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by scrumper 7y ago
Toxins and other foreign non-food things (heavy metals, plastics, etc.) tend to get quite highly concentrated as you go up a food chain. So a little tiny dose of e.g. mercury absorbed by, say, some krill that are then eaten by fish, who are
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by scrumper 7y ago
Surely the point there is that you should feel like you can write your idea down any way you want, instead of being bound by an extremely tightly constrained form that only lets you put very specific things in certain places. Your tool is a
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by scrumper 7y ago
The point was that it isn't removing it from the biosphere - molluscs that feed on algae-covered rock are now setting up on this plasticrust stuff and consuming it along with the algae.
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by scrumper 7y ago
That's the one.
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by scrumper 7y ago
Thanks. Had to do some reading to understand that, made more sense once I learned the phase-neutral voltage was the supply voltage / sqrt(3) not just divided by 3. Then I started reading about wye configurations and now it's time
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by scrumper 7y ago
Oops I was a bit unclear. I meant, include the engine part that matches English statements to commands and parameters but hook it up to a keyboard-driven text box instead of a microphone. So it's: written text->'AI'->co
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by scrumper 7y ago
Combining an engine to interpret voice commands with textual keyboard input seems like the best approach here. You get all the useful fuzziness of voice with none of the transcription errors (or revolting workplace noise pollution). I'
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by scrumper 7y ago
Well this was an educational read, thanks for sharing. I particularly enjoyed finding out about surface transmission characteristics of alternating current and ACSR bundles. More on HVDC would be good. It was uncomfortable too: I feel about
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by scrumper 7y ago
Same here, though I like the connectivity because it lets me do things like turn the heating or AC on remotely if I’m heading home at an unusual time. Otherwise, I get no real benefit from it being connected.
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by scrumper 7y ago
> estimated that 0.005% of U.S. visa applicants worldwide, or in the range of 65,000 individuals per year, 1,300,000,000 people apply for visas each year?!
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by scrumper 7y ago
So your decentralized grid involves large-scale deployment of RTGs? Have you thought about the security implications of that? It makes it massively easier for bad actors to obtain fissile materials. At least it's feasible to provide hi
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by scrumper 7y ago
> (deaths for solar and wind) Good point. And those were interesting omissions, I agree.
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by scrumper 7y ago
Not seeing that, perhaps because I am on mobile. I have a tab with a chart, a tab with a csv, and a tab with the sources. Edit: or on desktop. Can you post the link to the article you're seeing please?
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by scrumper 7y ago
It isn’t written from a pro-nuclear perspective: it’s just data, with attributed sources. And the majority of those nuclear deaths are from uranium mining.
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by scrumper 7y ago
This plus a narrow field of view screen filter... it’ll take off. Your office is whenever you want it to be. Don’t get me wrong - I hate it. But it’ll happen regardless.
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by scrumper 7y ago
Looks like a 3rd party licensing reason. Meaning, older versions of those apps may include some component for which Adobe no longer has a license.
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by scrumper 7y ago
Thanks - I had read that readme but it only clicked after your explanation (doesn't say much about my intelligence...) So yeah that's not nothing :)
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by scrumper 7y ago
I don't understand this at all - what is it? You are right in your comments at the start of main.rs: it does scroll smoothly. But then what? All you apparently are able to do is open up - for viewing only - a bunch of source files. I v
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by scrumper 7y ago
I'm sorry if my comment came across as negative, and I completely accept that it does! I wasn't trying to crap on what's clearly a well-loved tool, more to make a wry joke. However I'm glad that it's given you the o
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by scrumper 7y ago
Hope our IT guys don't see this or it'll be a mandatory install via JAMF with all pictures sent to a management shared folder.
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by scrumper 7y ago
> people who call these numbers run the real risk of being detained against their will for extended periods of time while running up large hospital bills Source please?
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by scrumper 8y ago
I get both, for what it's worth. Plenty of crabgrass later in the season, but abundant clover, wild strawberries, wild violets, and little tiny blue pansy things that I don't know the name of earlier. Bees everywhere! Past July th
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by scrumper 8y ago
Thanks! This is great info; I appreciate it.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Why couldn't the arrangement be that a repeat "guest" is paid for 10 or 20% less each time they stay? (To be strictly fair, that structure should apply to parole officers, half-way houses, and other providers working to rehab
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by scrumper 8y ago
> I’ve played in a futuristic cyberpunk dystopia, an episode of Star Trek, a blasted radioactive Mad Max landscape where different realities have messily converged, a medieval land where dragons are the ruling class, infiltrating a clock
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by scrumper 8y ago
Smart contracts on public blockchains solve this by committing coins to the contract. In effect the contract is an escrow facility in which the coins are locked up until the contract terminates. The advantage of e.g. Ethereum blockchains is
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by scrumper 8y ago
Oww. Lots of plea bargains coming up I am sure. Don't think any of the parents would make a particular sympathetic defendant in front of a jury. Matt Levine today framed it rather neatly as a property crime, in that the dodgy charity g
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by scrumper 8y ago
The parents are facing serious federal charges there. Conspiracy to commit mail fraud is what, up to 5yrs prison and a $250k fine? I feel for them - it's the type of crime I can easily imagine myself committing* - but good that this ha
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by scrumper 8y ago
This is great - we've been talking here recently about the early web and here is a perfect example of it. Except this is all current: someone's portfolio of businesses with old-school web stores. And with that domain, you know the
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A interesting person's claim on the Internet's old frontier(rimworld.com)
2 points by scrumper 8y ago|1 comments

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