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Your comment led me to the Insta360 device that makes it easy to take selfies with the main camera: https://www.theverge.com/tech/907670/insta360-snap-usb-c-mag... Second screen: provided by USB-C screencast and a
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Latin and Greek were taught at grammar schools: part of upper class status signalling. But also deeply foundational to many languages, literature and history, if you think those topics are useful. I'm a Dilbert, yet today I asked AI wh
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Love that disposal - lucky the lake has no fish. Here's the link without the tracking (ShareInsights &si) "The Disposal of Sodium, 1947 Washington" 20000 lbs of Sodium https://youtu.be/HY7mTCMvpEM
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And the awesome video (better than article) finishes with the github: https://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper
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Aha: I saw the YouTube video first: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MgQbPdiuUTw Only a couple of comments made: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=MgQbPdiuUTw &type=story
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3D-Printed Micro Manipulator Can Achieve Accurate Sub-Micron Movement(hackster.io)
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Which stands out because it is now uncommon. I'd expect warehouse tragedies to be more common in the past?
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The commenter mentioned the same idea 2 years ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Castner%20by%3Arzwitserloot&ty... The AI answer seems reasonable at a glance (similar to HN comments for things I'm ignorant about).
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The 10000 little giants initiative is interesting. Unfortunately the search results appeared to be dominated by Chinese media (I asked AI for a differently biased summary).
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We've also done pretty well at reducing deficiency diseases. How common in wealthy countries is it to know someone with scurvy, pellagra, rickets, goitre, or beriberi. Common words from the past. First world problems (many of which wer
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Thanks for the link - started listening but not my cup of T. Most thought gets hyperfocused on money, however value is mostly invisible - economic utility and externalities. Can a government get dollars from progress? No: for example the re
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> That’s what 99% of people buy anyway Until there's one less common thing you want. If you don't care much about flavour or have no taste in products then you can sub in any crap food or product. I go to a particular supermark
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> problem [is] centralisation Yet every major successful company is centralised. If centralisation works for capitalist organisations, why can't it work for geographical units?
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I think you're talking about something different. My context is discriminatory urban zoning (à la exclusionary zoning or redlining in the US). I am not sure there are any examples of that for urban zoning in New Zealand. Please enlig
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Last century geriatric pregnancy was one term used for over 35s. It is no longer used, and 25 seems like it is social media bullshit. Apparently the term was created ~1960 for international usage because medical complications after that age
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It is usually silly to compare any country with the whole US. Instead search for the most similar state to compare with: for example Colorado has similarities with Switzerland. Does Colorado have similarly affordable 25 Gbit fiber? > muc
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Do you take fights with massive corporations personally? Especially given that Google has been targeted by the US government too (although the shots have mostly missed - like the EU antitrust against Microsoft).
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Prison is expensive for the state, and in my limited experience prison has rather hideous personal costs (for the individual and their friends and family). Perhaps can fine the wealthy to pay for their own imprisonment, maybe within a luxur
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Investment is about voting/control, not just money. From a purely financial perspective, federal taxation on companies would be similar to owning shares (except ≈preferential since the government usually gets paid first). From a voting
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I mostly agree with you. > Some people prefer asking actual people We all love to do that. So far those experts have not yet answered. I did. In my experience experts find it rude and tiring to be asked questions if it appears that the q
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> PR = Personal Record > AFIB = Atrial fibrillation = a type of irregular heart rhythm > HIIT = High-Intensity Interval Training
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Do they also remove heatpumps? Most heatpumps I've used in NZ can also function as air conditioners in summer.
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High on the political agenda of degrowthers is radical redistribution of wealth. Consuming less should be especially true for the 10 percent richest in the world, because they are responsible for half of CO2 emissions Tht dutch have
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I would guess once there's enough solar generation installed, it would push prices low enough to make it worth decreasing stored heat by precooling
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> dent in house prices Already dented in Italy and Japan: https://impatria.com/en/magazine/1-euro-houses-italy-foreign... https://www.akiyajapan.com/japan/cheap-houses We're propping
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> housing has been turned into a zero sum game Not really. Land has always been zero-sum because there is a limited amount to compete for. And location is status, even in high density developments (status is often seen as zero-sum). Bo
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We have zoning in New Zealand and it wasn't started by segregation. Zoning has other reasons than racism. Oversimplifying things down to single causes is an error of thinking.
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Penalty of perjury in what jurisdiction? Even wholly within the US, perjury appears to be low cost: businesses make a tradeoff between legal risks and profits.
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My worries are 1: demographics and 2: zero-sum scarcity thinking (as shown in any thread discussing wealth taxes). It seems obvious the New Zealand economy as a whole (even ignoring government tax and expenditure) will not be able to afford
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Cosmic dust influx estimates can range from 5 to 100 tonnes daily. SpaceX is launching say ~10 tonnes of satellites per day

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