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by ed_balls 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...
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by ed_balls 7y ago
It's unsolvable problem. People will go to wet markets in Myanmar on a trip. The only way out is an antiviral that is cheap, safe and effective.
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by ed_balls 7y ago
My understanding is that viral load is always a factor for every virus. Laboratories don't use soap and water, because they want to kill 100% of the viral particles, not 99.9%. They work with samples that have extremely high concentrat
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by ed_balls 7y ago
It stopped working if the meeting has over 50 people.
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by ed_balls 7y ago
Is there any way a random HN reader could help? I wish my country do more tests.
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by ed_balls 7y ago
vehicles killed more than WW2. Coal kills more than Chernobyl, but our instincts are bad in assessing risks like that.
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by ed_balls 7y ago
you don't want it random. You want to add a splay .e.g # add a random value (from 0 to X) to the timeout # This can be used to prevent the thundering herd problem splay = "5s"
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by ed_balls 7y ago
and Apple is using slave labor TODAY https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22457389
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by ed_balls 7y ago
You will became immune to it over time. My first scratched used to takes 2 weeks to heal. After a year it only took 2-3 days.
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by ed_balls 7y ago
Deis socks used to be the best socks that I owned https://twitter.com/opendeis/status/841794642521739264?lang=... Great stuff and USPS shipping is free to Europe (DHL is $114.91).
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by ed_balls 7y ago
That's why I go to gym at least 3 times a week. I build muscle to increase my "static" calories burn - and obviously burn calories while lifting weight. I kicked sugar as well.
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by ed_balls 7y ago
> lasts a life time. This won't change much. Nobody will work on Pentium II, drive a gas guzzler or get a low resolution MRI. It's hard to regulate such stuff. You can only improve it a bit e.g. mandatory 3-year warranty with a
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by ed_balls 7y ago
> Avoid package level state Seek to be explicit, reduce coupling, and spooky action at a distance by providing the dependencies a type needs as fields on that type rather than using package variables. I can't parse it.
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by ed_balls 7y ago
Is NOx an issue if it's far away from humans?
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by ed_balls 7y ago
Did they want to get find then?
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by ed_balls 7y ago
Maybe a warning like on a cigarette pack could help? e.g. "spending more than 15% of your income on a car can lead to a financial ruin". Warning on cigarettes reduced smoking by a few percent.
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by ed_balls 7y ago
manual windows require more moving parts
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by ed_balls 7y ago
I'm not sure how OLAP relates to CockroachDB. The use case for CockroachDB is quite simple. You have millions of applications that runs Postgres. A large chuck of them have to process more and more data which a single master cannot han
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by ed_balls 7y ago
Has anyone tried to run CockroachDB with GCP TrueTime?
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by ed_balls 7y ago
I want to build an electric go-cart. Any good books on that? :)
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by ed_balls 7y ago
I'd like to see some more granular status e.g. out of 15k cases 1000 are 25-35 years old males that were healthy. The survivability rate is X for that group.
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by ed_balls 7y ago
>... completely end by 2027 Having a very tiny homeless population is a sign of healthy society. What are gonna do with some people that are non-violent and don't want to live in the building X? Are you gonna lock them up?
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by ed_balls 7y ago
People adapt. Criminals wear helmets.
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by ed_balls 7y ago
Does anyone have a good cost comparison of nuclear, gas, coal/lignite ? Total cost, with decommission. My understanding is that even with Carbon Tax coal is cheaper. From HN comment: > Take the average IPCC meta-analysis numbers [1]
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by ed_balls 7y ago
I disagree. If one generator fails, it's not a big problem. If you have a failure in a large reactor it's a biggie, so you have to use very expensive materials and design to avoid failure.
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by ed_balls 7y ago
I'm not sure how do you mean. You get economy of scale by saving in costs gained by an increased level of production. It's cheaper to create 100 widgets for 100 small reactors in 10 locations, then for 10 large reactors.
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by ed_balls 7y ago
Yes, you need to exchange heat, most likely water since it's most cost effective. > And if there's water in your mine, it seems like it could transport radioactive particles out You need to pick a really deep and isolated shaft
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by ed_balls 7y ago
I've been thinking about this for a bit and had a similar model in mind. You build small nuclear reactors in a containers - similar how Google builds their DC. You find an abandoned coal mine shaft and put them deep in the ground. The
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by ed_balls 7y ago
Good article, but the model is too simple. UK used to produce more cars than Germany, but it's the opposite now. Why? They haven't shared the same currency. German cars were better. > And it means those same workers in Spain ar
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by ed_balls 7y ago
There should be a ban on exports, unless it is proven they are recycled. You buy garbage from Germany to recycle in Poland. You store it in some field temporarily, before the recycling. You set them on fire, getting rid of the problem. To a

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