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by zahma 4y ago
I’m in no way demeaning a farmer by asking if their skill sets can be applied to complicated software. What I’m really wondering is what it takes to fix a hardware problem with this software. I wouldn’t underestimate anyone whose life depen
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by zahma 4y ago
I know more and more farmers are tech savvy and getting acquainted with the tools of the trade — or at least their kids are, but is your average farmer going to know what to do with a root terminal? I’d be worried about further crippling &#
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by zahma 4y ago
Any reason why Google Maps wouldn’t* use the same in-app tracking? Edit: meant why Google wouldn’t do this. I guess what I really mean, is what are the chances they don’t do this?
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by zahma 4y ago
NAD+/NADH is kind of an important energy transporter molecule in your body. If you do not have NAD+ to be reduced to NADH, your body cannot oxidize NADH to power the electron transport chain and drive forward ATP synthase. In other wor
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by zahma 4y ago
Is Amazon in the position where they have so much cash on hand that the most promising short-term growth strategy is for them to aggressively buy new companies? It seems like this is a model of growth for over-expansion —- or world dominati
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by zahma 4y ago
How to synthesize methamphetamine. It was in my organic chemistry textbook.
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by zahma 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der Former PM Schröder is nearly solely responsible for hooking Germany on cheap Russian oil. Just look at who he works for now — he’s effectively a Russian oligarch at
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by zahma 4y ago
The New York Times has a nice obituary on his life.[1] There are two things that I would like to celebrate from his lifetime of innovation. The Gaia Theory is a beautiful framework to understand humanity's outsized impact on the Earth
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by zahma 4y ago
Why aren’t you a fan of the Gaia Theory? It isn’t really much of a theory. The Earth adapts to our foolishness and outsized impact. It will survive in some condition or another even if life as we know it is extinct.
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by zahma 4y ago
That’s how they get you. You’d better anticipate a lot of emails offering you deals to re-up for another few years. I pulled the plug on Nord years ago and haven’t looked back. Steady the course my friend.
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by zahma 4y ago
Which health concerns, though? It's not exactly easy to isolate cause and effect. I do not have comparable research into New York and pollution, but you won't convince me that it is safe to inhale elevated levels of PM2.5. That st
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by zahma 4y ago
More like slang for homeless or a bum.
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by zahma 4y ago
I’m the asshole here for trying to help people who might harm themselves? I don’t think you have a clue what’s happening on services like this. We’re not advocating that people get locked up against their will. You’re out of line.
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by zahma 4y ago
I like good coffee, and I'm not ashamed of it. I'd rather taste flavors than burnt mess. There's so much you can do with a bean in terms of its processing and roasting. I also drink good coffee because it puts a premium on th
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by zahma 4y ago
Is there really a killer feature of Chrome that justifies its use over FF? I've been using Firefox and have never been disappointed with it. I always just assumed that if you wanted privacy, it's better to use Firefox over Chrome,
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by zahma 4y ago
I respect your position on autonomy and letting people control their bodies. However, I am not sure if I personally am prepared to take it to this extreme. It's not how I was raised, and something is deeply unsettling to me to be a par
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by zahma 4y ago
You're viewing this rather myopically. If someone texts us, we're operating under a valid presumption that they value their life, otherwise why text for help? We can't call EMS on someone we're unaware even exists.
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by zahma 4y ago
I am a Crisis Text Line volunteer. So the short answer is yes we do call EMS when we have to. I posted this longer answer in a different parent on this thread, but I'll re-post it since it directly speaks to your question and sheds som
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by zahma 4y ago
This isn't a reasonable blanket policy. While I definitely would feel encouraged knowing my pilot has not displayed suicidal ideation, I do not support tracking writ large. For example, resident physicians are known for being pushed to
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by zahma 4y ago
> Many, if not most, of these places give the operator full access to your phone number and whatever geolocation data they can get based on that. They also have policies where the operator is allowed/encouraged to call emergency ser
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by zahma 4y ago
As if there’s going to be a world left living in after a nuclear war ends. In the US, the most frightening aspect of life in a nuclear war would be the rapid regression to tribalism and infighting rather than the exposure to radiation, thou
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by zahma 4y ago
I spoke to a radiologist in a regional hospital in a rural area. I believe they were in talks among themselves at the hospital to buy one of the da Vinci machines. This physician’s contention was that new surgeons operating mostly through t
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by zahma 4y ago
A small percentage of billions is still a lot more people moving than most countries can handle — economically or socially, especially in that part of the world. Don’t take for granted the status quo. It’s already yesterday, and the systems
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by zahma 4y ago
NPR.org is also pretty fast. They’ll also deliver a legible page if you disable JavaScript. No ads to boot.
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by zahma 4y ago
When it comes to new sites, I have to usually reset noscript to allow the top level domain. Honestly I don’t know why I don’t just do that by default. At least half the websites don’t load at all without JS enabled. On the sites with more h
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by zahma 4y ago
If I’m using Firefox with privacy badger, UBlock Origin, privacy possum, cookie and cache deleters, a URL tracker plug in, noscript, https enabled by default, a handful of others that are probably redundant on top of Firefox’s internal trac
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by zahma 4y ago
We have forgotten how to eat. The trope is eat a well-rounded diet, which includes carbs, but being mindful that anything processed is likely going to put you over the limit of sugar intake for that day. That's because carbs are an eas
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by zahma 4y ago
I appreciate that she draws the link between monoculture crops, land use, and the health of ecosystems upon which agriculture depends. Organics are important not because GMOs are the enemy but rather because the land use change is inherentl
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by zahma 4y ago
Not really surprised. The foundation was already there. Maybe 15-20 years ago Minneapolis started to build bike lanes along old railways and trolly lines. Some of the paths spanned the city and became thoroughfares totally isolated from tra
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by zahma 4y ago
The only real masked card I can think of would be a gift card paid for in cash. Tedious as it is, that seems like the only way to use a debit card privately, and I think some of those are rejected by online pay platforms.

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