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by scythe 3y ago
Mea culpa. I was only familiar with FreeBSD and NetBSD. As 'johnny22 noted, FreeBSD has already started looking at what they can do about Wayland. There is some discussion of the OpenBSD approach here: https://news.ycombinat
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by scythe 3y ago
I've enjoyed BSDs, but I don't know how sustainable an approach this is. Unless the BSD maintainers are going to absorb and maintain the old X codebase (they have already refused to treat it as a system component, and it's re
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by scythe 3y ago
Isn't this really a new perspective on something that economists have been saying for years now? Specifically: the economy has been growing for high-skilled workers and dysfunctional for low-skilled workers. Alternatively, the economy
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It's not exactly unheard of. One feature that makes unions in the United States different from other countries is that they tend to have a more adversarial relationship with employers and the government. Sectoral bargaining is very rar
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by scythe 3y ago
It should preferably depend on the type of work. Books generally have a long, slow RoI. People are still buying Tolstoy. I don't believe Tolstoy should be copyrighted, but insofar as copyright is a system designed by eighteenth-century
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This is clickbait. The settlements are only 8000 years old. That's younger than Jericho or Damascus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho#History_and_archaeolog... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by scythe 3y ago
I read a number of studies one time after a trip back home to Florida left me itching everywhere. Surprisingly, it seemed that the strongest evidence by far was for topical ammonia, with antihistamines, heat, cold, and other common remedies
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Once I looked at a cheap lot in southern California on a whim and the ad specified "Neighborhood covenant requires 3000 square foot minimum for construction".
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by scythe 3y ago
Shouldn't atomic testing have produced a layer of light platinum group elements (predominant in fission products) that are not associated with heavy platinum group elements (rare in fission products)? Anomalies in the concentration of
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by scythe 3y ago
In areas undergoing tectonic shifts, sure. In some regions, the same rocks have existed for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_dated_rocks
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by scythe 3y ago
It's like saying that mathematicians are uninterested in the Collatz conjecture. Scientists usually work on problems where they have a reasonable expectation of making progress. Attempts to replicate abiogenesis so far have been largel
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Wouldn't the next civilization just find itself mining the remains of human cities? IIRC, the majority of the copper ever extracted is still in use .
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by scythe 3y ago
This is not apples-to-apples, because buses don't drive on all of the roads, whereas cars drive on (presumably) any road. The total mileage of roads used for bus routes is a small fraction of all road mileage, even where bus systems ar
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Go directly to jail.
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Nickerson, J. and Solomon, D. "Car seats as Contraception", SSRN (2020). https://assets.super.so/6b4b5d92-904a-4e7b-95bd-914dd1d1528f...
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by scythe 3y ago
As a Hacker News thread goes longer, the probability of someone bringing up Ukraine approaches 1. Anyway, the map on Wikipedia seems to belie this notion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernozem#/media/File:Ch
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by scythe 3y ago
One of the first road advocacy organizations in the United States was started by a coalition of farmers and bicyclists, before the car became common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Roads_Movement >It started as
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by scythe 3y ago
One phenomenon I heard about recently is that new developments plant smaller trees in order to reduce impacts on power lines. While this achieves the nominal objective, the smaller trees are generally ineffective for shade and general therm
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I guess I don't get the context? WebP is barely supported. For decades the only choice in lossy compression is JPEG, which notoriously sucks for diagrams and basically anything that isn't a photograph. So the rest of the world fin
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Instinctual drift is somewhat counterintuitive. In particular, it's controversial how much it affects human behavior in modern society. But it replicates! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinctive_drift More gener
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by scythe 3y ago
>Counties with poverty rates of >35% have obesity rates 145% greater than wealthy counties. Not causal. Read the rest of the post. >Among the reasons for the growing obesity in the population of poor people are: higher unemployment
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by scythe 3y ago
A paper Covid mask is nowhere near as uncomfortable as a p100!
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by scythe 3y ago
Geopolymer to the rescue! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000888460...
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by scythe 3y ago
The author suggests her work applies to "obesity", but she is not obese. The obesity rate in the UK is 27%; the poverty rate is 17%, and I doubt the overlap is that strong (the link below supports me). Many of her examples in fact
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>we've tried that Here's a former Israeli official responding to this claim better than I reasonably could: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/10/10/the-crisi... https:/&#x2F
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>Finally, an honest question, what would you do? How would you respond in this situation? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/opinion/israel-hamas-ceas... There are plenty of cases of countries being
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My interpretation of "other side" was "other side of the border", i.e. someone living in Gaza or possibly the West Bank. In that case there are literally two sides (I could cite the Jordan curve theorem?). But that may n
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The Crimson has helpfully provided images. In the first image, one thing that piques my curiosity is that while many words are identical, the meaning of the first sentence is actually reversed: "increase" was replaced with &quot
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But what firm could plausibly be behind a fusillade of articles relating cats to schizophrenia? Is this the work of Big Dog?
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The more accurate title would say "schizophrenia-related disorders". Since cat-related schizoform disorders may be clinically distinct, this could be a useful distinction.

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