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by ciceryadam 7y ago
In the meantime COVID19CZ created an open source version - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22724130 , crowdfunded the first batch of 100 ventilators, and they start producing them in the first week of April
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Open source medical ventilator for Covid-19 patients(corovent.com)
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The times they are a-changin' - this week I signed a card remotely, a PDF one through Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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Italy's 52 deaths vs 1900 cases is higher than 2% - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/02/italys-coronav...
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and how much is your co-pay? you lose some (of your income), you win some (safety net, no medical expenses, free schools, higher social mobility). I don't mind to pay a higher share of my income to live in a functional society.
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In general you can check it here: https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=AWCOMP Example from Prague, Czech Republic = an average IT position has it's total cost of employment (part is payed pre-brutto salary fro
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It's only asking for a password, and that's what the string is for
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They don't inflate demand, they inflate pricing. To buy a house you are competing with all the peope + all the companies that see it as an investment opportunity.
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Kelvin IS Celsius, only starts at absolute zero. 0 C is 273 Kelvin, and 0 Kelvin is -273 Celsius. You add 273 to any Celsius measurement, and voila, it's Kelvin.
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Berlin approves 5-year rent freeze(reuters.com)
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There is no longer free Oracle support for Java 8. But Amazon's James Gosling lead Corretto is reviewing updates, and even backports: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/latest/corretto-8-ug/pa...
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How Vienna ensures affordable housing for all(milwaukeeclt.org)
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"You won't drink yourself into a coma with beer" - it only takes more time. 1st google result on oktoberfest passed out: https://coed.com/2015/09/16/oktoberfest-best-drunk-photos-oc...
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by ciceryadam 8y ago
Agreed. Just to put it in a US perspective, Barcelona as a whole has 10% higher population density than Brooklyn (41,000/sq mi vs 37,137/sq mi).
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Isn't single-use plastic what's rice/pasta/legumes packaged in, most of the time?
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actually there is one Desal plant in Carlsbad, San Diego county https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_"Bud"_Lewis_Carlsbad_De...
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By 2021, phased in from 2020, the fleet average to be achieved by all new cars is 95 grams of CO2 per kilometre. This means a fuel consumption of around 4.1 l/100 km of petrol or 3.6 l/100 km of diesel. To encourage eco-innovation
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It's partially true: Qantas held the accolade of AirlineRatings' world safest airline from 2014 to 2017, but took joint honors in 2018 when the website chose not to rank its top 20. For 2019, Qantas is singled out as the best, whi
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Theoretically, yes. But Spanish Empire, the British Empire, and the American Empire were waging wars against one another.