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by tehwalrus 9y ago
Podcasts are RSS feeds aren't they?
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
> They also seem to preserve the number of total CO2 molecules around. Of course, they are chemical reactions. Did you think they would destroy atoms? The idea here is to make renewable hydrocarbons: when you burn them, they are only p
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(no... The USA is below both Norway and Ireland in the rankings table of GDP per capita, pretty consistently over the different measurements.
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
The UK. https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights (I was actually shocked that Americans don't always get paid holiday.) Note that we also have 6 months paid maternity leave, and 1 weeks paid paternity leave, with
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
No, dark matter does interact with other matter: but only through gravitational forces, not electromagnetic or nuclear ones.
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
> 1. Obama's 2008 election absolutely bragged about their use of social media to win. I vividly remember multiple long articles in the NYTimes talking about how they exploited new tech to reach voters. Talking to people using thei
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
The old hypothesis was that many things — famously anti-depressants and excercise — promote neurogenesis. This study is refuting that whole bank of research, which was based on indirect observations.
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
Energy conservation. You're pushing (literally) against the electrical workload of the connected circuits (places where people have plugged a device into a socket and made a loop). When there's more to push against, your steam goe
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
This definition includes computer viruses. Did you mean to?
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
C# Software Engineer | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | jobs.picotech.com Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and data loggers. Based out of our head office in St Neots, UK, ou
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
C# Software Engineer | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | jobs.picotech.com Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and data loggers. Based out of our head office in St Neots, UK, ou
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
See some of the other comments on this thread. The algorithm isn't open source, seems to be the main (valid) criticism.
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
They actually refunded everyone who bought a "one word", and are focusing on the (free to use) 3 word addresses. And it works offline too (always has). What3words is a deterministic hash of the gps coords.
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
What3words works offline in a free (as in beer) app. They want to monetise by charging the courier companies who save money in this precise case.
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
Much maligned on Hacker News though it is, this is precisely the killer application that what3words is good for. It works offline on cheap android devices with GPS for discovery, which can also be done with a satellite map. Directions via a
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
1kW to maintain is nonsense. My 11kW limited motorbike (much lower air resistance) can barely do 65mph, sometimes hits 70 on a downhill. Any wind and you won't break 60.
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
Marvellous! :)
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
The calculation has to include the whole set of stuff the Republicans break and cost you though, not just net neutrality and your connection bill.
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
> To simply dismiss facts that are being presented to you by experts, when you have a legal obligation to receive and consider such facts, is another matter entirely. That makes it sound like you can sue the FCC for not meeting their leg
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
Hmm, that's not the comparison here. Wanderers, travellers (especially those in youth hostels) were often doing that activity in part to meet a wide variety of people, something they were less able to do staying in one place at that ti
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
The grandparent cites the UK, where we have two orders of magnitude fewer firearm deaths per capita[1] with complete prohibition of private handgun ownership. (People can still join a shooting club, which keeps them in a locked cabinet). [1
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
C# Software Engineer | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | http://jobs.picotech.com Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and data loggers. Based out of our head office
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
The comparison between a person administering an unsecured computer network and a drunk driver has just made my list of legal IT analogies, along side BitTorrent being a car that might be used as the getaway vehicle in a robbery. Thanks, I
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
Aaand a glaring hole in my ability to evaluate language learning techniques is revealed to me: I can't actually speak any of the languages in his examples. Well, at least I mentioned Ms Lomb as well!
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
Lots of people pointing out that languages are hard, the numbers given are for really intensive programmes etc. Not that I had any success with it, but here is a book/site about how to learn which I found interesting: https:/&#x2
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
So, about the same time we'll run out of fossil fuels we're burning to mine them?
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
I wouldn't talk to anyone: they'd die of several diseases from my breath pretty quickly if I understand the epidemiology of it. I wouldn't want to kill people, or get labelled a plague carrier!
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
That ketchup bottle analogy is wonderful, thank you :)
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
The central thesis (thar as a toxic value) seems plausible, but his examples are all crazy, and his deduction about economic prosperity is questionable at best. Look at the UK as an example of somewhere with extreme classism and heredity of
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
Thanks!

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