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People adapt to getting an upgrade in life almost immediately. If you walked down the street and someone handed you $80 and the next guy $100, you'd be mad that he got more even though you just got free $$.
It takes 2 weeks to adapt to a loss though.
Humans are strange.
Leetcode interview questions will adapt to ask for the wrong answer. You'll have to write broken code to prove you can code better than the correct code AI can spit out.
Lanes in heavy snow covered roads are more of a suggestion. You can either drive on the bare 'wagon tracks' of road, or on the proper lane (that you can't even see) with 6-12 inches of snow on them.
Often when driving like this, you see a glimpse of the middle-yellow line inside one of the wagon tracks, and you realize that you're actually driving in part of the other lane. Fortunately the opposing traffic's wagon tracks are also shifted so that they're driving partially on the shoulder.
A GPS guided car would make a mess of the wagon track pattern that all the humans decided to just go with.
Trees follow a slow-fast-slow pattern for capturing carbon. Small new trees don't capture much. Middle-aged trees capture a lot as they grow. Old-growth trees don't capture as much as they reach the end of their life-cycle.
As others have said, trees are only temporary as they eventually die and need to be replanted. They're also slow to start, and need to be maintained (which costs carbon as well).
These people spent 37 days in a 9ft dinghy in the ocean. A ladder rung, plus the rain water mixed with turtle guts from the bottom of the boat saved their lives.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/22/shipwre...
It seems there's a battle between virus's, they don't like sharing resources and the 'strongest' wins.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56483445
Coronavirus: How the common cold can boot out Covid
Think of the cells in your nose, throat and lungs as being like a row of houses. Once a virus gets inside, it can either hold the door open to let in other viruses, or it can nail the door shut and keep its new home to itself.
Influenza is one of the most selfish viruses around, and nearly always infects alone. Others, such as adenoviruses, seem to be more up for a houseshare.
If rhinovirus and Sars-CoV-2 were released at the same time, only rhinovirus is successful. If rhinovirus had a 24-hour head start then Sars-CoV-2 does not get a look in. And even when Sars-CoV-2 had 24-hours to get started, rhinovirus boots it out.
"Sars-CoV-2 never takes off, it is heavily inhibited by rhinovirus," Dr Pablo Murcia told BBC News.
He added: "This is absolutely exciting because if you have a high prevalence of rhinovirus, it could stop new Sars-CoV-2 infections."
Fun fact, Voyager 1 - at 17km/s, isn't always moving away from Earth.
Earth does 30km/s around the Sun, so at some points in it's orbit, Earth is catching up to Voyager 1.
I like scan, but the time is too short, and it skips before I can get it to play. Maybe a longer scan period - or just a 'random' button.
/r/listentothis is good for finding different genres, and usually a good song from that category as well.
Whenever I come across a picture of a location that looks cool, whether it be a castle/ruin/beach/city. I search Youtube for 'place name walking tour' and then filter by Long videos.
Usually gets some good results. Sometimes the camera person is too chatty, but you can always mute them.
Amazon is brutal, 1% defect rate. 1.75% gets you a 72 response window before they shut your account. So, 2 bad orders per 100 and your out of business. You basically live in fear of bad reviews and cases being opened against you. Defects are opened a-z claims or feedback with 1 or 2 stars.
If your lively hood is under that constant pressure to perform, I can see why they'd request feedback that way.
Just explaining their side.
I'd just ignore it, it's someone trying to survive.
/r/buyitforlife
I've heard of this happening across Lake Erie, people in Canada said they could see the color of the traffic lights all the way across the lake in Erie PA.
This song captures that feeling well.
Dumbwaiters make a resurgence, except now they hookup to the roof.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort
I want to read one of these...
'Ghost kitchen': How a plain storefront hides more than a dozen delivery restaurants
Business model is gaining popularity as food delivery apps gain a foothold in Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ghost-kitchen-calgary...
Another resource for finding footpaths/routes is
https://www.strava.com/heatmap
They've aggregated tons of bike and running routes so you can see where other people have ran/biked before. Good to use in the woods when the trails aren't very obvious, just use the 'find me' button on the map and then you can see where you are and which trail goes where.
It was my understanding that fission and fusion both use the same Nuclear Power Plant sized facility.
Fusion just replaces the radioactive bit, you still need steam/electricity conversion/transmission/cooling... it's not like a suitcase you can plug wires into, you still need a massive 'factory' to make electricity, just the one bit is a safer.
Smells like garlic, at 20 parts per billion, in 80-90% sulfuric acid... Probably not much smelling going in.
Hardware solution: $1 plastic cutting board
Each with and incendiary charge and the GPS coordinates of every home/building in a city. Who needs Tokyo/Dresden firebombing anymore.
While the lab results look promising, experts in the field advise caution because important work has not been done to test the compound in animals. “The critical thing is animal data. We’ve found things that are very potent in vitro that do nothing in vivo,” said Dimiter Stanchev Dimitrov, a professor of medicine who directs the Center for Antibody Therapeutics at the University of Pittsburgh and has created antibody-based therapeutics for numerous viruses including SARS and MERS, two other coronaviruses. He said it can take months to collect the needed data in animals. “Once these are tested in animal models, then I can get excited.”
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/dispa...
I was running while listening...
The US president negotiating the terms of Germany's WW1 surrender/repayments was trying to get a fairer deal, and France's president was negotiating for German punishment. In the days long negotiations, the US president fell ill (possibly with Spanish Flu), and was much weaker/combative when he returned to the negotiating table. Maybe if the flu hadn't hit him, Germany would have gotten a fairer deal and not felt unfairly treated which was a cause of WW2.
Also India's rebellion from the British was during that time, the British suppressing the rebellion's and the added pressures from the flu ravaging their country helped move that process along.
I wonder if the same could be said about the George Floyd protests. Part of it was the timing of everyone being off work/unemployed and having the time to go protest.
When you fire a tazer, along with the wires a bunch of confetti sprays out as well. The confetti has id numbers on it that can be traced back to who purchased it.
There's some longer term unanswered/unanswerable questions as well. How do children do if their parents have never worked?
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/
Is full of people with long duration recovery periods.
Caveats are that only people with long duration symptoms would find that place and post there. Also, it could just be something else that the person is blaming on their Covid diagnosis.
Given the volume of posts on long term recoveries, it seems likely that there's more impact than a normal get-sick-for-3-days flu.
ELI5 - Boiling makes it easier for the bacteria to eat.
Me: lets listen to the middle of Africa. Second song - Manic Monday by the Bangles
Bleeding off 8km/second (5miles/second) all the way to zero movement - just by moving through the atmosphere... doing that without heating just seems impossible.