howderek

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by howderek 4y ago
The horse population has decreased by half or so since the early 1900s. And horses have stayed pretty valuable, too. Most of them just don't have to work as hard anymore. The horses used for sport never went away, only the horses used
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by howderek 4y ago
As a former doomer, this post does a great job of building a flimsy strawman of doomer thinking and then tearing it down. It does not respond to any of the real concerns brought up on doomer subreddits such as r/collapse. The fundament
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by howderek 4y ago
Cleveland,List of sovereign states,Australia,Flora of Australia,Eucalyptus,Eucalyptus camaldulensis,Australian Plant Census,Australian Plant Name Index It is harder than it needs to be because the Taxon Identifiers at the bottom of the page
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by howderek 5y ago
Why would a ledger be necessary? Couldn't a root certificate store be used, such as today with HTTPS? Then, the bar doesn't even need to connect their verification system to the internet, other than for the occasional patch.
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by howderek 5y ago
Here's the article I saw the $4/100g: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-23/meat-grow...
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by howderek 5y ago
Future Meat Technology can already produce cultured meat at roughly the prices quoted in the article ($4/100g, which would be $18.14/lb). It seems unrealistic that the industry would have already reached its lowest price point con
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by howderek 5y ago
They know it is infinite. They want to understand the cardinality. Any two sets (including infinite sets) A, B have the same cardinality if there exists a bijection from A|->B
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by howderek 5y ago
Why shouldn't a chair be provided by the employer? Chairs are ergonomically important and leaving it up to employees could lead to work injuries if they choose cheap chairs.
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by howderek 7y ago
Though it considers it "non-standard" the word also exists in the Oxford English Dictionary: https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/99668
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by howderek 7y ago
Looks like Apollo (the Reddit client) for Hacker News. Very nice!
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by howderek 8y ago
Yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLeYYMT-3BM
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by howderek 8y ago
Are you part of the Personal Genome Project? It's a large community of people who share their genetic data for science. http://www.personalgenomes.org/us
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by howderek 9y ago
While I haven't dealt with that precise situation, I know from experience that it is more likely that your friend (deep down) does recognize their own mental health issues, but confronting that will require them to change their perspec
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by howderek 9y ago
It did a good job of finding other artists that I like, but the playlist didn't have any central theme or mood.
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by howderek 9y ago
This is super cool! However, I notice that the generated PNG isn't high enough resolution for Retina or other High-DPI displays. It would be great if this gave the option to export different sizes.
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by howderek 9y ago
Amazon customers connect their Facebook friends to find people with wishlists. Someone who has the contact could have information that could link the two accounts, for instance if the OP has someone in their friends' wishlists and they
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by howderek 9y ago
"What Qt application has as much reach as slack?" - KDE - AMD's Radeon control panel - VLC - VirtualBox Qt apps feel far more native than Electron apps in my opinion.
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by howderek 9y ago
I totally agree. The text was hard to read. I thought that Timoni West's design was much better than what exists today, however.
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by howderek 9y ago
I wish this would link directly to the Internet Archive instead of showing it in a frame so that it would be easier to send links to people.
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by howderek 9y ago
Have you heard about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
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by howderek 9y ago
You may be interested in the GHTorrent database on BigQuery: https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/ghtorrent-bq:ght
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by howderek 9y ago
Line 17 of main.js var WEB_CLIENT_SECRET = '<redacted>'; Doesn't this let anyone else make API calls as your app? This may be helpful: https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/
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by howderek 9y ago
When I was 13, I remember setting up a forummotion account for this exact purpose. I know that many others have done the same. Very cool to see dedicated software for this purpose!
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by howderek 9y ago
If someone put data in a column that wasn't valid, like a string in a bigint column, would the table be altered or would the FUSE driver refuse to make the change?
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by howderek 9y ago
I did this [1], and so have thousands of others through the Harvard Personal Genome Project and other associated projects. So far, I haven't faced any consequences. If you decide to do so, I encourage you to make your genes accessible
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by howderek 9y ago
Me and many others have done this for a long time. The Harvard Personal Genome Project [1] is a large open database of people's genetic and phenotypic information. Here is my profile: https://my.pgp-hms.org/profile&#x2F
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by howderek 9y ago
This is absolutely beautiful but I found the text difficult to read.
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by howderek 9y ago
Google and Facebook are everywhere, it's practically impossible not to touch their ad networks without filtering, and since many sites aggressively punish ad-blocking, "not using Facebook or Google" is looking increasingly li
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by howderek 9y ago
Consensual, transparent censorship. Interesting.
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by howderek 9y ago
These prices seem too high. Low-end mobile homes are around the same price, are larger, offer nicer interiors, and face fewer legal complexities. I also know tiny home builders who can custom build homes with similar square footage as these

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