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by keanzu 7y ago
That's a technological advance and not a policy change. WeChat didn't exist prior to 2011 and Xi Jinping rose to power in 2012.
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> Authoritarians are particularly good at getting people to take the blame. Everyone is guilty of something, you can get people to take the blame for things they didn't do even in a democracy. "Most of the defendants were persu
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by keanzu 7y ago
BBC: Bill Gates 'not buying our hydrogen yacht' https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51446663
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by keanzu 7y ago
Was just about to say that it doesn't work well with large lists of words because at some point the gaps between words are small enough there's a path right through the entire set which causes them to be "clustered".
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Analysis and projections of transmission dynamics of nCoV in Wuhan: 07 Feb, 2020(cmmid.github.io)
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by keanzu 7y ago
Seems like a good way to promote the app specifically and McDonald's in general. I wonder what the ROI on something like this is vs a more traditional marketing campaign.
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by keanzu 7y ago
Flawed by design! "Apparently, all these years HiSilicon was unwilling or incapable to provide adequate security fixes for [the] same backdoor which, by the way, was implemented intentionally," Yarmak remarked.
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by keanzu 7y ago
I was mislead by the title. "unknown genes" would have clued me in but I interpreted "no recognizable genes" completely differently.
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"We are going to litigate every single patent suit to the fullest extent possible including appealing any adverse decisions all the way to the Supreme Court."
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by keanzu 7y ago
> past the distance where transmitting electrical power is feasible A 1,100 kV link in China was completed in 2019 over a distance of 3,300 km with a power of 12 GW. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_
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by keanzu 7y ago
Banqiao Hydroelectric Dam, China, was breached Aug. 8 1975 killing more than 85,000 people that day. A study conducted by eight Chinese water science experts who probably had access to censored government reports, estimated the number of to
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by keanzu 7y ago
> this decision What decision? This appears to be a Bloomberg opinion piece, I see not a single reference or statement from the Japanese government. "Another six reactors have made improvements to meet the new, post-3/11 quake
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by keanzu 7y ago
As of [Dec 9, 2019], there are nine reactors officially in operation. Another six reactors have made improvements to meet the new, post-3/11 quake safety standards and have received NRA approval to restart. What about the future for n
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by keanzu 7y ago
The world production of coal is dominated by the People’s Republic of China with 47.4% of global production. China also dominates the global consumption of coal with 51.6% of the world demand in 2017. http://energyatlas.iea.org&#
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by keanzu 7y ago
Odd way to measure it, starting from absolute zero. If we take extremely conservative numbers and say the current average temp is 0C and death is certain at 100C then we moved 1% closer. I suspect some krazy kooks might suggest that the Ear
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by keanzu 7y ago
> the Sun is what heats and cools the earth The Sun very obviously heats the Earth. However, in what will come as a complete shock to many, things can have multiple causes - particularly things which occur on a planetary scale. The Sun i
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by keanzu 7y ago
> which is all from petroleum profits It is an investment fund which is heavily invested in the stock market (up to 60%). A lot of the money in the fund is investment profit. They've been investing for 30 years now.
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> won't help the average Joe much Exactly, it's only a 4% edge. That's going to take my marathon time all the way from DNF right down to the amazing pace of DNF. > difference between millions of dollars in winnings and
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by keanzu 7y ago
> World Rally Championship style Such an odd example to choose. World Rally Cars are built on production 1.6-litre four-cylinder cars, but feature turbochargers, anti-lag systems, four-wheel-drive, sequential gearboxes, aerodynamic parts
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by keanzu 7y ago
[Vaporfly] last about 150 miles for racing (important races) and further 400-600 miles for training. https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=8908413
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by keanzu 7y ago
We first chose to display only data points obtained after 20 or more epochs of training. Then, by slicing through the “loss” axis, we observed that larger learning rates led to better performance (perplexity). You can reproduce this example
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by keanzu 7y ago
An arrest is the act of apprehending a person and taking them into custody, usually because they have been suspected of committing a crime. They are not criminals until they have been found guilty of committing a crime by a court of law.
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by keanzu 7y ago
The 2010s oil glut is a considerable surplus of crude oil that started in 2014–2015 and accelerated in 2016, with multiple causes. U.S. oil production nearly doubled from 2008 levels, due to substantial improvements in shale "fracking
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by keanzu 7y ago
There's a 'overheated discussion detector' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16020089 A good rule of thumb for this effect is when the number of comments on a submission exceeds its score.
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> the banning of funerals Banning of large public gatherings of people potentially exposed to the virus. Sounds like a reasonable precaution.
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> what should I be doing about it? There is currently no vaccine to prevent 2019-nCoV infection. The best way to prevent infection is to avoid being exposed to this virus. However, as a reminder, CDC always recommends everyday preventive
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> its infectious rate Do you have numbers or a source for that?
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"around 11% of people severely ill" Many of the infected are not "severely ill".
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National mortality rate is 2.1% of confirmed cases. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-... What would you consider a high mortality rate? 2% lethality in healthy patients is significant and it
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Studies from patients who died from SARS coronavirus showed the virus caused damage to not only the lungs, but also other organs in the body. Early research suggests the Wuhan coronavirus can also damage other organs, including the kidneys.

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