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It completely changed the balance of power between landholders and peasants. Peasants started being able to actually negotiate on wages (to a degree that was revolutionary at the t…

They don't work with it though. The insult was for abusing that catalogue and falsely claiming they could commercially produce and ship something that they could not, and I think i…

The visual AI identification apps are neat, but can and will make dangerous misidentifications. They cannot be used for foraging.

Be fascinating to hear more about how that actually works; or is it a fabrication by police or drug manufacturers? What mechanism of action would a bunch of metal and exhaust parti…

It's arguably not a strawman argument in the slightest. There have been changes made to these trucks that do a great job of looking aesthetically "tough and mean" and selling truck…

This truly isn't new; I've seen coffee table books from the 80s that used similar techniques for the photographs. This is a strangely credulous article.

Nearly all the tech giants of today were not the the first in their niches; they just executed better.

85 is functional at elevation, but definitely still not preferable at elevation. Works best with carbureted engines, which are obviously few and far between these days. You shouldn…

Unfortunately I don't think TDR would help here: the issue isn't gross damage to the metal of the wires, it's subtle damage to the insulation.

That's accurate: they're the standard in much of the rest of the world due to their lower operating costs. I was using "Euro" only to help people picture the things, it's a common …

Good concept. Well implemented HDR is a great way to get phones to reproduce more "true to life" images. Interestingly, the final rendering in the Pixel 3 looks better to my eyes.

The magic product the writer is looking for does exist — somewhat. It's those Euro style mini-split heat pumps, that pump coolant through an external unit. Up front cost is higher,…

That's big money for a lot of Americans, even ones using Google calendar. It's effective bait.

To steal mercilessly from Wikipedia: The most important difference between pelmeni, varenyky, and pierogi is the thickness of the dough shell—in pelmeni and vareniki this is as thi…

Been using PlantNet for a few years, rather surprised to see it up here. It's probably the best of its kind, as long as your photos are sharp and well lit. For scientific identific…

Myco-nerd here: absolutely never rely on the image recognition apps for fungi ID. There are fungi in entire different genera that are VERY morphologically similar, and the apps are…

A bond also loses you the personal/medical liability protection of auto insurance. Very few people who do have enough money would drive with only a bond, as the risks are pretty ex…

Same here. I had them running for a small informational website, and they took the site down for several days via surprise cert problems. I may switch to a paid provider.

What's your basis for that statement? Japanese social norms are quite communitarian, especially around contagious diseases.

That would be Giffen good, which may not exist at all. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good

Neonicotinoid pesticides are the likely culprit. Companies that produce them have been sinking large sums of money into studies that search for alternative explanations, and respon…

Quite a few delicious and safe Amanita spp. out there. It's a genus to be careful in, but there are a number of species that can be eaten with a little experience. Amanita calyptro…

I read here that loneliness is a significant problem for people in general within the modern world, and somewhat moreso for men. Headline seems a bit clickbaity, as the issue is cl…

It would, with setup to replicate the environment. It might well be a miserable buggy experience compared to just using the original hardware.