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by zahma 2y ago
I think you’re giving way too much credit to medical associations to rig the game in their favor. They exert enough influence over all fifty states and the various private institutions to systemically deny training to qualified candidates?
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by zahma 3y ago
No need to panic. I also use a Zerowater filter. I'd be worried about drinking distilled water after exercising or in high heat because it can lead to hyponatremia -- low blood sodium levels (see https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by zahma 3y ago
The city started during the pandemic and has moved toward making these bike lanes more permanent. There is also a deep dissatisfaction with public transportation here. While comprehensive throughout the entirety of the Paris metropolitan, i
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by zahma 3y ago
I try Orion once in a while when my Firefox configuration breaks a website. I actually enjoy it and appreciate the zero telemetry and functionality with both Google and Firefox plugin marketplaces. It’s also great for my laptop’s battery li
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by zahma 3y ago
I don't see why I would want to use anything else. Even if Chrome is marginally faster in an arbitrary benchmark test, I doubt I'd notice. And so far, I have no interoperability issues between Firefox on my laptop (macOS) and my i
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by zahma 3y ago
In a hierarchy of urban planning, I’d favor removing space for cars over demolishing precious space for affordable housing. To that effect, I wouldn’t point to Haussmann who bulldozed plenty of homes and neighborhoods for his unified vision
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by zahma 3y ago
I hope this isn’t a revelation to anyone at this point. Of course greenery reduces heat, but more than anything it means removing concrete, which mitigates the urban heat island effect. (Urban heat islands absorb heat energy during the day,
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by zahma 3y ago
Not sure what your point is. You can remove an intersection, plant trees, and put a footpath or bike lane through it. The point is precisely to downsize roads. It would make it safer for pedestrians too.
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by zahma 3y ago
“At this point, the researchers also realized that the heat could inadvertently melt the adhesive cellophane and cause the flaming SPTs to suddenly eject from the toaster. Unfortunately, this did not occur.” That made me laugh out loud. Thi
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by zahma 3y ago
Part of the reason cities are hostile is due to their un-greenness. For every street that bisects a block, consider how many trees could go there. Then consider what that would afford the local ecosystem. Then consider the reduction in nois
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by zahma 3y ago
Firefox Relay is a handy assistant to at least stymie email tracking and is neatly integrated with the browser. The free tier gets you a few masked emails that forward to your actual inbox. You can't reply through the masked email with
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by zahma 3y ago
They do manage to filter inorganic solids, but I’m not sure about microplastics. I assumed they did, but they’re hesitant to say on their site. Perhaps I mistakenly assumed that if they can eliminate PFAs from water, microplastics are also
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by zahma 3y ago
Start here: https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2020/p... The answer is yes, and it is absolutely important. If plastics disrupt our endocrine system, then that touches every facet of our bo
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by zahma 3y ago
ZeroWater makes a carafe that reduces total dissolved solids to 0 ppm, including PFAs and microplastics, or so they claim. I have tested it with two different monitors, and it is indeed 0 ppm, which is good enough to be considered distilled
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by zahma 3y ago
Thinly-veiled payola as the threat of free filing looms large over their extortionate business model. I don’t doubt there are some good use cases for TurboTax, but for the vast majority of tax filers, it’s excessive. Perhaps if the tax code
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by zahma 3y ago
It doesn’t seem like the pirates who were described in the article were behind any kind of proxy, which is why the ISP Frontier repeatedly wrote them to desist. They were pirating on the clearnet without any obfuscation. Pretty dumb and eas
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by zahma 3y ago
What a silly idea. Universities are not just in charge with academic education but rather with the formation of a person’s character. To succeed with the latter, academic capability must be held alongside the estimation of one’s character,
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by zahma 3y ago
"When we cease to understand the world" is phenomenal. With that out of the way, I got a kick out of this not-a-profile-profile piece. A little bit of mystery and intrigue is healthy, and it certainly works for his writing style.
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by zahma 3y ago
The biggest shock is that we still put the burden of proof on science to demonstrate the extent to which food chains are disrupted by isolated uses of pesticides, as if habitat fragmentation, global warming, land use change, pollution, wate
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by zahma 3y ago
Can someone explain to me why this is being treated like a watershed moment? Obviously I know there's a lot of money tied up in OpenAI through Microsoft, but why should the street care about any of these backroom activities? Aren'
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by zahma 3y ago
Surprised it’s actually symmetrical. Though I’ve never understood why, it’s always perplexed and irritated me that they typically offer upload bandwidth at a tenth of download. In the day and age of remote work, you’d think this would be il
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by zahma 3y ago
You must not have read the article all the way through: the problem — if we can call it that — is a decrease in consumption but not in viniculture, hence the issue of a market glut. I do not know which kinds of wine are to be destroyed, but
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by zahma 3y ago
Amazingly useful resource even today. Because bikes are timeless, a vintage model might only be serviceable with the help of an experienced mechanic or Sheldon Brown’s site. I’m exaggerating since there clearly are other fora of knowledge a
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by zahma 3y ago
I had this same thought, but given the blatant profiling of the China Initiative for four years —- to say nothing of other social prejudices, it might not have taken so much pressure but rather a gentle nudge to consider one’s environment.
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by zahma 3y ago
Your comment is disingenuous. While there are certainly many businesses who do not undertake sustainability efforts in earnest or at all, we (as consumers) have to want companies to try. Otherwise they are even further disincentivized to ma
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by zahma 3y ago
This site is a solid way of seeking work at a good company or being a responsible consumer. When I was looking for work in environmental policy around 2016/18, I looked at this tool and it was sparsely populated. Now it feels like ma
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by zahma 3y ago
I didn’t even know this word existed until I started reading along in HN threads.
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by zahma 3y ago
And so Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake tech campus vision begins. It’s frightening to think that as the world becomes increasingly hostile and inhospitable, especially in California, that company store villages like this will become sanctu
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by zahma 3y ago
It is like that in France too, and it’s especially disturbing since it’s aimed at young people.
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by zahma 3y ago
Sounds like you were fortunate to have multiple people around, an AED nearby, and someone well-trained. You’re probably right that AED helped prevent physical damage, though that may also be due to good technique and or your anatomy. The so

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