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This is a good question, and I'm struggling to find a clear answer. The Asian varieties are generally blight resistant and grow in the US, but they aren't as good for nuts or lumber. The European varieties are slightly less susc
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Rather than trying to create EFB resistant European varieties (Corylus avellana), another approach is to concentrate on developing naturally-resistant American varieties (Corylus americana) with larger nuts. Since these varieties are also
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> The only supported way to stop the beeping is to throw out the current toothbrush head Are you sure? On mine, the manual shows how to turn off the "Brush head replacement reminder": https://www.documents.philips.c
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by nkurz 3y ago
I'll pass it on. I'll note that when I tried to create an archive link with archive.ph, its crawler also reported that it failed with 403. The archive.org (unrelated organization) crawler worked as expected. Which makes me think
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by nkurz 3y ago
It's the blog of a researcher at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He does research on the impact of social media on society. It's a Wordpress site, hosted by someone commercial. I know him, and I'm almost certain no
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by nkurz 3y ago
You make a very weak argument, and are simply assuming the conclusion. What makes it the "best method"? Would it be better to use a seine, or a trap, or hook-and-line? How would we know if there are subpopulations that have diffe
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Here's the full Naess and Mysterud paper linked from the article: Philosophy of Wolf Policies I: General Principles and Preliminary Exploration of Selected Norms https://sci-hub.ee/10.1111/j.1523-1739.1987.tb00005.
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It's not clear to me how you wanting feedback on your site helps the rest of the HN community---it feels a lot like promotion to me. But if you want to proceed, you should heed the other suggestion in the guidelines: "Please don&
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by nkurz 3y ago
From the guidelines you link, it says "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." It certainly sounds like you
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We're addicted to cheap stuff – and Temu knows it(vox.com)
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I'm sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but why is the story titled "Lena"? Not the HN title---I realize that matches the linked article. My question is why 'qntm' decided to give the story that title, wh
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Answering your other question, yes you are shadow banned. I vouched for this one to revive it.
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Good questions. I may be wrong to use the word "offensive", but I'm equally bothered by the treatment of the questions on crime. Sometimes people are simply wrong, and sometimes they are answering the question they think yo
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Thanks for posting. I really disliked this article when I read it earlier. It seems to unquestionably assume that the official calculations reflect reality for real Americans. When 63% of the people being surveyed say that someone on a
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by nkurz 3y ago
Not a typo. It's British slang that has become common enough that some people no longer consider it British or slang: https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/spe...
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Orange wine is made from white grapes fermented on the skins. It's probably past its peak of popularity at this point, but for the last few years it's been the "new big thing" in trendy wine circles. In color, it'
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by nkurz 3y ago
It is an interesting point about Sanders, but are you sure he is the "only ethnically Jewish" senator? This site seems to say there are about a half-dozen other Jewish senators currently serving: https://www.jewishvirt
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by nkurz 3y ago
Wow, thanks for the hint. I presume you mean this case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revlon,_Inc._v._MacAndrews_%26... . That does make it very likely that I was wrong and that is indeed exactly what they typed!
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Sure, and thus the default should be to assume the user is correct and not change anything. But how much chance is there that the user actually typed Revlon with a capital R? I think practically nil. Instead, something was typed that was
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> Edit to add: I'm curious what word "Revlon" was supposed to be. I'd guess "revenue", but who knows. Autocorrect is a disaster for clear communication these days. It's strange to me that it's as
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No? Since the minor can still be prosecuted, it's not true that there are "no repercussions". And since the same prosecutorial discretion applies to the recipient, it doesn't mean that they will be arrested. Mind you,
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> With "strict liability", they must prosecute minors. In the US at least, I don't think this is true. "Strict Liability" means they may prosecute regardless of intent. "Prosecutorial Discretion" is
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(if not clear, this is the contents of Sam's linked Tweet)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37785072
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> I think you are falsely using "tone" to stand in for "you disagree with me". For what it's worth, I think Bayart is right. I agree with most of what you wrote above, but didn't like the tone, so I chose n
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by nkurz 3y ago
HN has a delightfully manual process for such things. You write an email to Dan at <hn@ycombinator.com> and politely make your case. That said, the problem likely isn't the lack of upvotes, but that your submissions were all to
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Are you sure? If you mean that most hardwood in the US was "managed" at some point as a woodlot, then I guess it might be true, but if you mean that most hardwood in the US was specifically planted to be harvested, I'm very
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I wasn't sure if you were making a joke, or pointing out a real difference. Turns out to be a real difference: https://support.claris.com/s/article/ISO-Week-Number-Calcula...
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This is what the year actually looks like (2018)(nrkbeta.no)
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Apparently yes. I vouched for this comment to be able to reply to it.

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