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by 21 8y ago
Another article on this technology stated that the efficiency gain comes from there being only 4 points under load versus 8 points in a chain with derailleur system. A fixie also has only 4 points, since the derailleur is gone, so it's
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by 21 8y ago
Well, a so called former Thai Navy SEAL died during this rescue operation, so I guess they are. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/06/former-thai-na...
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by 21 8y ago
Since there is a considerable risk of panic here, do you think that the rescuers will either pre-sedate the boys, or have sedatives on them to administer if they panic? Is there any sedative available which calms you down without also reduc
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by 21 8y ago
Funny, in 2018 a lot of people are asking for 16-bit floats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_...
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by 21 8y ago
This Woman Threw Ink On A Photo Of China's President On A Livestream And Now She's Disappeared: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kassycho/chinese-woman-ink-xi-jinpi...
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by 21 8y ago
There have been quite a few cases where "science" was used for "willful and deceitful spreading of lies". See for example how now we find out that the whole "fats are bad for you, carbs are good" scientific &qu
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by 21 8y ago
I think you are wrong. It will be hard to roll back any system which abolishes violent crime. The people will accept it as long as it not abused that much.
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by 21 8y ago
I find it odd that you find it odd. A dog is not exactly in the same category as a human, from many points of view.
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by 21 8y ago
This is a weird one: > Select ingredients among those discussed in this book that your ancestors would have eaten. I'm pretty sure my ancestors never ate bananas, oranges, kale, quinoa, avocado and everything else which wasn't
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by 21 8y ago
There truly is a stock photo for everything. Business woman with headset and laptop milking cow: https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/woman-milking-cow-business-f... https://st2.depositphotos.com/4319567&#x2
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by 21 8y ago
Parent was comparing software development with plumbing, not general computer maintenance. Initially I wanted to give an example of fixing a missing include/import in the source code followed by building the binaries as a trivial sof
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by 21 8y ago
I'm not sure how to feel about a study with sample size 38 in the current reproduction crisis.
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by 21 8y ago
I'm sympathetic towards regular people people being legally scammed by nasty contracts, but how did that happen here? This was not a clueless Joe being forced to sign a non-negotiable contract with a giant company. Presumably those cla
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by 21 8y ago
A random person from the street would be able to fix a small plumbing problem. Water and pipes are well into the normal day to day experience. A random person from the street would not be able to fix a trivial problem/bug in some softw
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by 21 8y ago
It seems to me that this example is like undefined behavior in C.
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by 21 8y ago
Rental bikes exist in London and NY for many years now. I'm not sure if the city pays for them or not. Scooters are also amazingly convenient - see the many articles about them where the author started unconvinced (and don't tell
497.
by 21 8y ago
Can someone explain why the title and abstract is in 3 languages (English, French, Spanish), but the article just in English? Is this a new thing?
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by 21 8y ago
Max Planck said that "science advances one funeral at a time". Or more precisely: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually
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by 21 8y ago
The point of joining a group is that all parties need to compromise. Not an expert in the issue, but article seems to imply that Finland is the only one in 28 member states which is really unhappy. If everyone else doesn't mind removin
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by 21 8y ago
I wasn't worry about the people, presumably in this day and age they would have ample warnings. But who will pay for the cleanup operation, if there is no nation state to fall back to?
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by 21 8y ago
Finland already agreed to subject itself to such EU rules when it joined. Nobody is keeping it in by force.
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by 21 8y ago
> I don't think it's even a valid point to centralize DST above the country level What about: - measurement systems (metric, ....) - unicode - electrical grid frequencies (50 Hz in all of EU) - unified road driving rules (green
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by 21 8y ago
What do you mean? A low lying island is vulnerable to a possible tsunami, like an earthquake-generated one.
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by 21 8y ago
Seems to me that they would be highly vulnerable to a hurricane (or tsunami). There is no redundancy in such a concentrated piece of land. Puerto Rico was (more or less) helped by the US government. Who will help these people?
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by 21 8y ago
Switching DST at the same moment keeps the delta time the same. I'm from one EU country, live in another, I know that the delta between the two is always 2 hours. Because EU and US switch DST at different times, in the multi-national s
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by 21 8y ago
When bitcoin appeared, everybody was saying that "only retarded people would `invest` in such an obvious scam. you would be better to blow your money in Vegas, at least you'll get a free drink". Now the same people say "
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by 21 8y ago
> assuming aluminum heat sinks will be .67/lb, only to discover that by the time you've liberated the Al from the stream the price has dropped to .40/lb Maybe you can use a financial hedging contract to lock in the price o
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by 21 8y ago
FTFY: I'd much rather be 34 than 87
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by 21 8y ago
Nothing stops Zuck from selling some/all of his shares and buying BRK.A, SPY or treasuries. Sure, if he wants to do it quickly he will need to do it at a discount, but I'm pretty sure it's under 10% if he is willing to spread
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by 21 8y ago
Easy. Just look at the most valuable companies in the world today, and how long did it took to get there. Please give another example of people becoming billionaires in under 10 years who are not in tech.

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