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by Xixi 6y ago
The single biggest difference between Japanese and American diet is the amount of food. Just going for US servings to Japanese servings is enough to shed quite a bit of weight, although you are likely to go hungry if you are used to America
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by Xixi 6y ago
https://tomotcha.com - a tea subscription service. It's still a tiny side business, slowly growing. It's a great project to get out of my comfort zone and learn about e-commerce, logistics, etc. And I get to drink a lo
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by Xixi 6y ago
That's the federal budget. Aren't things like road or education typically part of the state/city budgets? I'm not American, but I used to live in NYC, and thus paid my taxes there. I was always under the impression that:
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by Xixi 6y ago
A lot of cheats are visual cues and only alter the rendering, not the game logic: wallhacks or texture hacks for instance. You also have auto-aim cheats, etc. Running the game logic on the server, which you should do, will not help in these
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by Xixi 6y ago
Learning anything new is always a good idea. My (maybe unpopular?) opinion is that Python and Ruby are practically the same language. With different syntax, sure, but the same in the sense that there is a large overlap in terms of what they
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by Xixi 6y ago
Slightly off topic, but I need to vent: most services are still being built web first, without any kind of API. From January 1st to send international small packets "it has become obligatory to transmit data, such as the sender's
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by Xixi 6y ago
One year ago I did a back of the enveloppe calculation and found that the Boeing 737 Max was two orders of magnitude less safe than other modern airliners. A320 and 737NG have fatal crashes to the tune of one per 10 million flights, while t
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by Xixi 6y ago
> In reality, the number of levels of indirection between you or me as ordinary people who vote in elections and Ursula von der Leyen as the most powerful person in the EU government removes any meaningful requirement for her to either a
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by Xixi 6y ago
It's only opaque if you don't care enough to study the question. Ursula von der Leyen was chosen by the members of the European Council. The European Council, among other responsibilities, "decides on the EU's overall di
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by Xixi 6y ago
12% is for BEV only (BEVs are in bold in the link I copied, the other ones are PHEV). Including PHEV, Tesla market share is even lower (~6% for 2020, probably lower as this is based only on the top 20). The best selling BEV in Germany in Oc
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by Xixi 6y ago
Being first is great if you are building a social network. But why would it matter when buying a car? Sure, Tesla showed that it was possible (and Nissan with the Leaf), but being affordable matters more than being first. In any case, infra
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by Xixi 6y ago
More and more countries, especially in Europe, are setting a deadline of 2030 for sale of new ICE cars. So the assumption sounds correct. On the other hand Tesla market share of EV cars in Germany in 2020 is barely 12% (in terms of unit, c
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by Xixi 6y ago
Access to a parking space with charging, any kind of charging, is the reason I don't own an EV yet. Japan is really lagging behind here: the building I live in was finished in March 2020, it's not even one year old, and there&#x27
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by Xixi 6y ago
A single tank of gas: isn't that then mostly a matter of the size of the tank? My friend with his Jeep can go very far, no issues, but filling the tank costs an arm, a leg and a kidney. Gas consumption is horrible, it just has a huge t
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by Xixi 6y ago
Individually, European countries (including, but not limited to France) are too small to act against China. This is why the EU is so important: EU can (still) stand up to China, in ways France simply cannot. It would of course be even stron
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by Xixi 6y ago
The Blizzard I know (from when I was playing a lot more video games) has never been releasing a lot of games. Between 2000 and 2010, they released only four games: Diablo II, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, World of Warcraft and StarCraft II:
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by Xixi 6y ago
How do you make cement (and by extension concrete)? Limestone calcination: CaCO3 → CaO + CO2 The world concrete production is a larger source of GHG than the entire world fleet of trucks used for goods transportation, with some margin. And
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by Xixi 6y ago
The current trajectory of temperature increase is at least 4~5°C (rather optimistic) in 2100, which would mean that a pretty wide area surrounding the equator will, year-round or for significant parts of the year, have a wet-bulb temperatur
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Europe: 12% Plugin Vehicle Share in September(cleantechnica.com)
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by Xixi 6y ago
First time I went to a Python conference in SV, more than a decade ago, I kept hearing "Pie-thon" everywhere, and had no idea what the hell people were talking about. I took me a solid half hour to at last understand this pie-thin
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by Xixi 6y ago
iPhones, I don't know, but offering iPads to parents/grandparents because of this restriction? Yes, I know many...
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by Xixi 6y ago
I just checked the numbers in France. Over the last three months, top EV constructors were, in order: Renault-Nissan, PSA, Hyundai, Kia, Tesla, BMW and Volkswagen. PSA wasn't even selling electric cars in 2019, and is already threateni
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by Xixi 6y ago
The 2011 military intervention in Libya happened under Obama. It was led by France and UK, with US support, and wouldn't have happened if Obama had not green-lighted the operation. 10 years later the country is still in the middle of a
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by Xixi 6y ago
I don't like to call these projects "me too", as it makes it sounds like the goal is only to brag about having one. It isn't. The goal is to guarantee independent access to a GNSS. It only needs to be good enough for US
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The oceans are absorbing more carbon than previously thought(carbonbrief.org)
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Airbus announces three zero-emission airliner concepts called the ZEROe line(leehamnews.com)
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by Xixi 6y ago
There's another point of view: that by targeting people who either know, or are interested in learning F#, or any other less popular language (like Rust, Erlang, Julia, etc.), you massively increase the quality of your applicant pool.
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Adjusting Airbus and Boeing Orderbooks(leehamnews.com)
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I would even rephrase it that way: "even the best user may not understand all of their needs until they get their hands on a prototype."
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Boeing seeks to cut production costs of 787-8 to boost sales(leehamnews.com)
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