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by alacombe 6y ago
The points you brought up are irrelevant to the "effective range" argument. Range requires TX power, so maximum legal range is inherently the same as maximum legal TX power.
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by alacombe 6y ago
Only if every ISP cooperate and there is no single one bad actors (eg. individuals) boosting their own transmit power for their own good. Also, TX power is not all about interference: attenuation, there is very good reason to transmit at ma
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by alacombe 6y ago
Power usage is based on the worse-case attenuation scenario, the last thing ISP want are call asking why wifi don't work good in the bedroom if the router is on the other side of the apartment / house. Thus transmitting at max all
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Amazon Makes First Aircraft Purchase to Expand Cargo Network(bloomberg.com)
4 points by alacombe 6y ago|0 comments
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Chinese billionaire Jack Ma's not 'missing,' just 'laying low'(foxbusiness.com)
3 points by alacombe 6y ago|0 comments
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by alacombe 6y ago
China most likely own them too.
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by alacombe 6y ago
"Leftist culture" is the only way to make any kind of money right now in the US, so of course Google want a "leftist culture" there. Is the rest of the world, it might be different, of course (eg. China).
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by alacombe 6y ago
Ratio can't be negative, they can either be above of below 1. What you are talking about is "$benefit - $cost", not "$benefit / cost".
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by alacombe 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Allen Wu was linked the CCP
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Plan 9 on E-Paper(boxbase.org)
4 points by alacombe 6y ago|0 comments
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by alacombe 6y ago
I doubt you can get 0.1 thou tolerance out of a water cutter.
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by alacombe 6y ago
Tesla are by no mean cheap... neither good.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Yes, they did. Do you have a relevant study backing this assertion ? At best, we'll have a good understanding of effectiveness 10 to 15 years from now.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> How much has anti-mask protesters contributed to the surge? Probably less than BLM protesters.
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by alacombe 6y ago
They probably teach more than the US do per-capita, so most likely yes. You don't need a 10 years general practitioner to attend everybody.
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by alacombe 6y ago
That's bullshit, China grew hospitals in a matter of weeks. Though, they are not restricted with all the regulations going on the US.
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The Decline of IBM(youtube.com)
2 points by alacombe 6y ago|1 comments
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by alacombe 6y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotchgard PFOS has a half-life of ~5.4 years in people.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Also, old air conditioners regularly lasted 30+ years, so this is a solved problem, and the patents have probably expired. Survivorship bias argument. Also, EPA has much stringent standard, my 50 years old AC using probably has a shitt
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by alacombe 6y ago
> focus on making a heat pump that’ll last forever Nothing last forever.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> I always thought the plan was: lock down, wait until vaccine, get everyone vaccinated, then lift lock down. "Lockdown" were always sold as in "flattening the curve, not "wait for a vaccine".
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by alacombe 6y ago
Obviously, not. Facebook is like crack, even given that it's widely known to be highly addictive, and so to say rock-bottom shitty, people prefer it rather than being lonely and will come back for more.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> The fact that other companies can sell "support" for $500 is even more shady. $500 is pretty cheap compared to other proprietary vendors.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> I think you were looking for a support email. I think at facebook's scale its a bit difficult. Only because facebook is greedy as fuck and prefers massive amount of unethical profits than actually providing a good service.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Wonder why I was downvoted for what I think is quite relevant. Because Section 230 is one of the 5 pillar of Sillicon Valley big-tech impunity-while-at-the-same-time-manipulating-content dogma. Criticizing section 230 is akin to blasph
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C++ Compiler Targets the Web(hackaday.com)
3 points by alacombe 6y ago|0 comments
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by alacombe 6y ago
Sound like you need a marketing co-founder :-)
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One of the founders of Magic Leap left the company(reddit.com)
3 points by alacombe 6y ago|0 comments
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by alacombe 6y ago
Hasty generalization fallacy right here.
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Scaling Cache Infrastructure at Pinterest(medium.com)
3 points by alacombe 6y ago|0 comments

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