Favorites October 22nd 2021
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Sea salt has a small amount natural iodine, apparently meaning that people living on coasts were less likely to be iodine deficient.
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A character mentioned torpedos that just "bounce off" in Cryptonomicon, but until I saw this I didn't realize how bad the problem had been. Here's the full article.
Nice to see that immigration can work out politically eventually, even if only in Germany with a more stable coalition form of government.
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This is an excellent thread, the key portion really reminded me of Factorio: there will always be a bottleneck, if you don't choose where it is, then it'll just be random. Instead: "You should always choose the most capital intensive part of the line to be your bottleneck". I really recommend the whole thing. Anyway, good news, it got to Gavin Newsom in less 12 hours, and the problem has already been aliviated.
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It's got the Dolby Atmos logo too, so it must be bouncing the sound off the ceiling as well.
Look, Santa Cruz in the spring was just very picturesque, I’ve got a lot of photos.