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adaml_623on Scientists succeed in growing dolomite in the lab

"A dollar might go further in a Dolamite account... " - Jingle for the genx Aussies

adaml_623on Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna rediscovered in Indonesia

BBC article on the same news:

"Of the four echidna species three have long beaks, with the Attenborough echidna, and the western echidna considered critically endangered."

We need references stay!

adaml_623on Ask HN: Making a better world, how important is that to you?

Well sounds like you're making the world better on a very local level so that's good.

adaml_623on Parkinson's patient able to walk 6km without problems after spinal implant

Thank you for replying to me. I'm aware that it was a personal question. Super glad to hear that you found useful treatment.

adaml_623on Parkinson's patient able to walk 6km without problems after spinal implant

And the #1 thing was???

adaml_623on Ask HN: Making a better world, how important is that to you?

You could at least answer the question.

adaml_623on Edison Bulb Night Mode

Regarding the local storage Vs server side defaults I don't understand why you wouldn't use a web cookie to store the on/off state? Am I missing something

adaml_623on Bibi-binary

That section on negative numbers seems incomplete. It doesn't indicate how you write negative numbers instead talks about how normal binary computers use twos complement.

Edit: I think I was assuming you'd only use 4 bit or 8 bit values with this notation.

adaml_623on Marcel the Shell

Might have felt sick. Or both kids got hungry and started whining. You can never tell from the outside

adaml_623on Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer

I thought Flexport was still hiring a month or two ago

adaml_623on Feds find "substantial'' safety issue at SC nuclear plant

Brown M&Ms. Which is tiny I know but I have a suspicion you did that to test us

adaml_623on Thousands of young people are fleeing Toronto – economists say city will suffer

I think Doctorow was correct with Walkaway.

I think young people will start building communities away from the big cities. And their lives will be so much better

adaml_623on Writing down unfiltered thoughts enhances self-knowledge

Now I'm anxious about cancer and I didn't even get to the secret about lowering the stakes :-/

adaml_623on Auto Xylophone with Homemade Solenoids

You do know high frequency electromagnetic radiation can cause cancer in skin tissue ....

adaml_623on Why companies still want in-house data centres

That article is a bit of a mishmash of factors, pros, cons, and trends

adaml_623on Launch HN: Loops (YC W22) – Email for SaaS Companies

We starting using your API for light volume transcriptional emails a few weeks ago and honestly the integration process was so smooth it was anticlimactic. It just all worked.

adaml_623on Americans can barely afford homes

Can you explain to me what "Mortgage as a percentage of income" means when it's over 100%?

adaml_623on Germany Will Force 80% of Gas Stations to Install EV Chargers

Just think about what will persuade China and India? Maybe Germany just wants to be ahead of the pack

adaml_623on Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories

Is this in the top 10 things I should know about history?

adaml_623on Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled

References please

adaml_623on Executive Function Theft

The full quote I think you should reference is. "he can devote this time to hobbies, relaxation, exercise, hanging out with friends, sleep, work and/or continued education."

You've addressed one item out of seven indicating that you're not aware of the context or nuance involved in gender inequality in the home.

adaml_623on Earth’s hottest month: these charts show what happened in July; what comes next

Yes. Northern and Southern seasons are not the same length due to the orbit. Also the proportion of land to ocean is very different which I think makes a big difference.

adaml_623on Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?

Standard Peter Watt disclaimer: his books contain explicit themes of horror and torture.

adaml_623on How a startup loses its spark

"And as tools (especially AI) get better, the number of users a small team can support increases. Founders of the future may not need to worry so much about these scaling pains, and work may become fun for everyone"

Except fewer of your users will have jobs because the AI multiplier means smaller teams. So your addressable matter will shrink. So another race to the bottom?

I'm sure we'll work it out right..

adaml_623on China's Zombie Economy

What about Argentina? 100% inflation!?

adaml_623on Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures

Who's building that well insulated flat and where is the insulation coming from?

I sometimes worry that the pyramid of infrastructure and labour required to create that flat is not scalable

adaml_623on The Webb telescope just offered a revelatory view of humanity’s distant past

Good question. I'm not an astrophysicist but..

Solar system is 4.5 billion years old. The sun has been around the galaxy 18 times since forming.

And as you can see from that image the gases that make up star forming regions are literally blown around by the nearby stars.

So combining fragility of a nebula with time plus 18 loops and I think it's totally gone.

Plus I saw a YouTube video a few days ago that theorised that earth sized rocky planets would only form around suns in star forming regions with nearby massive bright stars that would be actively tearing the nebula apart at the same time that the planets were forming.

adaml_623on The Webb telescope just offered a revelatory view of humanity’s distant past

Really interesting talk published a week ago about how massive stars interact with processes like star formation in galaxies.

https://youtu.be/fDUOEdcjqSo

adaml_623on Ask HN: Is the Market Recovering?

Which country and area OP?

adaml_623on How the data center site selection process works at Dropbox

GSuite. Do you trust Google to not shut it down?

ICloud. Does it have good clients for Android, Linux and Windows?