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by commonturtle 6y ago
Only slightly surprised; domains where failure is really expensive aren't likely to experiment with technologies. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I read something similar about the computers that control the US nuclear arsen
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The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial(ribbonfarm.com)
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by commonturtle 6y ago
The guano (seabird poop) trade was a really big deal in the 19th century, Spain even tried to steal some islands from Peru because they had significant guano deposits ( http://www.environmentandsociety.org/tools/keywords
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by commonturtle 6y ago
> - automated one-page summaries of individual companies financials and what they do — see up to 20 yrs of historical data and all 3 financial statements on 1 page, to make it easier to "skim" an investment before committing to
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I picked up a 1000 piece Jigsaw puzzle during the lockdowns. Now I'm on my third one. It's a great way to decompress after a long day.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Does anyone know why the scale isn't more granular? Type I's apparently consume 10^16W, Type II's 10^26W, Type III's 10^36W. That's 10B multiplier between each level.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Nice, I've wanted something like this for a while. HN often has substantive comments on writing in the internet, so I often find myself checking if something interesting I read has been submitted to HN before.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Some things are hard to replicate outside big cities. There's probably a restaurant from every country in the world in London. I tried Guyanese food last week, a cuisine I'm unlikely to encounter outside a big city. There are grea
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Very interesting. Seems like a more sophisticated version of https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/
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by commonturtle 6y ago
It's really hard to get cooperation of that scale for pretty much anything. You're asking billions of humans to self isolate for two weeks. If we were dealing with Ebola it would have been easier to get people to self-isolate. But