photochemsyn

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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Uber only still exists because the Saudis dumped $5 billion into them.
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
According to the article, FAANG is an obsolete acronym, it's now MAMAA...
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Well, here's how at least one tax avoidance scheme works. eBay and Amazon deny wrongdoing, though: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/amazon-ebay-face-scrutiny-over-vat... Here's another nice example: a 19-yr career of se
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
As the article notes: > "In laboratory experiments, cowbirds and other brood parasites that spend too much time with their foster families end up learning their host species’ songs, picking up their behaviors, and attempting to mate
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
It's been common in academics forever. A 'staff researcher' is someone who is typically affiliated with an 'organized research unit' which is basically a facility that a lot of 'principal investigators' u
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Creepy ol Pierre Omidyar outfit ebay at it again... > "James Baugh, of San Jose, California, who was eBay’s senior director of safety & security, and David Harville, of New York City, was eBay’s director of global resiliency, ar
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
It's really kind of hilarious because her intro has lots of material that could refer just as well to discussions about the online security meaning, like: My subject today focuses rather on the absurdly heated discourse that invariabl
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
I researched your claim briefly. Doesn't seem very well-supported. https://japanpropertycentral.com/2020/02/apartments-in-tokyo... > "Just under 40% of all new apartments were in the 70 sqm (753 sq.ft
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
This should generally hold for housing as well. Even though land is finite, we can build upward, so each individual new unit uses a negligible amount of land. Perhaps the author has forgotten that the land base required to support a given
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
I have to say, solarpunk has always seemed like a silly concept. Where's windpunk in this picture? The long-term energy picture for civilization ultimately has to embrace the closed-loop model, in which exhaustible resources - ancient
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
I think the concept here is more "Trojan Horse for implementation of Chinese-style mass surveillance" than "well-intentioned effort aimed at protecting children". The correct criminal approach for defeating child abuse r
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
For the ultimate in retro digital calculator watches: https://watchranker.com/best-calculator-watches/ 10-year battery life! Far superior to the Apple Watch and similar knockoffs.
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
You mean, this? https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac6615 >"Since the interferometric measurements are often incomplete in the Fourier domain, the inverse problem of reconstructing a
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
I think the slow exercise routine was more important, but I'd always take supplements after exercise, with a meal. The gel cap powders seem better r.e. absorption than the solid pills (the supplier I use is Jarrow, they have various m
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Interesting stuff. I suffered from acute lower back pain and fairly severe tendonitis for a few years and taking NSAIDs (ibuprofen, etc.) certainly didn't help much other than to relieve symptoms when they got particularly bad. That
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Well, the FDR presidency is kind of instructive. FDR succeeded in creating things like Social Security and various New Deal programs that definitely benefited poor people and bolstered the middle class (Rural Electrification and Homeowners
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
National referendums on major political issues where the vote goes direct to the public would be a welcome addition, too.
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
One general advantage of community colleges is that the instructors often have closer ties to industry (and more industry experience) then you might find in many four-year colleges. This means you'll hear about things like devops pipe
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
North Face is a classic example of neoliberalism run amok. They used to manufacture their products in a Berkeley factory, but that was shut down in 1993 as neoliberal trade deals opened up access to low-wage factories around the world. The
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
If you look at the last ~40 years of government policy in the USA, and focus on where the Republicans and Democrats are in alignment (neoliberal trade policy & outsourcing of manufacturing, steadily increasing military-industrial budget
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
"...he described scientists and mathematicians as the most dangerous people on the planet, because they carelessly put destructive technological power in the hands of politicians." This is indeed true. There's another side
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Closed-system farming, where basically everything is recycled - nutrients, water, biomass (except what goes onto people's tables) - is theoretically possible and this article describes what looks like a successful system. This is also
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Why do people have favorite languages? Programming languages are more like tools than say, video games or novels. If someone said they love screwdrivers/impact drivers and hate hammers/nail guns, well... okay. You can build eve
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
One of the most interesting Feynman lectures is on lightning and electricity in the atmosphere: > "The current in a lightning stroke is about 10,000 amperes at its peak, and it carries down about 20 coulombs." https:/&#x2
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Just look up ACLU's response to the federal government's effort to describe environmental groups like the Sierra Club as "mainstream organizations with known or possible links to eco-terrorism" in the Bush-Cheney Era, c.
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
I mean, intercepting private business communications about say, factory openings or closings, would put the people with that information in a position to make large amounts of money by buying or selling property in those areas. There are d
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
> "α-Linolenic acid (ALA), (from Greek linon, meaning flax), is an n−3, or omega-3, essential fatty acid. ALA is found in many seeds and oils, including flaxseed, walnuts, chia, hemp, and many common vegetable oils." (wiki1) &g
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Conceptually, this is just about that warming a body of water from above tends to result in a thin layer of warm water sitting atop the larger colder body. Anyone who has gone swimming in a temperate lake in summer will experience this; th
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Those who refuse to look through telescopes (because the evidence might upset their treasured notions of reality) have always been around. I wondered whether that particular story about Galileo's contemporaries was apocryphal, but it
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
I basically eliminated almost all interaction with social media some months ago ... and all this woke conflict stuff, it just goes away . You start noticing other things - people in general are not concerned about any of it, they're

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