paleogizmo

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by paleogizmo 7y ago
Something I haven't seen data on is how much domestic cat predation compares with population change from habitat loss/modification. The population density of some bird species increases in suburban areas where domestic cats are li
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by paleogizmo 7y ago
Price gouging my old webcam at 2x purchase price on Ebay. The free market has to work somewhere in the pandemic, right?
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by paleogizmo 7y ago
Links to XKCD cartoons frequently get posted in the comments. While they might be funny in the context of the conversation, they don't usually add any information, so I assume they get downvoted for that reason.
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by paleogizmo 7y ago
My guess would be (mechanically) rectified ac. I'm not very knowledgeable about electrical machines, but I'd imagine that a generator with sinusoidal flux linkage and commutators would produce a waveform that looks like rectified
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by paleogizmo 7y ago
I never knew there were so many people into notebook/repl style calculators, for lack of an accepted term. How did these never take over from the skeuomorphic style? There clearly seems to be a market below the spreadsheet/Jupyter
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by paleogizmo 7y ago
Coming from a less-than-responsible owner, based on my experience with a well-fed housecat, the cat will definitely make them suffer until they succomb to exhaustion which will take a few minutes. Once playtime is over death is pretty fast,
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by paleogizmo 7y ago
Glue traps are practical (though cruel) if you have property that you visit infrequently so changing out bait on snap traps isn't an option. If that isn't the case there are humane options that are also effective. I used the &quot
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by paleogizmo 7y ago
Paint ticks a lot of nostalia boxes, but it really isn't very good even for the "draw box/arrow/text" on a screenshot purpose that most people use it for. It's annoying that it doesn't have a "paste a
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by paleogizmo 8y ago
I think GP was referring to petty vandalism rather than hyperbolic debate, i.e. the tendency of unwatched drying concrete to attract drawings of cartoon penises and bendy swastikas. There really should be a name for the phenomenon if there
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by paleogizmo 8y ago
AFAIK, it's more than just yelp employees that don't admit knowing about such practices, ex-yelp employees also don't admit knowing either. So far evidence points to yelp extortion being the work of independent scammers. Ho
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by paleogizmo 8y ago
Where do these numbers come from? Google gives me the car being roughly equivalent with a single passenger. If these numbers are referring to a family of 4+ in one vehicle then it passes muster, but that's a big caveat.
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by paleogizmo 8y ago
Like other people have said, there is a balance to be found. There's certainly a middle ground to be found instead of "I don't like the Prius so I'm going to buy an F150." Assuming no significant externalities, the
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by paleogizmo 8y ago
In this case a stiff-bristled 24" push broom works quite well and is cheap, easy and quiet if your driveway isn't too long.
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by paleogizmo 8y ago
I can't remember the source, but I think it relates to misinformation that 80s/90s kids were taught - that we were running out of landfill space. My understanding is that landfills don't use much land per capita and that thei
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by paleogizmo 8y ago
I'm guessing the practical meaning is that the inventor is not required to license the invention "at a fair and reasonable" price but is free to ask whatever he/she feels is appropriate. I could imagine a case where the
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Fritzing gives every appearance of having died(hackaday.com)
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by paleogizmo 8y ago
In all fairness I'd be hesitant to live in Singapore on account of its high cost of living and poor work-life balance. However, there is a method to the madness as far as the legal system goes, which makes it tame to visit compare with
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by paleogizmo 8y ago
Singapore does have many positives (ease of forming a business, low crime, low corruption, a cost-effective single-payer healthcare system, good urban planning, taxing car ownership as an externality). I don't see how these go hand-in-
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by paleogizmo 8y ago
At least some western european nations have anti-hate speech laws, though I consider a country to have "free speech" if individuals are free to criticize the government. What are you referring to?