solohan

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   by solohan 5y ago

   I was confused as well. Perhaps they're referring to the actual title of the article on nytimes.com which is "Meet the Beauty Queens of Al Dhafra". I like the HN title better too.
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   by solohan 5y ago

   I use WD-40 for my bike chain specifically because it's not an oil and because it dries out fast. This helps prevent gunk build up and makes cleaning the drive train a lot easier. I clean and reapply after/before every ride. Will
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   by solohan 5y ago

   Thanks for elaborating on this. I guess the confusion also stems from the word "heat" which we usually associate with something that's warmer than some human day-to-day reference. Heat in the physical sense though just refers
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   by solohan 5y ago

   Actually, the heat death is when all potential energy in the universe has been converted to heat. So converting an excess of stored chemical energy in their laptop battery to heat by compiling a load of Haskell would be a fine way of increa
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   by solohan 5y ago

   This. I couldn't imagine driving in South East Asia without the horn. Scary story: My cousin almost killed a cyclist once after moving back to Europe after living in Asia for years. She used the horn as a friendly message (or so she th
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   by solohan 5y ago

   Perhaps I'm biased, but I find navigating application menus on MacOS infinitely easier due to the fact that it's location is constant and dictated by Apple. On Windows (or even Linux) I have to go searching for the menu items for
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   by solohan 5y ago

   This looks like the journal page: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/article/102/7/143... Also has a link to download the PDF for free.
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   by solohan 5y ago

   Note that this still leaks DNS lookups. You can use https://github.com/bekh6ex/firefox-container-proxy instead until they fix that.
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   by solohan 7y ago

   I sympathize with this argument, but it has several problems: Rights and wrongs are inherently social constructs. The is no (currently) discovered moral potential in the laws of the universe, nor is there a well defined, clearly bounded, de
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    by solohan 7y ago

    Thank you for writing this out. Very interesting read! I very much agree with you that writing textbooks, digesting and refactoring other authors work, is often as important as the original work itself. Indeed, what is the value of a good i