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With all the shutdowns, Google is also foolishly throwing away what will be an increasingly important asset - distinguishing between real human identities and bots. False bot negat…

Different people learn in different ways. Unlike most people apparently I credit Mims with delaying my taking up electronics. I found his books a complete turn off when I was young…

Stories about Mims always attract comments that make it clear that his writing inspired many to learn electronics. But to give some balance to the starry eyed impression left by th…

The elephant that isn't in the room: China (one Hong Kong station and that's it). Anyone know if their government restricts streaming?

All over the world there are testosterone poisoned males engaging in as much obnoxious behavior as they can get away with (e.g. riding motorcycles with no mufflers). Particulary co…

>plants/bacteria need additional energy in the form of sugars to pull carbon out of CO2 in the air. Sorry perhaps this is not what you meant to write. For anyone who wants an unman…

There is every likely and unlikely combination of political beliefs to be found in every population including commune members. But I will go out on a limb and try to speak for that…

Kind of like how anti-sense RNA works. They could call it anti-adsense!

As someone who has spent time at East Wind and Acorn and taken the three week visitor program at Twin Oaks, I hardly know where to begin in disabusing you of the idea that these co…

to summarize in consistent units: Orris oil 50,000 euros per kg OP BBC story Ambergris 1,140 euros per kg Wikipedia Saffron 958-9,583 euros per kg Wikipedia

Mexico has only recently become a major poppy growing heroin producer. Before that the cartels were largely making money by dominating the flow of cocaine produced in South America…

Mostly off topic. Why has China produced most of the serious competition to US software titans? In particular, given that South Korea was way ahead of the rest of the world in cell…

"As in many animals, honey bees rely on their gut microbial community for a variety of functions, including food processing (25, 26), regulation of immune system (33, 34), and defe…

Contradancing does not require any specific footwork and revolves around dancers flowing through and bonding with eventually all the other dancers in a line. It is an all ages acti…

A nice article for someone who knows nothing about Burning Man. If you've been, you will learn little that you don't already know. Burners choose to play in a difficult, often unco…

The inherently self destructive nature of ICE's make it likely that ICE vehicles will always be more complex, less reliable/ higher maintenance than comparable all electric vehicle…

For a line level palindrome homage to Douglas Hofstadter's Crab Canon see https://juliagalef.com/2017/02/21/a-poem-for-douglas-hofstad...

What happened to the future where all our transactions were secured by trust rated escrow agents?

I went to a talk by someone who had switched fields to one that involved analyzing portions of cells. After showing a series of slides with diverse, confusing blobs and lines, he s…

I hold to my own metaconspiracy theory - that there is a conspiracy to create and promote conspiracy theories. It's Russians and rogue libertarians who want us to fear and hate eac…

>tl;dr it can save 6% in a ideal situation, but the extra cost and logistical problems aren't worth it. Unless you launch by means of a mass driver/rail gun [1] built into the side…

Thank you for this work. Would that other datasets had such an overseer

Every time this argument is made I wonder how capitalism would look if a fair comparison were made. All the mortality and cruelty of the slave trade and it's aftermath, all the gen…