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Potter's analysis of the various consumptive uses of water relies on the USGS survey data of the uses of water, generally a good source. However, there is a small flaw when we try to turn consumptive use into consumption, which is allu
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Early advocates (e.g. Friedman) for UBI (and also NIT) often focused on broader distributional outcomes for society and the economy as a whole. One is the reduction of the "welfare cliff". Another is the increase in relative spe
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I think this is basically misguided. Digg failed because their commenter UX was clunky. It tried to split the baby between linear and tree comments and just ended up being a mess. Reddit had been slowly stealing traffic from Digg for years
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I think a prototypical amoral economist would "solve" the problem by having people pay the cops some kind of percentage fee if they get their car back. Or at least I think that would work, but it bothers me.
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>I'm just not sure how you could justify calling plant-based meats non-ultra-processed under any useful definition of the term. The most pressing question here: is tofu ultra-processed? It's a protein isolate prepared by a solu
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In the radiology department at Westchester Medical Center, all of the portable X-ray machines have little nametags on them that read, variously, "Enterprise", "Voyager", "Defiant", etc.
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I got my first (and only; I changed careers) tech job in 2014. I only learned years later that 2014 was considered a "down" year for the industry. The "job market" exists at the margins. If you're good, you get hire
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In order to link, you right-click (or equivalent) on the time stamp of the post, which on your comment currently says "4 hours ago". That creates a link like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44889842 &gt
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What you could achieve with a driverless tractor is using two smaller ones instead of one big one. Since the driver's effective wage leaves the cost equation, the number of tractors can potentially be much larger. Come to think of it,
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One of the hallmarks of cults — if not a necessary element — is that they tend to separate their members from the outside society. Rationalism doesn't directly encourage this, but it does facilitate it in a couple of ways: - Idiosyncra
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>I have a feeling though that excess fat can go right through you in some cases like that - because there have been times where I was binging on peanut butter, like easily 16-24oz in a day often, like 2-3000 calories extra on top of my n
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I thought this was because the protein can (partially) neutralize stomach acid. Proteins contain an amino group which can be protonated; carbohydrates and fats do not.
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Relativity isn't the problem. The problem is that hitting a grain of sand at 0.1 c delivers the energy of several tonnes of TNT. My guess is that we will colonize the asteroid belt (Palladium! So much palladium!) and send lots of inter
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Ideally, the next step is for the US FTC to break up Google. This will probably have to wait until 2028, but it could happen earlier — it doesn't seem to be hard to get on this administration's bad side.
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>Better materials for infills My mother is a dentist on the verge of retirement who used to fly to conferences all the time and ran a reasonably successful dental practice with about a dozen employees (and plenty of computers). She would
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Is it really nylon? Don't we have lots of polymers tougher than nylon? Sure they're expensive, but it's your life, isn't it?
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Is this an active "undecided" or a "we restarted the count so everyone is undecided again" situation? France flipped, but Macron is more geopolitically mercurial than the average world leader.
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If you step on some of Florida's native plants you'll suddenly realize why St. Augustine grass is so popular down there.
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>In some ways, this is a good example of why some prudence is warranted, and maybe you should get the other side of the story. The essay neglects to mention that four of the eight charging stations would be owned by Tesla for example — s
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I like to point out in these threads that my first exposure to "pornography" was a cunnilingus scene in Al Franken's political tirade Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them . I was eleven. I don't think my parents had r
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Less accessible. Illicit LSD production will probably never be as widespread as it was before the List of Chemicals was introduced. You can develop alternative manufacturing methods for most drugs. But a hexahydroindolo[4,3-fg]quinoline? No
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I think that retinal might react with porphyrins. The former is a reactive aldehyde, the latter is a pyrrole derivative.
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This also occurs in the Rockies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal,_Gunnison_County,_Colo...
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Seems like a good place to repost my comment from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44676726 > I think the root of the problem is that it's just extremely unpleasant to moderate user-generated adult cont
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I think the root of the problem is that it's just extremely unpleasant to moderate user-generated adult content. It's already difficult to moderate content on a somewhat serious online forum like Hacker News . Facebook moderators
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Tell HN: I am sitting in radonc while Microsoft tortures a cancer patient
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There was already a war on the border of Russia and Ukraine in 2022. The Donbas conflict from 2014-22 took thousands of lives and devastated several towns.
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The good thing about northern regions is that they tend to be wet and have low population density. This is pretty good for pumped hydro even if batteries aren't cheap enough at a particular time. But it's not clear when the manufa
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Solar and batteries have made a lot of strides. At the technology level, it looks great. The problem is that energy is a concerted industry that requires all of the parts to work together. That requires institutions that are ready and willi
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That graph shows sunlight in the upper atmosphere, but at sea level, the 400-450 nanometer blues are partially scattered out. The peak we see on the ground is broader, and centered more around 450-550 nanometers, a range that tends more tow

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