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by teslabox 2y ago
My neighbor has a live rat trap that he doesn't need to bait anymore. The rats are doing their thing exploring, they go into the trap looking for food, and triggers the trap mechanism. When he finds a rat in his trap, he removes it to
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by teslabox 2y ago
My dad lost two sets of sparkplug wires to pack rats [0], circa 2016-2017. I recall him sharing that the auto store staff told him the bioplastics used to insulate the wires tastes like peanuts. He switched to a different brand, and didn&#x
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by teslabox 2y ago
There are old studies on the hazard of blue light. I found a few of them on https://scholar.google.com - I suspect they’re hard to find if you don’t know about specific keywords to include in your query. The blue light problem h
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by teslabox 2y ago
The bad LEDs can also be improved with yellow or amber film, which is more accessible to most people than desoldering. I found a German company that sent me a free sample of their amber film. As I recall their market was semiconductor manuf
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by teslabox 2y ago
Low pressure sodium lights were more efficient, but they emit a single wavelength of orange light. These lights were strongly disliked by people who liked to admire their car in the streetlights (I suppose). > residential streets mostly
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by teslabox 2y ago
I’m not well-read on the old lighting research, but I’ve come across some explanations for why humans actually do much better with amber outdoor lighting than white. One of these points relates to how our pupils expand and contract with the
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by teslabox 2y ago
Blue-white LEDs have become the replacement for High Pressure Sodium [HPS] traffic lights because that's what the LED light companies have to sell. In the early years of the transition to LED streetlights they had to sell blue-white LE
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by teslabox 2y ago
The shift to unsafe high-blue lights is simply a matter of forgetting what was figured out. In the 20th century the lighting companies (GE, etc) had all the money in the world, and spent a lot on R&D. They figured out how to get the mos
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by teslabox 2y ago
I use yellow glasses for driving at night, and low-blue bulbs (amber and orange bulbs, and a dimmer switch on halogen bulbs) for lighting inside at night. Interesting information on your links. There are some local businesses that have haza
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by teslabox 2y ago
Albertsons/Safeway was purchased by private equity [0]. They used the terms of the merger to 'cash out' - my understanding was the PE firm has already drained Albertsons' cash reserve. Checking on the twitter, apparently
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by teslabox 2y ago
My understanding is the RDA is the bare minimum to avoid obvious symptoms of deficiency, and that everyone does better with 500 to 1000mcg. I think there's a case to be made for being cautious about getting too much supplemental iodine
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by teslabox 2y ago
What kinds of magnesium and iodine did you use? Do you live in a goiter belt? 1mg == 1000 micrograms. RDA for iodine is about 150mcg for teens and adults, 220mcg for pregnant women and 290mcg for lactating women. I think the Japanese diets
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by teslabox 2y ago
Smallpox was able to be eradicated because it’s a disease that people only get once, and which does not have an animal reservoire. The smallpox vaccine was intradermal, rather than intramuscular. Resistance to inoculation was reduced becau
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by teslabox 2y ago
My dad lost 2 new sets of spark plug wires to pack rats. He switched to a brand that didn’t taste like peanuts. Lost an antilock brake sensor recently. We bought a rid-a-rat (flashing light that makes the area seem unsafe), but that only pr
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by teslabox 2y ago
US Navy Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was said to have observed, "There are only two kinds of ships: submarines and targets". In the modern era of low-cost drones and missiles, all surface ships are sitting ducks. The US Navy has miss
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by teslabox 2y ago
McDonald's was bullied into changing its fryer oil by Phil Sokolof [0], who himself was tricked into believing his 1966 heart attack was caused by saturated fat. This article says Sokolof paid for ads to bully McDonalds in 1988: https
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by teslabox 2y ago
Beef tallow was standard practice for fryers, until it was mostly replaced with “vegetable oil”. > vegetarians or people who don’t eat beef were mad. I think you’re referring to the vegetarian who sued Buffalo Wild Wings for still using
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by teslabox 2y ago
> It did not stem the tide against the rise in obesity, which began in the 70s, largely due to the explosive growth of cheap fast food and junk food, lobbying, and a lack of education around food and health. There was a series of science
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by teslabox 2y ago
Ruminants can eat things that humans cannot eat or should not eat. Bacteria in the ruminant stomach can bio-hydrogenate the unsaturated oils in their feed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38437204 Dairy cows are an eff
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by teslabox 2y ago
Read yesterday that one strategy for getting rid of a timeshare is to make sure it’s in the name of the old person who owns it. After they die the probate administrator sends a letter to the timeshare company, ‘no one wanted to take over th
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by teslabox 2y ago
My HN comment, linked to as [0], was on a submission about the history of NovaMin - iirc it was originally used for soldiers in Vietnam, then came to be used for repair of teeth. You can do your own experiment: $10 for a tube, plus $6 shipp
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by teslabox 2y ago
I learned about Novamin a few years ago [0], and ordered BioMin Restore [1] to give it a try. I'm now a devoted customer. There are other Novamin/hydroxyapatite toothpastes, but I only have experience with this one brand. I think
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by teslabox 2y ago
> M-Discs have solved it. I have an M-Disc writer and some M-Disc DVDs, so I took note of this submission ~2 years ago: PSA: Verbatim no longer sells real M Discs, now puts regular BD-Rs in M Disc packaging - https://old.red
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by teslabox 2y ago
I had some more R134a added to my car recently. The mechanic said when he had his shop, he would have completely evacuated the system to measure how many ounces of refrigerant were still in the system. He also said the old R12 systems were
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by teslabox 2y ago
> But HVAC supply shops will sell them to you, you don’t need to be licensed or anything to buy them. My local HVAC supplier doesn't sell to non-licensed people. I think they don't like dealing with returns from people who don&
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by teslabox 2y ago
I picked up a Honda snowblower for my dad's house this past winter. He shares a non-maintained road with his neighbors, and for the past few years I've helped them with shoveling. Dad always tried to do his part with clearing the
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by teslabox 2y ago
I salvaged some dandelion roots from one of my beds. They're currently bunched together in a plastic pot - I ought to find a place to put them. Dandelions are easy to grow because they grow themselves back from the roots every spring.
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by teslabox 2y ago
The building was separated from the land. The new "owners" have to pay a land lease. My grandparents bought the lot next to their house. A business leased the land from them to build a business, then walked away from their buildin
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by teslabox 2y ago
Hypers have to hype to sell things (in this case, red LEDs), but the best photobiomodulation is available for free: go outside, close your eyes, and point your face at the sun. Your eyelids will screen out the harmful UV and blue light. You
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by teslabox 2y ago
Acetaminophen and ibuprofen are said to both have pro-inflammatory properties. My understanding is aspirin is basically safe, and naproxen (Aleve) is not terrible.

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