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by jcfrei 5y ago
Some people also have a biphasic sleep pattern rather than a monophasic one. For them sleeping 6 hours at night and one in the afternoon might be better.
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Calling my explanation condescending seems exaggerated. The opposition against nuclear energy makes sense if Chernobyl is your reference in terms of safety. But modern reactor designs are a lot safer than Chernobyl and Fukushima. That'
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by jcfrei 5y ago
A big part of the problem are the green parties themselves. They were in many cases started as a youth movement against nuclear power in the 60s. The basis of these green parties consists of people who are ideologically opposed to nuclear e
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by jcfrei 5y ago
This seems to be a selection of links for bitcoin maximalists. Not an unbiased discussion about pros and cons for different blockchains.
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Here's how reddit's business model probably works: you have power users which create or submit the content and write the witty comments and then you have the lurkers which just browse. what reddit is trying to monetize is the inte
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by jcfrei 5y ago
https://www.cleanthinking.de/wp-content/uploads/Batterie-Gig...
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Even mild cases of Covid-19 can cause brain shrinkage(bloomberg.com)
5 points by jcfrei 5y ago|2 comments
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Bezos-Backed Fusion Startup Picks U.K. To Build First Plant(bloomberg.com)
2 points by jcfrei 5y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 5y ago
I keep reading that reading stuff on a paper or e-ink display is easier on the eyes than a monitor. Certainly makes sense if the comparison is to a CRT but compared to a standard LCD? Are there any medical studies that confirm this? As far
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by jcfrei 5y ago
I feel like a lot of those nostalgic posts are made by people who were simply happier when they were younger. And they conflate this general decline in happiness with a perceived decline in quality (of anything, be it the internet, televisi
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There’s a New Vision for Crypto, and It’s Wildly Different from Bitcoin(bloomberg.com)
3 points by jcfrei 5y ago|3 comments
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by jcfrei 5y ago
The European market is not a single market like the US - that's a big disadvantage when you're growing a company. It's a quasi-single market (and only for about 20 years at that). You still have to take lots of different nati
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by jcfrei 5y ago
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27378011
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by jcfrei 5y ago
LNG powered cars have been available for a long time. They never caught on (speaking from a Swiss perspective). Whatever the reasons may be: Less dynamic driving experience, not enough LNG gas stations, expensive to retrofit, no cool new ca
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Fiscal-Driven Inflation(lynalden.com)
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by jcfrei 5y ago
The problem is that there isn't enough investment despite the corporations having huge piles of cash. The billions in stock buy backs in the US are a testament to this. Your argument is valid in a world where savings are scarce but we
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Facebook should just pay users who enable / allow all the trackers. Something like a fraction of a cent each day on which it's enabled. Making users pay is certainly not gonna work and because there's no argument to be made w
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Value Creation from Uniswap V2(medium.com)
1 points by jcfrei 5y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Yup, or put a bit differently: Timing is (almost) everything. There's usually only a short window in time where successful new tech companies can be started (maybe 1-3 years). Too early and nobody cares / buys your product, too la
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Investigative report by Scorpion Capital about Quantumscape's Battery [pdf](scorpioncapital.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com)
1 points by jcfrei 5y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Google analytics is running on lots of pages. Would be pretty surprising if they didn't use the insights they get from there, such as time spent on the site, buttons clicked, how far they scrolled etc.
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by jcfrei 5y ago
I wonder if this is one of the reasons why they will switch to bigger rims in 2022. The explanation given was that the wheels would look more like those of road cars; making the cars more relatable to prospective car buyers I guess. Anyway,
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Swiss labor market is tiny, so not much capacity there. UK no longer in the EU so getting a job there is harder I think. US is across the pond, might be too far away for a lot of people. So I'd say the labor market is a lot less flexib
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by jcfrei 6y ago
You are being deliberately imprecise to make them seem equivalent. While some clubs are indeed corporations (with shares) they are mostly treated as associations, whose goal it is to advance the sport competitively, win the various competit
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by jcfrei 6y ago
No, the government doesn't own you. But the system which assigns property rights belongs to the government. If the government (meaning the public institutions) disappears so does your claim to your property and you will likely find you
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Now imagine a banking system where banks can go bust without savers (with just cash on their accounts) having to worry. The aftermath of the global financial crisis would have been quite a bit different: Fewer bankers getting a bailout and
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Mercedes-Benz Unveils Tesla Competitor EQS(techcrunch.com)
2 points by jcfrei 6y ago|4 comments
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by jcfrei 6y ago
They come to the US because it continues to be the largest free market in the world with a stable jurisdiction. That's the reason for the success of the American economy: Being the largest free-market economy with a stable jurisdiction
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by jcfrei 6y ago
I think the phrase "the de-facto standard for estimating the price of stock options" is just imprecise. It's the standard for generating the statistics like implied volatility, etc. But it's definitely not used to estima
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by jcfrei 6y ago
The stock drops.

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