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The base unit is indeed the kilogram, see https://www.bipm.org/en/measurement-units/si-base-units .

Source? I cannot find mercury in the list of ingredients in this FDA document: https://www.fda.gov/media/153716/download page 4.

I had once an iron deficiency, so I looked into how to improve my iron intake. Soaking legumes in water overnight reduces the amount of phytic acid and therefore increases the avai…

Probably I could spend less and still have a relatively big impact on the climate. I would just buy a lot of methane and release it into the atmosphere. Assuming [1] is correct, I …

Something like this project? https://www.thomasrebele.org/projects/bashlog/datalog

Predicting the weather is fundamentally different from predicting climate. Let's play a coin game. We'll throw a fair coin 100,000 times. Beforehand, I predict the number of heads …

Some days ago I stumbled on this page: https://www.unfoxmycablebox.com/ . It says that Fox News finances itself largely by hidden subscriber fees which are part of a cable or satel…

I have a cranky uncle who sends an email newsletter with links. Most of the links are conspiracy theories in my eyes. Some of them are about the climate. So to be able to make reas…

Technically, your code runs in O(n^2), as O(n) is a part of O(n^2). Still, he should have accepted the more precise answer O(n).

Indeed, and with a bit of tuning (e.g., using mawk for most things), one can get quite good performance. [1] The project also provides a translator from Datalog to bash scripts [2]…

I just wanted to buy a ticket for the Running Remote conference, and then I saw that there are only on-site tickets ...