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by cbhl 5y ago
Probably large fixed costs (engineers, builders learning how to do the thing) amortized over building a large number of plants. China has been constructing a lot of new nuclear power plants over the last 15 years -- estimated at ~12 GW in 2
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Hot Lanes: Introducing Congestion-Pricing One Lane at a Time (1997)(accessmagazine.org)
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by cbhl 5y ago
The way my parents tell it, 7-11 was actually decent in the US in the 90s. Set up an international division with quality goods; then the P&E thing happened where the international division got sold off and the US operation was stripped
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by cbhl 5y ago
I remember asking about this at one of the community meetings in Redwood City for the San Mateo 101 Express Lanes project. Projections at the time showed a clear trend in increased car traffic on the 101, and thus even HOV lanes would have
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by cbhl 5y ago
When I went to the planning meeting for the San Mateo 101 Express Lanes project in Redwood City, these lanes _were_ seen as an investment in mass transit. The tech shuttles will use these Express Lanes instead of sitting in mixed traffic, t
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by cbhl 5y ago
This seems like the opposite for me... every time I've walked into an Amazon Books I've found at least one thing that I've wanted to buy So much easier than hunting through a Barnes and Noble or doom-scrolling through online
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by cbhl 5y ago
Sure, but what are new grad salaries in industry these days? 100k-200k/yr base?
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by cbhl 5y ago
I will say I was pleasantly surprised to discover that their store credit card comes without a magstripe on the back
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Wenyan-lang: Programming Language for the ancient Chinese(wy-lang.org)
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by cbhl 5y ago
I used XMonad with work-issued Linux desktop for a few years in the office at $day_job. Most apps worked well with it, but some applications (Spotify, especially) have constraints on window size that cause it to overlap outside its tiled lo
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by cbhl 5y ago
Note that the graph defaults to "15-day percent change" -- if you switch to "15-day detection proportion" you can see that 98% of sites are reporting 100% detection in wastewater. (You can also see this in the data table
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by cbhl 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if there is a FB-internal comment (or commit message) that was stripped in the open source repos
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by cbhl 5y ago
For what it's worth, Wealthsimple exited the US market last year and transferred all their US customers to Betterment. They seem to still be adding new products in Canada though (like a Venmo-like cash transfer system.)
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by cbhl 5y ago
Anecdotally I heard that Infinite Loop also made every point on the one central hallway into an accidental parabolic microphone -- you could hear basically every conversation in the hallway from any point in the building. My impression is t
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by cbhl 5y ago
I'm under the impression that Amazon Music is US-only. It's decent if you're heavily invested in the Amazon Echo / Alexa ecosytem.
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by cbhl 5y ago
I recently got an Anova -- with touch controls, and it works great both with and without the app. The top is a big bigger to handle the screen and touch controls. Making an immersion circulator app-only is likely a BOM-reducing measure, whi
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by cbhl 5y ago
I would suggest that any car you can obtain now will be obsolete in 10 years: Either the car is electric, and the battery will wear out in 3-5 years OR The car takes gas, and you'll need to replace it (with an electric one, or carbon c
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by cbhl 5y ago
One thing that younger readers may miss about early retro PCs is just how big and bulky and heavy "Personal" Computers were. In particular even through the late 90s monitors were very boxy (using CRTs, like TVs before them). So ac
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by cbhl 5y ago
In my opinion, if I was a Chrome engineer, I'd be pretty surprised that someone would decide to include Chromium in a spaceship. Disclaimer of warranty indeed.
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by cbhl 5y ago
Huh, I guess after they saw how many of their customers had crypto miners detected on their systems they decided to get in on the game.
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by cbhl 5y ago
In the US one would consider escalating to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, since this seems like lying (the price before the button press is different from the price after). Not sure if the UK has a similar ministry you could appe
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by cbhl 5y ago
International travel strikes me as the sort of thing where you'd want a paid enterprise subscription instead of an offline JS app, since you'd want numbers kept up-to-date. (Just look at all the airlines integrating entry/exi
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by cbhl 5y ago
My understanding is that folks locally didn't trust the Fosun-made batches, but Taiwan couldn't purchase vaccines from Pfizer due to Fosun holding the distribution rights Hence the donations
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by cbhl 5y ago
The tricky bit is I know some legitimate departments of my bank follow this policy -- so if they make an outbound call to me, they will trust what I say on the phone, but if I hang up and call them back, they will take down my number and ca
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by cbhl 5y ago
Isn't Vancouver a port city? I imagine there'd be more truck shipments out, eastwards towards the rest of Canada.
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by cbhl 5y ago
I don't know that it is -- electric scooters are controversial -- some folks want them on sidewalks; others in bike lines; yet others only in mixed traffic with cars.
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by cbhl 5y ago
My mental model is that the biggest risk is the turning turboprop. The rest of the dynamics fall out from that: during the dive, the engine on the divers' side is already off, and once the stall happens, the pilot cuts off both engines
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by cbhl 5y ago
I believe that "there is a clear boundary between my career and my non-work roles" was literally the prompt text, where folks rated it on a scale from "Strongly Disagree" to "Strongly Agree". At Google's s
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by cbhl 5y ago
In my personal opinion, you could consider using passive bandwidth estimation approaches, like in Chrome's Network Quality Estimator. See, for example: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-networks-ig&#
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by cbhl 5y ago
You may disagree, but I read this comment as a gendered microaggression and I hope you will reconsider your stance to be inclusive of this sort of content on HN going forward. I see astrology as an entertainment product. Some folks take it

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