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by refuse 4y ago
I seem to recall the fatter growth rings they put in on spring/summer increasing the density of the wood. You could be right though, I'm having trouble finding it on Google tbh. The main thing is that the wood quality is different
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by refuse 4y ago
We've already got super trees (genetically improved). These are selectively bred trees, not GMOs; stuff that gets super site-specific, like 'north side of a hill within 100ft of a stream'. IIRC Weyerhauser pioneered the work
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by refuse 4y ago
I'm asking this in the wrong place, but does anyone know why coreutils doesn't include sha3 or derivatives?
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by refuse 4y ago
> We may need to wait a generation until people who have grown up in this world and can filter feed on the information can create/disseminate narrative adapted to the new rate of information flow and yet somehow true to reality. I&#
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by refuse 4y ago
Sounds like a decent thought to me.
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by refuse 4y ago
"Belief is the death of thought" Robert Anton Wilson
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by refuse 4y ago
Along these lines...I'm surprised the HN crowd isn't into blogging in markdown, published in a git repo. About as simple as it gets and you don't get tied to a single platform. You could key sign it to ensure authenticity for
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by refuse 4y ago
I happen to know someone in the music industry. Not huge, but you might have seen them on MTV and you've probably heard their hits. They say modern songs get written by a huge group of songwriters in hotels. Individual words and phrase
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by refuse 4y ago
lol, the same journal that referred to women as "bodies with vaginas."
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by refuse 4y ago
Yep. Power or internet goes out where I live fairly often and you'd have to drive at least an hour to use anything but cash. Another commenter already mentioned natural disasters, which happen with surprising frequency (I've been
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by refuse 4y ago
Actually I have them in my family (epi pen and all), but I've met many more people with false allergies that use them to justify disordered eating habits or something else (hilariously, I've seen someone use their allergies to try
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by refuse 4y ago
I suspect most people with food allergies actually just have an eating disorder, or anxiety/hypochondria issues. I wouldn't rule out sociogenic "food allergies" either. Look at the gluten-free fad that took off for a whi
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by refuse 4y ago
IMEI is tied to cellular radio and has been used to track people's movements through stores for quite a while now. /notanexpert
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by refuse 4y ago
There was a security researcher in NYC that wrote about recovering his stolen scooter with an Airtag that discussed part of this question. At least some of the shops know they've got stolen merch and actively look for Airtags or other
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by refuse 4y ago
I know Kroger (or QFC) has been doing this for ~6 or 7 years. My wife would start getting targeted ads for things that were in areas we lingered around for more than a few seconds. FWIW Lowe's does the same exact thing. Probably IMEI h
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by refuse 4y ago
How about that Star Trek episode where they simulated all conflicts in a program and then killed the real soldiers which were lost in the simulation? Sometimes I wonder if TV was ever worth watching.
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by refuse 4y ago
Oh boy, can't wait to hear old Switchblade on the CB again.
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by refuse 4y ago
I've heard about this, but it is surprising how little coverage it gets compared to other things. If you were to tally up how much airtime each news story gets, plotted against the general tone of the coverage, you'd probably come
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by refuse 4y ago
WHO IS LTT
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Transparent Aluminum(en.wikipedia.org)
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by refuse 4y ago
Relevant: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1096959/Myst...
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by refuse 4y ago
There's a scientist that thinks they found some live silphium: https://allthatsinteresting.com/silphium
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by refuse 4y ago
I'm not seeing anything outrageous here except that people are so upset for somebody disagreeing with them.
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by refuse 4y ago
I got the notion you work in radio. I'm in range of KLCC or a station which rebroadcasts it.
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by refuse 4y ago
I tried Mastodon for a little bit but quit because the community was too much like this. How's anyone supposed to take you seriously if you perceive an existential threat from a children's author expressing their opinion? One comm
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by refuse 4y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I just think of my local radio as "NPR" since it's about 90% of the daytime content. TBH I thought Radiolab was independently produced but that NPR had picked it up instead of my local station pu
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by refuse 4y ago
A lot of people say that new reactor designs will be a game changer but I can't help but wonder how much more benefit they'll provide over plain old solar and wind with hydrogen for storage and transport. After the Ukraine invasio
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by refuse 4y ago
I listened to a piece on NPR the other day about how they discovered a medieval cure for staph that was very effective. They're still trying to figure out the how and why but it was fascinating. https://radiolab.org/epi
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by refuse 4y ago
I'm having trouble imagining something as detached from reality damages in IP suits. You could hypothetically have more wealth than the world GDP stored on a couple of hard drives if you go the amount of money they sue for. Just imagin
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by refuse 4y ago
I really want to see something like this. I'd honestly be happy with something like a RaspPi with an SSD and a huge battery in a laptop with good build quality. My system reqs are really low; a laptop that would survive 20 years with r

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