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by em500 5y ago
> Important to keep in mind the "size" of the experiment. Two interesting quotes from the article in c't magazine: >> twelve participants would be asked to come to Hanover. It's a mistake to apply vanilla statis
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by em500 5y ago
Never heard these myself, but I remember that Nautilus speakers were used in an MP3 listening test by the German c't magazine in 2000[1]. Conclusion: > In plain language, this means that our musically trained test listeners could re
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by em500 5y ago
It's small for most Americans, but not for most Europeans (especially not for European city dwellers). It's huge if you live in Hong Kong.
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by em500 5y ago
These days, I find that there is little point in discussing anything China-related in Western internet forums. There's an overwhelming amount of ignorance, misinformation, prejudice and propaganda about China from tons of different par
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by em500 5y ago
1. Buy an USB Blu-ray burner and a stack of high quality BD-R (Panasonic Japan, single layer). 2. Sort your photo's by date and archive anything older than 1 or 2 years to disc. If you can't fit any year on 1 disc (25GB), consider
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by em500 5y ago
Even inside the same city the variation between schools is huge, let alone across the entire country. So I think there's not much useful that can be be generalized about "american schools". This is also true in Europe: the sc
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by em500 5y ago
I appreciate the effort that went into this, but I think it actually makes learning vim appear more complicated than it is. The approach to vi(m) that really worked for me is to regard the different modes (especially insert mode) as command
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by em500 5y ago
Why is Japans' real estate a "quagmire" and why would unemployment be 50% when Japan post 1990 averaged 3.5% (with a few short-lived peaks up to 5.5%)?
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by em500 5y ago
Indeed. For cloud vendors, a large part of the business model is to resell/oversell idle CPU time as much as they can ("vCPU"), taking advantage of the fact that small/individual clients are usually extremely over-provis
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by em500 5y ago
The German c't magazin did an extensive test back in 2000 using pricey audiophille equipment (Sennheiser Orpheus, B&W Nautilus 803). 256k MP3 was statistically tied with the Compact Disc source. Translated article: https:/&#x
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by em500 5y ago
One of the largest current national problems in the Netherlands is the overproduction of nitrogen compounds, mostly caused by intensive farming. There's more to sustainability than CO2 and topsoil depletion.
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by em500 5y ago
Probably the vast majority of HN readers/posters hail from the US and Europe, most probably haven't even been in any African country, so that hardly remarkable or unexpected.
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by em500 5y ago
"Because we cannot name something leading with a trademark owned by someone else." -- Rich Turner, former PM of WSL https://twitter.com/richturn_ms/status/1245481405947076610
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by em500 5y ago
> there are suspect cases in Europe already at the beginning of December, of people that had never been in Wuhan. If this is true, then it's not a given that COVID-19 even originated in China.
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by em500 5y ago
Most countries already levy VAT/sales tax. But almost everybody believes that those are all paid by consumers while corporate taxes are all paid by business owners (mental picture: Bezos/Gates/top hat wearing Monopoly dude, n
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by em500 5y ago
Yup, productionalizing a comprehensive CPI is a boring, thankless and expensive (household surveys, not just webscraping!) undertaking. Which is why we pay a big government department to do it for us. The sceptical but honest truth-seeker w
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by em500 5y ago
I can't assess the quality of PNAS, but the one thing I remember about it is that Columbia statistics prof Andrew Gelman disses them all the time for peddling pseudo-science based mostly on junk statistics[1]. He paints it as basically
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by em500 6y ago
How you intend to extrapolate that? A seemingly much larger thermal/cooling headroom usually does not gain you that much in absolute performance. Consider the mobile/desktop Zen3 Ryzen geekbench (S)ingle/(M)ulti scores: - 580
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by em500 6y ago
Even in California $150k places you at around the 85% household (let alone personal) income percentile, median household income is only 75k. I.e., the bulk of Californians have to make do with far less.
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by em500 6y ago
The natural state is that people and other animals can only "own" land that they physically occupy and defend by force. The kind of property ownership where (you can make) other people stay out of your house without your own prese
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by em500 6y ago
Similar in spirit, a recreation of the VAX-11/780: https://vxcompany.com/2016/02/13/a-working-vax-11780-revisit...
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by em500 6y ago
> I did not have a 88000, SPARC, PA-RISC, RS/6000 desktop to develop on UNIX. That may have contributed to their demise.
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by em500 6y ago
It probably works the same in most places. In the Netherlands it's usually called Janssen, while the Oxford one is called AstraZeneca. I'm guessing in the US they usually leave out BioNTech, while in Germany BioNTech comes before
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by em500 6y ago
In Europe, supermarket meat was was probably frozen anyway, according to Dutch Consumer Reports: ("Fresh" meat from supermarket often older than 2 years and frozen several times [1], original Dutch [2]). [1] https://tra
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by em500 6y ago
It also has a built in editor that behaves like old the DOS text editors from qbasic / Turbo Pascal. I think it's more intuitive than nano, especially for Windows users.
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by em500 6y ago
It's in the "Go" menu, along with the keyboard shortcut. You can also put it in the sidebar, either via Preferences->Sidebar or dragging your home folder there. I'm guessing that the reason it's not there is that
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by em500 6y ago
Traditionally Booking.com operated mostly as a marketplace ("agency" model, as opposed to "merchant" model like Expedia [1]). The contract and the payments are between the guest and the hotel, not between the guest and B
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by em500 6y ago
> What if I touch thousands of surfaces? According to the article, that's probably risky if all of those thousands of surfaces are infected . But you make a good point: I have no idea how many infected surfaces I touched last week&
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by em500 6y ago
> Absolutely - in knowledge economy, insisting on physical presence is darn damn stupid. I could also surmise that in a knowledge economy, high bandwith and low latency connections are very importance, and that in-person communication ar
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by em500 6y ago
Bilibili is a minority player in China, so it's pretty weird to present then as "China's answer to YouTube". I'm pretty sure the biggest video platforms are still iQiyi, Tencent video and Youku (with none of them ha

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