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Considering the current state of recycling, it may be better to just throw our plastics away instead of putting them in recycling bins. With China turning away our recycling, some cities have started burning them (according to recent headlines - I don't have a source). I would think that would be worse for our environment that putting them in landfills.

According to the study by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research [1], 90% of ocean waste comes from 10 rivers - 8 in Asia and 2 in Africa. I'm not sure if what we do in the U.S. and Europe will have much impact on the oceans.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...

Let's just say that Reuters got more value out of the click than I did.

Agreed, but they got both of us to click, didn't they?

She came off as strident, and he came off as vague. It was a terrible interview on both sides and not worth reading.

Mode Analytics tutorial is well laid out:

https://mode.com/sql-tutorial/

This made me laugh. It wasn't the Dark Ages. They thought of code as code. I'm in my 50's, and I took my first programming class in high school in 1980. When I entered college a few years later, most of my engineering classmates had prior experience programming. It really wasn't considered anything mysterious or magical.

Same. The header and footer give me visual claustrophobia. If the article is something I really want to read, I right-click on each and do Inspect > Delete.

See chapter 0, section 0.5 - "Purchasing This Book."

I'm impressed that the MLB, with ~2X the number of games, manages to travel less than the NBA. I wonder if it's a venue availability issue or a better traveling salesman algorithm.

I never understood why that movie bombed. 1993 was a huge year for blockbuster movies, so I think it just got lost in the shuffle. Anyway, underrated flick.

caniuse.com is a quick way to look up compatibility issues, e.g. https://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox

I search config for "autoplay" and disable everything related. It's not a privacy issue - just annoyance avoidance.

> What was the effectiveness of these forts?

James Burke covered this a bit in episode 9 of Connections (about 4 minutes in):

https://archive.org/details/james-burke-connections_s01e09

A pint is what British people drink in pubs while chastising the US for not adopting the metric system.

> You're not really describing Shareware

These days, yeah, but the term shareware started out as OP described. It later became synonymous with trialware.

https://asp-software.org/www/history/the-origin-of-shareware...

I can confirm what others said about air drag. I've done this in the past, assuming I needed the filter on the input side. I had to use two filters, some cardboard, and plenty of duct tape to create a triangular input in order to get a decent amount of airflow.

I wish the guy on the video would take an air reading measurement near the side of the filter. I'm guessing that a lot of unfiltered air is escaping out the sides.

For comparison, an MRI machine is about 3 Teslas. If you have an ad blocker, you may need to turn it off for the video to load.

N.B. [@dang]: The original title "This Super-Strong Magnet Literally Blew the Doors Off a Tokyo Laboratory" seemed a bit too click-baity, so I changed it in the submission.

Not really. In my area, the school day is 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Teachers typically arrive by 7:30 AM and leave around 3:30 PM - and then do grading and other work activities in their evenings. Where do you cut 25% from that? Who watches the kids - especially in some communities where single parent households are the norm? If the state provides daycare, the money has to come from somewhere, and school budgets are stretched as is.

The workday reduction is a bit hand-wavy - it sounds good on the surface but when you get into the nitty gritty.

What about truckers? Should they transport 25% less miles per day? Should elementary schooldays be shortened by 25%? Should companies cut their customer service hours by 25%? Should manufacturing companies drop their daily output by 25%?

It might work well for some fields (e.g., programming), but for the general labor force this idea doesn't seem like a very well thought.

In the US, enrollment has been declining at smaller liberal arts colleges. These are private schools that rely primarily on high tuition costs and alumni donations to operate. Public universities have had steady enrollment, receive government funding, and are in no danger of shutting down.

This is the perfect response. I assume you're being sarcastic, but I can't tell for certain. Even most humans have trouble detecting sarcasm in print - would a sarcasm detector?

Since sarcasm is the biggest weakness of sentiment analysis, I don't have much faith that sentiment analysis tools will produce truthful results when aimed at social media.

For anyone interested, Scott Hanselman wrote about the open diabetes ecosystem (including OpenAPS) a few years ago:

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ThePromisingStateOfDiabetesTe...

It's sad to see (judging by up / down votes) that this community supports the endorsement of a racist (Jeong) and down votes who questions that. She said some seriously awful things, and the NYT's decision to hire her should be called into question.

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, I searched the settings and can't find anything that seems related that isn't already set to ON. I'm the only user (Super Admin).

I got to step 5

> You have no services enabled for which data can be exported.

What? I've had this (paid) GSuite account for years. That's a bit discouraging.

Having watched plenty of programming videos, I've come to the conclusion that many programmers are terrible at typing. As a terrible typist myself, I take great comfort in this.

To anyone who thinks this is ridiculous, try browsing the search results from the Google News tab:

https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker&tbm=nws

In the US, it would be unusual to find someone outside of tech circles who thinks the term "hacker" means something non-malicious.

FWIW, I think you're asking a legitimate question that should be thoughtfully answered instead of downvoted. I don't know what to call it other than "internet cause fatigue" but it does happen, and I believe that there are lawmakers and bureaucrats that take advantage of it by postponing votes and/or bringing the same issue to vote down the line under a different label.

I don't think it's an issue that deserves nuance because it's not unreasonable that they should behave as a monolith with regard to privacy. It should be a top-down corporate policy.

There is a YouTube update that's been pending on my Android for 1-1/2 years. I haven't agreed to it because YouTube decided that it needs access to my contacts. IMO, if Google needs to know who I communicate with in order to watch videos, they don't respect my privacy at all.