wiremaus

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by wiremaus 5y ago
It completely changed the balance of power between landholders and peasants. Peasants started being able to actually negotiate on wages (to a degree that was revolutionary at the time), which also drove a market for capital and artisan good
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by wiremaus 5y ago
They don't work with it though. The insult was for abusing that catalogue and falsely claiming they could commercially produce and ship something that they could not, and I think it was fairly deserved. I don't really see any so
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by wiremaus 5y ago
The visual AI identification apps are neat, but can and will make dangerous misidentifications. They cannot be used for foraging.
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by wiremaus 5y ago
Be fascinating to hear more about how that actually works; or is it a fabrication by police or drug manufacturers? What mechanism of action would a bunch of metal and exhaust particulate possibly have to produce drug-like effects?
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by wiremaus 5y ago
It's arguably not a strawman argument in the slightest. There have been changes made to these trucks that do a great job of looking aesthetically "tough and mean" and selling trucks, while also making them more dangerous to o
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by wiremaus 6y ago
This truly isn't new; I've seen coffee table books from the 80s that used similar techniques for the photographs. This is a strangely credulous article.
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by wiremaus 6y ago
Nearly all the tech giants of today were not the the first in their niches; they just executed better.
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by wiremaus 6y ago
85 is functional at elevation, but definitely still not preferable at elevation. Works best with carbureted engines, which are obviously few and far between these days. You shouldn't put 85 octane in a modern fuel injected engine perio
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by wiremaus 6y ago
Unfortunately I don't think TDR would help here: the issue isn't gross damage to the metal of the wires, it's subtle damage to the insulation.
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by wiremaus 6y ago
That's accurate: they're the standard in much of the rest of the world due to their lower operating costs. I was using "Euro" only to help people picture the things, it's a common way I've heard them described.
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by wiremaus 6y ago
Good concept. Well implemented HDR is a great way to get phones to reproduce more "true to life" images. Interestingly, the final rendering in the Pixel 3 looks better to my eyes.
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by wiremaus 6y ago
The magic product the writer is looking for does exist — somewhat. It's those Euro style mini-split heat pumps, that pump coolant through an external unit. Up front cost is higher, but the efficiency gains are huge, and they can cool&#
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by wiremaus 6y ago
That's big money for a lot of Americans, even ones using Google calendar. It's effective bait.
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by wiremaus 6y ago
To steal mercilessly from Wikipedia: The most important difference between pelmeni, varenyky, and pierogi is the thickness of the dough shell—in pelmeni and vareniki this is as thin as possible, and the proportion of filling to dough is us
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by wiremaus 6y ago
Been using PlantNet for a few years, rather surprised to see it up here. It's probably the best of its kind, as long as your photos are sharp and well lit. For scientific identification you still absolutely want to verify with a dichot
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by wiremaus 6y ago
Myco-nerd here: absolutely never rely on the image recognition apps for fungi ID. There are fungi in entire different genera that are VERY morphologically similar, and the apps are just not there yet — likely won't be for a few dozen y
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by wiremaus 7y ago
A bond also loses you the personal/medical liability protection of auto insurance. Very few people who do have enough money would drive with only a bond, as the risks are pretty extreme.
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by wiremaus 7y ago
Same here. I had them running for a small informational website, and they took the site down for several days via surprise cert problems. I may switch to a paid provider.
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by wiremaus 7y ago
What's your basis for that statement? Japanese social norms are quite communitarian, especially around contagious diseases.
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by wiremaus 7y ago
That would be Giffen good, which may not exist at all. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good
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by wiremaus 7y ago
Neonicotinoid pesticides are the likely culprit. Companies that produce them have been sinking large sums of money into studies that search for alternative explanations, and responses that don't simply consist of eliminating neonics.
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by wiremaus 7y ago
Quite a few delicious and safe Amanita spp. out there. It's a genus to be careful in, but there are a number of species that can be eaten with a little experience. Amanita calyptroderma and A. vaginata for instance.
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by wiremaus 7y ago
I read here that loneliness is a significant problem for people in general within the modern world, and somewhat moreso for men. Headline seems a bit clickbaity, as the issue is clearly not exclusive, and the percentage difference relativel
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by wiremaus 7y ago
It would, with setup to replicate the environment. It might well be a miserable buggy experience compared to just using the original hardware.
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by wiremaus 7y ago
'Chinaman' is generally considered quite offensive and dated. I'd switch up the noun there.
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by wiremaus 7y ago
A tiered system much like you describe is exactly what Oregon passed. New developments are largely unrestricted.
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by wiremaus 7y ago
Or you positively know rhat the light has been physically disabled, which is trivial on most cars. Regardless, it seems an incredibly insensitive thing to give a poor rating over.
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by wiremaus 7y ago
What about the tax advantage? I'm not convinced that the co-working spaces are worth their cost, but I assume it's a lot easier to write off a co-working space over a coffee shop order.
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by wiremaus 7y ago
Here's some possible evidence that they're alive and well. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http...
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by wiremaus 8y ago
Not necessarily. Some of these might be universally hated. I bet all of them are pretty interesting, however.

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