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by salynchnew 2y ago
> It might just be that the headline is bad and the literature is simply describing vole predation. Correct! From the article: > Any supplementation of their vegetarian diet was historically believed to primarily occur through eating
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Related article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer_Wolf
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Again, with no proof and likely not real. If there was a crashed drone, you'd imagine that they'd release a photo or something. The reality is that law enforcement officers are just as susceptible to mass hysteria as everyone else
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Very, very cool-looking project! It would be very cool to somehow make a laser tag variant, and build a persistent game and multiple players, StreetWars style. https://web.archive.org/web/20151026121204/http:/
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by salynchnew 2y ago
It really reads like a fun thought experiment which in practice is really impractical for real-world use cases. "I can make your life miserable and I have enough money to do so" is something that can happen in the real world and t
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by salynchnew 2y ago
This really assumes that money is more important that creative works (or art, heaven forbid) and that less well-off creators should only exist to serve the market. If someone just wants to create something they like, and then own what they
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by salynchnew 2y ago
"Don't trust an oil company to disrupt their own business model with renewables" seems to be the lesson here.
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Perhaps the best roads are those that see the least vehicular traffic.
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Hence why U.S. roads are not built to last in the long term.
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by salynchnew 2y ago
It's kind of maddening how often blogs like this will make motions towards developing an educated opinion (citing multiple reports, researching stats from public datassets, etc.) but don't seem to have bothered to actually talk to
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Ah, so the real problem here is for people who are "squatting" on an a large number of empty investment properties and don't want the hassle of dealing with any actual tenants.
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Related phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Fun fact is that I have at least one CD where there was an audio track misprint (one track repeated). I didn't actually notice until I ripped it and used Picard to analyze the tracks. I also once found two tracks where Spotify's o
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by salynchnew 2y ago
My first thought when seeing this link was "Oh look! HN is repping that cool book about buildings."
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Converting Datadog queries, dashboards, and alerts to open source standards(chronosphere.io)
4 points by salynchnew 2y ago|0 comments
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A Billionaire Wanted to Save 1T Trees by 2030. It's Not Going Great(bloomberg.com)
14 points by salynchnew 2y ago|4 comments
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Most tree planting efforts fail, as they ignore a lot of implementation/maintenance details and result in lots of dead trees. Mass tree planting is like doing a massive, massive migration. You can't just stick seedlings in the gro
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by salynchnew 2y ago
The real endgame here isn't to just enumerate and then patent those sequences, right?
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by salynchnew 3y ago
Interesting! There might be other unintended issues from transmitting heat, I suppose? Even from transmitting heat to the phone's components itself or other items that are nearby, e.g. laptops: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#
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by salynchnew 3y ago
It's pretty amazing to have an actually carbon-neutral way to create natural gas.
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by salynchnew 3y ago
TL;DR: A fungus, likely spread by human activity, has been causing a large die-off of other-wise healthy amphibians. I'll add that there are lots of other causes of mass amphibian extinctions, usually tied to localized habitat destruct
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by salynchnew 3y ago
Naming things is hard. At a previous employer, I saw several cool-ish open source projects instantly doomed to obscurity by picking a name that either completely duplicated the name of an existing OSS project or were guaranteed to have terr
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Easter Island's moai statues "walked" [video](youtube.com)
2 points by salynchnew 3y ago|1 comments
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by salynchnew 3y ago
Companion article from Nature's news channel: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11613
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by salynchnew 3y ago
As an aside, the debunkers were also quite entertaining (at least as entertaining as GGS), although they weren't generally commercialized or marketed to the same degree. I loved the team's demonstration that showed the complexity
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by salynchnew 3y ago
Probably to lock out future competition. Note that Webtext and OpenWebText datasets were basically scraped from Reddit. It's incredibly valuable if you can lock down this dataset vs. letting competitors use it.
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by salynchnew 3y ago
Weird how oil site cleanup/remediation programs and things like DAC are essentially an indirect subsidy for what should be a brownfield's lifetime cost.
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by salynchnew 3y ago
This argument starts with "financialization has killed art" but ends with "screens are bad...." I am very sympathetic to these points, but it's also slightly amusing to me that a decade and a half post-Web 2.0, the
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by salynchnew 3y ago
It's related in the sense that it's part of a recent pattern of harassment against a similar set of local public officials. It's newsworthy as part of a trend. Analogous is any other news story that points out any other recen
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by salynchnew 3y ago
It depends on the audience. If the PR isn't working on you, it could be bad... but in this case, I think it is just that you're not the target audience. As you note, it's very well researched. The problem is that "good&q

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