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by carlob 7y ago
> E-bike riders likely to travel much faster. I'm not sure that is significant. In most countries e-bikes are constrained not to exceed 25 km/h when under power. I've commuted by bike for some parts of my life (I now work
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by carlob 7y ago
And the third point is where that trouble can be resolved: light doesn't move through matter at c.
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by carlob 7y ago
> La Mazzocco GS3 Holy moly $7k?!
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by carlob 7y ago
My Delonghi has a fair share of metal, has lasted me 8 years already and doesn't seem to show much in terms of wear. Now let's suppose it dies now, it would have cost me 10 euros per year. I would have to keep a Roncilio for 64 ye
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by carlob 7y ago
> ~3L recommended water intake. This is a myth. You're supposed to have around 2 l of water, from all sources: meaning that you'd have to eat only freeze-dried food to actually need that much water.
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by carlob 7y ago
I read that book (FWIW you should also mention the other author: Bricmont). While I agree it's very interesting I don't think it applies that much to the type of studies in this report. As far as I can recall it seems to focus mos
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by carlob 7y ago
> If you look after a Silivia It can last for 10 years or more My DeLonghi has lasted 8 years so far and I didn't treat it too well. I guess I might not be an enthusiast above the level of Clooney, but this feels to me a lot like bi
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by carlob 7y ago
I'm from Italy and it's the first time I see this brand. Anyone could explain why it costs an order of magnitude more than a Delonghi with similar specs?
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by carlob 7y ago
Does it matter as much now that one can get Wolfram Engine + Jupyter for free on any machine?
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by carlob 7y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/bang
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by carlob 7y ago
or use duckduckgo's bangs
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by carlob 7y ago
> Transportation is the biggest difference between the us and a lot of the rest of the world. Switzerland is the size of a small New England state. Mass transit is a tough thing to scale. What about railways in China? I don't think
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by carlob 7y ago
Well if they are so opposed to long receipts, why did they publish such a long article to begin with? /s tl;dr coupons
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by carlob 7y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/06/06... And I wonder how much it has misinformed the general public
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by carlob 7y ago
As a matter of fact the two stories are related, because code is one of lobster's main natural predators and overfishing of the former led to an overpopulation of the latter.
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by carlob 7y ago
During the keynote they used FPGA and ASIC interchangeably, which one is it?
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by carlob 7y ago
According to their own marketing the new 18-core model is between 2.2 and 3.7 times faster than the the 2013 12-core model. They don't compare the entry level ones, but I highly doubt it is even two times faster.
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by carlob 7y ago
You don't need to have any reason to opt-out from millimeter wave scanners. Just ask for a pat down. I do it all the time when traveling to the US, because I think these machines are useless, expensive and invasive. If enough people di
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by carlob 7y ago
Wouldn't it be somewhat better to maintain a list of international peer reviewed papers for each discipline? My country (Italy) has something of the sort for evaluating prospective full-time researchers. It doesn't even really nee
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by carlob 7y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I, too have the impression that most of the commenters here are completely oblivious to the effects of their choices on society at large. The fact that I have been accused multiple times of not having children
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by carlob 7y ago
> What the hell does that matter? If you think that homeschooling is fine, but homedoctoring is crazy, then you think that being a teacher is a job that any idiot can do, while being a medical doctor requires a specific set of skills. I&
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by carlob 7y ago
> Fix public schooling in the US first This is like people saying to fix the bus system before adding bus lanes that would increase congestion for cars. The system is broken because smarter kids or kids who come from more educated famili
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by carlob 7y ago
It is well known that school results are mostly explained by socioeconomic status (I read somewhere up to 75% of the variance can be explained that way). So if you don't take into account other factors that graph doesn't prove any
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by carlob 7y ago
> You are proposing to offset economic inequality by degrading the education of the privileged. Your goal should be improve the education of the disadvantaged instead. Raise all boats, don't drain the lake. It's obvious that th
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by carlob 7y ago
> The idiots that don't take their kids to the doctor...are idiots. Do you think that being a teacher is easier than being a medical doctor? I know somebody who is a primary school teacher in Northern France, on the border with Belg
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by carlob 7y ago
> I was that kid anecdata > You're running on a theory with no evidence https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/apr/19/increa... Here an article reporting on a study by the OECD, but I&
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by carlob 7y ago
Except that most of the research that has been done on this subject shows exactly the opposite: social mixing in schools has a great positive effect on the less fortunate and almost negligible effect on the more fortunate (we're talkin
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by carlob 7y ago
> Literally zero evidence for this. On average, kids that are homeschooled walk away with higher levels achievement and fewer psychological issues than their traditionally schooled peers. They integrate just fine into society. There is p
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by carlob 7y ago
I'm sure your kids are great, as you are probably well educated and wealthier than the average. Have you ever asked yourself what is the effect of removing your kids for public schools on the less fortunate? Let me put it another way:
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by carlob 7y ago
I think this is going to be very controversial on the typical HN crowd: maybe too European, or too socialist. However here it goes. Some ten years ago I was convinced that private schools had a right to exist, but that they should never imp

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