wiremaus | 6 years ago | on: Engineered symbionts activate honey bee immunity and limit pathogens
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wiremaus | 6 years ago | on: I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)
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 calyptroderma and A. vaginata for instance.
wiremaus | 6 years ago | on: Almost one in five men admits to having no close friends, a survey has found
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 clearly not exclusive, and the percentage difference relatively small.
wiremaus | 6 years ago | on: Technician keeps computer made in 1959 still humming along
It would, with setup to replicate the environment.
It might well be a miserable buggy experience compared to just using the original hardware.
wiremaus | 6 years ago | on: Marcus Hutchins spared US jail sentence over malware charges
'Chinaman' is generally considered quite offensive and dated. I'd switch up the noun there.
wiremaus | 6 years ago | on: Oregon passed sweeping housing crisis laws
A tiered system much like you describe is exactly what Oregon passed. New developments are largely unrestricted.
wiremaus | 6 years ago | on: Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings
Or you positively know rhat the light has been physically disabled, which is trivial on most cars.
Regardless, it seems an incredibly insensitive thing to give a poor rating over.
wiremaus | 7 years ago | on: WeWork Files for IPO
What about the tax advantage? I'm not convinced that the co-working spaces are worth their cost, but I assume it's a lot easier to write off a co-working space over a coffee shop order.
wiremaus | 7 years ago | on: VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
Here's some possible evidence that they're alive and well.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http...
wiremaus | 7 years ago | on: Top books discussed on Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange sites
Not necessarily. Some of these might be universally hated.
I bet all of them are pretty interesting, however.
wiremaus | 7 years ago | on: Documenting my journey growing my SaaS to a $100.000 a year
Looks like it's this: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/dumogi
I don't love performance tracking software. It can (1) easily become something that people deliberately game; (2) lead to a paranoid environment [in a Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom/Brave New World sense]; and (3) actively impede productivity.
That said, I'm sure there's a vigorous corporate market for it.
One large obstacle (as you mentioned) will be your writing. Working on your grammar or finding a business partner with strong writing skills will help.
wiremaus | 7 years ago | on: Misinformation and Disinformation in Online Games
...in which a UW grad student determines that a sufficient supply of buzzwords can translate a KotOR obsession into a dissertation.
wiremaus | 8 years ago | on: In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006)
Lexus is a bit of an odd choice, considering their relative reliability rankings as compared to BMW.
https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf...
wiremaus | 14 years ago | on: A simple experiment suggests a way to encourage truthfulness
You've clearly never been to Southern California.
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https://theintercept.com/2020/01/18/bees-insecticides-pestic...