MikeDelta

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by MikeDelta 4y ago
Definitely, I have no doubts we will be alive. I was hinting a bit to the lyrics of the song 'In the year 2525'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Year_2525
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
Today indeed, but let's see what we can do in the year 2525 (if human is still alive).
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
Not at all, if it were investors who want a return on the profits. However, many (all?) projects are financed with (expensive) debt, so poor countries end up with debts they cannot repay and 'vanity' projects they could do withou
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
It is not clear who will be paying for this, assistance to build as in expensive loans and building companies to be paid by said loans? There are pleny of high-profile projects like this that end up abandoned and the owner/operator in
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
> If manufacturers were truly making chicken stock “just like your grandma did,” it would be highly perishable, incredibly expensive, and shelf-unstable. I wonder why grandma's chicken stock would not be shelf-stable using old or mo
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
Dreams have this tendency to disappear from memory even as one is thinking about them in the morning. Keywords written quickly in a dream journal at night can amazingly trigger entire scenes back into memory.
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Sushi terrorism prank videos in Japan are hurting its conveyor belt restaurants(cnn.com)
3 points by MikeDelta 4y ago|0 comments
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
It's definitely on HN, found the quote on the following page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12001925 Not sure what the actual source is.
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
> Charge per byte of unzipped data
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34158033 with a bit of dialogue with someone from the company about what they are doing (not about this latest event).
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
Motivation and passion are very much underestimated in performance. I hope you manage to rekindle your passion somewhere else and run at 10x the speed again!
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
Or serverless
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
Then they can bring back the talking paperclip, but this time actually useful.
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Microplastics are finding their way into fruit and vegetables as they grow(bbc.com)
158 points by MikeDelta 4y ago|130 comments
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
I read somewhere that the tolerance on the lego pieces has to be very small so that all the pieces fit well enough (not too loose, not to tight).
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
Funny how it triggers all sorts of puns in the replies: "This might get me suspended from the site butt I cannot resist."
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
Everyone in the whole world is separated by a limited number. The notion that everyone is separated by six degrees [0] is apparently considered an urban myth, but social networks seemed to have an average of six jumps to reach everyone else
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
It is really bizarre but for reliable (traditional) recipes I nowadays go back to my paper recipe books, because online everyone has their own take to the extent that you have to start averaging recipes and still don't know for sure if
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
How is that different from a glass house or normal agriculture? A normal piece of farmland or glass house captures all sunlight falling on its surface for the produce that grows on the same surface, ratio 1:1. If you were to use sunlight f
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
They should, but I think parent means that companies should also be stopped from doing things before they damage the environment for generations... because all the fines in the world cannot fix that anymore.
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
Is this company subject to environmental regulation regarding emission of 'pollutants' in the atmosphere?
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
Cool nick, does it refer to a character or the animal itself?
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
We often forget that there are quite a few prop shops out there with just a few people, making a living for many years. Not sure where to find a link to the statistics, but you hear it when talking to the community.
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
I am really curious to hear how these small investors/traders, as market takers, create arbitrage opportunities for you.
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
I remember this article discussed on HN a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32036825
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
Indeed, this has been a topic of many discussions in the past and I do believe that connections and privilege form a more important factor in success than many would like to admit.
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
And then someone needs to port Doom to it.
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
Not impressed, sounds like a rehashed vc idea. If they really want to solve a problem, look at the declining fertility rates in the world. Growth in the womb is the last phase of a very tough yourney. No need to have such vast farms if ther
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
Chrome became the most popular browser in the market. (Unfortunately with its own issues.)
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by MikeDelta 4y ago
And we will do our best to improve safety around the workplace and avoid these deaths, because we value the life of our immigrant workers as much as that of our citizens.

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