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by akamaka 5y ago
If the politicians had not spurred faster development by funding competing teams, we wouldn’t be able to stand here today and label one of those teams as a loser. One team may be failing, but the broader process has clearly worked to produc
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by akamaka 5y ago
As a thought experiment, why not allow us to disable the scanning feature in our iPhone settings? The entire premise of this system is that the targeted users are ignorant of its existence. If we can be so sure they don't know it exis
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by akamaka 5y ago
Reaching out to 10 companies is not enough for remote positions. They might be flooded with hundreds of resumes from around the world. Check out what people in other industries go through, for context: https://www.reddit.com&#x2
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by akamaka 5y ago
While that is true on a higher level, individual cities don’t have tools like printing money or ultra-low interest rates available to them. If you have a look at how municipal debt is rated, you’ll see that the rating agencies rely on proje
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by akamaka 5y ago
If you believe economies of scale are truly the key to success, then certainly wind, solar and battery power will be the long term winners. We can scale up to put solar panels on every roof in the world, and batteries in every car. Do you
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by akamaka 5y ago
Cost. Have a look at the numbers and then it should make sense. Don’t get caught up in silly internet debates about safety and politics. It might soon be cheaper to install new wind and solar than to operate some existing nuclear plants.
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by akamaka 5y ago
The article doesn’t mention how much natural immunity exists in the community, which is presumably high given the large outbreaks in Brazil. Is there a study which has calculated a more precise herd immunity threshold, taking this effect in
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by akamaka 5y ago
I’ve been extremely satisfied with Happy Ears. They are tiny and unobtrusive, and very comfortable.
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by akamaka 5y ago
Thank you for the clarification.
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Can you explain in more detail? Who are the biased organizations who funded this publication?
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by akamaka 5y ago
This is great, thank you!
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Sounds promising!
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by akamaka 5y ago
Thanks for posting this. I’ve been thinking about the design philosophy behind this tool we use every day, and this was interesting to read. Does anyone recommend any other papers or writings, classic or new, that shed light on how shells
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by akamaka 5y ago
The probability of this particular project failing is unrelated to the fraction of previous failures. Those past failures serve only as a warning. When you jump out of a plane, you don’t just say “99.999% of people survived this before, so
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by akamaka 5y ago
Civitas Londinum is a bird’s-eye view of London first printed from woodblocks in about 1561. Widely known as the Agas map, from a spurious attribution to surveyor Ralph Agas (c.1540-1621), the map offers a richly detailed view both of the
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by akamaka 6y ago
I’d bet the hosted services will hold onto data forever, so that they can mine it.
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by akamaka 6y ago
It seems inevitable that much of the practical knowledge is lost. Look at how few old sailing ships survive, despite that being the most advanced transportation technology for centuries. The schematics of the engines will survive, but fut
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by akamaka 6y ago
If you found a set of foods that leave you satisfied every day and you’re never craving something else, it sounds like you’re doing pretty great. And if you’re worried about getting enough trace minerals, you could easily add some dark cho
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by akamaka 6y ago
It seems to be a Canadian thing to not realize it’s happening all over the world.
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by akamaka 6y ago
https://www.google.ca/search?q=personalfinancecanada+house+p... There are literally thousands of threads that repeat the same arguments over and over. The original poster may as well be quoting any of them without any new
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by akamaka 6y ago
For some context: “SBG1, the first Strasbourg data center, consisting of twelve containers, came online in 2012. The 12 containers had a capacity of 12,000 servers. SBG2 is a non-container data center in 2016 using its “Tower” design with a
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by akamaka 6y ago
I imagine that Youtubers would be the winners in this new interviewing world, since they’ve spent so much time getting comfortable with their on-camera appearance.
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by akamaka 6y ago
Good question. In my case, I’ve always been good at in-person interviews. I’ll be nervous at first, but over the course of the interview, I can read the body language of everyone in the room and quickly get comfortable, and by the end of a
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by akamaka 6y ago
I’m one of them. Got laid off from a VC-funded startup early in the pandemic, and never quite figured out how to adjust to this new work environment. I spend my time coding for fun and doing the occasional very awkward job interview over
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by akamaka 6y ago
They’re both very similar in good looks and success, but one is known as a faithful husband, and the other is a prolific womanizer. We could perhaps simplify the hypothesis to say that modern dating, enabled by apps, has made it easier for
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by akamaka 6y ago
> If you do know men like this and you disagree with me, please elaborate. I think your hypothesis is mostly correct, except for the idea that the men who are having more sex are “tremendous specimens”. I don’t think they need to be espe
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by akamaka 6y ago
Your complaining was working, just very slowly, like water dripping on a stone.
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by akamaka 6y ago
Yep, you nailed the biggest problem. No single person can individually make decisions on those time scales. Future energy costs, interest rates, climate trends, technological changes, and urban planning all need to be factored in. There n
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by akamaka 6y ago
It’s expensive up front, but it should pay for itself if done right. This is not a trivial finance problem, though. It’s very challenging fund projects with decades-long payoffs.
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by akamaka 6y ago
Most existing buildings can be retrofitted: https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/report/united-states-b...

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