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What's more alarming is this site is pretty high up on google when you search for "Staub cast iron".

Imagine you're a 16th century Italian mathematician who is trying to solve cubic equations. You notice that when you try to solve some equations, you end up with a sqrt(-1) in your…

For small scale circuits, I like Scherz's "Practical Electronics for Inventors". For a good high level overview of the grid, along with other civil engineering topics, Grady Hillho…

I love that the whitepaper doesn't actually have any white pages...

Everything he makes is great, I'd also highly recommend the GPS explanation.

Amen. Due to reliability and lack of updates I don't use it anymore but Nintype was by far the best mobile typing experience I've had.

Recently switched from a Kindle to a Kobo and here are my findings so far: Kobo Pros: * Natively handle .epub files * Overdrive integration for library books * Dropbox integration …

Burning man being NIMBY about geothermal energy ( https://www.rgj.com/story/life/arts/burning-man/2022/01/10/b... ) probably has more negative impacts towards the climate than thei…

I linked to the Reddit page because the creator of the site seems to be active there.

Home automation or LEDs are always a good start in my opinion. Home automation because it's something that will affect your life and you'll notice, LEDs because they're pretty (e.g…

Thank you for the link. My mayor is on here which I'm very unhappy about.

I got a pair of AfterShokz ( https://aftershokz.com/us/ ) for swimming and in some ways it’s more convenient than an iPod shuffle because the headphones are integrated. I really li…

I actually think what you eat is the dominating factor in food CO2 production: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2020/02/Environmental-imp... Transport and processing are fairly m…

I'm planning on buying a printer soon elevation maps are one of the things I was hoping to print - thank you for the awesome tool! Assuming the users are okay with it I think it wo…

Thank you for the reply!

Hi Matt, what kind of work do data scientists do at USDS?

"Generally" could mean what you mentioned, or it could mean straight slavery - as the article said there is not good stats. Forced labor is prevalent in many industries, using the …

Coffee: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/the-hidden... Sugar: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/09/brazil.slav... I do not believe your implied claim t…

+1 for maps.me, it's my goto app when traveling

The word for this general phenomena for those that are curious is Goodhart's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

Clinton has been called "The first black president" before: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/clinton/morrison.html

Opening Arguments. It's a law podcast that's packed full of information about current events and is very accessible.