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Supposedly all at Library of Congress (LoC) anyone have experience using it there?

i think this is a real nerd sniper so i am some what surprised that i was unable to find this yet on HN Bilayer graphene inspires two-universe cosmological model https://jqi.umd.ed…

If the corpus was from circa WWII US, one would get the same results ... substituting "buddhist" for "muslim"

Growing staples is the main failing of all these vertical farms, and they are just boutique-ish without that capability. But if energy were free could we not grow staples verticall…

:) Whew! So glad! The planet might actually survive 38.9678 days more!

People LIKE to live on the edge. It is an unfortunate fact ... especially given their are 9B of us. Super bad for the ecology, the encountering of new diseases etc. Suburbs Exurbs,…

i was able to turn the graphic emoji's permanently off in the settings: they were replaced with their labels... For me it was mostly an eye saver, i hated the constantly moving bit…

This is great news. i have long advocated for the use of ammonia as a liquid fuel: it is almost as energy dense as crude and ... clean!

i just do laps around the house

A bit surprising no one has mentioned the old traveling salesman trick: Eat at the local hospital.

in Chrome i use this extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speed-dial-for-goo... There are other more powerful ones i am playing with

NB forwarding does NOT include "spam" email... i have all my Gmail accounts funnel into one and i check the spam buckets of all, every 4 weeks (otherwise Google turfs em). i usuall…

Ah yes, "Bypass Paywalls" i do have this extension installed and have been using it for months. WSJ seems to have wizened to his workarounds, and others like the FB redirect. Eg it…

>So let's start testing aggressively for antibodies. Until we get that number, I'm all for extreme caution. There is no Antibody/serological/immunity test yet. Biologically it is h…

The workarounds for WSJ do not work anymore for me, eg the redirect from FarceBorg will still get the "subscribe" page. Also FT. They appear to have removed workarounds. Are they S…

Very very revealing! Thanks! i would assume that VoIP calling would suffer from the same "packet switching" issue that mobile telephones do:-(( With the current emergency caused by…

i think this especially goes for the English system vs metric measurements (though confusingly the English do not use the Imperial system, officially at least) Our brains are much …

Anyone know if one could easily make a "do no call home" network with participating devices...

As a k email list reader i noted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21660005 that shakti(k7) MAY become FOSS...

If they used H2 (vs He) for buoyancy they could make (liquefied) H2 fuel very cost efficient: When you want to come down you are high up and it is cold! Perfect time to liquefy! Ma…

Various K's in FOSS now. Shakti soon? You must be signed in to Google Group to read post(s).