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"to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire

I agree with you, I can't stand ads However, I believe an ad it still influences you subconsciously as long as it is in your sight line. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a lot o…

CATL claims 10,000 cycles for the Naxtra: https://battery-news.de/en/2026/01/26/catl-presents-sodium-i...

Out the gate, sodium ion advantages are so significant that unless there is some surprise show-stopper it will likely become the dominant energy storage medium. Crustal abundance u…

Strangely, this made me think about the recurrent laryngeal nerve in giraffes. The nerve takes a 15-foot detour down the long neck and loops under the aorta near the heart before i…

> Because you need to use your other hand to press that button, instead of the adjacent finger. Funnily enough, I've used my nose to tap my watch when my hands are full Yes, I've g…

> mid-level -> senior-level transitions will leave a hole behind that can't be filled internally. Tech companies are betting that in 5 years, AI should be good enough to replace mi…

Alliance Laundry which makes Speed Queen recently IPOed: https://ir.alliancelaundry.com/news-events/press-releases/de... Once a company goes public they tend to focus more on earni…

The pods cost about 6x as much per load as powder. So, even if they had equal cleaning performance, economically the powder would come ahead. As it turns out, the 1/6th-as-expensiv…

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Not the GP, but do you think Serena Williams - world number 1 womens tennis player for 319 weeks, who trained for 5 hours per day at her peak - has insufficient grit? Because she w…

How do you just start on retatrutide? Did you sign up for a Phase 3 trial?

I value my time as well that's why I have 2 Synology devices, one at my home, one at my sibling's home. Both on Tailscale and we use Hyperbackup between them. It was very easy to s…

> Conversely, entire branches of knowledge can be lost if not enough people are working in the area to maintain a common ground of understanding. Especially if the work is classifi…

Instructions on Vine-glo grape concentrate during prohibition: "Do not place the liquid in this jug and put it away in the cupboard for twenty-one days, because then it would turn …

One useful addition for text file users: on Windows, create hotkey\macro timestamps using something like Autohotkey ( https://autohotkey.com/ ) 3 letter hotkeys seem to work well -…

Google was not marginally better Yahoo, their implementation of Markov chains in the PageRank algorithm was significantly better than Yahoo or any other contemporary search engine.…

Tirzepatide (and likely other GLPs) have limitations that are rarely brought up in the general media - Patients have about 72 weeks to reach maximum loss, they don't lose any more …

> people aren't aware of how wrong they can be, and the errors take effort and knowledge to notice. I have friends who are highly educated professionals (PhDs, MDs) who just assume…

I went through manually and these appear to have the highest volumes: H1 H2 CPM Magnacut Sandvik 12C27 Interestingly they are all weak on Edge Retention.

Be careful - those magnetic adapters can fry your port https://www.pcworld.com/article/2307079/dont-buy-these-dange...

Did you know you can buy an Oxford Nanopore sequencer for about $2000 euro? It sits on your desk and it will sequence DNA or RNA at about 450 bases per second https://nanoporetech.…

Some pools use a electrolysis system to generate chlorine for the pool. They'are marketed as salt-water chlorinators. It splits the sodium chloride in the water into chlorine and s…

> You actually don't have to power it down. If you hold the power and volume buttons for 2 seconds and reach the "slide to power off" screen, the phone is already hard locked. You …

What about highly intelligent psychopaths? https://www.spring.org.uk/2022/12/high-functioning-psychopat... Maybe some of those highly intelligent people are good at pretending to b…