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by ed_balls 5y ago
Is there a downside of getting rid of flu? E.g. my immune system doesn't have right training?
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by ed_balls 6y ago
Their children or other family would do the deals.
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by ed_balls 6y ago
My understanding is the that AstraZeneca and J&J are also new tech. Vector-based and mRNA are different than attenuated (weakened) form of the virus which is used in most vaccines. (I'd be good if someone with more knowledge could
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by ed_balls 6y ago
I suppose they don't know what is the cause and what's gonna happen in the future(6 now, 10 000 in a few years). The communication that public gets is outrageously bad.
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Ask HN: 5h-10h per week side gig?
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by ed_balls 6y ago
I had bad experience with k8s. The learning curve is step. A few days ago k8s decided to run a cron job just after the deploy (it was scheduled for Sunday). Why? it could be a bug ( https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernet
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by ed_balls 6y ago
> When an appliance (fridge, cooker, washing machine) breaks, it's cheaper to replace In a lot of cases it's not, but people don't want to troubleshoot or 3rd part makes more money by replacing it. I try to fix my suff not
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by ed_balls 6y ago
There is one theory missing. What about a sacrifice? Child sacrifice was quite common in the area (Moloch) and it was repeated in a lot of cultures. Maybe people decided that a child is a bit too much, but they still wanted to please the go
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by ed_balls 6y ago
is it really $45k in US? Or just the company told you they are billed 45k but they "negotiate" it down to 10k. In my country a birth in private hospital cost $3k...
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by ed_balls 6y ago
hydrogen maybe the only economical way of transporting goods on medium and long distances - you don't wanna drag 5 tonnes of batteries with you.
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by ed_balls 6y ago
Looking at the current trend, it's highly unlikely e.g. single casting, structural battery packs. Car companies are for profit, so they have every incentive not to make it repairable. What is more, they are some good arguments to be ma
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by ed_balls 6y ago
Does such car exist? (Tesla Maybe?)
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by ed_balls 6y ago
And they will be commodities in less than 10 years. What is the range that would cover 99.99% of use cases? 500 miles/800km? After that it's just a bragging number. Tesla will release new model S that can do it. It took them 10 ye
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by ed_balls 6y ago
> n product driven startups, where engineers are 2nd/3rd class citizens. in consultancy, is somewhat bette The the exact opposite of my experience.
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by ed_balls 6y ago
Is anyone working on a hybrid system? I'd imagine having extra electric motors would help with taxi manoeuvrability, give extra boost from takeoff and could save fuel while cruising.
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by ed_balls 6y ago
Keep it mind that without Covid there will be more death than in previous years. Baby boomers are dying.
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by ed_balls 6y ago
performance and % can cause problems with tuples https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1455602/printing-tuple-w...
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by ed_balls 6y ago
Anyone care to explain the downvotes?
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by ed_balls 6y ago
Out of desperation to stop the new variants UK decided to vaccinate people with a single dose only.
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by ed_balls 6y ago
> Authoritarian states have been able to manage the pandemic because sure, but even poorer European countries managed pandemic better
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by ed_balls 6y ago
shower
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by ed_balls 6y ago
not really https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53856776
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by ed_balls 6y ago
It seems we need to cull a lot of bats.
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by ed_balls 6y ago
How do we know that lethality ("a") has increased? My understanding is that there is an evolutionary pressure to become less lethal.
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by ed_balls 6y ago
Electric cars are at the sweet spot. If you look at larger vehicles e.g. Semi-trailer truck, battery doesn't make sense. To have a good range you would need 5 tons of batteries which limits your cargo and it's not economic. Then y
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by ed_balls 6y ago
For places like, say, UAE it could be national security issue (you are 9 meals away from a revolution). It's a great back up in case of natural disasters.
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by ed_balls 6y ago
That will never happen for national security reasons. Even in 2050 I'd imagine 10% of the energy will come from carbon sources. You want to keep one gas plant open and one coal ready to start quickly. There could be war, natural disast
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by ed_balls 6y ago
PL: 2 nuclear plants (one in place of old brown coal mine). There could be one left which won't be economical in the near future. The rest of coal is getting to expensive to extract.
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by ed_balls 6y ago
>"Detroit" moved to the suburbs Similar thing can happen to SV. People moving to "suburbs" -> other parts of CA.
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by ed_balls 6y ago
Could you make a similar statement in 1970 about Detroit?

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