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by skookum 7y ago
> There's a real business model somewhere in here. https://petapixel.com/2019/05/22/the-chinese-instagram-villa...
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by skookum 7y ago
> To be honest, I don't get the mania for processed meat substitutes... It seems you didn't even bother to read the article to check if it would make good segue into your vegan epiphany story: there is no mention of processed m
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by skookum 7y ago
The OP simply misspelled 'principal'. By ">50% of principal" they meant that the interest paid over the life of the loan is more than 50% of the original loan amount.
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by skookum 8y ago
Here's another study reaching the opposite conclusion: https://heart.bmj.com/content/104/21/1756 The key difference is "Among US adults..." versus "Among Chinese adults..." Hmmm, mayb
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by skookum 8y ago
If it were just southern Ontario that would be one thing. Every flight from the US west coast to Europe spends half (from SEA) to a third (from SFO or LAX) of its flight time in Canadian airspace. However all such flights would likely alrea
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Owner who demolished famed San Francisco house must build replica(bbc.com)
57 points by skookum 8y ago|60 comments
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by skookum 8y ago
Forget the cost... 500 rolls is over 30lbs! I can't imagine carting that much film around while backpacking. I don't think I ever brought more than about 4-5 dozen rolls even on month-plus length trips - that plus a lead-lined bag
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by skookum 8y ago
> ...it's not reasonable to expect the majority of people to be able to outsmart the system... "Our kids are used to sushi." Their problem isn't being outsmarted by the system. Their problem is feeling entitled to a l
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by skookum 8y ago
This reply is somewhat disingenuous. Read the question instead as "can your average millennial stuff away 64% of their income?" To achieve the "shockingly simple" 11 year FIRE goal in that blog post, someone working 40 h
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by skookum 8y ago
EIS is more akin to a poor-man's gimbal than it is to OIS, and that's the purpose it serves in GoPros. One could argue that for sufficiently small range of movement a gimbal and OIS can serve similar purposes for stills photograp
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by skookum 8y ago
> A camera rotating or tilting > I'm pretty educated on what I'm talking about. Then you should know that tilting is rotation. Unless by rotation you mean specifically around the optical axis to differentiate from pitch an
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by skookum 8y ago
You're ignoring the application. OIS systems move a subgroup of lens elements to compensate for movement of the camera. The degree of that movement is very limited. The main purpose of OIS is to approximate a stationary camera platform
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by skookum 8y ago
If you don't understand why someone would buy a GoPro-type camera instead of just using their iPhone then you are probably well outside of the target market. In addition to the mobile phone form factor being unsuitable for a wide numbe
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by skookum 8y ago
The respective pros and cons of EIS & OIS don't change with light level. EIS works by cropping part of the image which results in a narrower FoV and a lower resolution, however these effects occur regardless of how bright the scene
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by skookum 8y ago
For a longer treatment of the same topic, I recommend reading the book The Haywire Heart by Case/Mandrola/Zinn.
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by skookum 8y ago
Among other potential caveats, it's worth keeping in mind that this study is of probiotic supplements and not of foods containing probiotics. Seems reminiscent of the studies on antioxidants concluding they are useless and/or ha
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by skookum 8y ago
There's a bit of "the dose makes the poison" at play here as well: Cooking with coconut oil is one thing. Making bulletproof coffee with 2-3 tbsp of coconut oil per serving is quite another.
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by skookum 8y ago
I hiked the Inca Trail in Peru in the late 90s. Not only was there Pepsi in the Andes, it was even available on the remotest sections of the trail. People wearing flip-flops carried cases of glass-bottled Pepsi and Coke (using just tumpline
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by skookum 8y ago
> I don't think it would take much for one of the better bike manufacturers to duplicate the "nice bike" part. No need to duplicate Peleton's nice bike. Quality indoor bikes were around long before Peloton added the c
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by skookum 8y ago
There aren't millions of users freely choosing to use this system. There are millions of speculators hoping that some day billions of users will freely choose to use this system and that <insert giant leap of logic> these particu
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by skookum 8y ago
Pesticide industry shill has "an ethical problem" with eating organic due to the tactics used by that industry. Is this satire?
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The Vindication of Cheese, Butter, and Full-Fat Milk(theatlantic.com)
1 points by skookum 8y ago|0 comments
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by skookum 8y ago
There is a fjord in Norway that is considered to be at high risk of experiencing a landslide-driven tsunami of similar magnitude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geirangerfjord#Rock_slides https://www.youtube.
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by skookum 8y ago
>There are probably $100 million in profits in New York and San Francisco alone. If we extend "San Francisco" to mean "Bay Area" and estimate that New York + Bay Area have a population of about 16M then if the company
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by skookum 8y ago
In your haste to be derisive you missed the adjective "solo" in the title. While I would agree Alex is probably not in the running for greatest climber, I think one could make the case that he is the greatest solo climber, and or
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by skookum 8y ago
> Isn't less better when hot air drying? Yes. That's the point. The volumes I was referring to were the volumes of the appliances' tubs, not the volume of the load. The assumption is that the load is constant since it need
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by skookum 8y ago
China does not pay tariffs on goods it sells in the US. The importers of those goods into the US do.
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by skookum 8y ago
> with everything that makes it soda removed Everything that makes soda soda is bad for me. I could buy soda and remove that stuff myself, which is a fair bit of work. Or I could pay someone to do it for me. The fact that Pepsi does this
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by skookum 8y ago
The optimal tub volume to wash a load is significantly less than the minimum volume to properly dry the same load with blown-air tumble drying. It's possible that without a leap to a different drying technology the dual-purpose laundry
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by skookum 8y ago
"A lot of people believing something does not make it true" is not equivalent to "A lot of people believing something makes it untrue."

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