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by chrispeel 3y ago
Are there any places in Europe where small homeowners get exposure to variably-priced electricity? I.e. is it just large commercial consumers who can take advantage of electricity priced below zero, or small players too?
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by chrispeel 3y ago
Looks like you've been voted down. Mb the reason is the following: > In particular, do not sexualize the term "Julia" or any other aspects of the project. While "Julia" is a female name in many parts of the world
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by chrispeel 4y ago
Mass manufacturing may be important, but there's also a fully reusable first stage, and then just executing. These days they're reusing things enough that I'm not sure the mass manufacturing is so important
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by chrispeel 4y ago
I use Libby to access public libraries. Have you considered giving Libby/Overdrive access to your items?
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by chrispeel 4y ago
That's a video about supermarket instant. He has better things to say about specialty instant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuLWwZiIcl0
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by chrispeel 4y ago
Tidepool recently got approve for an app for the iPhone or (apparently) the apple watch: https://www.tidepool.org/tidepool-loop
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by chrispeel 4y ago
I would like to see more promotion of the idea that paying taxes is patriotic and a good thing. Say something from the Ad Council
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by chrispeel 4y ago
a few more details are at https://www.nasa.gov/aeroresearch/programs/iasp/sfd
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by chrispeel 4y ago
It's imagination and turtles all the way down. Welcome to humanity
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by chrispeel 4y ago
2014 thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28473807
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by chrispeel 4y ago
Sinclair always comes across to me as a snake-oil salesman. Maybe there's some science there, but there seems to be a whole lot of bullshit too
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by chrispeel 4y ago
How long before "Diet of Worms" means something different :-) https://www.webmd.com/diet/health-benefits-mealworms
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by chrispeel 4y ago
Let's say a consensus arises among academics that Bitcoin will not be stable w/o the block reward. Will Bitcoin developers actually change the protocol before the block reward becomes smaller than tx fees (say 2050)? My impression
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by chrispeel 4y ago
There's a big difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes; this study focuses on type 2. It would be better if the HN title and the title on upi.com included "type 2".
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by chrispeel 4y ago
Mark McCaughrean is (like the author of the OP article) for retaining an embargo period: https://c.im/@markmccaughrean@mastodon.social/10946319815627...
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by chrispeel 4y ago
Here's an idea: land-grant elementary and high schools in the US :-) Or a tradition of donating land to schools, likely with the requirement that it not be sold, rather the rent used to fund the school
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by chrispeel 4y ago
Military observers have commented w.r.t the Ukraine war on how a military unit can lose combat effectiveness if enough people are lost to death or injury. It looks to me like Twitter has lost combat effectiveness
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by chrispeel 4y ago
In my area, COVID stats are updated by the local public health agency daily, but often deaths are only included in the death data a month after the death occurs. So the COVID death data is good only for dates that are about a month old. Is
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by chrispeel 4y ago
I suggest that you create a purpose for your life, rather than finding it.
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by chrispeel 4y ago
A must read: Defeat in Ukraine may lead to conflict (armed or political) in Moscow. My impression from Kamil Galeev [1] is that if conflict happens in Moscow, other areas of Russia may break away. BTW, videos from a Yale course on Ukraine t
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by chrispeel 4y ago
On a more topical theme (related to Russia) NAFO [1] also has a wikipedia page [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFO_(group)
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by chrispeel 4y ago
So don't allocate more land for housing. Require new housing to use land already used for homes. I.e. build more high-density homes
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by chrispeel 4y ago
> What have we lost in tech and society? Socrates claims that there is a forgetfulness that comes with writing [1]. I guess that changing from passing history through oral stories to passing history through writing certainly means that s
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by chrispeel 4y ago
Yes. Rather than singling out a specific industry, just implement a damn carbon tax.
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by chrispeel 4y ago
> Is there such an advantage power wise that this is worth doing? No Here's an article from Eric Berger; see the section on drawbacks: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/european-space-chief...
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by chrispeel 4y ago
What browser and OS are you using? I think the website was created about 20 years ago (and looks like it), yet I see no problems with the font
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by chrispeel 4y ago
This reminds me of the 'graduate student algorithm' (Put the graduate student in a room, and don't let them out until they get the result the professor expects). In this case, the scientists expect a sharp ring, so they tweak
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10 Beans * 4 beans = 40 beans^2: Cliff Stoll on the Nescafé equation(youtube.com)
4 points by chrispeel 4y ago|1 comments
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by chrispeel 4y ago
This has everything I expect from Cliff Stoll: old tech, humor, a klein bottle, and (re)use of a cardbord box. Loved it
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by chrispeel 4y ago
xfig :-/

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