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by ljcn 6y ago
Not all html pages - what about hackernews? It's mostly tables with minimal CSS (a bit of padding and font*/color), I bet it continues to be perfectly rendered practically indefinitely. At least snapshots on archive.org from 2007
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by ljcn 6y ago
Wouldn't you rather share a garden with insects? I would.
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by ljcn 6y ago
> bioinformatics, systems biology, computational biology Of those bioinformatics is more specific (usually genomics data); the other two are overlapping and pretty non-specific terms. For example I started a Sys Bio PhD and ended up in a
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by ljcn 6y ago
Radius of 6 km is comparable to the size of Halley's comet :-)
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by ljcn 7y ago
> Wasn't able to read the article through the paywall Try turning off javascript.
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by ljcn 7y ago
About 200 actually (you mistook the diameter for the radius). https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+au+%2F+radius+of+the...
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by ljcn 7y ago
Indeed, natural science deals in models , not 'the truth'. In most cases 'correct' isn't an option, rather a degree of accuracy. If it's consistent with the measurements, or even better if it has predictive po
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by ljcn 7y ago
It's got 80-120 ish bits of entropy, why is it not secure? (Assuming you're not referring to it literally being a well known password from a web comic.)
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by ljcn 7y ago
> maybe even only if you're American? Works fine in UK English too, although the "r:uk" modifier is often needed.
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by ljcn 7y ago
> using an inflation calculator defers to someone's idea of what a basket was In this case that someone is Greg Clark (Professor of Economics at UC Davis). The link goes direct to a .xlsx which reveals the "basket" and all
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by ljcn 7y ago
Sadly tyre, brakes, and road abrasion apparently account for far more particulate pollution than the exhaust does. I'd like to find another source for this because it's so surprising. The only solution I suppose is no cars. https
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by ljcn 7y ago
OK, matched grid prices without subsidy, and cheaper than coal in a fifth of cases. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-019-0441-z
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by ljcn 7y ago
As your example numbers here show though estates are often better for storage than crossovers. So there must be other factors behind crossover popularity. Their being higher is a big factor I bet (less stooping and more road visibility, alt
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by ljcn 7y ago
Right, but decades ago coal was the cheapest source of power. We didn't have cheap renewables in the 70s. Solar is cheaper than coal in China.* They could certainly grow (at least) no slower by building huge amounts of renewables rathe
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by ljcn 7y ago
Wouldn't have thought sick people make the best revolutionaries.
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by ljcn 7y ago
Is the early adaptor included?
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by ljcn 7y ago
Very interesting. Will add it to the (already large) "eat lots of (and a good variety of) fruit and veg and do enough exercise" pile of life advice.
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by ljcn 7y ago
None of the links in the sister support home ownership being below 50% in London. The third link shows a difference between white and non-white British ownership levels but that's it.
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by ljcn 7y ago
Budapest isn't the whole country, but your point is correct, Hungary is certainly a highly developed country. Not G7 levels, but close.
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by ljcn 7y ago
The gp might have been thinking of more interesting methods of cooling - space sunshades, aerosols, massive creation of artificial snow... (not sure if the latter is a net heat loss)
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by ljcn 7y ago
> at least less than half "Households in London were fairly evenly distributed across the tenures, with half in owner occupation and half in the rented sectors." Section 1.10 in https://www.gov.uk/government&#x2
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by ljcn 7y ago
> "hey" as a greeting I blame the US TV series "Friends" for that. Curiously the OED doesn't (yet) have this greeting sense.
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by ljcn 7y ago
~= means not equal in MATLAB. Also it often means one's complement (C and others). Hence the gp used it to mean NOT.
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by ljcn 7y ago
Why did you migrate? I was given the option to but haven't (yet, nor been forced to).
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by ljcn 7y ago
Ethical consumer did a report on this very recently. https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/fashion-clothing/choosing-su... It's definitely complicated, but their take was: * Best: second-hand, recycled, or organic * Mid
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by ljcn 7y ago
Youtube alternative link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuT2w6BkT-k
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Video of the Librem 5 in Action(archive.org)
5 points by ljcn 7y ago|3 comments
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by ljcn 7y ago
I wonder how this compares to the several grams of plastic per week consumed from drinking water. https://phys.org/news/2019-06-consume-credit-card-worth-plas...
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by ljcn 7y ago
Small bag. It's the diminutive of "sac" (bag).
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by ljcn 7y ago
Fair question. Some rough maths incoming.. There are 174 turbines in an area of about 300 sq km. If they were laid out on a grid the grid size would be about 1.3 km. The blades have a diameter of about 24 m. Feels to me like that's far

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