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Show HN: Sun position app with 3D terrain shading analysis(sunlocator.com)
1 points by folli 7y ago|0 comments
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by folli 7y ago
First of all, the exactly same reasoning was used after the horrors of WWI, when everyone believed another European war will never be repeated, with known results on the readiness of the Swiss Army at the beginning of WWII. Second, conflict
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by folli 7y ago
From a financial perspective, Switzerland could definitely afford a larger military force (defence expenditure is around 0.6% of the GDP, as a comparison the NATO sets the guideline to 2% of the GDP [Note: Switzerland is not part of the NAT
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by folli 7y ago
The "office hour" argument really grinds my gears. It was originally a deliberate political decision to collaborate with neighboring air forces to save costs and work around the fact that there weren't enough pilots and mater
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by folli 7y ago
It's important to note that these are days gone by. The majority of these bunkers and forts are dismantled, the size of the army has gone down to 100,000 people (from 600,000 in the 50s, while the population has almost doubled), tanks
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by folli 7y ago
I'm not so convinced about using phages anymore, at least not on the same large scale that antibiotics are used (which is an economical necessity). Bacteria co-evolve with phages, especially using CRISPR ( https://www.nature.
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by folli 7y ago
I feel like an old man, when I say this (and maybe I am), but I'm starting to feel increasingly annoyed by drones in public. You hear the whirring of drones on a nice day by the lake, and sometimes even on some more popular mountain pe
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by folli 7y ago
The perfect strategy is called "being the house"
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by folli 7y ago
Very well made and very educational! An often used algorithm for the calculation of the apparent sun position (given a date and latitude/longitude of the observer) is SPA of Reda et al. [1]. If you're interested, I wrote an Androi
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by folli 7y ago
I would agree with your sentiment if you change your first sentence to "Do swiss banks have any future?" Switzerland definitely does.
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by folli 7y ago
You're of course right about growth curves being logistic functions with a plateau at the end. The question is however, where the plateau lies. Perhaps it's so far off that for practical purposes it doesn't really matter that
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by folli 7y ago
Your comment led me to look up the origin of the name "Lyme disease": Lyme disease gets its name from a small coastal town in Connecticut called Lyme. In 1975, a woman brought an unusual cluster of pediatric arthritis cases to the
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by folli 7y ago
I assume that it has a lot to do with the availability of fresh water and temperatures that stay within a range that is still suitable to crop farming. That part should be feasible to predict. I agree however that the resulting global confl
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by folli 7y ago
I'm wondering if there are any estimates/simulations on which countries or geographical regions would be the least impacted (or perhaps even benefit) from global warming. It's very defeatist, but maybe it would make sense to
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by folli 7y ago
I'll start: I'm still actively working on my Android app, Sun Locator, that helps photographers and outdoorsy people to predict the position of the sun and the shadows caused by mountains and hills. It helped me to learn quite a l
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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2019 – Show and tell
114 points by folli 7y ago|61 comments
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by folli 7y ago
Pharma would like to have a word with you.
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by folli 7y ago
This doesn't take the increase of read lengths into account, which also is of value, not only pure read depth.
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by folli 7y ago
In the end the concept of a species is a man-made construct that tries to shoehorn the evolutionary diversity into pigeonholes. For example, your definition of breeding might work okayish for higher eukaryotes, but is unusable for prokaryot
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by folli 7y ago
Any experience running it on Linux? Using Wine?
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by folli 7y ago
The £50 note was described (...) as the "currency of corrupt elites, of crime of all sorts and of tax evasion". I recently dealt with a 1000 CHF (= £811 = $1018) banknote in Switzerland. It's not very commonly used, but it ex
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by folli 7y ago
Who's to say that this wouldn't also attract crowds today.
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Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
1188 points by folli 7y ago|196 comments
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by folli 7y ago
On the intersection of biology and machine learning, there is one of the holy grails of science: protein structure prediction. I'd recommend starting reading about Google's AlphaFold, since this is currently considered state of th
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by folli 7y ago
In original packaging maybe, but not after several kids have played with them for years (and inevitably lost pieces)
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by folli 7y ago
I just wanted to point out that there's a mistake on your website. You write snowboarding is better than skiing. This is clearly false.
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by folli 7y ago
This would need some kind of force feedback mechanism, I can't imagine tieing a knot without resistance of the rope.
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by folli 7y ago
No we can't dismiss it lightly, because there won't be a sole solution to tackle CO2 increase, but we need to leverage and improve all existing technologies.
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by folli 7y ago
I don't understand why this is being downvoted, apart from non-scientific resentments. Nuclear power will be needed, together with renewables (hydro, wind, solar), to massively increase the chance to shift away from fossil energy.
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by folli 7y ago
It's not used for synthesis. It's very helpful for modifications of existing genomes, but it has no relevance in commercial DNA synthesis (which is a purely chemical process).

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