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I think from ground water trace elements like lead are more likely. In my experience when I've been in places where groundwater was the household source via electronic pump, it's always been a case where you weren't supposed to drink it. And either had a reverse osmosis machine near by to use to fill bottles, or you just relied on store bought bottled water for drinking and cooking.

It would be interesting if in your cases it was high deuterium water though. It's not something I ever considered really.

Of course when straight groundwater is your best or only option, that's a hell of a lot better than having no source of plausibly safe water available. I've drank lake water where we would just disinfect it with a few drops of bleach for a couple of weeks when on trips. But was always told that this is a short term solution for convenience.


My understanding of the issue with pumped well water (at least where I am) is more that you don't know how long the water has been sitting in pipes or tanks. (Open wells - with a bucket - have different issues as they are open)

The wells here are typically 50m+ meters deep, so if you have a 1 inch connection that's more than 25 litres just sitting in the pipe. For longevity you don't want to run the pump every time you turn on the tap, so there's usually a pressurised tank with another 25L or so and a pressure controlled switch in the pump.

So if you want to get 'fresh' water you first need to run 50L through the system. There's also the issue of extra minerals - the water here has a lot of iron, which turns everything red unless you have a good filter. The filters will have a low flow rate, so you need another tank to store the filtered water. Much easier to just get a RO system or bottled water for drinking :-)

50m of earth is going to produce some of the cleanest water you've ever had, unless of course there is pollution from heavy industry nearby. I know a few people who collect water daily from springs and drink that as is. If you lookup DIY water purification systems they typically have one plastic tank filled with sand and another with charcoal which filters pretty much all of the stuff out you don't want to drink.


Neat. For some reason I find it satisfying to read an example like that where there's actual real tangible work being done with immediate and obvious benefits.


The weird thing about tackling these seemingly Goliath type problems is that at the start it requires a lot of patience to get going and can be demotivating to see no progress or trickle-slow progress, but once you visibly see that the gears are starting to crank, it is very rewarding.


Do you get security updates though? I stopped getting them in Dec 2019. Forcing my hand to move over to a phone with Android 9 that gets quarterly security updates still(on March 2021 now I think). I realize this is a manufacturer/carrier thing as far as I know, and I'd like to go back to a nice clean debloated 8.1 or whatever. But I feel like I'm dragged kicking and screaming along the path of forced obsolescence just skimming over the security stuff that apparently I'm never going to get if I don't upgrade phones.

Honestly it's just really annoying. I've toyed around with Lineage and such but at some point it seems it got a lot harder to do things on a lot of models and carrier configs. It seems you need to really research exactly what phone model is open enough and has enough people graciously doing open source work to support updates and such outside of the manufacturer and carrier.


> Do you get security updates though

Nope. And I even stopped updating Firefox, because their move to Quantum on Android made a great browser and abysmal experience.

Once this phone dies, I'll go and buy a Fairphone, hoping that might be kept alive a bit longer with updates.


I only buy Android One phones now. Monthly security updates for several years, guaranteed. Pretty stock Android, too.

Great? Perhaps not. But much better than the phones manufacturers just dump onto the market and then forget about.


I thought Android One devices had stopped receiving regular updates? I know I read a report that most/all of them had yet to receive Android 11 two months ago and that security updates were now being released months after they used to be. If I recall that report correctly, it sounded like new devices had all but stopped being released and that it seemed like the program is on life support now. I know that program was very locale-specific, so maybe that was just in the US?


I believe it's:

> How is babby formed?

> how is babby formed

> how girl get pragnent

Let's at least try to preserve this gem accurately for future archaeologists. It should make it easier for future humans to wrap their heads around why we are in the state we're in.


I mean sure if we want to go back to the origins, but personally I like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg


Yeah, this is almost certainly not the case any way you want to frame the question and define a 'bit being mined'.

You'd really have to twist some strange language to attribute distributed global computation to SV because they may own or have invented certain technologies to even begin to argue that.

Just think of how expensive SV is in general. It doesn't make sense.


cue "Running in the 90s" track


Proposition Joe had the connect on lockdown with the eastside and westside working together pumping out 15 million doses. Until young Marlo came in and put a stop to that. The game is the game, vaccines or not.


Well, I stopped looking at news for one week and the frothy right has entirely new sentences I don't understand.

Edit: folks stop upvoting this I was missing a cultural reference I didn’t remember.


It’s a reference to the HBO series The Wire.


Well now I just feel old.


The Wire came out almost 20 years ago.


Yes, and I watched it about 15 years ago and didn’t remember enough to recognize the reference.


We already do that ourselves naturally as an organism, as does the environment around us.

A simple synthetic cell is so far off from the myriad of potentially deadly cellular organisms(or even deadly malformed protein chains) that already exist and evolve right this instant that it's not worth a second thought in the context of "organisms that can kill us" for now.


I believe it was in Montreal that there was a study attempted for something like a Human Sexuality postgrad study, that needed to collect a certain sample size of males who had never consumed internet pornography(or something to that effect), that had to be abandoned due to complete failure to find subjects who met the criteria.

I'd imagine it would be not quite as hard to find caffeine naive subjects for a caffeine study, but not by much.


And if you did find them, one had to wonder how representative they are of the general population.


> Now a couple of years into blockchain technology, we have some alternatives that _might_ work as well as Proof of Work (Proof of Stake for example) but we've yet to see if it actually can work on the scale that Bitcoin operates in. Time will tell.

Proof of Stake as a theory and concept is probably almost 10 years old at this point. And as an actual real-money-in-production blockchain Proof of Stake will actually be 10 years old in the next couple of years or so.

I wish I could confidently remember specific names and dates here, but on bitcointalk I remember SunnyKing coding and launching a real in production a PoS coin almost 10 years ago now...I want to say it was something like "NuCoin" but I could be off on the name there. I do speicifically remember he made Primecoin which was an alternative PoW function based on discovering the world's highest prime numbers(kind of cool, which is why I remember it I guess) after he was done with his initial PoS coin. He(SunnyKing) was also endlessly trolled and mocked due to the theoretical threat PoS posed to those invested in Bitcoin and other PoW coins like Litecoin at the time.

There was also a larger PoS coin called NXT from that era(again, almost 10 years ago, 2013 maybe?) that I suppose never really caught on, perhaps it was technically flawed?

There were lots of legitimate criticisms of PoS regarding whether or not it was a truly viable decentralized consensus mechanism. And I don't claim to after the answer to whether or not it is, or was sufficiently viable. But historically there was also lots of trolling and suppression from people trying to protect their investments.

It apparently may be finally getting its time, given PoS as a technology seems to have only recently become a mainstream topic of interest, despite how old the tech and theories themselves are. Perhaps that's just because the problems were only recently solved?

But regardless, I find it funny how much play PoS gets these days now that mainstream media is reporting on how PoW mining as a whole is using more power than many nation states, as if there was any other path for PoW to scale given its fundamental design.


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