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811.
by phyzome 4y ago
Is that true even of industrial X-ray machines, or are those mostly specific to medical X-rays, where there's a living subject? Fair point on suing people probably being cheaper, though. -.-
812.
by phyzome 4y ago
There are different kinds of nuclear power, and these types of small power-trickle devices have been around for decades. (Mostly in spacecraft, I think?)
813.
by phyzome 4y ago
I feel like an x-ray machine might be a reasonable investment. It's not gonna hurt the body.
814.
by phyzome 4y ago
Speaking of computational cost, I wonder how much electricity all this is using.
815.
by phyzome 4y ago
You have a great deal more faith in the competence, rigor, and patience of the average user than I do. (Let alone the 10th percentile user, which is who would be more likely hit.)
816.
by phyzome 4y ago
At one point I recall a website that would quietly paste a Bitcoin address into the user's clipboard on every interaction. I'm sure this worked reasonably well for them -- who can tell that they've pasted the wrong string of
817.
by phyzome 4y ago
Governments have an obligation to serve all of their citizens, even those on 2G or similarly slow connections. They can't just say "eh, well, we don't want them as customers anyhow".
818.
by phyzome 4y ago
Turns out it's just my main Firefox profile that's kind of borked somehow, or there's a bad interaction with another extension. On a clean(er) Firefox 91 profile I was able to use it.
819.
by phyzome 4y ago
Hmm, the button doesn't seem to do anything in Firefox 91. Maybe it's interacting badly with another extension?
820.
by phyzome 4y ago
This is a very interesting point. Indoors is quite different from outdoors. Not so sure about the disease spread part. Hand-washing was... not particularly universal, not so long ago.
821.
by phyzome 4y ago
Tangential question: Why do humans place emphasis on bathing, when most other animals don't seem to need to do it? (I think in the US we bathe more than we actually need to, but on the other hand I assume that the strong cross-cultural
822.
by phyzome 4y ago
It's pretty clearly necessary to solve. And any kind of energy generation costs money. So I don't think that, unqualified, those are good reasons.
823.
by phyzome 4y ago
Actually, this is something I'm not clear on: Why can't we just add free-spinning "generators" to the grid to contribute inertia?
824.
by phyzome 4y ago
The amount of bad comparisons and statistical sleight-of-hand in this piece is pretty astonishing.
825.
by phyzome 4y ago
That voltage stability is electromagnetically coupled to huge chunks of spinning iron. That's your inertia. It buffers voltage spikes. Solar, and surprisingly enough wind as well, do not contribute to this stability. It's one of t
826.
by phyzome 4y ago
I use XFCE these days. It's close enough to what GNOME 2 was.
827.
by phyzome 4y ago
Ah, you'd better use Chrome, then. They hardly even claim to care about privacy!
828.
by phyzome 4y ago
Right? How could you possibly write a story like this without mentioning whether the kids were 2, 7, or 14? Those would be very different stories from each other...
829.
by phyzome 4y ago
A potentially larger reason is that we've decided car deaths are acceptable -- perhaps because the alternative implicitly might be some kind of impingement upon personal-car-culture, and that is pre-decided as unacceptable.
830.
by phyzome 4y ago
It's the singing arias about it that people are balking at.
831.
by phyzome 4y ago
Some corrections: The HTTPS Everywhere extension is no longer necessary (it's a Firefox feature now, for the most part) and Privacy Badger no longer learns from your browsing by default (as that can itself be a privacy leak).
832.
by phyzome 4y ago
There is a limit on how many hives you can have in an area. Flowers only produce so much nectar and pollen.
833.
by phyzome 4y ago
Yep, that's going to be the limiting factor -- if you live in the country it's easy, if you live in the city it's basically impossible. Cities have other benefits, though -- access to materials, labor, community, rapid health
834.
by phyzome 4y ago
You're correct that many of those things have a lot of oxalic acid, but that domestication often reduces it -- but quite a few of our domesticated crops still have a large amount. We haven't gotten rid of it! The spinach, brassi
835.
by phyzome 4y ago
The way I've prepared is to have extra on hand for my less-prepared neighbors. And the way I hear it, a lot of "preppers" do the same. Strength in community.
836.
by phyzome 4y ago
At my house, we've largely given up on growing "greens" because there are so many edible and tasty weeds that come up all on their own without any help. Our mainstays are chickweed, broad-leaf plantain, violet, dandelion, and
837.
by phyzome 4y ago
Rather than canned goods, prefer dry goods. In our basement we have 5-gallon buckets of lentils, chickpeas, millet, sunflower seeds, pepitas, and various other things. (Also cases of peanut butter, jarred tomatoes, various flours and such.)
838.
by phyzome 4y ago
That estimate seems more than a little high! It depends on what you mean by "balanced diet" (are you going to require meat?) but let's just work an example with sweet potatoes, which are pretty nutritionally packed and can be
839.
by phyzome 4y ago
That's a cute idea, but I wouldn't be surprised if counterfeiting a bill with a matching serial after destroying the original would be given a pass.
840.
by phyzome 4y ago
Given that you thought you were doing your due diligence and had set up billing alerts, but their billing alerts are incomplete -- they should be on the hook to give you a one-time pass on that particular failure mode.

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