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by roter 7y ago
I often find the "events" link to be helpful, finding files in order of upload date [0]. [0] https://www.dropbox.com/events
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by roter 7y ago
Or just leave the soap. Many hotels recycle it through the Global Soap Project [0] and Clean the World [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derreck_Kayongo [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean
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by roter 7y ago
Carbon dioxide and temperature are linked. 1650 was the height of the Little Ice Age [0]. Lots of interesting theories and research, e.g. [1], for the specific carbon dioxide drop. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litt
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by roter 7y ago
My mind went immediately to Seveneves [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves
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by roter 8y ago
Interesting that the whole upgrade friction happens to those of us who use certain software sparingly. Whether it is Skype or Windows or whatever, it perhaps makes you want to use them even less.
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by roter 8y ago
Agreed. For what it's worth there is an image on Wikipedia in the associated article [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal%27s_crossing_of_the_A...
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by roter 8y ago
Funny because on their home landing page, there is a gallery of people. The one at top, second from left, is a dead ringer for Blake Lively. I wonder if that spawned the question.
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by roter 8y ago
Perhaps only if we consider CO2 in isolation without attendant water, temperature, and mineral stresses. And perhaps not on longer time scales [0]. And perhaps not everywhere [1]. [0] http://science.sciencemag.org/content&#
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by roter 8y ago
HERE was flagged for me by Disconnect Malvertising filter in uBlock Origin.
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by roter 8y ago
WikiTribune is similar to what you are proposing on the collaboration side. "Come collaborate with us, because facts really do matter" [0]. [0]: https://www.wikitribune.com/
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by roter 8y ago
Clear white page of nothing on Firefox. Works on Chrome.
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by roter 8y ago
Or a transient analysis to get a sense of trends, particularly in light of recent articles talking about "Peak Valley" [0]. [0] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/08/30/why-startups-ar...
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by roter 8y ago
I too find this useful on an old Blackberry phone, along with NPR[0]. Unfortunately, I've found that the CNN site no longer seems to get updated daily. [0] https://text.npr.org/
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by roter 8y ago
I used to wear Birkenstocks in the 90s (in my 20s) but I started getting knee pain. I switched to flat sneakers and haven't had a problem since.
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But everything is area-weighted, so if we move a southern station northward, that means the southern stations previous neighbours will need to carry more weight. The station moved northward will steal some of the weight from its new northe
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by roter 8y ago
There is the Carbon Prize which is part of the way there [0]: > A $20 Million global competition to develop breakthrough technologies that will convert CO₂ emissions from power plants and industrial facilities into valuable products like
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by roter 8y ago
I like the idea of a triumvirate, three people with a shared vision but perhaps with unique skills [0]. Hopefully all sharing a benevolent tendency to avoid things going pear-shaped [1]. [0] https://lwn.net/Articles/759
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by roter 8y ago
Agree, with one caveat. When viewing via the website, a large fraction of items are "Online Only" through their 3rd party resellers. I'd like to touch but can't. Note: Canadian experience, may be different down south.
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by roter 8y ago
For what it is worth, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change uses the following definitions[0]: virtually certain: 99-100% extremely likely: 95-100% very likely: 90-100% likely: 66-100% about as likely as not: 33-66% more likely tha
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How Our 2018 World Cup Predictions Work(fivethirtyeight.com)
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by roter 9y ago
Pricing is here [0]. The 96 vCPU, 360GB instance costs $4.9405/hr. If you don't mind if it gets killed, $1.0401/hr (pre-emptible [1]). [0] https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing#machinetype [1] http
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by roter 9y ago
As did the CBC; it is still available but with zero content [0]. It now directs you to a bloated mobile site. They do have RSS however [1]. [0] http://www.cbc.ca/m/text/ [1] http://www.cbc.ca/rss&
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by roter 9y ago
Just a heads up, when I filtered on just SSDs, the top of the list was a BarraCuda HDD (ST3000DM008). It seems to have been incorrectly placed under SSDs on Amazon. Bookmarked your site though, thanks.
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by roter 9y ago
In Firefox, hit F12 to open Web Developer, click on Performance, and click Start Recording Performance.
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by roter 9y ago
That is very useful feedback. I may need to revisit it. I read Patrick O'Brian's posthumous and unfinished book, The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey , and it contained O'Brian's final hand-written notes. Truly
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by roter 9y ago
I too have shied away from posthumously published books. I still haven't read Salmon of Doubt [0] though am a massive fan of Douglas Adams. From what I've read, he was a bit of a perfectionist. Not sure he would have wished its
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by roter 9y ago
Agree 95%. On the Linux side, it can sometimes be a little tricky keeping it working. e.g. I recently lost my taskbar icon in Lubuntu after a Dropbox upgrade. I contacted support and was told they don't support Lubuntu. Perhaps und
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by roter 10y ago
There is a fair bit of background with the diaeresis at the New Yorker [0]. [0] http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-t...
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by roter 10y ago
Zero represents the 30-year mean of the years 1951-1980, i.e. some representation of a recent baseline climatology. Choosing 1880, or any other year, might skew perception positively or negatively. From the Earth Observatory [0]: > The
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by roter 10y ago
Prescription for late-night anxiety: read Wodehouse immediately before bed.

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