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by ars 9d ago
Before you figure that out, you will be surprised to discover that it's impossible to tell if the speed of light is the same in both directions, with only the average of a round trip being the speed of light. See: https://en
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by ars 15d ago
I think that depends on if they distribute it with the install package, or if they download it once installed.
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by ars 24d ago
True, but the limiting factor for plant growth is sun, not CO2. And when they have full sun the limit is how fast they can absorb it. So far as I know plants are not limited by co2 absorption, so adding more doesn't really help them.
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by ars 28d ago
Doctors make mistakes pretty much non-stop, and they are rarely held accountable because the system as a whole works OK. AI makes less mistakes than the doctors do (I read a lot of medical notes).
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by ars 1mo ago
He specified "terrorists", See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340403 for actual sources, including in Hebrew (although it was flagged to death for reasons unknown). That message a reply to YOU, but that d
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by ars 1mo ago
In Hebrew Sunday doesn't have a name, it's simply called "Day one", this is also true in Portuguese, Arabic, Greek, Chinese, Vietnamese, and others. So no, the week does not start on Monday, it starts on Sunday. The name
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by ars 1mo ago
> The 7 day week is completely artificial. Actually it's 1/4 of a month, which is defined by the moon.
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by ars 1mo ago
This article does not make its case. He shows a graph of "random" data, and then just kind of keeps going. But that random data is the meat of the whole thing. Cut out 60% of the useless text, and focus on explaining why random da
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by ars 2mo ago
Beauty does not exist for its own sake, it only exists in the mind of someone else.
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by ars 2mo ago
A profile is a full new browser, these containers are just tabs. So they mix into the current browser window. They are much more lightweight, and the workflow is better, just switch tabs.
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by ars 2mo ago
I have containers on Firefox, and I do NOT have this extension installed.
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by ars 2mo ago
I'm a little confused here, I've been using the containers feature already for years now on Firefox. And I have no add-on installed for it, it just works. So what is it that they're adding?
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by ars 2mo ago
What's the point in it existing then? Just for a couple of the chosen few? I'm aware that lots of people can be destructive, but there's a balance.
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by ars 2mo ago
We still don't know how, like from a physics point of view, thermoreceptors detect temperature.
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by ars 2mo ago
I would do something that isn't *.me, since it was them that suspended it.
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by ars 2mo ago
That's not likely to help, it was the .me people that suspended it, they will likely do the same with telegram.me
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by ars 2mo ago
Perhaps I've misunderstood, but I think it's not the text that is unicode complete, it's the transliteration rules that are. Unless you install special rules you won't be doing extra computation.
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by ars 2mo ago
Resetting it will kill bacteria, certainly. But there are a number of heat-stable toxins that once created will not be destroyed that way. I guess you've been doing this for a while, and presumably it's been working, plus I know t
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by ars 3mo ago
You are perfectly free to keep selling what we've been eating. No one is forcing people to plant the new stuff. If you make patents illegal, no one will breed new stuff. How does that help? All that will do is cause people to grow the
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by ars 3mo ago
I recently had a run-in with security restrictions at work that only blocked the abstraction layer at the top, and were utterly surprised to discover that if you go down one level none of their restrictions did anything. They eventually dec
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by ars 3mo ago
The EU caused the deaths, not the heat. People have been dying from heat in the EU for decades now, and the EU has done ........ nothing (well other than declare superiority to the US). More people die from heat each year in the EU than fro
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by ars 3mo ago
Thousands of people died in the EU over this heat, and you think it's American that isn't doing well? "more than 1300 excess deaths have been recorded since 21 June linked to the extreme heat in Europe" "There were
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by ars 3mo ago
We are in different circles, because everyone in my circle is desperate for a solution to unrestricted phone use by kids. > I'm a parent. Nobody has been blocked from parenting by tech companies. What age? Because they absolutely ha
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by ars 3mo ago
That's an argument you made, I was simply responding to this idea that parents don't want to parent. It's not true, they do, they just can't. A solution is needed, and I think age verification is a good start - divide ap
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by ars 3mo ago
In places where WhatsApp is highly used you basically can't function without it, school events are posted there, friends organize activities on it, teachers communicate to both parents and kids on it. Giving a highschool kid a phone is
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by ars 3mo ago
Your 1/3 number is complete nonsense. The actual number is Zero of those people are homeless because of medical debt. People do not become homeless because of medical debt, that's simply not a thing that happens. Nor do people &qu
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by ars 3mo ago
That's just not true. If you give your kid WhatsApp access because that's how 95% of their peers text each other, then your kid has access to a hidden chat that can only be revealed by typing a secret code in the search bar. Tell
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by ars 3mo ago
Why is it weird? Social media has existed for around the same amount of time for all western countries, and people have noticed the harm at around the same time everywhere. Why do you require some special interest? Ordinary people are seein
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by ars 3mo ago
The solution is nuclear fuel reprocessing + breeder reactors. You end up burning all of the uranium, leaving being only short lived isotopes.
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by ars 3mo ago
> But what about "free healthcare". Don't americans want socialized healthcare over their despised privatized system? Not really. The internet bubble might make you think that, but actually ordinary people aren't inte

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