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by jvm_ 4y ago
People adapt to getting an upgrade in life almost immediately. If you walked down the street and someone handed you $80 and the next guy $100, you'd be mad that he got more even though you just got free $$. It takes 2 weeks to adapt to
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by jvm_ 5y ago
Leetcode interview questions will adapt to ask for the wrong answer. You'll have to write broken code to prove you can code better than the correct code AI can spit out.
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by jvm_ 5y ago
Lanes in heavy snow covered roads are more of a suggestion. You can either drive on the bare 'wagon tracks' of road, or on the proper lane (that you can't even see) with 6-12 inches of snow on them. Often when driving like th
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by jvm_ 5y ago
Trees follow a slow-fast-slow pattern for capturing carbon. Small new trees don't capture much. Middle-aged trees capture a lot as they grow. Old-growth trees don't capture as much as they reach the end of their life-cycle. As oth
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by jvm_ 5y ago
These people spent 37 days in a 9ft dinghy in the ocean. A ladder rung, plus the rain water mixed with turtle guts from the bottom of the boat saved their lives. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/aug&#x
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by jvm_ 5y ago
It seems there's a battle between virus's, they don't like sharing resources and the 'strongest' wins. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56483445 Coronavirus: How the common cold can boot out Cov
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by jvm_ 5y ago
Fun fact, Voyager 1 - at 17km/s, isn't always moving away from Earth. Earth does 30km/s around the Sun, so at some points in it's orbit, Earth is catching up to Voyager 1.
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by jvm_ 5y ago
I like scan, but the time is too short, and it skips before I can get it to play. Maybe a longer scan period - or just a 'random' button.
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by jvm_ 5y ago
/r/listentothis is good for finding different genres, and usually a good song from that category as well.
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by jvm_ 5y ago
Whenever I come across a picture of a location that looks cool, whether it be a castle/ruin/beach/city. I search Youtube for 'place name walking tour' and then filter by Long videos. Usually gets some good results.
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by jvm_ 6y ago
Amazon is brutal, 1% defect rate. 1.75% gets you a 72 response window before they shut your account. So, 2 bad orders per 100 and your out of business. You basically live in fear of bad reviews and cases being opened against you. Defects ar
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by jvm_ 6y ago
/r/buyitforlife
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by jvm_ 6y ago
I've heard of this happening across Lake Erie, people in Canada said they could see the color of the traffic lights all the way across the lake in Erie PA.
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by jvm_ 6y ago
This song captures that feeling well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8isMSg0Tpe4
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by jvm_ 6y ago
Dumbwaiters make a resurgence, except now they hookup to the roof.
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by jvm_ 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort I want to read one of these...
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by jvm_ 6y ago
'Ghost kitchen': How a plain storefront hides more than a dozen delivery restaurants Business model is gaining popularity as food delivery apps gain a foothold in Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cal
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by jvm_ 6y ago
Another resource for finding footpaths/routes is https://www.strava.com/heatmap They've aggregated tons of bike and running routes so you can see where other people have ran/biked before. Good to use in the w
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by jvm_ 6y ago
It was my understanding that fission and fusion both use the same Nuclear Power Plant sized facility. Fusion just replaces the radioactive bit, you still need steam/electricity conversion/transmission/cooling... it's not
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by jvm_ 6y ago
Smells like garlic, at 20 parts per billion, in 80-90% sulfuric acid... Probably not much smelling going in.
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by jvm_ 6y ago
Hardware solution: $1 plastic cutting board
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by jvm_ 6y ago
Each with and incendiary charge and the GPS coordinates of every home/building in a city. Who needs Tokyo/Dresden firebombing anymore.
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by jvm_ 6y ago
> While the lab results look promising, experts in the field advise caution because important work has not been done to test the compound in animals. “The critical thing is animal data. We’ve found things that are very potent in vitro th
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by jvm_ 6y ago
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/dispa... I was running while listening... The US president negotiating the terms of Germany's WW1 surrender/repayments was trying to get a fair
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by jvm_ 6y ago
When you fire a tazer, along with the wires a bunch of confetti sprays out as well. The confetti has id numbers on it that can be traced back to who purchased it.
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by jvm_ 6y ago
There's some longer term unanswered/unanswerable questions as well. How do children do if their parents have never worked?
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by jvm_ 6y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/ Is full of people with long duration recovery periods . Caveats are that only people with long duration symptoms would find that place and post there. Also, it could just
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by jvm_ 6y ago
ELI5 - Boiling makes it easier for the bacteria to eat.
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by jvm_ 6y ago
Me: lets listen to the middle of Africa. Second song - Manic Monday by the Bangles
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by jvm_ 6y ago
Bleeding off 8km/second (5miles/second) all the way to zero movement - just by moving through the atmosphere... doing that without heating just seems impossible.

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