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by ddeck 3y ago
>Dozens of people in Australia die every year from their own 12 or 230V wiring Do they? Your claim surprised me, so I did some digging: Not from electrocution certainly, because as of a few years ago [1], there were only about 5-6 unin
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by ddeck 3y ago
There are measurements here for Google devices from the Nexus One to the Pixel 1. Unfortunately it doesn't include later pixel models, but the Pixel 1 is listed as 18ms https://source.android.com/docs/core/aud
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by ddeck 3y ago
Perhaps not unusually, but there is some evidence that they are more profitable than comparably sized non-pharma companies. >"from 2000 to 2018, the median net income (earnings) expressed as a fraction of revenue was significantly
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by ddeck 3y ago
I agree with all of these points. I really enjoy using Supabase, but it does feel like 95% of the effort is on releasing new features. The mentioned migrations for example, don't work if your database is not very simple (e.g. triggers
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by ddeck 3y ago
The Internet Archive might be better example, depending on your definition of open. They have over 4 million books archived. I believe Project Gutenberg have around 70k. The Internet Archive include books still in copyright, which can be re
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by ddeck 3y ago
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2023/0505/Presu...
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by ddeck 3y ago
I wouldn't say necessary, but I also don't think it's unreasonable. They're simply doing what is in their interest to do. YouTube generated about $30 billion in revenue last year. Google don't break out their operat
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by ddeck 3y ago
Such is the nature of public companies and the need for continued growth. Much like search before it, they've saturated the market, and so instead of growing by adding eyeballs, they now need more revenue per eyeball.
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by ddeck 3y ago
GNSS with ground station assist is capable of measuring changes in elevation within millimeters. As an example, the US maintains the National Spacial Reference System (NSRS), which is a "consistent coordinate system that defines latitu
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by ddeck 3y ago
They're pretty ubiquitous here in Hong Kong too. As much for protection against scams than actual accidents (i.e. other vehicles and pedestrians falsely claiming you hit them). >I suspect we'd find a pleasant second-order bene
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by ddeck 3y ago
I'm surprised you've never experienced this. Even names often require an explanation, because the pronunciation is insufficient to convey which words (i.e. characters) are used. >Mandarin can be written phonetically perfectly
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by ddeck 3y ago
It needs them because there are too few unique syllables in Mandarin. I'm sure a linguist can provide the proper terminology, but there are only around 400 unique sounds in Mandarin, ignoring tones. Even adding five tones still only in
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by ddeck 3y ago
This reactor seems similar in power and pricing to the GE-Hitachi BWRX-300. I don't think construction has begun anywhere yet, but the approval/planning processes are well underway for several projects. https://nuclear.
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by ddeck 3y ago
The government stepped in in the missing cases too, just not the FDIC. Many of the missing cases had large securities trading and investment banking activities (e.g. Bear Stearns - ~400B), and so it was the Fed and SEC that were most involv
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by ddeck 4y ago
>I just tested this, and it seems to work. I was a little concerned about the commentary in the PR about this new mode being "definitely not suitable for Deno" FWIW I've been using version 5.0.0-dev.20230223 for a few we
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by ddeck 4y ago
> On the 15th of December in 2000, NVIDIA announced that they would acquire 3dfx Interactive’s assets for $70 million ($121,613,821.14 in 2023) and 1 million shares of common stock. Those million shares are worth about $5.7 billion toda
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by ddeck 4y ago
The numbers agree. Only 69 Cyrillic domains (second-level) registered last year. Chinese is the most popular, but only 760 for 2022 and the aggregate trend is down: 2016: 2378 2018: 2252 2020: 1675 2022: 1518 Internationalized Domain Name (
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by ddeck 4y ago
I had a Pixel 3 and loved it. Not sure it's fair to say that it's a terrible device if you never owned it. I only updated to a Pixel 5 last year because the battery was deteriorating after several years and I was given a Pixel 5 f
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by ddeck 4y ago
Context: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxqkn5/heres-why-jackie-chan...
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by ddeck 4y ago
If you grow a new forest in an area that was previously empty of biomass (not necessarily an easy thing to do), the trees don't all grow and then die and decompose with nothing to replace them. Trees die, decompose, and others take the
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by ddeck 4y ago
But unfortunately pretty routine. In two out of two cases where I've claimed compensation for delayed/cancelled flights under the EU law, the airlines have outright lied about the causes and denied compensation. In both cases, the
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by ddeck 4y ago
I understand the point being made and certainly there are very many safety devices mandated for cars, but the fact remains, that the vast majority of cars do not have airbags for rear seat passengers for example, and given the volume of aut
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by ddeck 4y ago
All of those arguments would also support mandating the use of helmets for all passengers in a car. So why not do that too?
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by ddeck 4y ago
FYI, plain Windex contains ingredients (EGE) linked to reproductive (testicular) and developmental toxicity: https://www.ecetoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ECETOC-TR-... https://www.chemeur
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by ddeck 4y ago
I'm on Firefox Android and experienced the same issue. Had to close the tab to get back to HN. Aside from that, really impressive work. Well done.
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by ddeck 4y ago
That's what I've always known it as. It can be quite long, especially in financial services. My last position was three months.
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by ddeck 4y ago
I mentioned the CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution) elsewhere on this thread. I believe they are UK based and the company in question needs to be covered, but a quick glance shows Sky, Vodafone, Virgin etc. listed. Disclaimer: I
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by ddeck 4y ago
Just in case it's helpful to anyone, I had a good experience using the CEDR Aviation Adjudication Scheme[1] to challenge Easyjet's refusal to pay up under the EU flight delay compensation scheme [2]. The EU has a mandatory compens
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by ddeck 4y ago
Definitely. Telstra in Australia recently made all their (15000) payphones free and the CEO specifically called out bushfires and cyclones (hurricanes) as events that have brought the mobile network down: About 11m calls were made across T
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by ddeck 4y ago
This is correct. 50% of Australia's population live in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane (40% in the first two). The below image shows just how empty the vast majority of Australia really is: https://i.redd.it/9mw8ttqqu0b

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