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by pingou 3y ago
"Sergey, you can have whatever bed you want in your room; Larry, you can have whatever kind of bed you want in your bedroom. Let's move on." How is it helpful?
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The ethical drug-dealers of Vancouver(economist.com)
3 points by pingou 3y ago|1 comments
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American cities are suing car manufacturers over auto theft(economist.com)
1 points by pingou 3y ago|1 comments
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by pingou 3y ago
How would that work? Why would a hacker ever enable those features on his local hardware?
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The TikTok exodus: how an Albanian town was emptied(economist.com)
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by pingou 3y ago
Does anymore understand "the cake she made was terrible ;)" as ironic? To me the 3 sentences have all the same meaning, the emoji would just represent the way the person feels about it now. And perhaps with the ;), it could mean t
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by pingou 3y ago
"Every day, 24,000 new songs" "less than 4% of new songs will become hits". I doubt that there are almost 1000 new hit songs everyday.
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Car-Rental Companies Are Ruining EVs(theatlantic.com)
3 points by pingou 3y ago|1 comments
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by pingou 4y ago
By this logic I could say that I am allowed to kill and hurt my dog if I want so, and people who don't like hurting dogs shouldn't have any say into it.
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A drug for Alzheimer’s disease that seems to work(economist.com)
1 points by pingou 4y ago|0 comments
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How the first ever telecoms scam worked(youtube.com)
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Water Saving Shower Head(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Nasubi(en.wikipedia.org)
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by pingou 4y ago
Pierre is an emasculating pejorative name in the US?
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by pingou 4y ago
"Elkin (1949) notes further that among the Pitjantjatjara and other Australian groups, a medicine man would often seek out a colleague for treatment when he himself was sick". I often wonder if magnetizers/Energy medicine hea
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by pingou 4y ago
Don't EV brake less because of regenerative braking?
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Did this man spend 20 years in prison for murdering a man who is still alive?(economist.com)
4 points by pingou 4y ago|0 comments
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by pingou 4y ago
"the price has spiked in the last couple years, from about $1 for 25 liters to $6" How do they control that people don't add water to it (and perhaps some colorant) before selling it?
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by pingou 4y ago
I find it interesting that it always seem to put the telescope near the mouth, presumably it has seen many more pictures of people drinking from a bottle than using a telescope. The telescopes also look pretty weird.
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How MBA-wielding bosses boost profits(economist.com)
1 points by pingou 5y ago|0 comments
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by pingou 5y ago
"Taking into account the carbon intensity of electricity consumed in France (80 gCo2eq/kWh) (source: Electricity Map), this corresponds to saving 1.9 tons of Co2 per year, which is the annual amount of Co2 absorbed by 60 mature tr
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Have economists led the world’s environmental policies astray?(economist.com)
66 points by pingou 5y ago|123 comments
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by pingou 5y ago
According to wikipedia: «Although curcumin has been assessed in numerous laboratory and clinical studies, it has no medical uses established by well-designed clinical research. According to a 2017 review of more than 120 studies, curcumin h
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by pingou 5y ago
Not sure if talking about the same person, but there is Martin Pistorius who wrote a book about his horrific experience, and was even abused by one of his carers while not being able to do anything about it.
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by pingou 5y ago
I often hear that some vegetables (for example broccoli) have a lot of proteins but don't really believe it, as a vegan I find it hard to get protein. Broccoli has only 3 grams of protein per 100g (and 7 of carbs), I don't think i
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Google Code Challenge(foobar.withgoogle.com)
1 points by pingou 5y ago|0 comments
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by pingou 5y ago
I suspect it is more likely that they are pressing the US government to repel the law that give them the rights to access any data of non US persons, so they can continue to operate in Europe. After all, it is not in the interests of the US
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by pingou 5y ago
Isn't it also because vegans are younger on average, so poorer? And young people are more likely to be racialized. Would be interesting to have some stats where they control by age.
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by pingou 5y ago
If I was one of the researchers, I would be very worried about having been associated with this encounter, the next time I see some gorilla.
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by pingou 5y ago
The wikipedia article in french has a lot more information: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

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