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by kumarvvr 5y ago
I own a smart TV. I am very well aware of the data and privacy issues. However, my wife and kid love it. The main reason, as pointed above, is extreme convenience and user experience. Sit on the sofa, grab the remote, shout out a programm
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
True. And a huge portion of that population has never seen real Taliban rule. Other nations can support their civil war for another decade easily.
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Read the article. As per the opinion of the author, the Afghanistanis have no permanent affiliation. There is no ideological or ethical adherence to a particular side. Sure, the top leaders might be so, but ground level fighters consider it
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
It is true, in the sense that white men were the class that was privileged enough to have the free time to walk and think. Not all, but those who did were predominantly white.
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Ultimately, charging current through each battery is what matters. Too high and you will reduce life of the battery. Best case scenario is to slow charge over a long time to increase battery life. How those 800 v translate into voltage and
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
For large enterprises, that use AWS / GCE / Azure, these improvements directly translate into huge savings in server capacity. I have always loved .NET and it keeps getting better and better. They have shown remarkable flexibility
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
True. We are essentially searching for civilizations that have no other forms of energy (from a star) and have to rely on Dyson spheres for their energy. We are excluding all those civilizations that have successfully used a combination of
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
The main rotor hit his head -> Because it suffered a material/design/ structural failure -> Because design validation or material quality checks or weld quality NDT checks or bolt sizing or balancing or lateral vibration sup
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Don't you think there will be others who will think "he was killed because of X Y Z, I can do better" ?
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
> That's a mighty odd description that has nothing to do with the incident Being a high school drop-out is the reason he was killed. If he had been to a 4 year course in Mechanical engineering, he would be exposed to a lot of knowle
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Agree so much. There is a huge gap in availability of quality components in India. Very difficult to get and even if we get, very costly. But I guess it is time for us to have stores like the ones in US, large hardware stores.
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Was he smart? I give credit to him that he is intelligent, dedicated, hard working, etc. But smart? If he was smart, he would know that a helicopter is one of the most complex flying machines ever designed. Everything is so critical, from d
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
I always wondered, why XML is not used by developers. I use it for my programs. The combination of attributes and data within nodes, to me, has been very useful.
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Actually, that works in favour of this method here, provided certain conditions are met. Aluminium takes a big juicy bunch of electricity. Its very energy intensive. But, if we can extract a good portion of that aluminium energy as hydrogen
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-... The article is from 2015 ---------------------------------------------------------- https://history.aip.org/climate/co2.htm Scientis
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
An awesome explanation. I guess then, for machine learning to succeed in natural language interpretation, we ought to have another layer of abstraction that learns meanings from contexts and the general situation. Extending on your idea, I
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Well, trees have lifespans that are counted in decades, so they should offer a good buffer for humanity until we sort our energy source issues. And, if you have programs that are like rolling tree planting systems, then you can build a pret
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
The planet may not care about fariness, but developed countries can do. As a compensation for years of above average pollution, let them spend some decades in negative pollution (removing carbon from the atmosphere) to offset for all the su
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
>China and soon India are the two countries that make me feel hopeless about controlling CO2 A helpful guide to assuage your apprehensions https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/india/ https://cl
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
This is what corporations have done to the society at large. They raped the idea of critical thought. When you see large corporations putting money into something, it is 100% a for profit venture. Capitalism has taught them so. No, the worl
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
>This is the problem I have with people who claim to care about the catastrophic impact of climate change. It's more about claiming moral victory over western countries than it is about actually working to reduce the CO2 in the envi
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
>The notion that humanity would go extinct from any of this is absolutely unrealistic Why not? With the current societal focus on materialism and luxury, perpetuation of greed and glorification of power, climate need not do much. Wipe ou
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
It is time that the people of earth build a consensus and prepare for stagnant growth. It is clear that the ever present pressure of capitalism to show "growth YoY" is a major cause of pollution. The incentives are wrong. Sustaina
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
> The only countries that are growing their carbon emissions are developing countries; mainly China, India and Russia Developed nations have polluted the planet for decades, with highest rates of energy consumption per capita. They have
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
To me, ORM code is better than raw SQL. But, a lot many applications can be developed without really knowing the depths of SQL with help of the ORM itself.
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
> 99% of their SQL databases probably don't require transactions and ACID behavior. Until they do. Developer mind share for the data storage aspect of their applications is much simplified due to ACID. Just look at the documentation
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
The closest that many have come to is to develop ORM libraries. LINQ + EntityFramework Core is my favorite.
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Wouldn't splitting an HTML file into a list of linked files speed up the download process? Instead of one large blob, a number of smaller files can be downloaded in parallel.
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Greed. Its always greed.
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Amazing report. Some notes 1. Report is written by an internal committee of Credit Suisse 2. Archegos started as Tiger Asia, got caught doing insider trading, settled with US SEC in 2012. Then re-branded itself as Archegos, operating from H

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