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by nativeit 2y ago
That’s also the materials from each type of tea bag, not a list of materials found in a single bag: > To such end, three teabags of different chemical compositions were used in this study: (1) empty nylon-6 (NY6) teabags (as a model of p
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by nativeit 2y ago
The paper states: > To such end, three teabags of different chemical compositions were used in this study: (1) empty nylon-6 (NY6) teabags (as a model of polyamide), (2) empty polypropylene (PP) teabags, and (3) commercially available te
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by nativeit 2y ago
That said, the paper states: > To such end, three teabags of different chemical compositions were used in this study: (1) empty nylon-6 (NY6) teabags (as a model of polyamide), (2) empty polypropylene (PP) teabags, and (3) commercially a
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by nativeit 2y ago
According to the comment just above you, that’s not the case, it’s talking about plain paper bags that are then treated. They link to an NIH page as their source.
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The Economist Cover Curse(readtrung.com)
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by nativeit 2y ago
> Someone that wants to do some good in the world can have a bigger and better impact by getting paid much more and donating half the difference to charity. [Citation needed] Working for a company that launches satellites that examin
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by nativeit 2y ago
I learned this as a real estate salesperson, some 20-years ago: Take 10 calls to get a meeting. Take 10 meetings to get a contract. Sign 10 contracts to complete a sale. So a thousand calls and a hundred contracts for 10 sales. I didn’t las
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by nativeit 2y ago
Forgive me if I have missed something, but how is a synthetic version of the web (which sounds interesting and impressive in its own right) in any way comparable to a vast, indexed repository of curated and organized technical knowledge sha
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by nativeit 2y ago
I don’t know that being made entirely in the US is necessary, but Ubiquiti is headquartered in New York and manufactures its products in China, Vietnam, and Taiwan [0]. The point, I think, is that TP-Link and its management are largely beyo
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by nativeit 2y ago
Original report (gift link): https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/us-ban-china-... HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42449503
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by nativeit 2y ago
From Nov. 2, 2024 in Ars Technica: > Hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government are using a botnet of thousands of routers, cameras, and other Internet-connected devices to perform highly evasive password spray attacks against u
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by nativeit 2y ago
+1
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by nativeit 2y ago
The first link for “Modelica Language” includes tutorials and examples. Five seconds of clicking around got me to: > Let us consider an extremely simple differential equation: x = (1-X) Looking at this equation, we see there is only on
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by nativeit 2y ago
Scrutiny: noun critical observation or examination
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by nativeit 2y ago
I don’t think their suggestion ever implies that he isn’t.
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by nativeit 2y ago
Wait, couldn’t this same argument be made in reverse? If the bids were open, the competing parties could simply go $1 above the highest offer, which suggest sealed bids are most appropriate to maximize the value. Auctions can’t be fairly
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by nativeit 2y ago
It’s also worth noting that the seafood aisle at the grocery store is essentially entirely the product of slave labor, at least at some point along the supply chain.
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by nativeit 2y ago
Isn’t the distinction sort of moot at this point? I seem to remember things setting into a “birds = dinosaurs” paradigm, although I am almost certainly oversimplifying things.
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by nativeit 2y ago
Does anyone know what they’re referring to when citing the risk of fire as similar to that of “tumblers”? Is this a euphemism for clothes driers? My first thought was rock tumblers, but surely they’re not common enough to be statistically s
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by nativeit 2y ago
We share more than 90% of our DNA with rats. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’d like to suggest there are some qualitative differences between myself and a literal rat.
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by nativeit 2y ago
You mean, something like this? > Forty-eight articles published in 42 different journals were analyzed, with a total of 3655 subjects with 29.51 ± 21.51 years of age, of whom 1990 consumed or were treated with honey. Of the 3655 subjects
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by nativeit 2y ago
I’m not really disagreeing with your broader point, but consumer demand has been tracking toward trucks and SUVs for quite a while now. I would imagine there is a bit of a “tail wagging the dog” situation there, and it’s also probably relev
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by nativeit 2y ago
I assume you’re referring to West Germany? Can such comparisons even be drawn for only half of an otherwise largely occupied nation?
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by nativeit 2y ago
A nerd’s nerd. I am exactly the same, I think it’s because folks like a lot of the people that hang out around these comments are easily excited and self-motivated for the creative, engineering challenges involved, but struggle to produce t
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by nativeit 2y ago
I think that’s maybe reversed. The Social Network was telling a narrative through a contemporary lens, and part of the reason it became a phenomenon was because it hit on something people were already feeling. It may have helped a lot of
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by nativeit 2y ago
I haven’t experienced any server issues, although I purchased it a few days after its launch. I have encountered a number of other problems, however. I cannot use the backspace key in text fields in the EFB, because it still triggers the ca
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by nativeit 2y ago
If you want to dive deeper into that Adobe CC madness, run something like AdGuard on your network and see how Adobe’s telemetry calls are the #1 source of network traffic, even for someone who runs a web dev shop, a HomeAssistant instance t
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by nativeit 2y ago
+1 - This should be the top comment in this thread.
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by nativeit 2y ago
I have volunteered for a number of organizations dedicated to attaining permanent housing and stable conditions in the community. What tends to surprise a lot of folks is how utterly “normal” most of the unhoused population are, how quickly
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by nativeit 2y ago
Yeah, I know several people in my direct family who are prescribed Gabapentin for a variety of reasons, none of whom have any history of addiction. I personally was taking it for a few months to relieve symptoms of a Multiple Sclerosis rela

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