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by pomian 5y ago
In spite of every thing, I do not believe its a majority. As with many things, it is the loud minority. We would not have progress, if your statement were true.
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by pomian 5y ago
Brilliant! Now if I could find my old cassettes, with the programs I wrote, and record them onto a computer, I wonder if they would run?
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by pomian 5y ago
or go to HN, and ask.
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by pomian 5y ago
very nicely written history of the toxin, the drug botox, and the principles of canning. related see the article on HN regarding Campbell's soups.
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by pomian 5y ago
This is what the Internet started to do, and seemed to promise. But, as we all lament on HN, the Internet is no longer that which we yearn for. Walled gardens, embedded links, snippets instead of articles, titles instead of papers, ads ads
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by pomian 5y ago
I remember about 10 years ago, a TSA agent screening a WW II vet, with a pacemaker, who was deaf. Agent was yelling and screaming at him - took him over 30 minutes to pat him down, with help, and made him miss his plane. The old guy just s
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by pomian 5y ago
New York City solved this about 30 years ago. From rampant crime, scary sidewalks; to family walkable streets. Surely San Francisco could do it too? (and Portland.)
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by pomian 5y ago
Think of all the paving that prevents natural runoff. The increased human loading due to higher population living pressures = waste water, waste fuels, oils, particulates (dust, tires.)
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by pomian 5y ago
As you have written before, most of us who have worked with environmental issues in the real world, have long tried to 'value ' the environment. Forests, wetlands, waterfronts, etc. Common scenario, let's say there is a beau
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by pomian 5y ago
They do this in Europe in many countries. For example: farmers are paid for damage to crops by boars. money is collected by hunting organizations to reimburse the farmers. Depending on the individual system, the boar meat is sold in governm
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by pomian 5y ago
and none of those tap tap tap buttons, work with gloves.
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by pomian 5y ago
that's very cool. expensive, but cool.
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by pomian 5y ago
Between 1962-1974 were good years. find a straight 6 (amc, ford, chev) or slant 6 (dodge, plymouth, chrysler). those were good motors, in cars vans trucks, economical, and because not 'musclev usually a lot cheaper. since smaller, then
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by pomian 5y ago
that's a brilliant piece of history to save for posterity. also it can lead you to a rabbit hole of further recorded phone discussions with Kennedy about MLK, and so on. what a treasure.
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by pomian 5y ago
Control. It's a business model. just like a power plant, CH4 or coal fired, or nuclear. You build it, then charge for it. Economy of scale should make it cheaper per watt. Also, different customers. decentralised is still a good idea,
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by pomian 5y ago
What a great idea to have a transcription. Much faster to read it. Then, we can decide if we might want to watch, which in this case, definitely yes. Fascinating story. Great summary of geotechnical engineering. There will be much more
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by pomian 5y ago
I didnt mean to belittle your issues. I was trying to respond to op, that this affects the whole province , and is actually serious. I think it will become moreso as we move along. As you say, there is some serious engineering ahead. We we
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by pomian 5y ago
Haha! That part of the highway is about 2500 miles, to the east.
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by pomian 5y ago
Some of that was closed due to huge forest fire, which also caused land slides.
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by pomian 5y ago
If you live in Vancouver and are staying there it is not an issue. But there is an amazing huge scale issue of access to the interior of British Columbia. 2 out of 3 highways from Alberta are closed. That means you have to drive either a
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by pomian 5y ago
Interesting to look up Underground mining. Could try CIM. most underground mines have been using electrically powered machines for years. Some Decades. Air quality underground is big concern.
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by pomian 5y ago
What is ERA?
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by pomian 5y ago
Complex modeling, that runs for days, could have completly messed up results, especially since the old standard of using ECC, is not proof of infallibility. Often those results are in series, so early errors would compound, and it may v
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by pomian 5y ago
It is very reassuring that there is such an agency as the Computer Security Group ( this article). Run by and funded independently by a multi national science agency. Likely without oversight by any industrial organisation (read lobby gr
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by pomian 5y ago
Did you discover anywhere how vulnerable DDR3 RAM is yet? Both ECC and regular? Since this is a hardware induced vulnerability, maybe it doesn't exist?
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by pomian 5y ago
I think the term we are looking for would be, ceiling effect? Just recently saw footage of Fred North* flying into and out of a building, so it must be a negligible effect. * helicopter pilot for movies.
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by pomian 5y ago
Is there some special settings to enable iphone sync with Mac computer instead of cloud?
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by pomian 5y ago
This is very exciting. With open source it may be adapted to many other navigation uses. Tied in with open map sources, then used in sailing, hiking, flying, etc. It would seem endless possibilities. Especially to open all those loc
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by pomian 5y ago
On android, you can keep a copy of Firefox 68.1, ESR, ready to run. If you run in desktop mode, you can use all your favorite old plugins. Then use a Nightly version, for daily browsing, if you are worried about up to date security and f
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by pomian 5y ago
Very interesting study in ancient history of man. but the title confusing and article conclusion too. " They seem to be solely related to hunter-gatherers who lived in southern Siberia and what is now northern Kazakhstan some 9,000 yea

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