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by em500 3y ago
Dunno about India, but in China the QR payments operated by Tencent and Alibaba are certainly not ran at loss.
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by em500 3y ago
It looks like you're relating 2019 individual incomes with 2023 median household rents. A better comparison would be with 2023 household incomes (the median household has more than one income, and one person households are mostly renti
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by em500 3y ago
> 1) HN and elsewhere constantly point out how bad Google Search is lately I've been reading this on Slashdot back in the days, before HN or Reddit even existed.
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by em500 3y ago
And of course regenerative braking greatly enhances electric car efficiency in city driving. The flip side is that the battery gauge usually drops alarmingly fast on the highway if you're mostly used to city driving.
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by em500 3y ago
If you're wondering about the actual performance of these cores, I think they'll end up around 300-350 single thread Geekbench6 points (comparable to Intel Goldmont N4020, or the ancient Core 2 E8400/Q9500). This is based on
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by em500 3y ago
There is no a modern day equivalent. Not because of availibility of hardware or software (both better hardware and better software are widely available at trivial costs nowadays), but because the world around us has changed. Specifically, t
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by em500 3y ago
According to Google Finance: BKNG: Employees: 23,100, Revenue(2022): 17.1B, Net Income(2022): 3.1B ABNB: Employees: 6,811, Revenue(2022): 8.4B, Net Income(2022): 1.9B https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BKNG:NASDA
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by em500 3y ago
What did you use to implement the regularization of the trend breakpoints? Prophet by default uses a regular grid and thins them out with STAN. I couldn't find a quick regularization replacement in numpy/scipy/statsmodels wit
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by em500 3y ago
Huawei was on a trajectory to become the biggest smartphone vendor in the world, when they were kneecapped in 2019, mostly by blocking their access to Google services (which cratered their sales outside of China). https://www.can
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by em500 3y ago
I setup an old phone just for that ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37655746 ). It acts more as a backup key than as a backup smartphone. Just like with house/car/bike keys, having a spare in case of loss&#x2F
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by em500 3y ago
I have an old iPhone SE (2016) in the drawer at home, with a backup Google Authenticator and passwords backup by iCloud. It doesn't need a separate phone plan, or even any other network connection to function as a backup 2FA/passw
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by em500 3y ago
Yes, I was a bit confused about this too. Bash (1989) itself is a modern Linux tool. The Unix classic (released between 1973 and 1985 according to the author) would be sh (1979) or perhaps ksh (1983).
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by em500 3y ago
The abstract is a summary of the figures ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-38461-y#Fig2 ) in words. It can be a bit hard to parse, but you can't use graphics in a paper abstract. So imagine yourself try
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by em500 3y ago
Yes, somewhere around 1966, ethnic Chinese living in Indonesia where pressured/forced to adopt an Indonesian-sounding name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Indonesian_surname#196...
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by em500 3y ago
It seems 30% platform commission is pretty standard across digital platforms (apps, books, music). I'm not well versed in the world of money laundry, so I don't know if that's efficient or not. But if you're willing to p
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by em500 3y ago
It's very different in Chinese: xiang jiao 香蕉
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by em500 3y ago
In the Netherlands highway limits have been 120km/h for several decades. Around 2010 it was raised to 130km/h (a pretty pretty popular measure by most accounts). In the last few years it became clear that the country as a whole wa
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by em500 3y ago
> Even EU can't compete with the US on funding and high tech skilled wages(except London and Switzerland which aren't in the EU), what makes you think India and China can? India and China tolerate more inequality than continent
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by em500 3y ago
"Full austerity" is wildly hyperbolic. Here's EU government spending as share of GDP: https://tradingeconomics.com/european-union/government-spend... Try to click on MAX and spot when governments went &q
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by em500 3y ago
Samsung is continuing with Exynos, but they're using ARM Cortex architectures nowadays, as opposed to the in house Mongoose Mx architecture described in this doc (the M6 never made it into a product, and the previous M5, M4, M3 cores w
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by em500 3y ago
I realize that "for iOS" comes from the github project blurb., but I think that it's pretty misleading. The iOS installation options are basically a jailbreak (impossible on recent CPU/iOS versions) or semi-tethering and
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by em500 3y ago
South Korea is just the most extreme example of the global trend of below replacement rate and still decreasing fertility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate#/media/Fi... Central Africa is pre
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by em500 3y ago
I'm guessing that they're mostly targeting the richer Asian countries, including China (which is on average is poorer than the West, but in the aggregate has comparable spending power as North America).
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by em500 3y ago
Another one is Lost In The Stars. https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/haven-for-scams-hit-movies...
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by em500 3y ago
Sounds like aspartame cancer risk will fall in the category "Everything we eat both causes and prevents cancer" https://www.sciencealert.com/everything-we-eat-both-causes-a...
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by em500 3y ago
What are "all systems"? Most mainstream Debian or Fedora based systems install Perl by default (but not necessarily in specialized settings such as embedded/boot/rescue systems). Alpine linux does not include it in stan
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by em500 3y ago
Not a great article: I learned that this is a slightly tweaked Debian Sid (different installer, XFCE with some theme/setting changes), but now how it's actually better than just using Debian Sid.
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by em500 3y ago
Trying to beat a good chess engine at 2500 Elo is probably both tedious and intellectually challenging.
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by em500 3y ago
Derailleur gears require more maintenance, and are IMO not worth the effort for city cycling. Get a bike with a hub gear (Shimano Nexus 8, which is more efficient than Nexus 7 or 3). If the terrain is flat enough, you could even opt for sin
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by em500 3y ago
Don't know about Belgium, but there are no Dutch regulations requiring showers in office buildings[1], unless the work environment is exceptionally warm, dirty or involves dangerous chemical/biological products. The average (non-e

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