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by legulere 4y ago
Even though I generally like the sentiment, replacing the cat-5 cable with a newer one should be a pretty fast task, and wired ethernet always is better than wireless.
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by legulere 4y ago
Those lost their polish identity though.
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by legulere 4y ago
How would they have destroyed civilizations without a trace (not even iron/steel being left) without eradicating most animal and plant species at the same time?
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by legulere 4y ago
Intermediaries are often just an easy way to get out of liability. It can happen to small companies that you don't know about or are powerless to your supplier's illegal practices. With big companies you know and have the power, w
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by legulere 4y ago
Yes, a banana has an effective radiation close to 0 because our bodies evolved to hold its level of potassium in homeostasis. Your body already has radioactive potassium in it. When you eat more potassium, the excess is excreted and the amo
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by legulere 4y ago
The intrinsic value of fiat money is that I can pay my taxes with it and avoid persecution by the state.
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by legulere 4y ago
A big percentage of mushrooms and game is still not fit for consumption today in Germany because of Chernobyl. So it's not just local. And even if, Germany is more densely populated than the Ukraine. The Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukr
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by legulere 4y ago
Nuclear was replaced by renewables in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_phase-out#/media... It would have made more sense though to first replace coal plants before shutting down nuclear plants.
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by legulere 4y ago
> the economic problems with nuclear are there because of political reasons. France gets ~75% of its power from nuclear, safely and economically. EDF, Areva have a long history of bailouts, buyouts and subsidies by the French government.
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by legulere 4y ago
The question is: What is a sane price for bitcoin? I would say $0.00.
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by legulere 4y ago
Good relations to the unions is one of the reasons for the success of German car brands.
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by legulere 4y ago
What when demand goes to 0, when people realize that bitcoins aren’t useful for anything legal?
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by legulere 4y ago
When you translate between UUIDs in binary and in text form and communicate with other code the binary UUIDs. The other code might expect the uuids in a different encoding.
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by legulere 4y ago
I think they are talking about the federal funds rate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate
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by legulere 4y ago
We have the same in Germany at 10 years. People still their loans fixed for 15, 20 or 30 years very commonly.
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by legulere 4y ago
Software engineers know that it's creating new software that is expensive, not copying it. Why not give copies away for free when you satisfied the need that led to the software being written? Even microsoft now understands that it mak
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by legulere 4y ago
> vegetable oils, which are a 20th century invention. I highly doubt that, my local open air museum has an oil mill from 1860 that was producing linseed oil: https://freilandmuseum.de/besuchen/orientieren-im-museum&#
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by legulere 4y ago
Hydroponics only makes sense for high price crops like salad or vegetables which make up only small amounts of agriculture. It’s way too expensive for the crops that provide most of the calories consumed by humans or animal feed: wheat, mai
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by legulere 4y ago
You recognize yourself that async working means more latency. Latency and throughput are often sitting on the opposite ends of a spectrum. With async you can have less interruptions for ICs and increase their throughput.
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by legulere 4y ago
All abstractions are leaky, some more, some less. Knowing what stands behind the abstraction is usually very helpful, even when most of the time using the abstraction you don't have to think about it.
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by legulere 4y ago
Having enough computing power to be able to write crappy software is an enormous productivity boost. Writing software with crappy performance is way easier than writing software with good performance and takes less time and less experienced
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by legulere 4y ago
The type of bug described for MySQL has a special name: time-of-check to time-of-use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-check_to_time-of-use
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by legulere 4y ago
Frying things even on induction still easily drives particulate matter pollution to levels of bad days in China/India.
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by legulere 4y ago
The soot they filter out of the air is very visible when you change the filters (they turn from shining white to grey). Air pollution is one of the world’s leading risk factors for death https://ourworldindata.org/air-pollut
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by legulere 4y ago
Retrospectives don't help when your problems are external and you do not have influence on them. If you get how much needs to be done and what needs to be done set fixed from outside the team cannot do much about it. And that what scru
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France’s Deepening Nuclear Crisis Means More Energy Pain for Europe(bloomberg.com)
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by legulere 4y ago
I kind of agree, but on the other hand we are so far along that we won’t be able to stop climate change but merely restrict it. So apart from restricting it we also need to adapt.
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by legulere 4y ago
Sadly the article talks about sun exposure being a confounder to vitamin D and positive health outcomes, but not about further confounders. If you are already sick you will go out less into the sun.
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by legulere 4y ago
If passive funds are not passive like for instance synthetic ETFs and you cannot beat the market then how are they making money?
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by legulere 4y ago
At least here in Germany rates are usually fixed for 10 to 30 years.

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