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by fy20 11mo ago
I was involved in the early days of OpenTTD and one of the big issues was the first version was basically just a decompiled version of the original TTD binaries. Giving any kind of blessing would basically relinquish control of IP - that du
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by fy20 11mo ago
I would be surprised if this hasn't existed for a few decades already. Back in 2009 I was working at a place where O2 was a client, and they gave us an API that could identify the cell tower (inc. lat/lng) any of their customers w
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by fy20 11mo ago
I've always wondered why we don't build homes with a buried tank of water used as heat storage. In the summer it can be heated with solar thermal to around 90c, and in the winter heat can be drawn out and go through radiators or u
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by fy20 11mo ago
> pay me for the privilege to work This is basically how services like Uber Eats work in my country. The basics of it are foreign students want to earn extra income by working a few hours per week. This is allowed on a student visa, but
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by fy20 11mo ago
That's actually happening. Commercially you can buy a 0.55T system such as the Siemens Free Max for around $500k. There are also developments in ultra-low-field fMRI (<0.1T) which use permanent magnets, which are estimated to retail
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by fy20 11mo ago
There was an AMA about conjoined twins on Reddit a couple of years ago, and one of the interesting parts was that they could each sense how the other twin is feeling in terms of emotions. This is due to a lot of emotional states being based
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by fy20 11mo ago
Whoa there, you don't need to be so sadistic to your team. It's not GraphQL, but having a document describing how your API works, including types, that is important. I expect you could achieve the same with a comprehensive OpenAPI
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by fy20 11mo ago
We won't be seeing a TSMC plant in France anytime soon then.
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by fy20 11mo ago
No OP but I left right before Brexit and live in an Eastern European country now. We still have a lot of the problems as the UK, but what I like is that individual autonomy is a lot higher. That has two faces though, as it means if you are
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by fy20 11mo ago
Does it have anything to do with US parking lots being huge? I usually ship at Lidl, so the parking lot can hold maybe 50 cars. It takes 1 minute to return the cart, and there's usually a car parked next to me, so there isn't actu
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by fy20 11mo ago
The title is missing context, the full sentence would be "In his final speech, Huxley predicts Adderall". The context anchors the time frame, so "predicts" is present tense at the time of the speech. "In his 2006 pa
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by fy20 11mo ago
I somewhat agree that this isn't the only definition of genius, but this is a pretty important one. If you look back at the most successful scientists, they were not just mad scientists with grand ideas, they were also able to explain
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by fy20 11mo ago
In Northern Europe they are already there. For the past few years my country (-25c during winter) has required all new houses to be heated by a green energy source - which rules out natural gas. The price of a heat pump vs a gas boiler + ga
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by fy20 11mo ago
It will if maintained properly. If you don't use it often it becomes loose and won't hold. In my part of Europe it's the main issue for technical inspections, as most people drive automatic and we don't have hills, so we
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by fy20 11mo ago
This line from The Guardian article: "The notion that Amazon.com will be allowed to corner the market in on-line book sales is wholly implausible."
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by fy20 11mo ago
Not directly from privatisation, but in 2006 BT was forced to split the infrastructure part of their business into a separate company (OpenReach). They were forced to allow other providers to use their infrastructure, which during the broad
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by fy20 1y ago
In many places it's also possibly just a left over feature from older times. I worked at a major UK supermarket in the mid-00s, and their checkout system had this feature. But it was like that because that's how it was originally
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by fy20 1y ago
In Lithuania it's around €5 per pack, and in Belarus around €2. If you assume 20kg is 800 packs, then you are talking a few thousand profit per shipment. Minimum wage, after tax, in Lithuania is €700.
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by fy20 1y ago
Calling Tesonet a VC firm isn't really an accurate description of their history. They started as an IT services company (which they still do), then split out internal services into effectively separate companies (e.g. CyberCare was ori
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by fy20 1y ago
AMD was a no-brainer in the mid 2000s if you were running Linux. It was typically cheaper than Intel, lower power consumption (= less heat, less fan noise), had 64bit so you could run more memory, and dual core support was more widespread.
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by fy20 1y ago
So basically rage-bait sells? It's not really surprising in the finance and wellness space that it also works. People often feel vulnerable and that "the system" is rigged against them. This kind of content appeals as it make
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by fy20 1y ago
Will Indians be happy with that? I live in a European country which used to have a brain drain to the US and the main reasons to go were: a) Money being much more than you could get in Europe b) Bragging rights - especially for parents I im
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by fy20 1y ago
It's not terrible... The iPhone 17 has a battery capacity of 63 nano lb·AU. Around 16 million would equal 1 lb·AU. Another fun one would be milli hundredweight leauge (mcwt·lg). Both hundredweight and league have multiple accepted defi
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by fy20 1y ago
> theoretically make sense to have all of the panels facing south It depends what you are optimising for. East/west makes a lot of sense to optimise for morning and evening sun. Especially as during the middle of the day electricity
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by fy20 1y ago
I always find it interesting when I visit Italy. The supermarkets there do sell some kind of dissenfectent for produce, and everyone is really strict about using gloves (this was even before COVID). My country has none of that...
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by fy20 1y ago
I have a cupboard full of bags at home I can reuse. It's right next to my door. Really easy to get to. 75% of the time I forget to take a bag to my car. As well as all the single use bags (paper and plastic) I bought, I also have jute
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by fy20 1y ago
I visited the region around Dharamshala last year which is the same altitude (1500m) and was somewhat surprised I did not notice any effects of the altitude. My whole life (nearly 40) I've been living at sea level, except for trips. I&
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by fy20 1y ago
You joke, but the environment children are raised in is a big indicator of their future 'success'. I'm sure with a 100 question questionnaire and some statistics, companies like KPMG could fairly reliably determine if parents
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by fy20 1y ago
One thing to bear in mind about Europe is that to go carbon neutral you need to be able to deal with winters. First of all they are darker than the US due to latitude, so solar during winter is basically a no go in half of the places where
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by fy20 1y ago
My country does this, however there are multiple authentication options. The main one is a private company that provides an authentication system using private certificates. When you try to login to an authenticated website your phone pops

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