blue_devil

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by blue_devil 6y ago
EU-wide regulation might make sense to give a "stick" to existing giants, but what about creating an EU-wide "carrot" for European companies to become giants (in the form of unified market and capital)? Ms. Vestager kind
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Greenhouse 100 Polluters Index (2019 Report, Based on 2017 Data)(peri.umass.edu)
1 points by blue_devil 6y ago|0 comments
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Human biology registers two seasons, not four, study suggests(med.stanford.edu)
3 points by blue_devil 6y ago|0 comments
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by blue_devil 6y ago
Question is: why restrict the # of providers shown at all? They could show a semi-random segmented ranking: - split all companies into X buckets by ranking - pick the top from each bucket from 1 to X, then the second best from each bucket
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Knowing it could kill you isn’t a deterrent’: the deadly trade in diet pills(theguardian.com)
2 points by blue_devil 6y ago|0 comments
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by blue_devil 6y ago
Save the grounds in a bag and use for your (home) plants, they love it.
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by blue_devil 6y ago
Humans are cognitively extremely bad at comprehending (visualising) the big effects that can accrue from small things (hence the magic of compound interest). We expect big effects to come from big things.
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Is Fair Trade Finished?(theguardian.com)
4 points by blue_devil 6y ago|0 comments
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TikTok Vulnerability Enables Hackers to Show Users Fake Videos(mysk.blog)
2 points by blue_devil 6y ago|0 comments
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Plastic Rain Is the New Acid Rain(wired.com)
3 points by blue_devil 6y ago|1 comments
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As the virus rages on shore, merchant seamen are stranded on board(economist.com)
3 points by blue_devil 6y ago|0 comments
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by blue_devil 6y ago
They also use this technique in Japan in stores - confirming the amount of money received, pointing to the money, to the cash register etc. I think it serves the same purpose, though it probably feels less awkward as it's directed towa
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by blue_devil 6y ago
I think it's because pointing into space gives your actions physical coordinates that organize them similarly as in memory. In fact, a popular mnemonic technique is to envision the stuff you need to remember "positioned" alon
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by blue_devil 6y ago
I'm for buying slightly more expensive butter if that would incentivize breeding cows for milk rather than meat. Butter still being more of a small treat than main source of fats.
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by blue_devil 6y ago
Perhaps off-topic: if you have not read "The mind's eye" by Oliver Sacks, you may find it helpful, emotionally. Keeping an (audio) journal might help also to cope with anxiety.
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‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease(med.stanford.edu)
1 points by blue_devil 6y ago|0 comments
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High Speed Trains Are Killing the European Railway Network(lowtechmagazine.com)
2 points by blue_devil 6y ago|0 comments
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by blue_devil 6y ago
We've created a lightweight app that creates a custom format of audio + photo + your metadata (tags, notes etc): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.pointo You can share a specific recording by
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Separate Exploratory from Confirmatory Analyses(aspredicted.org)
1 points by blue_devil 6y ago|0 comments
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Evolved Antenna(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by blue_devil 6y ago|0 comments
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Age, Co-morbidities and Lethality in Covid-19(covidgraph.com)
3 points by blue_devil 6y ago|0 comments
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A Doctor’s Assessment of the Covid-19 Outbreak(nationalreview.com)
2 points by blue_devil 6y ago|0 comments
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Influenza burden in the US, 2017-2018 season(cdc.gov)
1 points by blue_devil 6y ago|0 comments
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Tesla’s Fast-Track German Plant Charts a Path Through Red Tape(bloomberg.com)
3 points by blue_devil 7y ago|0 comments
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The Human Brain as a Computer(theguardian.com)
1 points by blue_devil 7y ago|0 comments
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Farming vs. Rewilding(theguardian.com)
2 points by blue_devil 7y ago|0 comments
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by blue_devil 7y ago
Which makes it all the more scary.
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by blue_devil 7y ago
>>I'm tempted to say the impact is very little, given that there aren't that many ski resorts. Of those that make snow, they might have less than 100 machines making snow, and only when it's needed. There are quite a fe
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The Environmental Impact of Making Snow (2012)(outsideonline.com)
22 points by blue_devil 7y ago|11 comments
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by blue_devil 7y ago
>>it gives me actually confidence in the justice system of the nation I currently live in: if they even defend the rights of a murderer, this indicates they will also take the privacy of everybody else seriously. He murdered people on

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