sliverstorm

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by sliverstorm 9y ago
(Yes, I was alluding to exactly this irony)
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Just spitballing here, but the Inuit eat a lot of omega-3 which is anti-inflammatory.
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
But transport always must be subsidized by the State, going back to the roads of Rome. Ironically many car drivers object to the public subsidy of rail, arguing transit should never be publicly subsidized.
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
I believe your parent is alluding to the fact that if you are regularly active & get exercise, biking at an easy pace on flat land in good weather won't even cause you to break a sweat, whereas if you sit on the couch all day it wi
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Also somewhat a consequence of diet. I find I generally smell much better when I'm eating well.
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Yeah, it certainly wags its tongue suggestively towards the old idea of a benevolent & competent dictatorship as the most effective form of government.
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
If I go get an old tablet it will take 5x as long to load google.com as the day I bought it. Once upon a time, google.com was like five lines of HTML. Google loved to brag about how they didn't even close their tags, because the page
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Not particularly mysterious, but I got quite a jump one day when I keyed up my 50w VHF mobile in the garage and instanly every single fire alarm in my house went off.
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Trouble is nobody's yet figured out how to build a completely decentralized internet that is anywhere near as good as the regular internet. Mostly because wireless technologies still don't scale that far, which means wires in the
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Real steel cut oats? 20 min. roughly. They're only 20 min on the stove in a pot. What does this do differently?
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
What's age-appropriate? The nails were too big to swallow and the hot glue guns the kind they sell at CVS. The kids cut and poked themselves and learned to be careful. Yup, mostly that. Nobody lost a hand or was rushed to the burn wa
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Oh, nobody will kill themselves, but my parents had a big 'ol fashioned gun that would give small hands a second degree burn quick if you grabbed it anywhere even near the business end. We used smaller guns that had lower heat output &
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Sounds a lot like scout camp. Look into scouting. There's a lot of bad press about the BSA, but each troop is really very independent, and your local troop may be far more inclusive than you might expect. As a kid we were shooting bows
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Age-appropriate hammers, nails, and hot glue guns I hope? Maybe I'm going to become a helicopter parent, but there are hot glue guns I'd want my kindergartener handling, and hot glue guns I wouldn't. Like the difference betwe
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Firefighters in America are doing the same thing, as buildings become more fireproof & smoking declines.
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
I think the Web is unredeemable at this point; there is so much entrenched complexity, ugly hacks, centralization, and misuse of various technologies that it can never be undone. Somewhere, an AMP developer coughs indignantly
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Which is a sinister part of the whole "buy a nice house far away & commute". The further from work, the less time you even get to spend at that nice house...
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
And/or people are just banking on getting theirs & getting out before it gets bad.
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
You can at least pick & choose what pocket. Front pocket & breast pocket, for example, might be close to sensitive things you care about.
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
no-till is incompatible with organic farming? Hadn't heard about that, a shame if true. I'm not a farmer, but I had heard there were a variety of strategies that would qualify as organic, e.g. cover crops that choke out the weeds,
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Which is why in a sense it's a travesty that commodity crops are grown in CA with scarce water.
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
I'm not saying fossil fuel dependency is a good thing, but it's a fact of life It's easy to believe they are utterly indispensable. They are just so convenient , and we love to convince ourselves convenience is really nece
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Isn't this how the march of progress goes sometimes? Somebody does an impossible feat (with help & ideal conditions). They show it can be done. Then other people begin to replicate, and the ideal conditions & support start to b
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
So it's not about the disease after all eh? Pick and choose species that annoy us?
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Why not a gene drive on the disease itself?
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
In general, vestigial traits hang around because there is little selection pressure against them, but new traits don't usually seem to show up & take over for no good reason.
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
As unpalatable as you think that sounds, it's also exactly what we do with car insurance, and has worked mostly fine there for decades, excluding enforcement problems and illegals.
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Mostly what you need is a lot of money and a legal team. There are some government granted monopolies in certain municipalities, but by and large I understand it's just a money problem. The incumbents have tons of established infrastru
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
They are not legally beholden to follow the feedback, but if the FCC is supposed to be an unelected dictatorship, why even require feedback?
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Assuming no change in employment. Yet one of the first arguments for UBI is always that people can then quit their crummy jobs.

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