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by rz2k 6y ago
And, what if they had demonstrated their cool raygun to you before offering to trade the 4d trinket for your house? Maybe you can at least trade the trinket for a smaller house in a worse school district, and that would be preferable to the
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by rz2k 6y ago
The Louisiana Purchase was paid with gold. The people who sold Manhattan may not have understood the selling of territory, or been good representatives of all of Manhattan's residents, but I don't think beads are entirely the prob
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by rz2k 6y ago
Have you tried looking at Open Street Maps? If your county's GIS and OSM both exclude their driveway, it might be easier to get Google to update. In my area, it sees like some of the driveways have turned into roads because of overly h
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by rz2k 6y ago
You're right, Charles's Law was the gas law about temperature and pressure.
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Hmm, that is what I was getting at in this thread. The other user claimed that physicists are making a mistake when they explain with friction rather than compression. Looking back, I think your first comment was meant for the other user.
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The "compression" in front of a de-orbiting satellite does generate irreversible entropy, and the physicists are correct to say that air friction causes the heat during reentry.
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In physics the heating described by Boyle's law is a consequence of work, typically the kinetic energy imparted to molecules by a compressor. A temperature increase resulting from compression is a temperature increase resulting from fr
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by rz2k 6y ago
Boyle's Law describes a behavior without positing the mechanism. What does it mean for a gas to heat up? Is the quantity of heat energy increasing, or the temperature? A thermometer generally measures the temperature of molecules adja
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by rz2k 6y ago
How does your business manage 7 million+ residential IP addresses with 5000+ clients? Is being a packeter safer than running a tor exit node? I'd worry that the people willing to run this risk for a small income couldn't afford ad
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by rz2k 6y ago
Sorry, I edited my earlier outcome for clarity. Here is the context again: > Lately one of my luddite friends keeps mentioning how computers will soon kill us all. Perhaps to add to his torment, I like to retort that computers won't
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In the sentence, the outcome of a murder is being put into effect, rather than the outcome is being altered or affected.
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by rz2k 6y ago
You can replicate a Mac Plus at about 1:7 scale, just with an esp32, which is important if you need to see flying toasters: http://spritesmods.com/minimacplus/toaster-optimized.gif - https://www.youtube.com&
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by rz2k 6y ago
The short answer is that uBlock Origin is what almost all users are likely to want. uBlock (without Origin in the name) is property of the same owners as AdBlock Plus, and both extensions whitelist ads under their owners' "Accep
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by rz2k 6y ago
Do all Vitamix machines have the rubber seal arranged so that the threads are on the food-side of the seal? Look at any other non-conical thread, like for garden hoses or fire hoses. The thread doesn't even get wet. All of the vitamix
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by rz2k 6y ago
I like YouTube for finding new music, and the chance of finding concerts that I attended with a hundred other people 15 years ago. The rest of the time I like listening to entire albums at a time. It was nice to get both with one subscripti
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by rz2k 6y ago
About five years ago there was a decal on the glass beside the entrance to the Stanford Shopping Center Neiman Marcus notifying customers that they were tracked by their phones. I wonder if they stopped in response to complaints, or decided
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by rz2k 6y ago
Sorry, I had just skimmed the article until I came across two sets of scores. That's great!
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It looks like the accessibility score went down , too.
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Though the diet varies in different populations, many consume sea lions and other whales.
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I remember adding 16KB or 32KB to get to a total of 48KB of RAM with a card that piggybacked onto the existing chips. Was that the same upgrade that enabled lowercase letters? I mostly remember that the RAM upgrade changed the gauges in MS
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by rz2k 6y ago
For nonprofits in other countries it is worth looking at the TechSoup Global Network which will point you to different countries' equivalent of the charity digital exchange. https://www.techsoup.global/
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by rz2k 6y ago
I have sympathy for the statement that lifting 500 million people out of abject, generational poverty ranks among the greatest humanitarian successes in history. At the same time local corruption, and the number of protests against those of
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by rz2k 6y ago
I think the metric system facilitates trade, especially in bulk quantities of raw commodities, between different industries and jurisdictions. And, I think the decisions made to arrive at a universal standard are a combination of top down a
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Non-metric systems used industries were chosen through experience and optimized in the same way that genetic algorithms optimize. The SI units are rarely, if ever, more convenient than whatever legacy standard they replaced, but the path de
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by rz2k 6y ago
I hooked up a PM2.5 sensor[1] I ordered during wildfires a few years ago, and the EPA's AirNow has been far more consistent with what I'm measuring than Purple Air or IQAir. I think the source for that static map is here: https:&
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by rz2k 6y ago
There are many instances of police officers arresting paramedics, nurses and firefighters for ridiculous reasons while they are trying to do their jobs as first responders. That includes refusing to break the law, such as when a nurse knows
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by rz2k 6y ago
> You and others can howl all you want Maybe you meant to post this to another online community, but people don't generally talk that way here. Franciscofascii was not "howling".
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In my opinion the widespread use of pseudoanonymous accounts on Hacker News prevents it from becoming like Quora, which to me seem entirely about personal brand marketing rather than an exchange of ideas. When people do identify themselves
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In a well functioning labor market, employee should earn more than the minimum they would accept to do the job and employers should pay less than the employee is making the firm. Who gets what share of that surplus value from the transa
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Who was we in, "I wonder if we could have Twitter ..."? If other citizens are making decisions for Twitter, some government rule about being a neutral carrier sounds less radical than a government rule about maintaining decorum. H

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