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by iSnow 6y ago
Sounds like it would break down real fast if it just says "we track BTC avg over X days" and has no means to defend it. Consider the following scenario: your index (let's call it BTCEMA) tracks BTC at $30k but BTC does a cryp
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by iSnow 6y ago
Thanks. I do understand that. I'll probably be running Linux in a VM for the time being and switch to a native installation once it is ready. I wish Apple would help Linux on their hardware as it won't take away a lot from their s
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by iSnow 6y ago
I wasn't talking about ARM chips in particular, but chips with great power management, chips that are able to pull great performance if it is required without hitting the thermal envelope instantly. Chips with a reasonably good GPU tha
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by iSnow 6y ago
Understandable and I was ready to buy a Dell XPS as I like the "small and light" form factor. I was just waiting for the COVID buy spike to subside and see how my financial situation would evolve. But I have pushed the decision ba
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by iSnow 6y ago
I was amazed how super focused on the essential features Biontech seems. They are not originally from the vaccination business but cancer treatments, but were able to task SARS-COV-2 within days and get the first vaccine out. Storage requir
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by iSnow 6y ago
The shipping boxes are temperature monitored the whole time as mentioned in the article. After thawing, the vials are valid for ~5d. I don't see a bigger chance they spoil. I doubt I get to choose, but if, I would take one of the mRNA&
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by iSnow 6y ago
But the blog post states that preloaded syringes are the bottleneck and that's why they are using glass vials?
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by iSnow 6y ago
I am not saying every cattle mutilation is sexually motivated, but if it involves cutting out trophies, esp ano-genital, it's really likely. BTW, in the USA it's mostly cattle, in Europe horses.
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by iSnow 6y ago
My take is that Captain Elwood sent him a letter more or less reading "This is a Morse code recording from a domestic station but we won't say more about it, but it's not aliens" and that only riled Davidson up, presumab
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by iSnow 6y ago
>For another, the mutilations were described as chirugically precice. Sometimes just a large part (and including it) around the rectum. If some being, human or animal, gets killed and mutilations around the genitals or rectum occur, chan
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by iSnow 6y ago
In Germany, it is contextualized. You can show a swastika flag in a film or anything remotely educational but not to promote Nazi ideology. So, no, there is no absolute FoS in Germany. Whether Germany can be ranked as a democracy is debated
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by iSnow 6y ago
It's PR for Bitcoin Cash, a blockchain looking for a problem.
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by iSnow 6y ago
Kaliningrad was annexed into the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ie. Russia proper end of WW II. Any surrounding countries literally would have had to start a war with Russia to occupy it.
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by iSnow 6y ago
>Things with just 1 vendor tend to be completely ignored, if they're meant to be used throughout the company. I disagree. I work in such a company and they are always looking for one and only one vendor for their millions of PCs. It
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by iSnow 6y ago
Cross patent volume license deals are pretty much standard among the tech giants.
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by iSnow 6y ago
Futures have nothing to do with better management of a resource, it's strictly a bet traders can place. If you are in favor of financial instruments to steer demand, a simple tax would work. Creating water futures is completely tone-de
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by iSnow 6y ago
I don't think so. But 10y ago, HN was still young, having fun with tons of coffee and beer. Now, HN is gotten older and the latest framework isn't that exciting anymore, coffee is weighing on concentration and depression has taken
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by iSnow 6y ago
OSS for operating systems is unlikely to be fine: out of the four classes server, desktop, laptop, phone/tables, one is already fully locked down and with the M1, the laptop class also becomes less open and hackable. Most people - unli
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by iSnow 6y ago
I wish the article mentioned the matrix materials for the electrolyte which AFAIK are pretty problematic poly-fluorated organic compounds. I wonder whether the pyrolysis is turning them into really nasty chemical waste.
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by iSnow 6y ago
The knowledge that the switch to closing the system is there has a decidedly chilling effect, Apple doesn't even need to flick it. But if you buy a ARM-Mac, you should know that it could be turned into a sealed iDevice any time. That s
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by iSnow 6y ago
IIRC, some guys reverse-engineered the application packaging format and the APIs and were happily hacking away at installing their own apps. This awoke Apple and they created the AppStore. Other examples of Apple reversing course would be &
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by iSnow 6y ago
Right? Birds are like my dogs, basically food black holes. Besides, the amount of bottle caps the magpies in the experiment would be able to find in the wild would be a limiting factor keeping them on their toes.
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by iSnow 6y ago
I see what you did there.
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by iSnow 6y ago
Nah, you can detonate AN by itself, the oxygen from the nitrate part happily oxidizes the ammonium which will cause the nitrogen to depart the compound and release a lot of energy and gas. The contaminants just enable the reaction to switch
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by iSnow 6y ago
Well, if you remember the horrible port explosion in Tianjin, it seems not unlikely, China is a major exporter to Europe. The west probably has better site safety rules and hazmat regulations in place, though.
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by iSnow 6y ago
Apocryphal, but I read they tried to get the military to transport the stuff away but the explosion came before anyone decided. It's the usual mix of carelessness, lack of security guidelines, bureaucratic inertia and corruption. How h
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by iSnow 6y ago
Well, the idea of an energy source that never fails, is abundant and reliable has some allure. Solar and wind seem capricious in comparison. Nevertheless, nuclear has some big issues: try to switch to it now and it will take decades for the
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by iSnow 6y ago
This article isn't about BigTech. That's pure Whataboutism.
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by iSnow 6y ago
The only reason for that statement is to silence those who would raise a stink over the loss of Bootcamp. "See, you don't need native Linux on the machine, just use our hypervisor & Docker/VMs"
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by iSnow 6y ago
Since they are a less open society, we'll never really know, but it seems logical that they have been thinking about the exact same issue. Contrary to common wisdom in the USA, I've yet to see any substantial evidence that the USS

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