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by briandon 2mo ago
Rarely submit to HN, but I regularly enjoy content created by lots of interesting-but-virtually-unknown people and today seemed like the day to try to do my part to help at least one of them find a bigger audience.
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Some flat washers are flatter than others (amateur metrology)(youtube.com)
3 points by briandon 2mo ago|2 comments
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by briandon 2mo ago
Entertaining dive into hands-on-wrench, nitty-gritty tangible reality where this guy seems to have gone a bit out of his head over some flat washers. He starts out with a pair of calipers, progresses to 2 types of micrometer, and even tries
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by briandon 8mo ago
At least one decades-old study that had purported to show that the herbicide glyphosate posed no health (esp cancer) risk to humans was retracted in late 2025 ( https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/climate/g
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by briandon 2y ago
Someone who writes up a listicle about dealing with foolish people is more likely than not a fool themselves.
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by briandon 3y ago
Context, also from arstechnica: https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/covid-anti-viral-drug...
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by briandon 3y ago
And the MP in question (Caroline Dinenage) just so happens to reportedly be the spouse of "Major General John Mark Lancaster" [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lancaster,_Baron_Lancaste... ] who, from June 2
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by briandon 3y ago
Oatmeal (if unsweetened/unflavored) has about the same GI as orange juice or cake made from some Betty Crocker boxed cake mixes and is just slightly lower-GI than the American formulation of Coca-Cola (see #333 Oatmeal (Canada), GI val
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by briandon 3y ago
From TA: Jerath said the differences aren’t about technical skill, but about listening to patients and choosing appropriate care. Previous studies point to differences in the way that female physicians communicate and engage wi
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by briandon 3y ago
The goal is to compel the use of biometrics and personal, always-on and always-online, devices (e.g. phones) that double as personal tracking devices. To perform even mundane functions, you will need to provide biometrics (via scans) or che
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by briandon 3y ago
From TA: Historically, vultures were widespread in India. But between the 1990s and early 2000s their numbers plummeted by more than 90%, from around 40m. The cause was diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory drug that farmers began
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by briandon 3y ago
Sidebar recs are there, but YouTube injected a plea to turn watch history back on, an oversized block with the header "Recommendations not quite right?", followed by "When you turn on watch history you'll get more person
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by briandon 3y ago
Yes. This just began today, even though I've had watch history off for a long time, such a long time that I don't recall turning it off. Out of curiosity, I briefly turned watch history back on and "Home" (the YouTube pa
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by briandon 3y ago
I've re-read the comment to which you're replying a couple of times to make sure I didn't missing something myself. AFAICT, they weren't questioning the existence of people who cannot afford PCs or gaming consoles (the t
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by briandon 3y ago
Stephanie Chin and her husband should tag themselves as well. The AirTags (two apiece, as with their child) can be hung from strings worn around their necks or on bands around their waists, under their clothing. Then, the adults could track
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by briandon 3y ago
And easily physically removable batteries, which used to be the norm and are still available for some devices (like the Nokia C30). It isn't mere coincidence that device manufacturers have made it impossible to power off mobile phones
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by briandon 3y ago
Her deep involvement in the WEF (multiple roles, one as head of a WEF "Future of Work" project and another as a member of a media/entertainment/etc. WEF steering committee) is starkly at odds with Elon's own recent
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by briandon 3y ago
Anyone interested in Fusus, which appears to be aggregating and orchestrating sharing of live surveillance cam video feeds, may also be interested in Flock (nationwide coordination of automated license plate reader aka ALPR systems): https
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by briandon 3y ago
CO2, whether from fossil fuel combustion or respiration (e.g. part of your and my exhaled breath, day and night) becomes plant tissue. Land plants, algae in the oceans, the herbivorous content of your salad, the flowers in your garden, etc.
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Tim Hunkin's “Secret Life of Components” Season #3 Is Coming(youtube.com)
3 points by briandon 3y ago|1 comments
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by briandon 3y ago
The first episode of a new season of Tim Hunkin's fantastic Secret Life of Components series is debuting on YouTube this Thursday, March 30th!
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by briandon 4y ago
In addition to concerns relating to carbon dioxide levels, when I contemplate the push for ever-more-tightly-sealed homes and particularly smaller homes with lower ratios of internal air volume to internal surface area (of walls, built-ins
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by briandon 4y ago
Driving through a park is already prohibited. The initiative is describing paved roadways. In Oxford, the ability to drive on particular existing streets (streets, not parkland) is to be turned into a privilege, allegedly at certain times o
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by briandon 4y ago
In the most-detailed example of such initiatives described in the article, the steps taken in Oxford include ALPR-camera-triggered automated fines for driving on certain roadways at certain times of certain days to those "without a per
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by briandon 4y ago
https://archive.is/eShDu
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by briandon 4y ago
Thank you.
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by briandon 4y ago
This post, a link to a peer-reviewed paper published in mid-January 2023 ("SARS-CoV-2 spike mRNA vaccine sequences circulate in blood up to 28 days after COVID-19 vaccination"), has been flagged. This action is typical of the effo
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by briandon 4y ago
Making cells in your body produce an antigen that stays rooted within those cells and causes them to be destroyed is risky business. There are reasonable applications, like products selectively taken up by cancer cells that cause them to be
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by briandon 4y ago
The mRNA-based covid shots (and the adenovirus-vector covid shots) are a wee bit different in how they operate than pre-covid vaccines. Modified covid spike proteins are produced by host (i.e. a vaccinee's) cells. The spike proteins ar
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by briandon 4y ago
As Campbell asked, why has it been left to Danish researchers (who were doing Hepatitis C testing and decided to tack on an assay for covid jab mod-spike mRNA) to look into these questions? Why haven't Moderna or Pfizer undertaken larg

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