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by friendly_chap 5y ago
> An thoughts on incinerating toilets? I haven't researched them because I found the price a bit ridiculous. Where I live sewage is not regulated at all so $4k sounds like an overkill. If it's mobile and durable and you like th
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
Me and my brother are both engineers and we tinker with off-grid existence on our vineyard. Some things we had to implement: - Electricity: Modern solar tech is suprisingly powerful. We have a tiny 1.6kw system with 3kw batteries plus a Chi
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
Each time you binge drink a few consecutive nights/days you body has to adjust to the sedative weaning off. For the first 100 or 1000 or 5000 times it's OK. Then you start showing physical symptoms. Little anxiety. Headache. Light
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
I would like to give a word of warning for people who would like to enjoy alcohol all their life: try to avoid kindling at all cost. If you, like most professionals, consume alcohol for social clout and for fun, this is extremely crucial. O
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
Eastern European here, but I spent most of my adult life in the UK. Almost every person I know drinks a few beers or shots a day. 2-3 on a normal, uneventful day, and a about 5-8 drinks when meeting up with family/friends etc, and 10-2
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
I got blocked from posting more in this thread. Will collect them in this comment if I can edit it. I don't deny most of these lists are probably tainted by national pride, and their contents might be partially fabrications. I have tie
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
Hungarian pretty much only does that to ease pronounciation, ie. when two consonants can't be pronounced after each other eg. "utca" (means street) etc.
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
Probably. But when Edward Teller himself states it, I tend to listen. Perhaps he said jokingly though.
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
I do believe that is the case and I have my pet layman unscientific theories too about languages. For example I believe English not being phonetic and often times pronounciation not making any sense trains people to accept things "as i
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
Indeed, having its territory reduced by 73% after the war all but killed her. I mean Hungary was already on a downward trajectory after the 1526 Battle of Mohacs which she lost against the Ottomans, and that downward slope culminated in the
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
Hungarian perspective here: I believe there are a couple of factors at play here. First of all, most (perhaps all) of those people are Hungarian Jews, and Jewish people (imho) are both very intelligent and their culture values education a l
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Tiredd: A toy Reddit clone built on free APIs(crufter.com)
5 points by friendly_chap 5y ago|0 comments
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
Pretty cool. Typo on frontpage > As digital computing approaches the limit of Moore's Law, analog computing offers a strategy to diversity today's digital monoculture. s/diversity/diversify ? s/today/in toda
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
Have a look at the Go clients for example. There are proper type safe clients for each API generated form our protobuf definitions. > Type safety is worse for http calls because you literlly have no idea at compile time what the data wil
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
I can think of a few: - type safe clients provided by M3o - reducing app/webapp/binary space by relying on APIs to get a subset of the content you need - a web interface to query the data There are probably a few more, YMMV
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
Yeah, I am somewhat appaled by that too, why could we not have APIs of religious texts (edit: unless it is against the particular religion in question, thus offending believers)? Disclaimer: I am one of the contributors of the site.
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
Something is off with that calculation. Carbs and protein = 4kcal per gramm, fat is 9kcal per gramm. 0.2*9 + 7*4 + 3*4 = 41.8kcal Not going to make you fat but not too shabby either, especially the protein content. Seems you run into protei
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
Why it might not prevent white collar crimes, I have personally seen first hand that people from the lowest classes can easily break out of the mold and make a good living if they communicate and behave well (at least in my country in Easte
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My Homebuilt 200W Laser (2016) [video](youtube.com)
24 points by friendly_chap 5y ago|9 comments
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
Some of these services are proof of concepts/placeholders while the others are coming out of the pipeline. So their price is not necessarily final either. Admittedly the "library as a service" ones are more for niche use case
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Micro APIs for Everyday Use(blog.m3o.com)
261 points by friendly_chap 5y ago|88 comments
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
I have submitted this as I find such manipulation by big players like YouTube fairly interesting. As a non US person I care less about the actual content being manipulated. Hopefully this won't devolve into an R vs D thing and more a g
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Tracking the White House YouTube Channel(81m.org)
2 points by friendly_chap 5y ago|1 comments
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
I often see the reasoning that the right is less educated as proof that they are the wrong unwashed masses. What I do not see mentioned, that experts of propaganda clearly know that more educated people are more susceptible to propaganda. F
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by friendly_chap 5y ago
Very interesting! I intentionally did not mention the topic as I was already accused of taking sides in the matter due to poor wording. In fact that accusation is what made notice this disappearance, but now thinking about it it must come f
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Ask HN: Is HN being censored?
6 points by friendly_chap 5y ago|20 comments
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by friendly_chap 6y ago
Yes, I should have googled that. To GP: sorry I meant no offense! Wishing you all the best and take care.
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by friendly_chap 6y ago
Are you serious? Is that possible? No offense.
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Tell HN: I can thank my career to this place
2 points by friendly_chap 6y ago|0 comments
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by friendly_chap 6y ago
It's open source and you can self host it yourself if you want. Micro also provides a full development model for services development, since it's also a framework and not "just" a platform. Disclosure: I'm a contrib

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