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by rapjr9 4y ago
This stuff helps get rid of the oil that causes the blisters so it heals faster, Tecnu: https://smile.amazon.com/Tecnu-Extreme-Removes-Poisonous-Itc...
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Try the Android app "Sleep as Android". It is free and it works very well to track your sleep, which can be the basis of making changes. It can use a phones accelerometer to track breathing rate, use the microphone to record sno
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by rapjr9 4y ago
I've had a vague suspicion that after 2021 companies/stores/landlords when faced with fewer customers are raising prices. This is counterintuitive since raising prices should drive away even more customers and low profits fu
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People who work in the city may live outside the city, so I think the way the city is planned (or not planned) would make a difference. So you might look for books on urban planning.
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Here's a related question, can an analog computer be Turing complete?
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So give Ukraine a few nukes-on-missiles and they'll be on a more equal footing with Russia and the entire nature of the war will change? It obviously is an escalation, but an escalation that seems likely to de-escalate the entire war.
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They do, I notice the effect in my area every year. In summer I can't hear the traffic on a highway a mile away, in winter I can hear it. Insects and birds make noise in summer also, which raises the background noise level.
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I helped design and have manufactured a smartwatch style health tracker as part of a research project: https://amulet-project.org/ It cost somewhere around $200-$250 per watch in a quantity of 150 five years ago to have the
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by rapjr9 4y ago
So I've been wondering when the next booster shots were going to be announced. Seems like right about now is when the previous ones would be starting to lose effectiveness. Where is the scientific evidence that a once-a-year shot is g
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I wonder if lack of ECC is a form of planned obsolescence. It makes the computer cost less, and it insures the computer starts failing after a while as the OS and files get corrupted, making the owner want a new computer. More profit due
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by rapjr9 4y ago
If there is an actual set point theory I didn't learn about it from this article. What are the metabolic pathways that alter the set point? How do the recommendations affect those pathways? What actually is the set point? Is it one
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A worldwide pandemic is a major shock so it is not surprising that much of the world is suffering from PTSD. Perhaps that explains why all the economic fallout of the pandemic seems to be occuring now rather than during the first two years
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So how difficult is it to destroy Roman concrete? If we start using it to build things are we going to be stuck with those things for 2000 years?
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Why are car companies building chargers? Shouldn't it be the electric utilities doing this, just like the oil companies build gas stations? Seems like it could be a way to finance the increased grid capacity we're going to need.
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So does this mean the British Police will be screening financal industry executives who deal in derivatives and credit default swaps for signs that their gambling addiction is driving financial crime?
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This graph is interesting: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Moores-law-no-longer-valid In terms of how much processing a single CPU core can accomplish (single thread performance) it plateaued about 15 years ago. So if your co
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Since you often can't return a product that has been worn next to human skin perhaps the companies selling bras have realized that being able to sell more bras until a person figures out the right size is profit? Just one example of w
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Tiny EV's are the future.
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So where is the National Guard and FEMA? Isn't this the kind of situation FEMA was created for? https://www.fema.gov/about/organization/tribes Why hasn't Biden declared a Presidential Emergency?
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This does not sound unique to Southwest, I imagine all airlines have to do this to get people staged in the right places. Which means our air travel system is basically a just-in-time system and as we've learned JIT systems break quic
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Seems like the solution de jure to problems for both government and business these days is to dump the problem onto the citizens. How about some excellant analysis and creating regulations and laws with money for enforcement to solve these
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I thought the US Constitution prohibits laws that target only one person or corporation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder https://www.heritage.org/the-constitution/report/can-co
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by rapjr9 4y ago
A military contractor I worked for had three different ladders employees could climb: One was the usual engineer/developer-to-manager route. Another was becoming a consultant and later a primary engineer who remained an engineer, but
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Have there been any scientific estimates of how much planned obsolescence costs the world? Planned obsolescence is basically the definition of unsustainable and makes the climate crisis worse in a not-very-visible way. There do seem to be
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Why do the two plasma rings halt when they meet in the center? If they are just made of ions I'd expect them to pass right through each other. Is it because they have some difference in magnetic field polarity? Is it because of the
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Don't forget all the reports about wide spread use of steroids among the police. That is probably driving part of the demand that makes steriods more widely available.
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So what happens if a cosmic ray hits the Ancilla chip? The whole computation has to start over? And that still happens every 10 seconds? So an Ancilla chip for the Ancilla chip is also needed?
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Acadamia often makes up inflated titles for themselves in several ways. A professor starts an "institute" which is just a banner slapped on their work, and now they are the "Director of the Institute for the Study of...&quot
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Reading this I realized that dark matter is starting to sound somewhat like the idea of the "ether". It's everywhere, it affects everything, but we can't see it or interact with it easily. It's somewhat different
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I've been writing software for 30+ years and I think the reason methodologies don't work is that they are simple. Software is an attempt to implement something that will be used by people, interact with data, help make decisions,

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