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by sitharus 7y ago
I agree, there's so much about the brain we don't understand, plus whole sections overlap or process multiple sources. Nothing is simple in the brain! In terms of the amount of your grain required or dedicated to each input this s
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by sitharus 7y ago
You have, at birth, around 3,500 auditory hair cells per ear ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_cell ), so 7000 inputs to process for sound. Sure your brain does a lot with that information to project a 3D sound fiel
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by sitharus 7y ago
For me, it's not about the sound. A clean record played with a quality stylus sounds about the same as a digital recording. However, you get a physical copy with full-size artwork, and it's a chance to support the artist directly.
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by sitharus 7y ago
Heating isn't a problem, cooling is. Most aircraft use "bleed air" from the compressor on the engine. That air is extremely hot (>150°C), so it requires a lot of cooling. Aircraft air conditioners are known as "packs&
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by sitharus 7y ago
The cheapness is mostly because the civets are kept in cages and only fed coffee cherries https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/04/160429-kopi-...
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by sitharus 7y ago
No, my first generation airport express from 2009 still works as an AirPlay device from the latest iOS. Sure you can’t configure it from latest macOS, but airplay still works. I can’t recall when the last software update was, but I haven’t
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by sitharus 7y ago
One of the major supermarket chains in New Zealand has rolled them out to many of their stores over the past decade or so. They look pretty good.
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by sitharus 7y ago
You can also be an anarcho-socialist. It’s just authoritarian socialism that’s most often described as socialism. Socialism just describes the idea that the means of production is owned in common (by the government for authoritarian sociali
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by sitharus 7y ago
Not entirely. For many centuries singular ‘they’ had been used when gender is uncertain or unknown. In the last hundred years or so some (primarily American) language teachers decided that singular ‘they’ was wrong and adopted ‘he/she’
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by sitharus 7y ago
There are multiple factors that lead to suicide. This study shows air pollution is one, but there are others that lead to an elevated suicide rate in rural areas of the US.
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by sitharus 7y ago
Joker is an R-rated film. Your 12-year-old niece being affected is to be expected, the rating is set for a reason.
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by sitharus 7y ago
This is true, PCI DSS still requires password expiry. The trick is figuring out the boundary of the systems that are subject to PCI.
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by sitharus 7y ago
My bank has explicitly told me that using Pliad/Yodlee violates their T&Cs and voids their entire online fraud protection, regardless of if one of those services is at fault.
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by sitharus 7y ago
As someone who lives in an area without water and sewerage services anything to reduce water consumption is a bonus, especially if it's biodegradable. Sure, a flush is only 3-4 litres but that could make the difference in a dry summer.
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by sitharus 7y ago
How big of a city? Does 1.6 million people count? If Auckland, New Zealand runs on 80% renewable electricity which is certainly a majority in my books.
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by sitharus 7y ago
When I was shopping for a dryer I compared the running costs of heat pump dryers, condenser dryers and a regular waste-the-hot-air dryer. The payback time for energy efficiency was around 2,500 loads for condenser and 4,000 loads for heatpu
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by sitharus 7y ago
It took three years of planning to accomplish. Plus it was in the 1960s when there were fewer and slower cars, fewer motorways and generally fewer explicit markings.
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by sitharus 7y ago
This is totally hearsay, but I've heard from multiple older engineers that as computer models have been improved over time the safety factor has been reduced as we have more accurate simulations. If the safety factors from the '50
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by sitharus 7y ago
In New Zealand I pay ~29c US/kWh for 80% renewable generation during the day. 11pm-7am it runs about US10c/kWh. Handy for charging the car. I live ~500km from the main generation source as well, until a larger local geothermal pla
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by sitharus 7y ago
I've had both a decently priced Miele and a Dyson barrel vacuum before (can't remember the model numbers now, this was a while ago) and when dealing with pets and my wife's hair the Dyson wins hands down. The Miele clogged ho
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by sitharus 7y ago
A rear-end collision is caused by the following driver being too close. A car in front could at any time, for any reason, use full breaking force and you have to plan your following distance appropriately. That said, a good way to get an an
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by sitharus 7y ago
He ended up discovering something new about the mechanism and has spent the past few months working on a research paper about it. Hopefully it'll come out soon.
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by sitharus 7y ago
They avoidance of ‘they’ as a singular personal pronoun is a recent occurrence, historically it has been used frequently when gender is unknown or unclear. The Oxford English Dictionary did some research on the history last year https:&#x2
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by sitharus 7y ago
I had that problem, but I'd turned on the experimental WebGL 2.0 support. Turned it off and it ran fine.
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by sitharus 7y ago
A very large number of people get their water from captured rain water stored in tanks. I do myself. It's not mineral-free but it's certainly very low in dissolved minerals. I appear to be alive, as do many others.
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by sitharus 7y ago
If the tracking is done by a site you directly visit, no. Only cross-site tracking, like Google do to build ad profiles, is targeted for blocking. I guess the next step for advertisers will be to enlist the websites themselves to send throu
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by sitharus 7y ago
Plastic bags are _short term_ less costly to produce, but unlike paper they do not readily degrade in the environment and produce long term environmental damage. They're not the only or largest proportion of plastic pollution, but you
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by sitharus 7y ago
Not that I know of. You can certainly take advantage of balance transfer offers that some card providers have to bounce the credit around, but most only do that for new accounts.
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by sitharus 7y ago
The cash advance penalty is to protect the system cut. When you pay $50 for a meal the credit card system takes a 2-6% (some countries/regions limit this to sane amounts like 0.5-1%, eg EU countries and Australia) cut depending on the
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by sitharus 7y ago
The only downside to the filament LED bulbs is the flicker. Much like old fluorescent tubes they flicker at twice the supply frequency due to the very small driver circuitry. That said I just saw a Big Clive video with a much better driver

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