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by beefield 6y ago
Wow. Hey, Eric, wondering if you would like to send me your email password and a couple of your credit card numbers? What, no? maybe you should not have an email and credit cards then in the first place? Or what did you actually mean with y
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by beefield 6y ago
If someone just gave me a tool to show me the expected wall time of query before actually running it, I would be quite happy. I would not even need that much of accuracy, anything up to one order of magnitude would be useful, and even up to
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by beefield 6y ago
> Google started doing that very thing in their search results. Sounds like A&B testing measuring which gives you more ad revenue and zero biological brain cell activity involved.
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by beefield 6y ago
" For this sensitive private health information compensation should be at least 5 figures per person, no excuses." I still have my doubts this kind of insurance is for sale with non-prohibitive prices.
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by beefield 6y ago
Insurance companies like risks that are diversified over their customer base, with regular enough occurrence in the customer population that the cost of payments over time is relatively stable. Insurance companies absolutely abhor risks tha
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by beefield 6y ago
Not only political. And likely not only "too much" but "any" See book "Don't read the news" by Rolf Dobelli.
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by beefield 6y ago
That kind of is asset inflation. You get smaller share of the company with same amount of money than before.
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by beefield 6y ago
Excel has its place. And it is excellent tool for some workflows. However, I have started to think that Microsoft should disable the option to save workbooks. That would kind of force people to use Excel as a numerical scratchpad with fast
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by beefield 6y ago
> Is it reasonable to expect Facebook to do all those things Yes. It is then up to Facebook to decide if they want to play the game where they are expected and required to do that, or dissolve themselves to an insignificant enough operat
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by beefield 6y ago
There are these things called plants that do that kind of stuff, so maybe if you have enough of them inside your house, they eat the CO2 away... :)
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by beefield 6y ago
> Outdoor CO2 might be rising dramatically > dramatically rising outdoor CO2 leads to dramatically rising indoor CO2 > too high a concentration of indoor CO2 might have an impact on our cognitive abilities. Are you really claiming
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by beefield 6y ago
I think their point was that increasing CO2 in atmosphere makes it more difficult to keep indoor levels acceptable. First, if you start from 600pm instead of 300, you reach 1000 ppm faster. Adding to the insult, it is much more difficult to
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by beefield 6y ago
I think that is CO2e, which should be a different thing to my understanding. (CO2e is used to estimate the greenhouse gas potency of other gases like methane. Whereas I think eCO2 is some kind of estimate of amount of CO2 in the air, but w
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by beefield 6y ago
because my google-fu was not good enough to find those.... Regardless, I would be curious on the same questions about real world accuracy on those as well.
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by beefield 6y ago
I did some quick search end the very cheapest sensors seem to calculate something called eCO2. Like e.g. https://www.adafruit.com/product/3566 What I was not able quickly to figure out is: - What this eCO2 actually is?
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Indoor CO2 may reach levels harmful to cognition by the end of this century(agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
119 points by beefield 6y ago|162 comments
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by beefield 6y ago
You can install whatsapp on a virtual android machine on your desktop/laptop. I did that for a while and used a dumb phone (new nokia 8110) as my main phone and hotspot for a while. I kind of enjoyed it, but a couple of things made me
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by beefield 6y ago
Just came up with a word with thisworddoesnotexist.com and searched a .com domain at godaddy (was available, not a completely new word, there seems to be hits in the internet) Let's see what happens.
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by beefield 6y ago
I do not know what you have in mind, but to my understanding Chernobyl was pretty much as bad as it can get. And the other energy sources... Well, if we are allowed to stretch our imagination on the potential worst case, I start thinking ab
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by beefield 6y ago
> I suppose the real lesson to be learned is to ...never, ever buy or even take anything from anyone who approaches you without you being the original initiator of the communication. Simple rule that applies to both online and real world
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by beefield 6y ago
> The worst is that so many event flyers and things, even important local government information will just be dumped online as a pdf Well, they could have uploaded it to some online service that shows the document in the browser as an
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by beefield 6y ago
> The blame is always shifted to the consumers, the logic being that consumers would make more sustainable decisions if they really cared about it There is something funny in this common corporatist argument trying to get rid of responsi
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by beefield 6y ago
So, a tax filing life hack: fill $1 to all fields of the form and wait IRS to tell how much you actually need to pay?
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by beefield 6y ago
Not sure the primary fault is on the developers asked to implement these...
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by beefield 6y ago
> But if your government is infringing your rights, it's very difficult for most people to pick a different government. I am not sure if I am attacking a straw man here, but it sure sounds like you claim that buying one way flight t
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by beefield 6y ago
Network effects can be and in this case very much are a barrier to entry.
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by beefield 6y ago
I think it is called natural monopoly in economics. And it is one of the more generally accepted[1] economics findings that natural monopolies should not be in the hands of private corporations, but public. (Obviously one can discuss whethe
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by beefield 6y ago
I like to compare the growth rates to iPhone. Apple had never to consecutive full production years of iPhone with triple digit growth rates. And by all measures iPhone growth was explosive in the smartphone market. Given how much more dif
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Ask HN: Why desktop apps are moving to browser but mobile apps to native?
35 points by beefield 6y ago|25 comments
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by beefield 6y ago
Exactly this.

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