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by Sanzig 6y ago
Well, yes, but you have to draw the line somewhere. A long-term diet of ramen is not healthy, but drawing up a reference basket of middle-of-the-road nutritious food and pricing it based on median market prices for statistical purposes isn&
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by Sanzig 6y ago
Indeed, MNP makes this proclamation about once per quarter. I don't doubt that Canadian consumer debt is at an all-time high, and I agree that's concerning. However, MNP's survey methodology makes the 52% number misleading: t
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by Sanzig 6y ago
The creator of the linked electron microscope project was a PhD student at McGill (in Montreal) when he built it and (according to his LinkedIn) is currently a startup co-founder in Montreal. So... not sure where US geek culture fits in t
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by Sanzig 6y ago
That's actually a fascinating question! It turns out we don't know enough to answer one way or another. The model commonly used in radiation protection to assess cancer risk with respect to radiation dose is called the Linear No-T
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by Sanzig 6y ago
If any nation on Earth can pull this off (or a wealth tax for that matter), it's the USA. The reach of the US financial system is immense: blocking off access or otherwise making life miserable for companies that attempt to offshore op
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by Sanzig 6y ago
It has not. Humanity is still a few materials science breakthroughs and a Nobel in physics or two away from a space elevator tether that can operate on Earth. Many have suggested carbon nanotubes, but nobody knows if you can actually practi
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by Sanzig 6y ago
Indeed, space based solar power is always one of those ideas that sounds great until you sit down for fifteen minutes with a pencil and a piece of paper. The antenna aperture size for effective wireless power transmission in any band with a
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by Sanzig 6y ago
1. Gold is used for other things than just investment, including jewellery and industrial uses (principally electronics). Can you plate a connector with Bitcoin? 2. I'm willing to bet that the economic multiplier for money spent on a g
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by Sanzig 6y ago
> Real estate, there's no easy way to invest in it in a scalable way. Of course there is. It's called a REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust). If you want even more diversification, you can buy ETFs and mutual funds which hold mu
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by Sanzig 6y ago
Unless you are running completely detached from the public grid, consuming renewable energy for crypto mining absolutely indirectly produces CO2. You are buying renewable energy that could otherwise be sold to another customer/jurisdic
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by Sanzig 6y ago
And for technical users who find AWS/GCP/Azure and friends too expensive for whatever reason, there's enough small bargain basement VPS providers around that still beat the prices of the shared hosting providers while provi
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by Sanzig 6y ago
Yeah... reading it in further detail, he applies current across his head between the mastoid processes. I thought it was local stimulation between two surface electrodes under the ear. A quick look at the literature shows that the targete
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by Sanzig 6y ago
Damn, that's really cool. My concern with doing this with more than a demo setup would be elecrolysis injury due to long-term exposure to direct current. Humans are basically big bags of electrolyte solution, so applying DC for long pe
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by Sanzig 6y ago
Is general CUDA development permitted, or can I only use this for deep learning? There's a simulation problem that I encounter often at work which should parallelize very well, and I was considering getting my feet wet with CUDA by wri
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by Sanzig 6y ago
I think a big objection to moving off AWS is a result of enterprises locking in to AWS-specific technologies. AWS has a lot of neat, domain-specific products and managed services, but it's important to recognize those come with vendor
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by Sanzig 6y ago
Low pressure sodium vapor lamps are also very yellow [1], whereas a modern LED is much more broad-spectrum and thus looks nicer. Unfortunately, it does mean that LED lamps are a greater hazard for light pollution. [1] Low-pressure sodium va
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by Sanzig 6y ago
I think you nailed it. Somebody trying to earn some money from their writing - yeah, I get why they choose Medium. It sucks, but there's not really a tremendous amount of better options. But the majority of Medium articles aren't
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by Sanzig 6y ago
Maybe I'm just living in 2008, but... what's wrong with just self-hosting a simple blog? Wordpress gets a lot of well-deserved hate (especially regarding feature bloat and security), but it's also very simple to spin up. A VP
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by Sanzig 6y ago
As a quick interlude, since this may be confusing to non-US readers: bankruptcy in the United States in the context of business usually refers to two concepts, whereas in many other countries it refers to just one. There are two types of ba
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by Sanzig 6y ago
OVH has at least one large North American datacenter in Beauharnois, located just south of Montreal. I've used them before for cheap dedicated servers. They may have others.
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by Sanzig 6y ago
Depends on the plane. Inclination changes are expensive, so if you want different inclinations, it almost always makes sense to use a separate launch vehicle for each inclination you want to target. However, the longitude of the ascending n
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by Sanzig 6y ago
As others have said, many very simple radios do demodulation in mostly analog circuits, saving the digital stuff for only the last step (or not at all, for totally analog systems like an FM radio). The other thing is flexibility. If you don
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by Sanzig 6y ago
I think (well, I hope) that Airbnb understood that request would go nowhere. Airbnb is politically radioactive in Canada, any government percieved as "bailing out" Airbnb would likely suffer consequences at the ballot box. I suspe
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by Sanzig 6y ago
Depends on the jurisdiction, but most wouldn't put this on the consumer. In most jurisdictions, if a merchant neglects to collect sales tax when the sale is made, it's out of their pocket - not the customer.
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by Sanzig 6y ago
Oof, that management padframe is a dealbreaker for me. I was interested in potentially doing some interesting analog parts. If I can't even do that, this is way less interesting to me. What exactly was the justification for slapping th
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by Sanzig 6y ago
I remain skeptical as to the broad applicability of this approach. Some amount of preprocessing on on the space segment is valuable for certain mission types, but I don't know how generalizable it is. By doing all your processing on th
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by Sanzig 6y ago
AM and FM broadcast radio are licensed in seperate spectrum in most of the world (AM on the medium wave band, FM in VHF). Broadcast FM didn't replace AM radio outright, and there are still loads of AM stations. In some very rural areas
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by Sanzig 6y ago
The Saturn V plans were not lost. NASA still has them at Marshall. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/20302/were-the-sat...
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A spectrometer built from a cereal box, DVD, webcam, and OpenCV(starfishmedical.com)
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by Sanzig 6y ago
The 741 is obsolete... almost nobody uses it anymore. In terms of a jellybean opamp, I would guess that the LM358 and friends (LM321, LM324, and modernized rail-to-rail CMOS descendants) are quite a bit more popular. The bipolar LM358 famil

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