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by mchannon 25d ago
I’m literally arguing they should get rid of a big chunk of that bureaucracy, so why would I mourn missing out on it? "Maybe Apple just doesn't want you" assumes, incorrectly, that Apple has enough information to know that. I
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Only Apple Can Abolish the Job Application(loitery.substack.com)
5 points by mchannon 25d ago|4 comments
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by mchannon 2mo ago
How about a frog gut-derived bacterium that kills all kinds of cancer cells? https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-frog-derived-gut-...
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by mchannon 5mo ago
If you're ever going to record an interaction with people who do not want it seen by the masses that they are breaking the law, you need to ensure that you livestream it. Then you can tell them, "Go ahead, confiscate my phone. Pro
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by mchannon 10mo ago
During 1998-2000, AOL was ordering so many free trial CDs that it locked up world production, and music CDs faced 8-12 week delays. It was rumored that certain weeks there were no albums getting fabricated at all, worldwide. I wonder if his
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by mchannon 11mo ago
In 1987, Paul Verhoeven predicted exactly this in the original Robocop . ED-209 mistakenly viewed a young man as armed, blows him away in the corporate boardroom. The article even included an homage to: “Dick, I’m very disappointed in you.
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by mchannon 1y ago
Am thinking propane tanks. Working with those temps probably not appropriate for an office environment, but on a porch or well-ventilated garage, should economically outperform 110V pretty well.
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by mchannon 1y ago
But now we have the “deathbed pardon” or the lame-duck preemptive blanket pardon, popularized by 46. Break the law all you want, long as the old boss or his successor is happy with you, you can’t be held accountable by the new boss.
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by mchannon 1y ago
The ZT (figure of merit) is an apples-to-apples number for comparing one thermoelectric material set to another. Higher is better. Bismuth Telluride is the standard and has been for decades. It has a ZT of about 1.3. There have been some br
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by mchannon 1y ago
Having read the same book (while on the fourth floor of MDC Brooklyn of all places) I believe the conclusion I read was that they were trying to make it all work with one drop, which was impossible, because of the number of tests they were
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by mchannon 1y ago
Just wow. I think it's an uncomfortable truth that there was some good in Theranos in terms of the unfulfilled needs of society and the potential of diligent work toward realizing those needs with technology. I don't know how ofte
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by mchannon 1y ago
The devil's always in the details. I notice they use potassium hydroxide to treat this, and I seriously doubt merely in a catalytic capacity. That means that a lot of electrical input needs to be run into a chlor-alkali plant to make t
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by mchannon 1y ago
Trackers are useless when the majority of the incoming sunlight is diffuse (as is the case where you live). Trackers are useful when the majority of the incoming sunlight is direct (America has a mix but the western half and parts of the so
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by mchannon 1y ago
I've been in solar energy as my primary vocation since the 1990's. I've built solar cars, I've built solar panels, I've installed solar panels, I've designed solar trackers. I know this industry inside and out.
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by mchannon 2y ago
It's not sulfur so much as sulfate. It doesn't always come from mining. A huge problem with acid rock drainage (ARD) showed up when they built a freeway in Pennsylvania by merely exposing the rock. The concept of making batteries
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Ask HN: How simple can AI get before it's no longer AI?
1 points by mchannon 2y ago|0 comments
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by mchannon 2y ago
I like the site. Unfortunately for this American, having a different set of standards for mathematical notation tripped a "don't these people know the difference between Hz and kHz?" impulse in my brain. To illustrate: When a
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by mchannon 2y ago
The contrapositive of which is just because you’re right does not mean you are not crazy.
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Ask HN: Unknown unknowns of startup financing through meme tokens
1 points by mchannon 2y ago|0 comments
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by mchannon 2y ago
Fun fact: Sucrose, from our friends cane sugar and beet sugar, is a glucose/dextrose molecule tied to a fructose molecule. And when you digest it, you get the effects of some of each. Another fun fact: The "H" in HFCS stems f
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by mchannon 2y ago
This is the tail wagging the dog. Jobs' fruitarianism meant he didn't eat eggs, meat, dairy, or other sources of selenium. Fruit doesn't contain selenium. One of Selenium deficiency's side effects, well established in th
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by mchannon 2y ago
I can already type on a QWERTY keyboard way faster than I can think. That's one reason I haven't adopted a Dvorak habit. Most court reporters use software nowadays that renders their special stenotype skills obsolete.
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by mchannon 2y ago
That's a completely different thing. Honey, for instance, has a high glycemic index. Watermelon has a high glycemic index. They will not get you fat the same way cane sugar and watermelon juice will. A juice made of celery, kale, and s
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by mchannon 2y ago
The article name is "Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad for you", the opposite of this thread's title. Everyone's ignoring the elephant in the room: fiber. Fiber locks up calories and makes the bod
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by mchannon 2y ago
I tried "write me a 5-page EULA for a [$YOURKINDOFBUSINESS] website" on ChatGPT and it looked great. Do you want this EULA to do anything in particular for you? You could hire an attorney to write one, where they'll use a sim
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by mchannon 2y ago
The writer appears to be under the impression that CO2 is not a valuable commodity. In fact, it is, so long as it's under enough pressure, and in the right place. In Montezuma County, Colorado, sits the McElmo dome, an ancient undergro
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by mchannon 2y ago
Great concept, you have a bit of a chicken-and-the-egg problem where there's no places to rent and therefore no transactions. How do you see yourself getting past that?
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by mchannon 2y ago
Personal experience. Unlike most, I have been wrongfully convicted on fabricated evidence but never denied insurance coverage. I strongly encourage you to get in the habit of proofreading your posts for tone. You write with pique, a habit I
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by mchannon 2y ago
Perhaps it was inadvertent diction, but your use of “imagine” appears to ridicule my opinion. Not cool. I’ve done time with an individual who got (I believe) wrongfully convicted due to genetic genealogy. A lay jury watches Law and Order, h
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by mchannon 2y ago
If I was worried I wouldn't have furnished my DNA to a corporation with very little accountability in the first place. I got enough out of the deal (instead of nothing from the government) that it was in my mind an acceptable tradeoff.

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