Wohlf

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by Wohlf 11mo ago
This is categorically not what happened during the industrial revolution, you're thinking of the second industrial revolution and even then it's a less rosy picture. The first industrial revolution did not lead to rapid growth and
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by Wohlf 11mo ago
An exchange having to stop trading and gracefully shut down their systems for a few days doesn't really strike me as a disaster though.
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by Wohlf 1y ago
It isn't automatic for me unless I try to skip a sponsored segment myself, then it will kick in and skip me to the end of that segment with a popup above the scroll bar saying they did so.
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by Wohlf 1y ago
I think Steve Ballmer would be pretty fun to hang out with for a bit. Maybe not a beer but lunch with Bill Gates would be alright, I'd love to pick his brain about his charity work.
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by Wohlf 1y ago
Spring cleaning was 2022-2023, at this point they're one step from ripping the copper out of the walls.
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by Wohlf 1y ago
Hillsboro real estate has slowed down and prices have come down a bit but the whole metro is short on housing, and Hillsboro is on the light rail lines.
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by Wohlf 2y ago
There must be something to it since eagles have been used as symbols for thousands of years alongside the likes of lions and dragons. If anything, media undersells how big and intimidating they are in real life.
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by Wohlf 2y ago
From what I hear Costco is also changing after their new CEO took over and the stock skyrocketed.
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by Wohlf 2y ago
Already happened a few times. Japanese streamers have to ask for explicit permission to stream games so they play a lot of western games that allow it, Nintendo didn't allow let's plays for a while, and a game developer didn'
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by Wohlf 2y ago
They may have expected typists coming over from typewriters to hammer on it for 8 hours a day, or to give them a similar feel to ease the transition and limit complaints.
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by Wohlf 2y ago
If everyone is 6 foot no one is. 7 foot would just become the new baseline.
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by Wohlf 2y ago
Low frequencies travel further, in my house high frequency road noise is annoying but tends to come and go quickly but low frequency road noise I can often hear from literally miles away.
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by Wohlf 2y ago
I'd have to dig into the research to figure it out, numbers on synthetic fibers range from 34-50+% but how that's categorized is all over the place.
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by Wohlf 2y ago
Tires aren't 80% of microplastics pollution, that's a misreporting of the study. They're 80% of the category that includes tires, that whole category is only 11% of microplastics.
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by Wohlf 2y ago
Iceland's population is less than that of Wyoming, and I wouldn't be surprised if the governor of Wyoming was on a normal flight.
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by Wohlf 2y ago
Many experts completly forget what it was like to be a beginner. That's why I've found it's generally best for absolute beginners to learn from an apprentice, and an apprentice to learn from a journeyman, because they still r
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by Wohlf 2y ago
Unmanned fighters are a force multiplier, a single F-35 can coordinate its own squadron of drones (loyal wingman program). More ordnance, more coverage, more capabilities, more flexiblility, and less risk for lower relative costs.
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by Wohlf 2y ago
Speaking of heat pumps and water heat, I installed both a heat pump and hybrid water heater to save on electricity. The water heater doesn't seem to have made much of a difference in my electrical bill, my guess is the problem is peak
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by Wohlf 2y ago
Well any empty room with a door lock can be a private sex room if you really need one.
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by Wohlf 2y ago
A riving knife is a piece of metal behind the blade that prevents wood from pinching the blade and being launched towards the front of the saw.
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by Wohlf 3y ago
I wonder if it's more proximity that's the issue. In larger countries a wind farm would most likely just be an eyesore on the horizon or nearby hills, but in the Netherlands it could effectively be in someone's backyard, bloc
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by Wohlf 3y ago
I've found Ikea furniture is great and lasts a long time as long as you don't move it to another apartment, that seems to really stress the joints and it will get rickety after 2-3 moves.
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by Wohlf 3y ago
Particleboard is absolutely useless, MDF is mostly useless except using as a guaranteed flat surface on top of something to support it, hardboard is pretty useful in certain applications though. OSB is great and extremely affordable as shea
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by Wohlf 3y ago
I'm no fan of cops but this is so hilariously petty I can't believe it's a serious opinion. Why stop at cops, doctors, nurses, and firefighters shouldn't have phones either!
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by Wohlf 3y ago
Most major shows and movies released lately already feel AI generated since they were written in a corporate boardroom, if anything AI could be an improvement as it will trend towards giving regular viewers/fans what they want.
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by Wohlf 3y ago
They've been a joke for over a decade, at first it was just politics but the quality of writing is well below that of Hunger Games.
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by Wohlf 3y ago
There's plenty of founders who ran their companies in to the ground, and even more who never got it off the ground in the first place. There's no guaranteed recipe for success.
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by Wohlf 3y ago
Insulation is very important! I live near Portland in a fairly new construction and found my attic insulation is the bare minimum, currently planning to blow-in more soon. After running the numbers, between federal credits and heating savin
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by Wohlf 3y ago
Several dictionaries define civilian as those not in military or police forces, the Geneva conventions only dictates language in the context of war.
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by Wohlf 3y ago
Default language/regional formatting options, but those are easily changed.

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