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by scythe 3y ago
>Hacker News has a page that lets me see all of the replies from comments I've posted. Posting is clearly "activity of an account holder", and that means there is "at least part of the content" being "contro
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>Discounting 1d, this means that virtually every website in existence qualifies as social media sites Most websites would not satisfy 1e. Hacker News, for example. Traditional forums do not satisfy 1e. >1e is clearly meant to cover &q
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> I guess for me it depends on what the law considers "social media". It's a bill written by the Florida House of Representatives, so there's a definition there. Mind you, it's the Florida House, which has put ou
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Drinking, smoking and drugs don't depend on a central point of control. Social media companies of any significance can be counted on two hands, and are accountable to corporate boards.
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glances around at GT memorabilia strewn across the room Y-yeah, those MIT people are crazy...
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Part of the problem is that rooftop solar doesn't really make sense in the United States. It does make sense in Japan, possibly England, some parts of Europe, and maybe Miami and New Orleans. But in most of the country, solar farms are
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You can get a better effect with the phase change materials. CaCl2 hydrate has a transition temperature of 29 C = 84 F. That's good for keeping warm in the winter, but not so great for the summer. On the other side, acetic acid has a t
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by scythe 3y ago
That looks like a demo prototype. Farther along than I expected, though.
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Does a battery with low cycle efficiency actually beat hydrogen for seasonal storage? The major problem with hydrogen is the fuel cell efficiency. Electrolysis is above 80%, but fuel cells are barely at 60% and it gets lower when you try to
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I'm a little surprised by that energy density chart. Who's selling batteries that carry 500 Wh/kg? Those are research prototype numbers; I think that Amprius and the gamma-sulfur people have hit (or passed) that mark. But car
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I find the grid to be much more walkable than more recent layouts which are overtly hostile to pedestrians. There's an entire ideal of "access control" in modern design (part of CPTED) that focuses on making it harder to get
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I've come to believe that we're too abstract and afraid to say what we really mean. There are a few things that could be changed that would, IMHO, make a big difference in the aesthetic quality of new development without the nee
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My suggestion is that the more diffusive, small particles are less likely to be trapped by a lid. That could mean that larger, heavier bacteria follow more ballistic and less Brownian trajectories and their distribution would be affected mo
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Not sure why they used viruses? Most of the interesting fecal pathogens are bacteria — particularly E. coli , Clostridium dificile , Vibrio spp. , Shigella spp. . The major exception is polio, which has thankfully become rare. Bacteria
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by scythe 3y ago
>desal requires firm generation Most existing plants are designed for this, but it is by no means necessary. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001191642... >This work analyses the long-
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You're both right. The Owens River Valley was desiccated to ship the water to the Los Angeles region, back when the latter was primarily agricultural in the 1920s.
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Meanwhile, elsewhere on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_knitting >Earlier pieces having a knitted or crocheted appearance have been shown to be made with other techniques, such as Nålebinding, a t
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by scythe 3y ago
Our next stop is "Let's talk about something else." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tian%27anmendong_station
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>But for some reason most people are blind to this and don't get aggressive with drivers. I'm not sure if this is serious, but it's one of the more obviously false claims I've seen on Hacker News: https://e
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I think the most extreme case of this is probably ski patrol. Dangerous, difficult, high skill, high cost of living, pays peanuts and pocket lint.
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I never liked the version where the waiter explains the menu options because I always forget them by the time I need to order.
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Some people in this thread describe ordering online from the table. Others are talking about menu links but you order from the waiter.
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Apparently this has been disputed: https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/2727119/thai-li... >But Jessada Denduangboripant, another lecturer with the same faculty, used his Facebook page to offer a r
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Right, Thailand hasn't just opened 14Mt reserves , rather resources . A reserve is a resource that you're prepared to exploit. But see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39059076
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>internationally recognized building safety codes I mean, the "International Building Code" is a little bit like the "World Series" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Building_Code >&
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It's a gift link, so go ahead and click. And if you own a bank, now is probably the time to go for -- what did Soros call it again?
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Panama is very rainy on average. The average rainfall in Colón is 3.4 meters (136 inches) per year. Ciudad de Panamá is a little drier with 1.9 meters (75 inches). For comparison, New Orleans, the continental US's wettest city, gets
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One advantage of China's late industrialization was that they were able to snatch the best of both worlds. Since it was not standardized very well in the imperial era, the "Chinese inch" (寸) was simply defined as 1/30 of
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Some criticisms of the rebuttal are good. Some are not: >The method for arriving at these “adjusted” (for race, education, etc) percentages is not given. There is a pretty standard way of doing this: you stratify the sample, then re-weig
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If you don't want to read a lot of boring swill, you definitely don't want to participate in a lawsuit.

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