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by ultratalk 7mo ago
https://archive.ph/Yedra
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by ultratalk 7mo ago
https://archive.ph/Tp1Yy
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The slow death of the English boarding school(ft.com)
1 points by ultratalk 7mo ago|1 comments
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by ultratalk 7mo ago
Eternal AI september.
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by ultratalk 7mo ago
Well, maybe it was normal ~10 years ago, when that comic was published, but is now getting rarer and rarer, as each new generation consolidates itself on a single platform.
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by ultratalk 7mo ago
When most of your social circle exists on one platform, you tend to use that platform less for its specific features, and more because of the fact that all your friends are there. I don't personally use Instagram, and this is anecdotal
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by ultratalk 7mo ago
Network effects will keep a person on a platform until a critical mass of their social circle decide to leave all at once. I'm no expert, but I suspect that that critical mass is pretty high, maybe more than 50% of a person's circ
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by ultratalk 7mo ago
I specifically said "one of the largest", not just "the largest". The US is (was?) the second-largest investor in clean energy [0]. [0] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/annual-inve
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by ultratalk 7mo ago
Am I the only one who saw the title and thought it was about physical clean-rooms?
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by ultratalk 7mo ago
I suppose that the specifics of what I said were mistaken, but the general sentiment remains the same. It doesn't seem like this conflict will last as long as the embargo, and when one of the largest investors into new technologies has
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by ultratalk 7mo ago
I don't think GP was forcing anyone to do anything.
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by ultratalk 7mo ago
A lot of the world tried to shift to renewables during the ~10-year-long 1970s embargo. They went straight back to sweet old oil afterwards. This isn't gonna last nearly as long. Don't get me wrong, I hope and pray that renewables
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by ultratalk 7mo ago
The strait is considered closed when a country not afraid to use its military says ships can't cross.
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by ultratalk 7mo ago
"The greatest ideas are the simplest." - William Golding
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by ultratalk 7mo ago
> Iwamoto and Scheschkewitz say pentasilacyclopentadienides could be ligands for catalysts and materials.
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One of the last 3 members of an Amazonian tribe gives birth to a baby boy(apnews.com)
2 points by ultratalk 7mo ago|0 comments
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by ultratalk 7mo ago
I'm guessing it's the latter, because you have to keep the mine-disabling mechanisms working and powered up through possible adverse weather and environmental conditions for long enough that the conflict has a fair chance of havin
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by ultratalk 7mo ago
> He spent a number of weeks mentoring 20 newly-recruited rats How does that work for a rat? Sounds interesting.
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by ultratalk 8mo ago
Another usage of the word "lost" is to indicate when the spacecraft has become dysfunctional. Although, that one is the verb form, not the adjective.
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by ultratalk 8mo ago
https://xkcd.com/927/
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by ultratalk 9mo ago
> Well managed people are much happier in my experienced Emphasis on the well-managed. If the management actually helps the tram achieve their goals and doesn't stifle them, then great. Otherwise, you end up with bloat.
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by ultratalk 9mo ago
> Modularity would be great too. Unfortunately, that wouldn't pad the car companies' margins. What's best for th consumer is generally worse for the company.
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by ultratalk 9mo ago
Me neither.
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by ultratalk 9mo ago
DuckDuckGo has a js-free version of their website at https://html.duckduckgo.com/
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by ultratalk 9mo ago
Both channels were started because of enjoyment and a sense of purpose, and in his latest video, Derek from Veritasium mentioned that he continued doing it, even after money began rolling in, because it was fun and it helped improve people.
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by ultratalk 9mo ago
People still do this here.
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by ultratalk 9mo ago
I live in India and what I've noticed is that the position of the "refuel your car" fuel pump icon shows where the inlet is.
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by ultratalk 10mo ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2270/
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by ultratalk 10mo ago
> In December 2023, researchers identified four categories of teen who had not yet joined the site. Does anybody know which study or paper this is referencing? Or is it an internal study by Instagram?
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by ultratalk 10mo ago
This link doesn't seem to work for me. I tried it with archive.ph and then it worked.

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