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by ddeck 6y ago
The photo from the press release doesn't inspire much confidence. It seems that their measurements are based on what the current reading said on the screen of a $60 noname ("Hanmatek") power supply. [1] I don't now much
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by ddeck 6y ago
To be fair, Johnson & Johnson (a US company) also made a similar pledge to AstraZeneca. These two companies have collectively received more than $1.5 billion from the US government [1]. As I understand it, Pfizer have not taken any fede
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by ddeck 6y ago
>At $3 to $4, many countries will jump on board ASAP and stay away from the expensive vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. The price difference will likely remain substantial, but in case anyone is unaware, the difference is currently gre
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by ddeck 6y ago
>I wish there was an easier Gimp, like Paint shop pro 5 easy, because it may be the most powerful tool for image editing yet I've hard a super hard time creating a simple screenshot with a red arrow. I find Pinta useful for those
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by ddeck 6y ago
Certainly, but you'll find that in those cases, the Chinese boats were generally operating illegally in areas internationally recognized to belong to other countries. For example the video you linked is of a Chinese boat operating ~350
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by ddeck 6y ago
> So if you mention <= 64kb RAM, what kind of displays are you typically dealing with? Typically displays with integrated SRAM. To give an example, a recent project used a 480x320x16-bit display and an MCU with 64kb SRAM. The display
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by ddeck 6y ago
Congratulations on the project! The description mentions targeting embedded applications. What's the definition of embedded in this context? I see "several hundred kilobytes of RAM" mentioned - What's a minimal configura
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by ddeck 6y ago
The lobbying efforts of the manufacturers of the chemicals are a major contributor: The legislators wrote that the “worst tactics outlined in the Chicago Tribune series — which we each saw some of firsthand in our states — included: delibe
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by ddeck 6y ago
>2-10 times the total energy the battery will store - presumably they mean over its lifetime Their number is the reciprocal of this. i.e. the total energy stored/discharged by the battery over it's lifetime = 2-10x the energy
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by ddeck 6y ago
>I don't see any instance of emergency laws being abused in a way that was impossible or inconvenient beforehand. A quick search will bring up many examples. Perhaps you're only considering the US? "Authoritarian govern
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by ddeck 6y ago
Numerous authoritarian goverments have used the pandemic as an excuse to expand powers and suppress dissent, often invoking emergency powers to bypass the usual law making process. Look at Hungary, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Venezuela etc. A quic
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by ddeck 6y ago
[air] Cargo tonne km (CTKs) were down about 13% year on year as of July, but are recovering. You can find relevant charts here. https://www.aircargonews.net/airlines/iata/iata-outlook-carg...
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by ddeck 6y ago
The defaults changed in Android 10: [Starting] In Android 10, MAC randomization is enabled by default for client mode, SoftAp, and Wi-Fi Direct. https://source.android.com/devices/tech/connect/wifi-mac-ran..
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by ddeck 6y ago
>Taiwan has eliminated community spread It's possible, but I would not be surprised to see community acquired cases pop up in Taiwan at some point. Testing is currently extremely limited. For example Taiwan performed 94 tests yest
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by ddeck 6y ago
>Could have just as easily been a date, a hookup, a serial killer, someone perturbed at wealth inequality and better living standards. The CCTV footage would seem to make those first two somewhat less likely: "One of the law enfo
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by ddeck 6y ago
As pointed out in the comments on the site, the key issue here is that it is not a blind study, but a case series study where the demographics of the control group are unreported: >The main problem with this work is that the demographic
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by ddeck 6y ago
This is absolutely a PR piece and the other glowingly positive comment on this page is from an account created 2 minutes before posting. I've also never had much luck with SnapEDA and prefer to use SamacSys for footprints and models. A
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by ddeck 6y ago
>I'm not sure if you're talking about daily deaths, or in total, but California has had 5,286 deaths as of today, not 58. We also had 81 deaths today specifically. They are talking about total deaths, but only in SF/San
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by ddeck 6y ago
Number of daily tests has been broadly flat for the last three weeks and is ~20% lower than the peak testing in mid-May. It's difficult to match new case numbers against specific tests given aggregated data sources, lag etc., but the r
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by ddeck 6y ago
Additionally, they also forced them to get up in the early morning on the social isolation day, locked them in an unfamiliar room, and gave them close to nothing to do: On the day of the isolation session, participants arrived at the McGov
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by ddeck 6y ago
I'm not so sure it would have been. Many officials likely lived through the Hong Kong flu in 1968, which killed an estimated 1 to 4 million people. Far fewer than the Spanish Flu, but a much more recent reminder.
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by ddeck 6y ago
The founder introducing the cable on their forum [1]: "Why did I introduce new models? First and most important reason for me is always better sound. Second reason is compatibility and ease of installation. JCAT HD SATA Cable offers m
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by ddeck 6y ago
Most would agree that oil prices are "low" everywhere, but there is currently a substantial gap between near-term contract prices for WTI (US) and Brent. Aside from some differences in the specifications of the crude itself, the c
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by ddeck 7y ago
>I don't get this "nearly impossible to stop" thing I don't know the situation in the OP's country, but I wouldn't assume that filing a lawsuit is always an accessible option in jurisdictions outside the U
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by ddeck 7y ago
For the US, the COVID Tracking Project have tested, positive, negative numbers for most states. They also have the dataset available as a spreadsheet or a JSON or CSV API: https://covidtracking.com/data/ The project wa
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by ddeck 7y ago
>What is "Triple A CLO paper" you might ask? Well, it's any loan(s) made to a company with triple A credit This is not exactly right. A CLO is a collateralized loan obligation. It's essentially a company that holds
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by ddeck 7y ago
>I wonder if the U.S is going to use these drugs or if most docs will be too conventional to use these drugs off label. Domestic therapeutic recommendations from a number of European countries (e.g. France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium)
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by ddeck 7y ago
For global numbers, the WHO daily situation reports: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2... The same data is also presented graphically here: https://www.who.int/redirect-p
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by ddeck 7y ago
While not exactly what you're after re: DYI, the WHO has published guidance on home care for patients presenting while mild symptoms in addition to their clinical care guidelines: - Home care for patients with COVID-19 presenting with
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by ddeck 7y ago
Because buying back shares is typically better for non US investors. I don't live in the US and I am not a US citizen, but if I owned those American Airlines shares, I'd need to pay 30% withholding tax to the US government on that

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