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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
This is a great series. It's a shame that it didn't get traction here. I was pleased to see that the third paper is about what we can do: "understanding commercial determinants, countering corporate power, and mobilising a pu
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
James Cameron certainly knows a lot about submarines, but if he says something factually incorrect then it’s factually incorrect, period. Carbon fiber does not have “no strength in compression” and it is used in compression in countless app
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
“Strong in tension, not compression” is a meme, and obviously wrong. It is certainly stronger in tension, but it is also remarkably strong in compression. That’s why it’s used - yes, in compression - in modern passenger aircraft. You don’t
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
I personally don’t get takeout or eat at restaurants but there are certainly many cases in the US where it would be (far) cheaper. You say 2 hours for 3 days (so 40 mins/day or about 5h/week) which I think is on the low side. If y
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
There are plenty of these restaurants all around the world, they’re just not cheap. Poke bowls and salads and Sweetgreen are very popular, go to any downtown anywhere. But where McDonald’s uses shelf-stable, globally sourcable bulk material
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
>if you polled any number of therapists what people's hangups are about it would be more likely to be the parents. Everyone I know is an inheritor of some significant amount of their family's generational trauma. I completely a
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
I see a lot of people claiming this sort of thing was “common” (JASON at the Royal Naval College London, MIT’s MITR-II, CROCUS at EPL) but there is a huge difference between these things. Kodak’s CFX was a small device the size of a refrige
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
The intervention that most advocate for is shifting kids’ breaks to be outdoors during peak sun hours. This is free ($0.) You get 100k lux, high CRI, flicker free light with no power or setup requirements. You also get birds, trees, buildin
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
Late reply, but most of the pro-focusing-distance crowd agrees that it’s time in peak sun, plus a fairly small number of daily “reps” of near-far focusing that is sufficient. In other words, kids could spend 99% of the time outdoors just re
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
That's a cool video, but a custom 500W water-cooled setup does indeed strike me as "quite difficult" for your average person. It seems that the LED in the video is the $500 YujiLEDs BC270H, which is 20,000 lumens. In other wo
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
I'm not sure why you're convinced that focusing distance is irrelevant. Everything I've seen indicates that it is the combination of focusing distance and light level. Also... 100x the lighting indoors strikes me as quite dif
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
Ah, you were so close... If you actually read the article, you would find the selection criteria and the explanation for the criteria. First, a preface. The article was published in 2009. At the time, AstraZeneca, the maker of the controver
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
I agree with the author that trying to empathize while listening is a powerful thing, but IMO this format is far too rigid. In general you can spot people doing this sort of thing a mile away and it just feels weird. Really, any sort of int
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
Exactly. And LCSC is Digikey, but far younger (2012 vs 1972), more agile, more vertically integrated, benefiting from state subsidies, heavy automation, most components physically produced nearby, etc etc. Chinese businesses are so impressi
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by owenversteeg 11mo ago
Any broadly used ratings system is total garbage. Goodreads ratings, Google Maps ratings, Amazon reviews, Vivino for wine, et cetera. Even assuming the reviews are real and genuine, most people just aren’t good at writing reviews, and the h
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
Absolutely. A lot of it is upsettingly simple; make a given population wealthy, well-educated, with a strong community and you will slash rates of these issues tenfold. My home state of New Hampshire is one of the wealthiest, best-educated
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
Of course not everything is sponsored by Mastercard. In my small country - the Netherlands - there was a small, unique gay community for many years. It had its own very specific culture. That is dead and gone now; and indeed, its corpse is
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
Among the hundred ninety comments here there are countless claimed examples of modern deviance. To list some: furries, blue hair, Skibidi Toilet, queer culture, protest music, modern hip-hop, violence on TV, kpop, modern protests, online su
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
>This doesn't make much sense. Collagen is just a proline rich amino acid your body makes itself. Also you get the same type of amino acid by eating jello pudding. Sticking it directly into a wound shouldn't make much of a diff
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
There are sterile collagen wound dressings of all types available right now - including in sterile powder form - you can buy them as a consumer or a professional, and they _are_ in use around the world right now, they're just very unev
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
I would actually disagree. A typical characteristic about "food in the place it's famously from" is that the _median_ level of quality is quite high, and particularly in the case of anything involving bread - that it's f
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
The GGP comment is sort of all over the place, but I will try my best (there will be a few simplifications.) Electric charge of anything is both absolute and relative, but we mostly discuss it in a relative sense. In this case, you could ap
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
Anecdata, but putting it out there because HN comments have solved many medical problems of mine that doctors couldn't: I had a wound that wouldn't close and the thing that eventually got it to close was topical collagen powder -
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
That thread is illuminating. I see two serious problems. - - - First, the quality of a modern American education. Let's assume 2000sqft house with 8.5ft ceilings = 17k cu ft or ~500 m3, 1-0.1 μmol/mol ozone produces irritation to
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
>Concurrent dismay and delight. That's exactly what I felt at the time too. To me it was always three-quarters delight and one-quarter dismay. A jangling rain of dancing gold coins is a delightful thing. Sure, now I have to go to th
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
A lot of thermostats already do that. Unfortunately these programs are not terribly popular. People see that the temperature is off and complain. Look up people talking about Nest Energy Shift (different but somewhat similar idea), most com
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
The EU-wide "911 eCall" system records your location at all times and has a cellular modem connected to government systems. It is illegal to disable this system. If you still do so, there are fines, and your insurance is no longer
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
My only connection to the field is that I am a guy who uses zeolites in a redneck way - so take this with a huge heap of salt - but I think this is a three part chicken and egg problem. People don't use MOFs because they're expens
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
Congratulations to the laureates! Well deserved. The article gives a good simplified explanation, here is my shorter explanation: porous materials, like sponges, have a lot of surface area, which is useful for two main reasons: 1) speeding
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
As far as concrete facts go, 1) we know that plastic fabrics (polyester, nylon, etc) generate airborne plastic particles which we then breathe in, 2) they exacerbate certain skin conditions, 3) they start to stink much faster than natural f

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