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by rubylark 5y ago
So I guess my next question is: what is the replacement rate? Because 2.6B dead a year from a single source when there is only about 10B alive at any one time, AND that 26% annual death not being the highest cause of bird mortality (e.g. &g
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by rubylark 5y ago
> "declined by 29 percent—or a total net loss of around three billion birds—since 1970." > "estimates that our pet felines kill some 2.6 billion birds annually in the U.S. alone" So is the net loss of 3B birds sinc
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by rubylark 5y ago
A lot of US cities publish their urban development plans. Pick a state and look up their major cities' 2040 plans and see if they are planning extensive developments in the area your interested in buying. Sometimes the plans are overop
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by rubylark 5y ago
That's fair. Unfortunately I don't know the specifics of the hardware involved, and I wasn't there long enough to get a good understanding. I hope someone with more knowledge or industry experience can chime in. All I know th
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by rubylark 5y ago
Interesting, this eye drop seems to just do the opposite of what those eye dilation drops used at the eye doctor. It makes sense considering that dilation drops make it impossible to read things up close that an inverted purpose drop could
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by rubylark 5y ago
I worked very very briefly in the wireless service industry on UAPs and large scale cell antenna receivers. To me, this doesn't seem as much a conspiracy to obsolete old phones as a practical stance to not need to have two copies of an
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by rubylark 5y ago
Oof, imagine marrying your boss after only a month of working for him and after he repeatedly forgot your name. It's interesting how times and cultures seem so drastically different when it's only a few generations removed. I&#x27
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by rubylark 5y ago
I don't know about medieval times, but a lack of animal products in the diet of the the impoverished and imprisoned was a problem as recently as the early 1900s. The disease Pellagra[1] is caused by a lack of niacin in the diet, which
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by rubylark 5y ago
That's interesting! As far as improvised faraday cages go, I always heard that microwave ovens are a good solution. Does this mean that microwave ovens wouldn't be any better as they would only block the specific microwave frequen
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by rubylark 5y ago
QNX is still going strong even with Blackberry. I worked at a company recently that heavily relied on QNX for safety critical embedded OS projects. It's Qt and QML integration made rapid prototyping a snap. Unfortunately it requires pr
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by rubylark 5y ago
I second this idea, if money is the main motivator. Technical colleges are cheaper than universities, and can be completed faster. They will still likely require a GED, though, prior to graduation if not prior to entry.
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by rubylark 5y ago
It makes sense if the person who put the tracker there was someone who knew the woman and wanted to scare her (which it seems they succeeded in as she didn't give her name in the article for fear of her safety). My guess would be an ab
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by rubylark 5y ago
I can think of two possibilities: domestic abuse and murder rates tend to spike around the holidays for whatever reason, so tracking/stalking goes along with that. Or it's just that the tech to do the tracking is on sale.
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by rubylark 5y ago
A different article[1] I read with a similar headline has this claim: > To leave the Lower Mainland of BC, you would have to use Highway 99, Highway 1, or the Coquihalla. I'm not at all familiar with the area. Are there really only
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by rubylark 5y ago
I don't disagree with your interpretation of depression, but I do find fault with this statement: > Depression is not lack of happiness. Sadness, melancholy, even misery and pain aren't depression. I'd argue that melanchol
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by rubylark 5y ago
I was a bit hyperbolic in my statement, mainly because I was parroting some dinner table conversations. However your list is still fairly short and few are in the same location. If you say, get a PhD in the Midwest in EE specializing in nov
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by rubylark 5y ago
My brother and several of his friends do this for a living at Intel. Most of them have Electrical Engineering PhDs, though I believe one is a Chemical Engineer. My brother's thesis specifically was in 2d transistor design and worked un
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by rubylark 5y ago
I'm curious how his imagined writing compares to the handwriting he had before he was paralyzed. Was it always that messy or are the BCI controls difficult to use? For example, his comma seems exaggerated, as though he had to imagine g
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by rubylark 5y ago
I'll throw in an anecdote: I didn't know stay-at-home parents were a thing until embarrassingly late. Like mid- to late-teens. Both my parents worked, all _their_ parents worked, and all my friends parents worked. The only exposur
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by rubylark 5y ago
Aground is not as cozy, but has the same sort of pixel style and indie game feel. It's more like Terraria than anything. Like Stardew Valley, it has waaay more content and story than you expect at the start of the game.
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by rubylark 5y ago
I have Feedly set up to use a lot of the suggestions others have said so far. One that I haven't seen yet is CBC (Canadaian Broadcasting Corporation). I have been very happy with the neutrality of most of their articles. I also use ABC
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by rubylark 5y ago
How well does facial recognition work on children, anyway? Kids can grow a lot over the course of a year, and can look wildly different. Do they need to periodically refresh it with new photos more than once a year?
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by rubylark 5y ago
Here's a counter argument: "a company making money off of folks with ____" describes the entirety of the Biomed industry. Every medical device is sold with the intention of helping people with medical issues, but they can&#x2
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by rubylark 5y ago
I find it interesting that those who don't want kids _must_ supply a reason, while the opposite isn't true. I'm at the age where all my friends are having their first and second children, and absolutely none of them had to gi
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by rubylark 5y ago
Is it? Maybe its my unconscious avoidance of industries with that practice, but the only other private corporation I can think of that has requested my ID is Costco. I can't think of a single software service or social media that has w
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by rubylark 5y ago
Pretty much anywhere in the Midwest is builder and home-buyer friendly, with the caveat that the further you are from a city, the easier and cheaper it is. Anecdotal stories I've heard put IA, ND, SD, WI, MI, MN, IN, NE and KS at about
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by rubylark 5y ago
I second this. I happened to be in Middleton, WI on National Mustard Day (which is apparently a real "holiday"). They had a bunch of mustard themed midway games set up and a band like a little festival. The museum itself was prett
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by rubylark 5y ago
Deer population growth during that recovery period (of white tail deer at least) seems pretty exponential. [1] However in the absence of natural predators it seems that disease and human culling have pretty effectively kept their population