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raybb
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- raybb parentPlease reply back here when you do publish the the blog post. I'd love to read it.
- Does anyone have a recommendation for a good course to take to learn the basics of nutrition. I've done some very very simple ones from my insurance company for a small incentive but looking for something more serious and rooted in current scientific consensus (which I hear is not always so clear when it comes to nutrition).
- According to the NYT article[0] "about five million borrowers are in default" which means like 1.5% of the population is about to have 15% of their wages garnished. Seems pretty intense.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/business/student-loan-deb...
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- Which states are allowing it?
Also this hn comment seems to confirm it's not a tech problem just a policy one!
- In Germany they allow people to install solar panels on their balconies.
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/12/21/germany-embraces-balkon...
Though last I looked this probably isn't feasible in the US due to differences in our electrical systems or something like that?
- I also don't like typing long messages on my phone that's why I use this keyboard that will do high quality transcriptions via whatever AI provider you want. Much better than siri/google speech to text on device.
- If you wanna stay up to date on this one just refresh the Wikipedia page. They are on it like crazy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_strikes_in_...
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- There's an rule in the EU that says you can't feed the insects pork and then let those insects go on to be fed to pigs (same for beef and chicken). This is intended to prevent the transmission of diseases like Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (like "mad cow disease"). As I understand it, this rule isn't because we have shown it's dangerous to do the pig -> insect -> pig chain but rather because we haven't shown that it's safe. Arnold van Huis and his team at Wageningen University are putting quite some energy researching the safety and lobbying the EU to change the rules based on the findings. At one of the talks those folks they said it's basically a black box of trying to get what kind of science the regulators will consider acceptable.
As you might guess, making sure the food waste you feed the insects doesn't have _any_ animal proteins in it is quite logistically challenging and so afaik nobody is doing that at a large scale.
I did quite a bit of research into the history of insects in the food system, especially in the Netherlands. While I was rooting for Ynsect and other big players to figure something good out I believe that it's a problem much better suited to a smaller scale (perhaps on the city level). Basically, have the food waste from various stores brought to a facility to be fed to insects and then let those insects be turned into whatever (pet food, fish food, trendy protein bars).
- Did you also write "Inspire!: Inspiration for Life and Life at Work" ?
Goodreads seems to think so. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14291276.Joel_Burke
- Looks like this is the book: https://www.rebootinganation.com/
Rebooting a Nation: The Incredible Rise of Estonia, E-Government and the Startup Revolution Paperback by Joel Burke
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- Was Typst falling short in any particular area that made you not want to use it? (If it was on your radar at all). I think it would work for your use case and could also run client side if needed.
Here's the TS library: https://github.com/Myriad-Dreamin/typst.ts
- So when it says:
> The body can contain any Markdown; it is not injected into context.
It just means it's not injected into the context until the skill is used or it's never injected into the context?
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- For those curious: https://foldersync.io/
10 euros for an Android license for or $28 (yes they use two currencies on one page) for a desktop license. The free ad supported version on the play store has over a million downloads.