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by nkurz 1y ago
I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for, but Shakhashiri's "Chemical Demonstrations" series includes Nitrogen Triiodide among many other things: https://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Demonstrations-Handbo
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To create your own, go to the URL, and prepend archive.is/ Thus for this one, use: archive.is/https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/03/22/family-secrets-jfk-files-cia-assets&#x
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So you don't miss it, Tupy's full paper "Superabundance Unbound" is linked near the top of the blog post: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/65805dd44f3eb55e523b3...
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It's the English translation of the German standard for energy efficient buildings "Passivhaus": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house
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No, I don't think you are missing anything. As an English speaking American, it just strikes me as a strange name that I wouldn't immediately associate with a search engine. Note for example that the parent spelled it wrong desp
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Thank you for posting your reasons for flagging it! I'm on the exact opposite side. I thought it was a decent article, flawed but worthy of discussion. I was surprised to see it flagged dead, so I vouched for it. When this didn&#x2
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by nkurz 1y ago
Good points. I also heat with wood in a northern clime, and this seems accurate. I'm a little confused by the units and the costs, though. I cut my own, so I'm not sure how much a tandem truck holds, but am I right that your $1
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by nkurz 1y ago
Sure, that sounds like a great target to aim for, and I think Pinker would agree. Private schools like Harvard should be able to run their school however they want, as should Bob Jones, or Reed, or Hillsdale, or whomever. They should all o
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https://archive.is/3NdiV If you are the sort to read comments before clicking, this is Steven Pinker's long essay on Trump's recent "assault" on Harvard. Pinker is a professor there who has been quite c
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by nkurz 1y ago
Maybe you have more direct experience with this than I do, but I'm not sure I agree. I don't follow the lifestyle the author describes, but I do live in an economically and culturally comparable town in Vermont that's much s
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by nkurz 1y ago
Even beyond the comments, this article was immediately flagged dead despite many upvotes. Then enough people vouched for it to bring it back. I don't find it controversial or inappropriate, but many people apparently do. If you (gene
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by nkurz 1y ago
Coincidentally, there was an interesting article about the relationship between Massena and their power company here a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42992032 They have a publicly operated utility that
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by nkurz 1y ago
> One 10hr shift is ~30% of what you need. So multiply that by 3.3 and... oh hey you're working nearly 40hrs a week to afford your impoverished lifestyle in the middle of nowhere. Are you possibly confusing "per week" with
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by nkurz 1y ago
The 2014 documentary about his life "The Salt of the Earth" is one of the best and hardest to watch films I've ever seen: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3674140/ It's a rough watch, but worth it
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by nkurz 1y ago
I'll take this opportunity to mention that I don't think the DHS press release should be taken as "authoritative" on anything other than the government's intentions. As you point out, the administration is being wo
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The best source I've seen for understanding the underlying power dynamics at play is the DHS's Press Release: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05/22/harvard-university-loses... Here's the beg
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by nkurz 1y ago
Most of the time it means that they are putting the plate on a 1988 vehicle or that they were born in 1988. But it's being denied because H is the 8th letter of the alphabet, and thus 88 might be construed as HH, which might be constru
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by nkurz 1y ago
It may be worth mentioning that NEMS and AROME are only available for parts of Europe. I'm willing to believe they are better, but here in Northeastern America I typically find that NAM is the best I have available for 3-day, and GFS
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Underlying paper (referred to but not linked from the WSJ article) is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17866
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Wouldn't the simplest explanation be that someone who had direct access to change the system prompt changed it alone? Would Elon be able to change it himself directly? If not, assuming he ordered someone else to change it adds an ent
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Yes, considering that it seems to be the semi-official blueprint for the current US economic strategy, it's surprising that it gets so little attention: https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay&
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by nkurz 1y ago
It gets posted here often, but I think this Tracing Woodgrains article goes a long way to explaining how we got to where we are: https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-... If the "quick overvi
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Yup, and incredibly they are able to do this on standard RAM by "intentionally violating the timing parameters": Processing-Using-DRAM (PUD) leverages the inherent analog operational characteristics of DRAM to enable highly paral
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The comment I referred to is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881065#43882771 . It links to https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9403981/ . Looking at the abstract now (I hadn't before) it c
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I appreciate the attempt to ground the discussion in research, but as MillironX pointed out elsewhere, ivermectin turns out to be less effective on Cochliomyia hominivorax (which the article is about) than on Chrysomya bezziana (which the p
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Deadly Screwworm Parasite's Comeback Threatens Texas Cattle, US Beef Supply(bloomberg.com)
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Or alternatively, their investments from one account produce $100K per year, their investments from another account (non-Federal grants) produce an unknown amount, and they have a job (tuition payments) that produces another unknown amount.
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The numbers you are suggesting do indeed seem reasonable, and if those were the overheads being used, they would probably be justified. But I think current overheads are often much higher. Here for example is a recent article saying that
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I don't know the details well enough to pinpoint the problem, but the fact that StopTheMadness is able to redirect consistently and the Kagi extension wasn't makes me think there is something they could fix to make it work better.
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I think there might be more to it. While it might just be me, I think Kagi could use some improvement here. I've been using Kagi with Safari on Mac for about a year, and never got the search extension to work consistently. It would

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