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by ruytlm 5y ago
As another, many of the spacesuit backpacks/oxygen packs are very lightly disguised Ogio motorcycle backpacks: https://ogiopowersports.com/products/no-drag-mach-5-stealth
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by ruytlm 6y ago
See also Relectrify ( https://www.relectrify.com/ ) in Australia.
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by ruytlm 6y ago
Starts to show why China is so keen on the Belt and Road initiative, given that it's essentially ring-fenced in by US allies.
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by ruytlm 6y ago
By the same author from 2017: https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5258/what-the-stoics-did... Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15799592
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by ruytlm 6y ago
Perhaps I am suffering a failure of imagination, but in what circumstance does "ranking someone too high .. cause them to lose"? Edit: Found this[0] talking about it; what remains unclear to me is whether this should be seen as &q
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by ruytlm 6y ago
At 5:45[0] in that video, he makes a reference to one of the greatest weird explanations of video game things ever: the explanation[1] of how to beat the Watch for Rolling Rocks level in Super Mario 64 with only half an A-press, which is hi
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by ruytlm 6y ago
This article takes an awful lot of words to say not much, and it is entirely speculative on any of the details of the alleged syllabus revamp, as "The U.S. Navy has stayed tight-lipped about the specifics of its new Lightning II syllab
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by ruytlm 6y ago
Related: the first known music played by a computer was earlier that year in Australia.[0] Article includes modern recreations of the music. [0]: https://theconversation.com/how-australia-played-the-worlds-...
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by ruytlm 6y ago
I think there is much to be said for storing physical media like photos and microfilm, such that the only technology you need to recover the information is a lens. I am sure we are (and have been) losing valuable troves of early digital inf
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by ruytlm 6y ago
At a guess, it's probably used as a textbook in some university courses (presumably law). This leads to absurd pricing, because students are a captive market; you want to do the course, you have to buy this book.
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by ruytlm 6y ago
>it is not in fact legal. Without a test case, we cannot state with certainty whether it is legal or illegal - particularly as some jurisdictions have carve-outs from copyright for format shifting. Nintendo could sue for someone ripping
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by ruytlm 6y ago
See also the Turnip Exchange[0], which has set up automated queue systems for people to visit other people's islands to buy and sell turnips, and now appears to be expanding into other AC:NH trade. It's been super impressive to wa
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by ruytlm 6y ago
I agree that if taken to the extreme this is the case; but I don't believe Stoicism suggests one should take it to the extreme. Personally, I interpret "don't worry about it" more as "don't get hung up on it&qu
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by ruytlm 6y ago
> If prices are very high then hospitals may be the only ones who can afford them, versus people on the street. Every extra dollar spent on those high prices is a dollar that could have been spent providing better care in some other wa
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by ruytlm 7y ago
This is because of a quirk of copyright; in the US at least, a recipe itself is not considered copyrightable if it is a mere listing of ingredients; however, they can be covered by copyright when they have "substantial literary express
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by ruytlm 7y ago
The most fascinating part of this article to me is the choice to represent dollar amounts like $9,250,000 as "$9 1/4 million". I don't think I've seen a non-decimal format used for currency outside of history books
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by ruytlm 7y ago
This list makes me sad that I missed out on so many of these weird corners of the internet over the last 10 years, and fills me with a weird nostalgia for a time that may not have even existed. I hope the 2020s bring more of this weird.
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by ruytlm 7y ago
CTBUH have an interesting set of skyscraper data[0] that's worth perusing, if you are willing to register (or block certain elements..) Also, interesting piece of trivia: the voluntary demolition of buildings taller than 200m is unprec
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by ruytlm 7y ago
Many of them seem to be going past to turn right, which would be a valid use of the right turning lane. Also, I'd contest the behaviour being characterised as 'sneaking' - in most places, bicycles are still considered road v
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by ruytlm 7y ago
I'd agree with this, though I'd argue the main reason this split exists today is because as Melbourne has grown outwards in the last 40 years, there has been little serious investment in developing rail capacity to support those o
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by ruytlm 7y ago
Could look at Warrnambool (VIC) as an example, as I believe they only started fluoridating in 2008.[0] Likewise, I understand several council areas in Queensland stopped fluoridating in around 2016.[1] [0]: https://hnb.dhs.vic.go
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by ruytlm 7y ago
One I have found helpful in a professional context is to think "If I were fired today, what would my replacement do about this?"
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by ruytlm 7y ago
That, or representatives tacking on pork barrel spending to legislation renewal when their vote is needed to pass it. "Oh, you want to renew the "Don't put lead in milk" law? Yeah, you're gonna have to set aside $50
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by ruytlm 7y ago
Relevant from 2017: https://warisboring.com/how-not-to-build-an-aircraft-carrier...
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by ruytlm 7y ago
I know this has been discussed previously about a month ago[0], but I hope allowed for discussion again so soon given that it is now exactly 50 years ago. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20193118
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Apollo 11 in real time on its 50th anniversary(apolloinrealtime.org)
4 points by ruytlm 7y ago|2 comments
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by ruytlm 7y ago
My understanding is that the definition of 'border zone' that CBP and others use includes anywhere within 100 miles of the border, which covers roughly two thirds of the US population.[0] So you mightn't even have to wait 10
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by ruytlm 7y ago
To play devil's advocate a little, why should those homes be bought back?
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by ruytlm 7y ago
This baffled me as well. The US may not grant titles of nobility, but it has an awful lot of other titles that are given and used similarly; in my experience typically military ranks, or former political office titles. Also, Ive's titl
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by ruytlm 7y ago
I am reminded of a post I once read[0] on how coyotes are 'too clever by half'; smart enough to realise how to win each skirmish, but without realising they're losing the metagame. Johnson strikes me as someone who has learne

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