mec31's comments

On: Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventio...

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I live outside Boston and frequently see a Newark-Singapore A350 fly over. A mind boggling distance…

On: When Armor Met Lips

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Reminds me of one of my favorite Far Side cartoons https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFarSide/s/g5y9E0ZlmI

On: 4D Knit Dress

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Maybe so, but the 6-axis machine appears to be sitting in the front window of a store on Newbury St. (which is Boston’s high-dollar shopping area).

On: A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas fligh...

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An extra safety margin is conferred by the stepladders found in the tailcones :-)

On: Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”

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When the pope was in the US, he was driven around in a Fiat 500 (!). Granted, it was the four-door version :-)

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I didnt know that, was his "pope mobile" vehicle not allowed in the US then?

The photos of the car being dwarfed by the US security vehicles is funny, but a classic example of virtue signalling.

On: Boston mayor announces residential conversion prog...

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Fun fact—AI has done that already. 200 million proteins have been folded (and that’s all there are). Folding at Home is no longer a thing!

On: Dishwasher Salmon

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Everything old is new again. Here is the same thing, from Yankee Magazine in 1987: https://newengland.com/food/fish-seafood/salmon-cooked-in-di...

On: The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in win...

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Can confirm. I have an 1898 house in the Northeast. Just upgraded from 100A service to 200A service for $3900. I didn’t own the house at the time, but I believe it went from 40A to 100A in 1985.

On: DDoS attacks slow down Citizens' Initiative signin...

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By similar logic to Russia’s claim on Crimea, wouldn’t Finland have a claim on eastern Karelia?

On: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’...

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I haven’t received a notice either. I do however use Google as my domain registrar, and I purchase storage from Google. Is it even conceivable that either of those has spared me? Or is Google just lagging with its termination notices?