Beldin

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by Beldin 5y ago
> Does that mean 75% of people that are hospitalised specifically due to effects of Coronavirus were unvaccinated? Yes, it means exactly this.
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by Beldin 5y ago
Why do the vaccinated accept this? Honest question, because I imagined the breaking point for vaccinated folks to be before there's literally zero space for their medical emergencies due to folks who made a different choice. I mean,
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by Beldin 5y ago
In .nl it is more like 75% of admissions are non-vaccinated, and slightly higher for intensive care.
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by Beldin 5y ago
There are too many people on the planet as it is. Earth Overshoot Day, the day by which we've collectively used up whatever the Earth can generate in a year, is moving earlier in the year. In 2021, it was July 29th. From there on out,
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by Beldin 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Overshoot_Day
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by Beldin 5y ago
Significantly reducing population (to, say, 3 billion or less) is probably our best bet against climate change. However, to do so in any remotely ethical way takes a lot of time. The next step is energy use: both reduction of consumption an
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by Beldin 5y ago
Indeed. This sort of thing should be called "toilet ducking", in recognition of the (Dutch) brand whose ads poked fun at this very idea in the 90s. "Therefore, we of Toilet Duck recommend ... Toilet Duck!" ("Toilet
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by Beldin 5y ago
It also puts an extra barrier for re-enfranchising already disenfranchised voters. A way around such shenanigans could be some legislation where the government is required to give everyone an id card for free - and to put the onus on govt f
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by Beldin 5y ago
I would argue it's the other way around: storage is needed for when demand exceeds supply. You need to make up the difference somehow. When supply exceeds demand, you could just "bleed it off" or reduce supply by decoupling g
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by Beldin 5y ago
I doubt it. I think most HN users would be above-average successful at white-collar crimes, especially if those involve technology. I see no reason for any correlation between HN readership and aptitude for blue-collar crimes.
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by Beldin 5y ago
From the headline I thought this was something like where a phone number is shown in a serie, and it's viewers start calling it in droves. Not so. This is about an ISP having to deliver what its customers pay it for: bytes. Incredibly,
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by Beldin 5y ago
The fact that google made some aspect of their website behave better in chrome than in firefox is not really an argument that firefox is doing it wrong so much as yet another example of browser wars 2.0
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by Beldin 5y ago
Don't discount the capriciousness of the law's execution. In many cases, being the right skin color and wealthy comes across like a superpower compared to Joe Average. I'd hazard a guess that many "use code for law&quot
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by Beldin 5y ago
We actually do know more. Sure, physics is basically modelling and observations. Our current models might be completely wrong - even if their predictive power is far greater. But we've also made some genuine proofs. For example, we kno
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by Beldin 5y ago
I was quite shocked to learn that when US cable tv was a new thing, one of its advertising thrusts was that there were no ads. Not being in the US, I don't know what the situation is precisely. But I do know that a "1 hour" t
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by Beldin 5y ago
Somehow I don't think it's jobs that pay enough to afford an au pair that have trouble recruiting.
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by Beldin 5y ago
> he was accidently still wearing his police uniform Hear, hear, fine sirs!
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by Beldin 5y ago
Fun Foone Fact: the 3.5 inch floppies apparently were 3.54 inch. https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1439239118991413254
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by Beldin 5y ago
Given that a business pivoted away from exactly this, when they had this up and running, I'd advise putting in some effort to find out why they did so first.
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by Beldin 5y ago
> since Covid has sent demand into the earth. This needs more context. Around here, it's nigh impossible to get a place. Social housing has waiting lists for over a decade, private renting is more expensive than a mortgage, and bu
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by Beldin 5y ago
Inspired by a scandalous fraud case in scientific publishing, i wrote a paper applying Goodhart's Law to scientific publishing ("A Much-needed Security Perspective on Publication Metrics", published at the Security Protocols
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by Beldin 5y ago
I would think the government making laws banning folks from using certain bathrooms is very much a civil liberties issue. But maybe it's common for US States to have laws telling men they are barred from women's toilets and vice v
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by Beldin 5y ago
I've encountered this statement before. Without reading the article, here's the argumentation I heard: Basically, the perpetrators were already known - there basically was already (close to) enough information to foresee serious
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by Beldin 5y ago
Actually, the web itself happened after computers had gone super-mainstream. That led to the dotcom-boom and burst of the late 90s/early 00s. From there, web 2.0 developed. Google started pushing its plugin (Google Gears) to deliver we
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by Beldin 5y ago
> But science is basically saying "we trust you to find something worthwhile. Go saunter" Not... quite. Typically, scientist in academia are underfunded and overloaded with teaching and management duties. The way to get round
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by Beldin 5y ago
According to Wikipedia [1], LEO is up to 2000km, though e.g. the ISS is at about 400km; geostationary orbit is 35,768 km. Minimum difference in orbital length is 2 pi times 33,768km. So the obvious case for geostationary orbits is significa
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by Beldin 5y ago
If electric cars are part is the solution, we need demand for infrastructure (mostly charging, but also maintenance expertise). Middle class-driven Teslas are sufficiently present to have induced building infrastructure, from which other c
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by Beldin 5y ago
But money doesn't measure work. One hour of work by Jeff Bezos trumps what most make in a year. Moreover, it doesn't even work as a relative scale. If Jeff Bezos spends half his fortune on one art piece, he is still one of the wea
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by Beldin 5y ago
Of course, perhaps he was aware and considered ways to hide that. I'm not saying this is the case - I am saying you need rules that work for that specific case.
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by Beldin 5y ago
TL;DR: - If you want a certain display tech (qled, oled, ...), you don't need this guide. - otherwise: there is no difference. pick whatever screen has the size and ports you care about. I expected something like distance (several m fo

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