up with all the wid
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
I chased down the wikipedia pages for some of the unimaginably highly valued meteorites in their pie chart (e.g. 511 Davida - [1]). The high value appears to be almost entirely a function of the enormous size of the larger ones - and these
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
I was privvy to discussions surrounding a search for a university president. One of the candidates dropped out when he heard that the university was replacing a perfectly functional home brewed accounting system with PS - it had brought hi
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
Ancient wisdom and modern science support the idea that exercise and nurturing are highly effecting in fighting depression. I once spent a day in a log cabin splitting wood, dancing and baking bread and thought to myself if everyone in the
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
Better non-paywalled article covering a larger set of new drugs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-08/flu-relie...
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
I implore you to solicit users who will volunteer their spam folders so that you can improve your algorithm. It has always been badly broken for me and many if not most people I know (worst story my lawyer friend who finds important email f
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
Any many other microorganisms including Leptospira. The latter can be acquired through the skin by swimming in the wrong areas in Hawaii [1]. Giardia can be difficult to treat and give you horrible problems for years as happened to one fr
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
As Snopes documents [1] this is a vicious politically motivated lie. You should also read Wikipedia's description of his youth in occupied Hungary [2] and ask yourself what completely unprincipled extremist parties are you uncriticall
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
His essays have been submitted 40 times as HN stories in the last two years (most with more than one person submitting). I have gotten useful insights from all that I have read. If you are going to be so dismissive you might at least give
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
I once believed in open formats and the practicality of switching between closed and open source, but years of experience has convinced me that no two complex applications will ever really be interoperable for the long tail of complex docum
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
and your fidget spinner can function like the spinning tops in Inception to tell you whether or not you are in a dream (so there really is a purpose for those things!)
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
In my life some of the most interesting lasting friendships were made with strangers I met in hostels while traveling and at weddings. But my recent experiences with hostels and weddings and bus stops and pretty much everywhere (even in re
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
I would love to see a system for flagging or downranking posts and/or threads that are beating a dead horse - by somehow recognizing similarity with a critical mass of past posts.
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Unibrowser settles flamewar against those who keep many tabs open :)(authentic8.blog)
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
Your nightmare is already here :) https://authentic8.blog/new-one-tab-browser-unibrowser-aims-...
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
As several studies that looked all the ballots cast in FL have concluded, Gore had slightly more votes than Bush. However ironically if the Supreme Court had ruled for Gore, the selective recount that Gore's lawyers were arguing for w
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
My claim A is that academia/media/wikipedia are the best tools we have for arriving at what will be seen as the truth by the most people for the longest time into the future. You claim that A is false because the three are more l

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