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by nkurz 5y ago
That's too harsh. traceroute66 is (presumably) offering a genuinely held opinion, and it's valuable to know that this opinion exists even if one disagrees with it. I actually thought about his point of view quite a lot today whi
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by nkurz 5y ago
> Obviously we don't want a nuclear war to ever happen. If it does, neither humanity nor civilization will end. Russia could aim all of their nukes at the US and would struggle to kill more than a third of the US population at worst
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by nkurz 5y ago
I read the article as strongly implying that individual Americans are complicit in war crimes in Ukraine, at least to the extent of not reporting them. It's possible the article is wrong or misleading, or that the source mislead the j
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by nkurz 5y ago
This is a strange article. It says some of the "quiet parts" out loud, but I don't know if that's intentional. It centers around a American (retired) military expert who is fighting on behalf of the Ukrainians: The 35-
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by nkurz 5y ago
Here's a recent well-researched post that comes to essentially the opposite conclusion: The basic conclusion of all of this is simple. Nuclear war is definitely not an existential threat to humanity, much less to all life on the plane
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by nkurz 5y ago
> Oddly, I gather rats cannot barf, which is why coumarin works as rat killer. I think your recollection is off by a little. Coumarin is an anticoagulant and damages rats' livers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by nkurz 5y ago
Have you discovered the link to "Lists" at the bottom of the home page? Those two and many others are on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
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by nkurz 5y ago
> For instance, water boils at around 70-80c in Nepal That's not completely false, but it quite misleading. It's true that the boiling point on the top of Everest at just under 9000m is just under 70C. The boiling point only d
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Horse-riding astronaut is a milestone in AI’s journey to make sense of the world(technologyreview.com)
123 points by nkurz 5y ago|79 comments
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by nkurz 5y ago
Nice interview. I thought one of the most insightful parts was near the end: AG: The West is aiding Ukrainians while wiring Russia money every day for oil and gas. MG: Exactly. Biden's speech was not a great democracy speech becaus
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by nkurz 5y ago
RTI: Road Traffic Incident, an updated term for a "car accident" or "motor vehicle collision". From a quick search, I think it's British. As an American, I'd never encountered either the acronym or the expande
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by nkurz 5y ago
I was going to ask you when it is typically harvested, but thought I'd check the page you helpfully linked: Winter wheat accounts for about 97 percent of Ukraine’s total wheat production. It is planted from early September to mid-Nove
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by nkurz 5y ago
Hmm. The page I linked shows Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming with a harvest season extending into September. But other than Idaho (Sept 14) not by much. So technically I might be right, but only in the same way
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by nkurz 5y ago
> Winter wheat, which would be harvested this spring Since this is a site that cares about accuracy, I'll mention that while winter wheat is planted in the winter, it's harvested in the summer or fall. It doesn't grow fa
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by nkurz 5y ago
All true, but I think you might be misinterpreting this scene. While it's possible Gwern is accidentally exposing his underlying racist beliefs, my guess is there is another level here. I presumed that a "pull request" that
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by nkurz 5y ago
Readsboro, down in the balmy south.
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by nkurz 5y ago
I think you misunderstand what [flagged][dead] means on HN. It typically means that other users have flagged the submission, and once a certain small number have done so (2? 3? something like that) it is marked as [dead]. At this point is
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by nkurz 5y ago
You have a good point about carry-over accents, but since she's Canadian she might take offense that you think her accent is clearly from the USA: "Rochelle Wabunn Bragg is a band member of Muskrat Dam First Nation and currently l
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by nkurz 5y ago
For those less comfortable reading Oji-Cree, CBC has helpfully published a translation in English: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/first-person-roch...
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by nkurz 5y ago
I glanced at the history and noticed you also submitted this same article 3 years ago. That time it got no upvotes. Why did you decide to submit it again now? And any guesses as to why it "caught" this time?
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by nkurz 5y ago
I don't think this is true. While it's possible that coffee can raise cholesterol levels, it doesn't actual contain any. Here's what the top result off Google for [coffee cholesterol] says: Though brewed coffee does n
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by nkurz 5y ago
1) The town where I live in Vermont does not have a high school, and instead offers a voucher that pays for high school students to attend elsewhere. This can be at another public school, either in Vermont or in nearby Massachusetts. Or i
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by nkurz 5y ago
Good article. Some discussion from when it came out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17275612
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by nkurz 5y ago
There's a clearly stated description of the "coding error" from the middle of the article: The problem stemmed from two questions the CDC asks of states and jurisdictions when they report fatalities, according to a source fa
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by nkurz 5y ago
No, I don't think that many businesses have insurance that covers shoplifting. I don't know the norms for everywhere, but based on personal experience running a small retail business in the Bay Area, it's not common. I gues
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by nkurz 5y ago
https://archive.is/WlnP3
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Growing up in Another Appalachia is more relatable than you think: Neema Avashia(salon.com)
1 points by nkurz 5y ago|0 comments
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by nkurz 5y ago
> I live in southern Vermont and have a lot of dead ash trees. I'm also in Southern Vermont (Readsboro) and have mostly healthy ash trees. Emerald ash borer is presumed to be in the area, but no observed evidence yet right where I
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by nkurz 5y ago
I've used lots of electric broilers, and a fair number of gas broilers, and have never found one better or worse. I would have said that the main difference is that it's hard to get a dry heat with gas, and hard to get a moist he
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by nkurz 5y ago
To prevent Google from tracking purchases. Google scans all email that passes through its servers and parses out who bought what. If the information isn't in the email, it makes it harder for Google to do this. Presumably Amazon w

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