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by Gare 4y ago
Another way to think about it: with 8 billion people alive, humankind collectively experiences more time in 2 years than the presumed age of the Universe.
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by Gare 4y ago
Why not? If it's laser cut, then it's almost no additional cost to make each sheet different. It's all software.
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by Gare 4y ago
And that was 19 years ago!
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by Gare 4y ago
Yes, we are primed as animals that we are to be scared and vigilant. Because that ensured survival.
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by Gare 4y ago
I was suprised to learn that in the US deposits are insured up to $250K since 2008. In the EU it's only 100K euros and it seems low.
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by Gare 4y ago
Yes, the alternative is CBDC (central bank digital currency). But it also has its problems.
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by Gare 4y ago
Yeah, how is this different than black market trading (which happened a lot in ex-communist countries including mine, but the currency traded was usually German mark).
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by Gare 4y ago
4 eurocents at night (7PM-7AM) in Croatia :)
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by Gare 4y ago
If you don't know already, long press on the back button solves the problem.
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by Gare 4y ago
Mondelez wants to stay on good terms with the Swiss government.
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by Gare 4y ago
You can now even use `gap` on flexbox.
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by Gare 4y ago
You mean something like Digital Euro? https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/digital_euro/html/index.en.ht...
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by Gare 4y ago
HVDC line is cheaper to build and has fewer losses. But you need conversion stations which are expensive and also have some loss. At some distance, HVDC trumps AC even inside synchronized grid. Breakeven point is about 600 km for overhead l
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by Gare 4y ago
> The point of GPL is that it preserves the freedoms of users, not developers. You are a developer. The GPL in no uncertain terms takes freedom away from developers so users can have freedom. If users want to have freedom, they're f
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by Gare 4y ago
Or NaN or Infinity.
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by Gare 4y ago
> It does have a quirk with IMAP, in that it only checks your main folder until you visit a sub-folder. Then it'll check those, but even then, any time I go in and click a folder, it tends to react by "really checking." Yo
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by Gare 4y ago
At least it seems she's doing okay. Money, fame and attention can ruin lives, especially if obtained at a young age.
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by Gare 4y ago
I'd rather live in a country where authorities are overly cautious and transparent than secretive and negligent.
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by Gare 4y ago
Bad (or good) news, it's open source: https://github.com/sjvasquez/handwriting-synthesis
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by Gare 4y ago
> but they could fly into a mountain too if they felt like it Don't know if you said that with this crash in mind or not, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525
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by Gare 4y ago
Thanks for the detailed reply
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by Gare 4y ago
What's the benefit of ammonia vs. turning hydrogen into methane via carbon capture?
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by Gare 4y ago
Time to cover walls with tinfoil? :)
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by Gare 4y ago
About $200 per developer? Sounds like a good deal to me.
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by Gare 4y ago
Shouldn't normalization functions handle that?
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by Gare 4y ago
Not quite the same thing. Watts are power. Watt-hours per hour (or jules per hour) are average energy consumption during one hour.
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by Gare 4y ago
Exactly, that's my point. I'd rather listen to a "good enough" local band performing live than some "World's best" recorded performance.
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by Gare 4y ago
Most people can't afford top talent to play live music at their wedding or photograph it.
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by Gare 4y ago
Luma is at full resolution, chroma is "upscaled", but we're less sensitive to color than to light so it's almost as good. Most JPEG uses subsampling on chroma channels anyway.
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by Gare 4y ago
It's also a game of numbers. Back then, the world population was only 2 billion people. And a lot of their generation have died during WW2.

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