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by Gys 7y ago
Research in the Netherlands shows 3% of blooddonors have anti-bodies [0] (or [1] for translation). The Netherlands has about 17 million people. Assuming the 3% translates to only 1% of the population, that still would be 170.000 Officially
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by Gys 7y ago
Next: Microsoft Basic
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by Gys 7y ago
This post [0] in a related disccusion yesterday refers to research in 2004 [1] that clearly concludes senators did better trades than the index. But maybe times have changed. Or senators. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by Gys 7y ago
If historical data is available, an aggregated result of this could be compared to the S&P index. To see if their trades actually outperform and therefore if they a better traders than average, and if so, this might mean they have bette
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by Gys 7y ago
> The CBM 8032 AV project is an exploration of the beauty of simple graphics and sound, using computers from the early 1980’s.
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by Gys 7y ago
'Airflow' as in ....? It does ring a bell, but airflow gives a lot of hits on google. Would be helpful to add a link in your readme to 'your' Airflow.
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by Gys 7y ago
> And, best of all, thanks to the magic of tab-completion, it became very easy to browse my entire collection of commands. This. I always forget the names of all these useful tools that I only use now and then.
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by Gys 7y ago
WeWork bought Meetup for $200 million end of 2017. I do not think any details were disclosed this time, but I guess the consortium paid way less. It worries me that the Pro subscriptions are growing so much. Seems Meetup wants to focus on t
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The Next Chapter of Meetup(meetup.com)
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by Gys 7y ago
Cool company name!
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by Gys 7y ago
A completely collapsed economy could trigger a society breakdown and will have deadly consequences as well, like violence (fighting over food, possesions) and bad healthcare
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by Gys 7y ago
Booking asks for the good parts and the bad parts seperately and then only shows the good parts. You really have to look around for the negative parts. I always do that and it is very helpful.
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by Gys 7y ago
> We estimated the age-specific case fatality ratio (CFR) by fitting a transmission model to data from China, accounting for underreporting of cases and the time delay to death. Overall CFR among all infections was 1.6% (1.4-1.8%) and in
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by Gys 7y ago
> an SD-flash-card-to-IDE adapter from Ebay Wow, it sometimes amazes me what kind of adaptors are build
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by Gys 7y ago
Very interesting. I was thinking if implementing a fly-out might be a good idea and reading this really helped to decide.
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by Gys 7y ago
I think for some CEOs it is actually applicable. Bezos being one of them. He has build Amazon from scratch. Sure he hired lots and lots of people to help him. But hiring the right people at the right moment is not easy and very, very import
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by Gys 7y ago
It is easy to connect your own domain to a Github Page ;-)
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by Gys 7y ago
> push changes to Github Or create an organisation on Github and publish this website as a Page. It is simple and it is free.
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by Gys 7y ago
Self promotion > You can see that getting a mobile app development company in Kenya will cut the cost of mobile app development without affecting the quality and usability of your app.
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by Gys 7y ago
That difference is very clear: you still need to buy and manage your own (cloud) server to run dokku on.
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by Gys 7y ago
Too bad this is US only. Looks interesting
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by Gys 7y ago
Nasa provides historical data on the amount of solar energy reaching the surface for any point on planet: https://power.larc.nasa.gov/docs/v1/
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by Gys 7y ago
Yes, this gives the actual energy reaching the surface: https://power.larc.nasa.gov/docs/v1/
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by Gys 7y ago
Someone did a calculation for Singapore: https://medium.com/sausheong/estimate-the-solar-output-of-yo... His conclusion: 'This is about 7.3 TWh or 11.5% of the 63.4 TWh of expected Singapore’s electricity consumpt
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by Gys 7y ago
> Last updated on 16 July 2019. Startups of London is currently in beta and all details are subject to change. © 2019 Startups of London No changes in the past 6 months, must be a sign of being a very mature ecosystem ;-)
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by Gys 7y ago
Someone told me once that building and maintaining a wind turbine takes more (or same amount of) energy then produced by that same wind turbine in its lifetime. I failed to find research to back that up. Maybe anyone here knows more?
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by Gys 7y ago
i like the extensive readme and blog post. Thank you!
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by Gys 7y ago
Bringing an online community to offline is very challenging. HN has many members, but spread out around the globe. An interesting challenge. There have been some initiatives in the past, I think? Not by HN but by members I mean.
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by Gys 7y ago
Making people connect offline
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by Gys 7y ago
I understand that in those cases rqlite/dqlite is used. But that it just a technical detail. My point is that I am running two servers: one with the app and Xqlite and another one with Xqlite. In case of a neo-serveless setup, I also h

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