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by em500 1y ago
You don't actually know how they're stored. SQLite has a rather idiosyncratic approach to datetimes: it does not provide any datetime data types (the only SQLite data types are NULL, INTEGER, REAL, TEXT and BLOB). It's left e
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by em500 1y ago
The source material is free for anyone to evaluate for themselves: https://www.library.dartmouth.edu/digital/digital-collection... It's not overtly technical or inaccessible, if you're a quick reader it only
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by em500 1y ago
Maybe there's a bit of a Steve Jobs effect, who was publicly known as a Miele fan. ( https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-washer-dryer-2011... )
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by em500 1y ago
Ok, I'll bite. What's going to be big 5-10 years from now?
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The problem was that technological advances made this a very tough market. Nokia used to have a separate marque called Vertu ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertu ) to serve this market. But rapid technological progress
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by em500 1y ago
> For example I wish someone told me about the existence of Miele kitchen equipment before I accidentally rented an apartment of a well-to-do woman. Don't believe the hype. I got an apartment full with Miele kitchen equipment (from
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by em500 1y ago
If you're over 100m net worth and get 5% returns, you get over 400k/month income on capital. At that point it might not be worth your time and attention to save $50 or even $500/mo if it takes any effort.
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by em500 1y ago
> Practically, many people however only start thinking about possibly needing to open some app to display it while they’re already blocking everybody else’s way at the transit gate… This really comes down to adoption. In China, where QR
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by em500 1y ago
In the EU, laws differ by country, so I wouldn't categorically declare that it's legal everywhere to have any amount of cash at home or traveling. From incidental local news reports here in the Netherlands, I suspect that if I wer
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by em500 1y ago
Crypto is advertised as providing irreversible transfers, and having ownership of assets solely established by ownership of keys. It shouldn't be surprising that such features would attract criminals.
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by em500 1y ago
Europe is clamping down on cash, with in some countries placing caps on cash transactions as low as €1000. https://en.econostrum.info/europe-restricts-cash-paymentss-n... https://www.europe-consommateurs.eu/
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by em500 1y ago
Sanctions on Russia and not on Israel is EU policy. The EBU is likely content to leave this call to actual politicians (European Commission/Parliament), rather than taking a dissonant stance.
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by em500 1y ago
AFAIK using the analytic solution for linear regression (via lm in R, statsmodels in python or any other classical statistical package) is still the norm in traditional disciplines such as social (economics, psychology, sociology) and physi
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by em500 1y ago
Well in the Netherlands all kids are basically expected to bring their own cold sandwiches every day, so that isn't seen as a punishment. Primary schools don't even have separate tables for meals, let alone canteens: kids just eat
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by em500 1y ago
> ... and school lunches should be free (from a EU country, this isn’t even a thing here) I'm from another EU country (the Netherlands). Primary schools do not provide any lunch or other food whatsoever, secondary schools might have
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by em500 1y ago
Linux or FreeBSD developers are free to adopt ZFS as their primary file systems. But it appears that practical benefits are not really evident to most users.
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by em500 1y ago
" The terminator would never stop. It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would die, to prote
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by em500 2y ago
Sayre's law: "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
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by em500 2y ago
According to the Supreme Court ruling[1], college admissions where explicitly taking race into account, either as a proxy for or in addition to socioeconomic status. [1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/
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by em500 2y ago
I thought OpenCL was supposed to be the "standard"? From the Wikipedia page, it's largely vendor neutral and not that much younger than CUDA (initial release Aug 2009 vs Feb 2007). Maybe some more knowledgeable people can c
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by em500 2y ago
The big problem is that it's probably not possible to distinguish between "forced" (by circumstances) or "by own choice". I suspect that it's a similar problem as the impossibility to disentangle supply and dem
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by em500 2y ago
That's because most US-made cars barely fit in many streets and parking spaces around here.
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by em500 2y ago
> ... but I don't actually know what system in the past decade (or more) wouldn't have bash. There's some ambiguity about "have bash". If "having" bash means that (some version of) bash has been ported
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by em500 2y ago
Yup, the distance to the nearest primary school is 0.6km (0.38mi), to the nearest secondary school 2.3km (1.43mi). Most kids can manage that on their own after age 8 or so. https://longreads.cbs.nl/nederland-in-cijfers-2022&
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by em500 2y ago
> Something that always bugs me is restaurants that charge $2 or $5 surcharge for takeout. I'm saving the restaurant a ton of money by not using the dining room, why would they discourage that? My parents owned a small family restau
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by em500 2y ago
At least for Toyota hybrids, the intuition is that the traditional ICE transmission system is replaced by what Toyota calls a "power split device" which continuously feeds and balances the electric and combustion power sources. T
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by em500 2y ago
But I thought central planning was bad for economic development. Or was that authoritarianism?
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The Dutch health council advised against including chickenpox vaccination in the standard vaccination programme in 2020 for the European Netherlands (but pro vaccination for Dutch overseas territories in the Caribbean). The advise (in Dutch
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Same thing has been observed way earlier for music: the golden age of pop music was always everyone's teenage/high school years.
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The problem with such calculations is that they're very sensitive to the chosen starting point: compare the growths in the most recent 3 instead of 5 years: Austin: 502-> 510 growth: 1.6% Dallas: 263-> 295 growth: 12.2% NYC: 25

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