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by fy20 3y ago
It should be able to predict the outcomes of human behaviours in specific cases, such as elections. There is enough knowledge out there on how humans behave, both from examples of past events and scientific knowledge from studies. Then for
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by fy20 3y ago
I feel that's what missing from Google Maps is an analysis of the driving difficulty. Last month I was driving across Europe, where we were driving all day, doing close to 1000km per day. Where there wasn't a direct highway connec
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by fy20 3y ago
I wonder if it would be good at building libraries and emulators based on datasheets. When I've played around with microcontrollers, dealing with external components requires deep studying of the datasheet, even for the simplest of com
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by fy20 3y ago
That works great for people who live close to the equator in somewhere with timezones that reflect the sun. Many regions are not like that though. In the middle of Europe (Paris, Berlin) the time the sun is visible varies by over 5 hours, a
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by fy20 3y ago
In my country there is no standing charge, everything is within the price you pay per kWh. If you usage is 0 kWh, your bill is €0. However only about half of what we pay goes towards electricity, the rest is for transmission and infrastruct
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by fy20 3y ago
Modern building techniques also play a big part in it. Houses build to modern building standards (see Scandinavia and Central Europe - the UK and Ireland is still lacking here) uses a hell of a lot less energy for heating than houses built
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by fy20 3y ago
Unpopular opinion: Without SEO polluting the algorithm, ads would be worthless, as the search algorithm would do a good enough job of finding the correct results.
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by fy20 3y ago
This warning came about after many startups built their products on top of Facebook's or Twitter's APIs (who remembers Facebook apps?), and then later they changed their platform which nerfed the startup. This isn't the same
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by fy20 3y ago
> your take home exam is a short essay on what you think the mortgage interest tax deduction (started in 1913) did to household debt If what you describe holds true for mortgage debt, then we would expect the US to be in a uniquely bad p
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by fy20 3y ago
I feel that's what half the indie hacker movement is. I saw a service the other day making enough to be a good salary for a single developer in most parts of the world, that simply generates images of your MRR. I'm considering whi
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by fy20 3y ago
Over the past decade "status" has become much more important for a lot of people, and what better way to show it than with an expensive car? Clothes don't shout "hey I'm expensive", if anything luxury brands ar
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by fy20 3y ago
My city has a lot of large roundabouts and a few years ago they made big improvements that reduced the number of incidents and improved traffic flow: 1. They switched from 3 lane traditional to 2 lane spiral roundabouts. There are signs wel
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by fy20 3y ago
They did actually release phones running Android with a Metro skin: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_X_family https://m.gsmarena.com/nokia_x-6067.php
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by fy20 3y ago
A basic air-to-air minisplit is £1500-£2000 including installation. The price given by OP is for an air-to-water system which generates hot water for taps and heating.
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by fy20 3y ago
For modern heat pumps (e.g. Daikin Altherma) the COP at -2c will be around 2.8-3. They operate down to -25c in heat pump mode, then automatically switch over to resistive heating. I live in Lithuania (-20c and lower during winter is not unc
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by fy20 3y ago
Same here. If you list a GitHub profile in your CV I expect it to show at least one repository with code you have written yourself or meaningful contributions to an open source project. We don't do coding challenges during the intervie
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by fy20 3y ago
I work in digital signage. We don't do these, but we do have other products aimed at retail. Most of these displays are powered by run of the mill Windows machines. Often they are just standard off the shelf hardware, which when packed
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by fy20 3y ago
If that's the case, then why are they making it more convenient to pay? Where I am (in Europe) all the major petrol stations have mobile apps you can pay with. One even launched a system where you can register your license plate, and w
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by fy20 3y ago
I live in another city in the Baltics, and I would not be surprised to see the same results here. The main reasons why would be: - During the 2010s GDP and real wages of these countries increased a lot. Cars shifted from being a luxury to b
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by fy20 3y ago
In my first programming job I learnt Vim , simply because I saw other people doing it and thought it looked cool. I feel doing the same remotely would be tricky. Even if I learnt of it, how would I ever quit Vim and switch back to Slack?
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by fy20 3y ago
At my company, I feel the biggest issue is execs don't want to pay more to get good people and don't want to do anything to make it more attractive to work here. The last person I hired was at the start of this year, and at the ti
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by fy20 3y ago
From one side we are trying to stop 13 year old boys from making pictures of AI boobs, and from the other side our school system is teaching children about sex before they even reach the age of 10.
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by fy20 3y ago
I find it interesting that LeShuttle (the same tunnel between France and UK, but where you drive your car onto the train) does not. They barely do any security checks on cars, and only seem to glance briefly at passports.
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by fy20 3y ago
I wonder if this will push the UK to adopt ID cards. Almost all other European countries have them, with the UK being a notable outlier.
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by fy20 3y ago
Europe also has a shortage, as it turned out a lot of both timber and lumber came from Russia. This has pushed up demand for imports from North America, which I guess has a knock on effect to other regions. Prices in Europe still haven&#x27
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by fy20 3y ago
I was travelling in India earlier this year, and it seems like this is a common superpower there. Two notable cases: 1) Two men in the back of a truck holding up an engine block (one on each side), both fast asleep. I still don't under
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by fy20 3y ago
I've been told by multiple Indians the best place to get Indian food is in London. Even compared to India itself in some ways it's better, as you can get food from all the different regions in one place.
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by fy20 3y ago
As it is a 2023 coin, why doesn't it have Charlie?
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by fy20 3y ago
Personally I think seeing dark skies is important for regular folks too. I was fortunate to grow up in a place where you could easily see the Milky Way at night. It's truly awe inspiring to lay down at night looking at the stars, and r
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by fy20 3y ago
> For example, GPT-4V avoids identifying a specific person in an image and does not respond to prompts pertaining to hate symbols. How does it handle pictures of the swastika? For those that don't know, before the Nazis used it, it

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