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alfor
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Actually they are about 10X safer that the average. - Tesla: 1 crash per 4.31 million miles - Ind/average: 1 crash per 0.48 million miles
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To stop myopia, you have to go outside without things in front of your eyes. Putting plastic lenses in front of your eyes block natural UV light and you eyes don’t develop normally. Who would have thought that we need a bit of natural envir
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Sun exposure to reduce severity of covid (not vitamin D, infrared radiation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zzo4SJopcY&t=1003s
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I hear that a factor of a 100X is common. The system is made so that the least amount of effect are reported. Personally I know someone who had a heart attack 3 day after second dose (60yo female) The doctor dismissed the possibility of a c
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I agree, it’s not done on the server, it’s just that AMD was nonexistent a few years ago and now have share of the market. Intel was the only choice for top performance and were able to dictate the price at the high end.
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5y ago
Have you tried meditation the Naval way. No nothing, just breathe if you need to and letting go of thought, action, feeling. A am a bit ADHD too, I really relate to the hobbies, games and projects. I my case, it’s youtube lately that sink t
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5y ago
- The PC is in decline (bad for intel) - Intel lost the mobile platform - Apple is moving to ARM, PC laptops to follow soon. - AMD is eating intel lunch in the high performance x86 - Servers are starting to move to ARM Last piece of the puz
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It’s better than the rest at the moment. Let’s say you have small amount of data, 1Go than can easily fit in the memory of a laptop. You try to load or do analysis of that with python. The only way to make it work is to use a library that i
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Python was very good in the 2000 with the included batteries but I don’t think they are up to the task anymore 20 years later. Python became the glue language for ML, but that was never it’s intended target and I think that we see more an
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Totally agree, Python for data/ML is mostly finding way to get around it’s speed limitation and going to C through library. It create a barrier to innovation because your main language is not the one doing the heavy lifting. There was
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5y ago
There is also many simple things we could have done to reduce covid effects: vit D Vit C quercetin Sauna/hot shower/simulated fever reduce BMI sun exposure cardio source: Medcram https://youtu.be/vN30emwcNS4
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What are the risks for kids under 5 ?
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My prediction: no new nuclear plant will be build in the US. With the exception of a few companies, the US isn’t what is was in the 60’s The solar panels will come from China, unless Tesla start making solar cells in the US.
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There certainly a correlation with food but I don’t know anything about that. I found in research paper the link with vitamin D and ibs and most autoimmune diseases. From what I remember he ate a lot of local fresh fruits and other local fo
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A friend of mine was dying from it at the hospital. Strong medication, followed by stronger one and then experimental ones that cost thousand a pill. At some point he said ’fuck it, if I going to die it’s going to be in the sun’ (he lived i
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They talk about ’reusing’ car up to 10 years! In Canada Toyota car are used for about 20 years without the manufacturer involvement. There is very few thing to ’fix’ of a less than 10y Toyota in a climate without salt on the road.
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Everyone in the north, take vitamin D and vitamin C. It help fight every respiratory infection Source: medcram, Dr in pulmonary diseases
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Definitely agree, I would say, if you think about something we might have fallen short (likely) go ahead and say it, the abilities to see your own shortcoming is gold for a manager. They should be expecting rough edges with a junior dev, bu
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Do hard, painful things first. - workout at the gym - running - cold shower - stuff that you are avoiding Then the fun will pop up in unexpected places. Alcohol give use the pleasure of accomplishment without doing work, look if you need a
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We did homeschooling for 5 years here is my conclusion: - school is 90% daycare - 30min of real learning at the level of the child is more than a day at a regular school - Give your kids real challenges with motivating reward and get out of
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I feel two part in your question: 1-What is a good use with excess money? 2-How to manage the money? For (2) I would hire someone good with tax optimisation and also try to understand it myself and I would invest in the stock market. For 1,
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No screens, only play with physical toys and play with people. You will be the 1% Also play outside in nature, in the dirt as much as possible. Have fun, play, forget the metrics unless there is a obvious problem to watch.
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That seems like a cheap shot. I live in a very socialist place (Québec) it’s everywhere and while it’s good for some things I think we are closer to a collapse than most people think. we have close to 50% tax rate on income + 14% tax on con
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Take the test https://www.understandmyself.com (not free) If you are high in openness (likely) you will need change and creativity to feel alive. On the other hand, most job will want to keep you in the same place to extract the
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Atlas Shrugged: the danger of communism/socialism and how close we are to a collapse. It’s easy to see the excess of the right and capitalisms, not so easy to spot when it’s going too far left. a hunter-gatherer’s guide to the 21st cen
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I agree, they don’t really need the internet.
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I imagine our home of the future with a microchip in all outlets, switch, circuit breaker, bulb, etc. Each breaker would know the current going through it and through all sockets and bulbs. They will be able to detect the bad connection, sh
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That has to be the funniest serious video The absurdity of our modern high tech lives in 2min It’s not anyone's fault, it’s an emergent property.
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Leave Do not do things that you hate, they will break you and diminish your passion for your work. Better use your creative energy elsewhere.
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I think that happiness is the feeling of progress toward a goal. we need a goal + we need progress. One you attain a goal, the whole reward system collapse and you need something else. People used to have religion and have ultimate unattain
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