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by mysterypie 5y ago
> not necessarily meant to replace exercise I'm hoping someone can answer a question to which I've never heard a really satisfactory answer: Why does human health benefit from exercise whereas any kind of simple machine wear
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by mysterypie 5y ago
I was wondering why the star has 6 crisp points and found an explanation here (a 3 minute video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVAKFJ8VVp4 The most interesting part of the video explains why even your naked eye viewing t
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by mysterypie 5y ago
Security question: Is a web extension safe if it is installed but if you're not using it at the moment? For example, if I were logged into my bank's website and I did not click the SingleFile button in the extension toolbar, co
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by mysterypie 5y ago
What a great headline: only 8 words, explains the article perfectly, proper English, but playful. It must require a special talent because I absolutely could not have come up with those 8 words.
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by mysterypie 5y ago
Nostalgia aside, there is one item that is at risk of disappearing within a decade or two for which society will be much worse off: that is cash. I mean physical money that is accepted by almost everybody, available to everybody, anonymous,
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by mysterypie 5y ago
Could someone give an ELI5 please? As I understand it, the explanation is that there was a leaf close to him that obscured the face. But what's he saying about parallax? Isn't the preview image that he would have seen on the camer
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by mysterypie 5y ago
Since the original 555 was developed in 1971, I'm wondering if the inventor[1] or Signetics, the company where he worked, would have made a similar physical mock-up in those days before electronic circuit simulation software existed. [
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Is every generation more attractive than the last? – a conjecture (2010)(gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
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by mysterypie 5y ago
> Anyone with more than $600 in their bank accounts I hadn't heard this, but there is indeed such a proposal[1] by the Department of the Treasury dated May 2021. I'm quoting the proposal here from the PDF: "This proposal
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by mysterypie 5y ago
Granted that in this case it was a cryptocurrency account, but I've seen dozens of articles like this over the years in which cryptocurrency was not mentioned or didn't even exist yet.
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by mysterypie 5y ago
What's always missing from stories like this is how the crooks get the money out. Considering that all Western governments have achieved total surveillance on our banking and made it impossible to have anonymous bank accounts, I'd
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by mysterypie 5y ago
If I hadn't been told what this is, I would never have guessed that it's a representation of all colors. I know it's all the colors -- I can zoom in and see lots of different colors -- but why doesn't it look like that
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by mysterypie 5y ago
Today I learned that, “Sucrose is made up of one molecule of glucose and one molecule of fructose joined together.(Wikipedia)”. A basic fact, but I didn’t know that.
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by mysterypie 5y ago
> The faster you go, the less distance there is in front and behind you. At the speed of light, the entire width of the universe shrinks to zero. Since you could get to anywhere in the universe almost instantly by travelling sufficient
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by mysterypie 5y ago
> enrolled 431 adults from the general population with SARS-CoV-2 infection How do you control for people’s willingness to enter a study? If I had a mild case of Covid and no ongoing symptoms, I wouldn’t be too interested in participa
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by mysterypie 5y ago
> We should start seriously considering other paradigms. If diet and exercise are out as explanations for the epidemic, what could possibly explain it? And what could possibly explain all of the other bizarre trends that we have observe
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by mysterypie 5y ago
> "Give me a number, if it is close we can go to the next step." If they reply that they need to know your revenue, expenses, number of sales, etc., before they can even guess at a number, then what? Do you give them your fi
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by mysterypie 5y ago
Studies like this makes me realize that it's impossible to predict trends in society by using logic alone. At the start of Covid pandemic I heard arguments that birth rates would go up (couples at home with plenty of time for sex) or t
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by mysterypie 6y ago
> prediction articles from the past -- I loved the specificity, depth, and unbridled optimism Talking about Wired's unbridled optimism: I recall a Wired article from approximately 20 years ago that predicted that someone born 20 y
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by mysterypie 6y ago
> Infected machines will regularly check-in. These methods rely on domains and static IP addresses. Predictably these domains and IP addresses get identified, burned, and/or seized. Instead of seizing and shutting down the command
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by mysterypie 6y ago
> People will find your information using search engines. How I wish that were the case. Content on a personal website--no matter how excellent--will be invisible and nobody will ever see it -- unless you do heroic SEO or get lucky in
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by mysterypie 6y ago
Not forcefully. He said paid volunteers. Why does the idea of challenge trials cause a furious reaction? Let's compare it to the space shuttle: 135 missions with 2 missions in which everyone died. That's a case fatality rate of 1.
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by mysterypie 6y ago
For anyone like me who needs an ELI5, the best comment I found that explains what this story is all about is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25949669 Hacker News needs a way to mark the best comments when there a
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by mysterypie 6y ago
When the World Trade Center collapsed during 9/11, those buildings must have had hundreds or thousands of safes. Many high-quality safes must have survived the fire and impact. Did anyone try to recover them or were they hauled off in
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by mysterypie 6y ago
Furniture already comes with a covering, but the chemical manages to seep through (I'm assuming it's been applied to the foam itself). For a volatile chemical, adding yet another fabric covering may not help. Maybe a super thick q
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by mysterypie 6y ago
> Lockdown measures had not managed to stop ordinary colds and respiratory illnesses, such as rhinoviruses - which had dropped slightly during lockdown but bounced back soon after. "A lot does come down to their reservoirs and some
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by mysterypie 6y ago
Ross Perot, the only non-Democrat non-Republican presidential candidate in a very long time, appears in the author's chart, but without a rating. It's only a single data point, but it would have been interesting to see how an inde
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by mysterypie 6y ago
You might be right, but where are you getting the 2% from? Are you thinking of just emoticons, emojis, playing card symbols, and snowmen? There's more than that I'd question.
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by mysterypie 6y ago
According to the HTML source, the original site was: http://unicodesnowmanforyou.com/ I wish I understood what the keepers of Unicode were thinking by including so much bloat in a character set (or character encoding). I
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by mysterypie 6y ago
> It was listed as “No HDD” which was visibly a lie because this thing still has its screw cover stickers intact I’m trying to understand why anyone would lie about not having a hard disk. Is there some rule on the auction website th

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