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by navi0 3y ago
I can’t recommend Waveform Lighting’s 95 CRI products highly enough! The wonderful warmth of incandescent (depending on your color temp prefs) with no wasted IR energy in the form of heat. What’s funny is that your mind will perceive it as
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by navi0 3y ago
So, how long before Cloudflare buys Mozilla or Brave (or builds it own)? Feels like they would be a better long term home than Mozilla surviving off an annual stipend from Google.
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by navi0 4y ago
Just curious, what’s the male:female ratio of the typical winter crew?
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by navi0 4y ago
Yes, for the reason you describe, it would also apply to businesses. It would likely help smooth out some of the market excesses and temper some of the irrational exuberance known to occur. A lot of “investment” is done by zombie companies
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by navi0 4y ago
On #2, the role tax deductibility of interest plays is often overlooked IMHO. The mortgage interest tax deduction (and all deductions of interest) are a massive subsidy to relatively wealthy members of society and which serves to encourage
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by navi0 4y ago
Yes, both can be true; one would expect that to happen over time until supply meets demand. It will do to service/clerical jobs what 90s-10s globalization did to manufacturing.
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by navi0 4y ago
I take no position on whether this is socially desirable or not. Just pointing out the direction of travel.
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by navi0 4y ago
Agree. Remote work during pandemic has shown companies they don’t need legions of mid- and low-tier white collar workers onshore. You can hire top tier college educated talent in the Philippines for $30K/yr. They work US hours and are
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by navi0 4y ago
Yes, I wondered the same. What were the cultural and people problems encountered last time? Were Americans not educated/skilled enough to operate the fab? Did they not want to work the hours necessary to reach required yield thresholds
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by navi0 4y ago
I hope this gets extended into a class about radio frequency communication. Everything here applies to all the wireless gadgets ubiquitous in our modern society, yet many haven’t the foggiest idea how antennas, carrier waves, and modulation
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by navi0 4y ago
The lack of nuance here is troubling and commits the fallacy that birds are a homogeneous population where one bird killed by wind turbines = one bird killed by a domestic cat. From the paper's abstract: "The treatment had the lar
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by navi0 4y ago
Well played
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by navi0 4y ago
…of Anaheim :-)
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by navi0 4y ago
I, for one, would welcome an Apple attempt to create a better digital advertising paradigm focused on users and that respects/protects privacy as much as possible. As an optimistic college freshman in 2000 (dating myself, I know), I ha
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by navi0 4y ago
As one of the authors of both the Zigbee Smart Energy Profile v1 [0] and the pre-IEEE seed that became P2030.5 Smart Energy Profile 2.0 [1], we did anticipate this and included a randomized modifier to any demand response or price signals c
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by navi0 4y ago
…or Earth animal languages. We’ve managed to communicate with dolphins, but only to train them in the concepts we want, and they were smart enough to learn what we meant. But AFAIK, we still can’t understand any wild dolphin pod languages o
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by navi0 4y ago
Not necessarily, but is this research? It looks more like a catalog entry of peppers, which presumably has been done many times before and which is why I was hoping someone could help explain the significance of this paper/post (i.e.,
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by navi0 4y ago
I clicked hoping to see a poster that I could purchase for my wall, haha. Could someone pls explain why this is interesting for HN? Was there a new species added to the canon (if so, this is a textbook example of burying the Lede)? It reads
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by navi0 4y ago
I am not able to verify the accuracy of your calculations, but for comparison, Delta circa 2018 marketed how its entire fleet (flying at a pretty high capacity factor) averaged ~44 passenger miles per gallon. I don’t know how air freight is
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by navi0 5y ago
Setting aside the absurd notion that form isn’t following function in existing aerospace design, can anyone knowledgeable opine on the claims made here about a vulvic craft being more aerodynamic than traditional “phallic” designs?
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Vulva Spaceship aims to counter prevalence of phallic spacecraft(dezeen.com)
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by navi0 5y ago
Seems like a good way to be mysteriously poisoned
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by navi0 5y ago
Is Mozilla’s new strategy to raise its profile and gain Firefox users to become ProPublica? (I’m a FF fan but this seems off brand to me)
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by navi0 5y ago
Another potential solution I haven’t seen discussed much is limiting/eliminating the deductibility of interest. Assets tend to become inflated when interest rates are low or lots of financial leverage is used to acquire them. To counte
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by navi0 5y ago
Paulownia or Empress/Princess trees are one of the other top contenders from a growth/carbon sequestration standpoint[0]. They're one of the only trees that use C4 photosynthesis (more commonly employed by grasses like bamboo
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by navi0 5y ago
The OP Medium post links to numerous sources. I would direct you to Blue Forest's white paper from 2017 that kicked off their founding. It's extremely well written and cited[0]. The coastal redwood forest still needs lots of eco
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by navi0 5y ago
Compared with forest prior to our fire suppression policy (~1930), tree densities have increased from ~50/ac to >300. Many that are clearcut and then reseeded with Doug Fir approach 1000/ac. Historically, low intensity fire on
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by navi0 5y ago
This is an important point to consider. The agricultural studies I’ve seen typically apply 80% compost and 20% biochar to degraded soils because biochar is alkaline. It can also be made less alkaline with better, more sophisticated producti
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by navi0 5y ago
I’d be interested in talking with you about a project I’m working on (forestry-related, not caffeine-related), if you’re open to it. Info@madronus.com
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by navi0 6y ago
“... what if we waged peace as fiercely as we are prepared to wage war?” Bill McDonough (2002) < https://mcdonough.com/writings/waging-peace-intelligent-desi... > If the US spent a fraction of what it spends liter

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