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by api_or_ipa 5y ago
https://neighbs.us/#/location Takes your location, and tells you which neighborhood of SF you're currently in, as defined by datasf.org, and displays that on a map of the city's 117 neighborhoods. Built it j
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by api_or_ipa 5y ago
Vancouver BC is magical and (IMO) one of the most beautiful cities in the world. In July & August, hands down the most beautiful place in the world, but still, 8 months of the year it's dark, wet and cold. If you're passiona
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by api_or_ipa 5y ago
The disservice is the causal inference that global warming is behind all the recent natural disasters. The sentence I quoted could be better written as: > Many scientists believe that with a warming climate, certain natural disasters, s
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by api_or_ipa 5y ago
This line from the article really bothered me > With only 1.1C of warming so far, the world has seen a torrent of deadly weather disasters intensified by climate change in recent months, from asphalt-melting heatwaves to flash floods and
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by api_or_ipa 5y ago
$12k for the airframe. Each engine (4x) is another $8k. I wouldn't be surprised if the out-the-door cost of the airframe, engines, avionics and controls surpasses $50k.
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by api_or_ipa 5y ago
I agree. Most of the comments are disappointingly poor and as a result there's little actual critical discussion. I was really hoping to chime into a fruitful discussion about positive vs negative protection of the first amendment rig
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by api_or_ipa 5y ago
I don't think you're being downvoted for criticizing the F-35 and instead, being downvoted for thinking the A-10 and F-22 programs were epitomes of engineering excellence. The A-10 suffered from wing cracks; the F-22 continues to
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by api_or_ipa 5y ago
So... this thing phones home to activate every time you jump on your motorcycle? I would absolutely love to be the lawyer who's client sustained life threatening injuries because your server was temporarily down precisely when it need
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by api_or_ipa 5y ago
Heaviside step function https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside_step_function
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by api_or_ipa 5y ago
Elasticsearch is a no-sql database that optimizes for full-text searches, built atop Apache Lucene. If you're doing any kind of full-text search, for example, if you're trying to index a university library and make it searchable,
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by api_or_ipa 6y ago
Everyone has a "premature optimization is the root of all evil" story and I'm no different. I learned Dvorak years ago in university and stuck with it, thinking it would make me a better 'professional' programmer s
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by api_or_ipa 6y ago
Being patient and buying used is entirely the way to go for furniture. I'm typing up this comment sitting at a nearly perfect condition solid oak desk my girlfriend found at an estate sale and paid $100 for. In a similar story, we fo
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by api_or_ipa 6y ago
Time to update the old joke: "Ubuntu is an ancient African word that means 'steals all your information'".
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by api_or_ipa 6y ago
It's enough for me to have an extremely bad taste in my mouth, that goes for both Azure and Canonical. On the topic of linux distros, we do use Ubuntu, mostly because that's often the least effort distro to spin up, but the choice
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by api_or_ipa 6y ago
As a Canadian in a happy relationship with an American, we quickly realised the difference that you've pointed out. We also realised that I had a tinge of the stereotypical Canadian "sooorry" sound, so we ran with it. If it
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by api_or_ipa 6y ago
Government != military. The military has its own logistics command that, like the parent comment mentions, is unbelievably well tuned. Vaccines are something they do extremely well-- every sailor, soldier and airman in the entire 5 arm mili
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by api_or_ipa 6y ago
Oh boy. Someone high up in the WF foodchain didn't do their homework before deciding this policy. Wearing poppies in Canada is a big deal. Fun fact, Canada used to celebrate Thanksgiving the same date as America, but they pulled it
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by api_or_ipa 6y ago
> I think it's safe to assume that overall drug use won't go down under this policy I don't exactly think people actively weigh the probability of punishment when considering to consume drugs. There's a wealth of res
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by api_or_ipa 6y ago
Today I learned!
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by api_or_ipa 6y ago
The big difference between the Ergo/Moonlander and UHK is ortho vs staggered layout. Ortho (rather, "ortholinear") is an increasing common layout where the keys are arranged in straight rows and columns. The jury is out on
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by api_or_ipa 6y ago
I didn't consider those second order effects. When I wrote my comment, I had in mind only the dollar cost of averting the disaster. When we spend whatever trillions of dollars shutting the economy down and limiting output, we necessa
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by api_or_ipa 6y ago
The better question that Sweden may help answer is whether shutting down the economy was worth it. Was the deaths of 5,500 people worth keeping the economy open, in other words, could you have saved more lives by pursuing other health prior
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by api_or_ipa 6y ago
I'm highly skeptical of this ever taking flight (heh). He says this will enable a single pilot to conduct many more cargo flights per day than is currently possible, significantly reducing costs for air freight carriers. “Today, wi
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by api_or_ipa 7y ago
Very disappointed. I've been a Dark Sky API user since 2015. It's a huge disappointment that a cash flush, closed ecosystem company is purchasing and shutting down a unique data source for point prediction weather forecasts.
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by api_or_ipa 7y ago
I'd amend your post further to say that the mortality rate ∝ rate of infection b/c the more attention healthcare staff can give to each infected person, the greater their likelihood of survival will be. In addition, the illness v
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by api_or_ipa 7y ago
It's taught in even the most basic teaching curriculum. I learned about it as a teenager learning to teach swimming. To be honest, it's nothing new or special, and I mean, I don't know where you're coming at with the s
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by api_or_ipa 7y ago
It turns out that aircraft have a very sensitive centre of gravity that needs to be close to the centre of lift. If you were to design a "battery bomb" you'd have to carefully engineer the pre- and post-bombing centre of mas
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by api_or_ipa 7y ago
I've heard so much about Estonia's digital economy, but I struggle to see the effect it has on it's own economy. Now, my data might be bad, but a cursory look at Estonia's GDP growth rate shows perfectly normal growth a
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by api_or_ipa 7y ago
Can you just not let it dry up a little bit more and sell it as sea-salt? I suspect it's not that easy, but on the other hand, the Bay Area has lots of "salt fields" where seawater is dried into useable salt.
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by api_or_ipa 7y ago
As another poster mentioned, when countries don't trade, they lose their comparative advantage in producing the products that they can produce most efficiently. With free trade, countries can focus on building the products that they&#

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