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Re:Stop using poison on your lawn
on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:53PM (#19670757)
Often, that's desirable. Most recurring weeds grow in cracks between joints in concrete. Use good judgement, duh.
Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report
on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:48PM (#19670732)
AliExpress is worse. Fake/low-quality products just disappear completely and there's very few, short reviews. It's almost as bad as eBay.
Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report
on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:47PM (#19670726)
1. Bots
2. Click-farms buying clicks from humans in India, Malaysia, countries in Africa, etc.
3. Mostly, but not all, Chinese distributers and manufacturers offering inducements, bonuses and generally cajoling customers for 5 star reviews.
Re:Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris
on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:44PM (#19670712)
It seems like the weight of amount of water/retardant to effectively extinguish a fully-involved fire would be a problem AND simultaneously smothering the fire underneath AND reducing core coal temperatures below ignition point would need to happen. It's a thought towards a possible solution to a ruinous class of fires, but there appears to be a need for a gentle and widely-deployed technology to rescue historic structures in the midst of fire events.
1. Cool an outer structure rapidly with lightweight/gently-applied, inert, high specific heat material from above.
2. Thixotropic gently-applied, inert, high specific heat material inner structure (possibly same as 1.).