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> Cheetahs are very fast, but humans have way more endurance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon > The Man versus Horse Marathon is an annual race over…
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It might be under compensating for the market at large, but the market has companies where the revenue per employee is orders of magnitude larger than other companies. I've worked at small compan…
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There's certainly a bit of that. Years ago, I had various generative musicish on my phone that I'd listen to (e.g. https://endel.io https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…
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They're possibly bitcoin mines. https://www.governor.nd.gov/news/burgum-one-worlds-largest-d... > WILLISTON, N.D. – Gov. Doug Burgum today announced the construction of …
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Yes. https://www.riotplatforms.com/bitcoin-mining/corsicana/ > Riot Platforms has initiated a large-scale, 1 gigawatt development to expand its Bitcoin mining and hosting…
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https://www.pca.state.mn.us/business-with-us/bpa-and-bps-in-... > If you must give paper receipts, look for “phenol-free” paper, which is safer for human health and has fewer …
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Maybe? Ultima (Proxima Book 2) by Stephen Baxter: “Oh, come on. This is just great. An imperial Roman starship! . . . We know they lack sophisticated electronics, computers. I wonder how the hel…
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Cosmos : The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean - https://youtu.be/x-bJLG9_sUg?si=1K96fMX2T9iXu0zA&t=783 For the "how far?" https://www.aanda.org/articles/a…
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Those are setting the minimum qualifications for a licensed profession... but not the pay or working conditions for those professionals.
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Partly because they couldn't because they didn't organize in a way that let them because... well... one could speculate. > Alphabet Workers Union (AWU), also informally referred to as t…
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Their rendition of Diggy Diggy Hole made it to dwarvish rock anthem... but they've got a lot of other material that is dwarf themed. They do speak to more of the gamer culture... for example Ro…
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One of the "I'm trying to find it" ... Fantasy metal. I was wondering where I'd find Blind Guardian ( https://youtu.be/n63UbX5kzAc https://youtu.be…
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https://electoral-vote.com is still up, running, and showing data. It has always been free and ad free. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral-vote.com > Electora…
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Even though it's showing its age (and support is being phased out in recent builds), I still liked IntelliJ with the Touch Bar laptop. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea…
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Drop the "every" part and you can see the word that needs to be agreed with. "One is supposed to do such and such."
"Everyone is supposed to do such and such."
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https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/eb/qa/Everybody-Has-or... > The words everybody and everyone are pronouns that describe a group of people, but grammaticall…
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Latin has 1 to 10 as quite reasonable. 11 is "undecim" (one ten), and 12 is "duodecim" (two ten)... 16 is "sedecim" (six ten), 17 is "septendecim" (seven ten).…
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Tom Petty - The Last DJ https://youtu.be/6Knw_GxXPHg And there goes the last DJ
Who plays what he wants to play
And says what he wants to say
Hey hey hey
And the…
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https://web.archive.org/web/20160220093339/https://openai.co... > OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digita…
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33450094 2022 from dang: > There's no stats page but last I checked it was around 5M monthly unique users (depending on how you count them…
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Back in the day... reputable.com was the site for SGI reselling. https://web.archive.org/web/20010404030102/http://www.reputa... Some of its last prices... https:…
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> Does aperiodicity have any cool properties that help in specific domains? The proof of the aperiodic nature of the Wang tile set was showing that a Turing machine could be created out of Wang Til…
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French has some weirdness to its counting. 11 - 16 is specific words, 17 - 19 is "ten {number}" (dix-sept, dix-huit, dix-neuf). There's also some fun when you get to 70... which is soi…
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If you can find climate data... for example, in Wisconsin 2012 our snowfall looked like https://www.aos.wisc.edu/oldsco/clim-history/stations/msn/ms... and the ove…
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https://kswheat.com/david-leonard-put-wheat-under-pivot-win-... > Leonard’s operation near Goodland is a diversified operation with a mix of dryland and irrigated acres in addition…
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The middle east tends to import hay and food for their livestock from other countries rather than growing it locally. https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/commodities/forage-and-hay…
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> Plenty of countries completely rely on desalination already Let's take Kansas... the largest producer of wheat in the US. https://www.statista.com/statistics/190376/…
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I learned vi key bindings in rogue, hack, and moria (before numpads were common for that binding to be default) before I learned them in vi.
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I don't entirely place the blame on boomers for the raise of 1950s nostalgia and the corresponding misalignment of economic goals. Someone (not a baby boomer) working in a traditional blue collar…
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It's an appeal to restore the country to some form of nostalgic view of it. https://www.npr.org/2016/06/07/481137357/the-fractured-repub... The fact tha…