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by jbay808 4y ago
Unfortunately, the higher price of Canadian milk means that dairy products like ice cream and yogurt are padded out with "milk ingredients", "skim milk powder", and "milk protein powder" from cheaper imported U
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> Money supply increases don’t necessarily lead to inflation[...] Money instead went into an asset price bubble. In the short term, yes, but this is a precursor to inflation; eventually the inflated asset prices propagate to consumer pr
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I'd agree with this suggestion. Furthermore this does not need a new number format, as IEEE floating point is already pretty ideally distributed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logit
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Button head: https://us.misumi-ec.com/vona2/detail/221005020675/?Category... Cap screw: https://us.misumi-ec.com/vona2/detail/221005020664/?Category... Flat head: https:/
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> If you haven't read the article, would you think this site great? If you search HN comments for "McMaster-Carr", you'll see their website is frequently brought up as an example of great UX, going back over 10 years
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You could perhaps try Misumi. They were happy to ship to me in Canada when McMaster would not.
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Misumi is awesome. It's basically Japan's answer to McMaster-carr. 10 years ago I would have said Misumi's website was better than MMC. Unfortunately Misumi has gotten a bit less usable over the past decade, while McMaster ha
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> My guess is that some G7/EU/FVEY nation will pass a law to that effect before the 20th anniversary of Stallman's essay. Before 2017?
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What metric do you prefer? Or, what metric should a Vancouverite use to judge whether they'd struggle less to afford housing in Tokyo, given an opportunity to move there? And, reciprocally, what would you tell a Tokyoite who is conside
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It seems very relevant to me! The median multiple is most directly relevant to people earning the median salary and buying the median house. And by this metric Tokyo blows Vancouver out of the park. Even if they're working a job making
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Generally, it would be people coming from anywhere with a higher median multiple than Tokyo. (That is, ratio of median housing price to median household income). For example Vancouver, with a median multiple of 11.9 (in 2019) will have a lo
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> remember, we're talking about inelastic goods - the supplier knows people need to eat So why did a loaf of bread cost 5 cents in 1900 and 5 dollars now, even though we make more bread than ever (and with less labour too)? Couldn&#
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> It’s just a bunch of rich foreigners enjoying purchasing power differences. Not all foreigners who consider the grass greener in Tokyo are American or have a purchasing power advantage. Some just come from an area where housing afforda
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Generous loans increase buying power and, in the absence of elastic supply, would result in rising prices that keep housing expensive. The wonder is that you can buy a new construction 3-story 3 bed/2 bath house 5 minutes from Sugamo s
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by jbay808 4y ago
Good points. I wonder to what extent the Japanese real estate bubble pop of 1992 played a role. Housing in Tokyo was sky-high in 1989, to be sure, despite their zoning rules being enacted in 1968.
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Zoning, as the article mentions, is one important element. I think there are others. The excellent transit system, and cultural acceptance of small homes for example.
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> Say Canada does what you say will fix everything If you thought I was saying it would fix anything except the number on the price tag, you must have misinterpreted my comment. > and in theory supply will increase I don't believ
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A loss of production will of course result in lost wealth, but that can manifest as any combination of an increase in prices (account balances constant) or a decrease in account balances (prices constant). For example if the government taxe
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On Windows, actually.
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> Figures and axis is the OOP interface, and what I always recommend. No doubt, but half the time when I am looking online for how to do something off the beaten path, I find a documentation page or stackoverflow answer that (only) uses
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by jbay808 4y ago
This was the Graf Zeppelin, probably the most accomplished airship ever built. In addition to this mission, it circumnavigated the Earth in 1929, and offered regular passenger service between Europe and Brazil through the 1930s.
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Is the plan to remove it by converting methane to CO2?
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I purchased DUNE on YouTube. Turns out even after paying full price, the image quality is limited to 480P unless you watch via a smart TV. To prevent piracy, or something.
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That is not a record of a sexual encounter.
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I remember, in 1999, my friends using a website called imacfloppy.com to transfer files to themselves via the internet. I suppose it was the dropbox of the day.
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In Japan they mostly use Kei trucks, which weigh around 700 kg (1600 lbs).
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Not necessarily. If it's a femtosecond pulse laser, the instantaneous power is extremely high and creates a sufficiently intense field, but the time-average power is low enough that it wouldn't create much heat away from the focus
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If you have a sufficiently powerful laser, you can create a spark that floats in mid-air. The air at the focal point gets ionized by the strong electric fields and looks quite dazzling (and dangerous). That spark, in turn, can be moved arou
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by jbay808 4y ago
You more or less described it. If you put a microlens over, say, each 3x3 pixel sub-array, then each of those 3x3 squares now captures a locally incident light ray and its direction (with low resolution). You can now treat that as a single
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That's true, but it might be mainly a cost issue. You can make up for the resolution loss by using a much larger sensor; since the microlenses are very thin, it won't increase the weight or bulk of the device very much. Just the c

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