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by signalToNose 1y ago
Consumer protection laws prevents businesses following this to it’s extreme. For many businesses the ideal would be to just sell stuff that immediately breaks down as soon as it’s sold. It has the fulfilled its purpose from their point of v
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by signalToNose 1y ago
Must be a burden to have a family name that also is a disease, like Alzheimer.
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by signalToNose 1y ago
Coin mining and AI database centers consumer huge amounts of power. I’m not really exited about either. Both enterprises seems like scams to centralize wealth and power to a few actors.
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by signalToNose 1y ago
And as a consequence, massive migration from inhabitable regions. Hard to imagine the implication when there are billions of people affected
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by signalToNose 1y ago
The five stages of grief, often referred to as the Kübler-Ross model, are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
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by signalToNose 1y ago
Mushrooms technically are not plants
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by signalToNose 1y ago
The Day of the Triffids
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by signalToNose 1y ago
Ancient people certainly cared about quality. (1) But as the article concludes, it seem they were not to concerned in this case (1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nāṣir
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by signalToNose 1y ago
Xkcd radiatorn chart: https://xkcd.com/radiation/
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by signalToNose 1y ago
And my ax
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by signalToNose 2y ago
Most of politic seems to be about negotiating to keep a third of the population away from power. Because once they get in power they will trash almost anything in their path
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by signalToNose 2y ago
Polen corrected course slightly in resent time.
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by signalToNose 2y ago
Wild at heart. Very approachable, but gory and brutal. The angst seep trough
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by signalToNose 2y ago
Danmark is one of the biggest producers of Christmas trees
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by signalToNose 2y ago
So it’s mainly a science and engineering challenge that may or maybe not have any practical application. Quite similar to manned space missions and even bigger particle accelerators etc. The diminishing returns on these mega projects will
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by signalToNose 2y ago
The atoms in my body are not alive.
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by signalToNose 2y ago
What is the definition of plain text? There is hardly any such thing
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by signalToNose 2y ago
One could argue that if a movie is spoiled by someone talking about it, it not that great movie. A great movie is great even if you saw it a dozen times
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by signalToNose 2y ago
Not all tech is a destined to be all encompassing. VR has been “the next big thing” for more than 50 years. VR was invented in 1968 Video phone was invented way back. (1936). It took a very long time to be common and in frequent use. And it
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by signalToNose 2y ago
His boat was also named Bayesian
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by signalToNose 2y ago
Not ethics per se but all students at university in Norway take basic philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examen_philosophicum
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by signalToNose 2y ago
Reader version on mobile seem broken. Hiding reader show a longer article
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by signalToNose 2y ago
I’ve read some books where there where some major developments/ twists that were not clearly stated and not repeated. I had to go back and reread paragraphs to understand. If you read the Bible as a fantasy novel you will come across t
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by signalToNose 2y ago
Skipping world championship when?
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by signalToNose 2y ago
Kurt Vonnegut Galapagos show is an alternative future
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by signalToNose 2y ago
If he didn’t get knighted, would absolut zero be measured in Thomsons?
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by signalToNose 3y ago
22 Tb is a lot of data. I wonder what people do with all the stuff they hoard?
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by signalToNose 3y ago
Ivan Sutherlands sketch pad paper is here: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/14979
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by signalToNose 3y ago
For me it’s Bach: Erbarme dich, mein Gott. In this version: https://youtu.be/BBeXF_lnj_M?si=kPTUsAB19_RyECO5
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by signalToNose 3y ago
Now I’m curious about MongoDb

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