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by legulere 5y ago
I wonder if you could use alignment of multiple samples for better vectorizing of letters of old books. You could create very nice vector only pdfs.
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by legulere 5y ago
I would take a mini at the price point of the SE. At the current price it's simply too costly.
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by legulere 5y ago
Why would you put such a low prediction on that website when you can predict a percentage in the range of [41%, 59%] and have guaranteed points?
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by legulere 5y ago
It’s a study wether vitamin D prevents cancer and cardiovascular diseases: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01169259 The results are negative: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30415629/
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by legulere 5y ago
> VITAL is a […] study […], conducted to investigate whether taking daily dietary supplements of vitamin D3 (2000 IU) or omega-3 fatty acids (Omacor fish oil, 1 gram) could reduce the risk for developing cancer, heart disease, and stroke
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by legulere 5y ago
There’s a strong evidence base for correlation, the base for causation is much worse. Only few things like bone health in the elderly have been shown to be improved by supplementation.
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by legulere 5y ago
Does Israel even use the oral vaccine? As far as I know all countries that have the basic infrastructure that is needed for the injection one, use that one.
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by legulere 5y ago
A huge chunk of costs for nuclear is construction, which greatly suffers from Baumol’s cost disease. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
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by legulere 5y ago
A much better explanation why fossil fuels are getting more expensive is that the EROI factor is getting smaller and smaller as fossil fuels get harder and harder to extract: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_
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by legulere 5y ago
That discussion about the truth is already older and is just arriving in mainstream media. I first stumbled upon it at the chaos communication congress in 2007: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan
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by legulere 5y ago
Maybe potential top performers are unhappy because of how the company prevents them from performing?
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by legulere 5y ago
If you have good enough engineers and manpower for distributed systems, you can also optimize your systems enough to fit again, if you are not a billion dollar company. Distributed systems are exciting and interesting, but currently not wor
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by legulere 5y ago
The way it looks people in China won't.
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by legulere 5y ago
Why is that article still a preprint?
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by legulere 5y ago
There’s increasing support for UTF-8 as an ansi codepage on Windows. And UTF-8 support is also part of the modernization of the terminal: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-l...
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by legulere 5y ago
The taxes are also supposed to finance infrastructure, but they are too low even for that.
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by legulere 5y ago
Same issue on OS X
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by legulere 5y ago
It’s not. With RSS you are in charge, as you select exactly which feeds you subscribe to and see everything from those feeds. Facebook hides posts from things you subscribed to and shows you stuff you didn’t subscribe to, to keep you hooked
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by legulere 5y ago
Baumoll’s cost disease doesn’t explain though why some things like healthcare or education rise more in price than wages.
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by legulere 5y ago
Here in Germany they add Butanone, which evaporates at very similar temperatures as ethanol so it’s very difficult to purify the ethanol even with a lab setup.
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by legulere 5y ago
The problem is that there usually follows the question of who should have less children. And often the poor are seen as the problem, even though it's us rich people that emit more than we should. Famous people that are saying that the
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by legulere 5y ago
My hope is that phage therapy can solve the issue of drug-resistant bacteria. Also we really need to get our things together and work against misuse of antibiotics.
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by legulere 5y ago
NGINX does exactly that (after finding the space character after the verb): https://github.com/nginx/nginx/blob/7587778a33bea0ce6f203a8c... There are several points to note: This trick only works if the archi
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by legulere 5y ago
With time it turned out the main use of cryptocurrencies (apart from speculation) is for illegal transactions, as they don’t normally manage to compete with legal transactions, but provide a way to avoid law enforcement while staying pseu
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by legulere 5y ago
If you have a stake in cryptocurrencies, you share part of the responsibility to make this possible.
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by legulere 5y ago
In Germany we had something similar called BTX that included online banking in 1981: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/28/business/high-technology-...
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EDF announces new delay and higher costs for Flamanville 3 reactor(reuters.com)
2 points by legulere 5y ago|0 comments
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by legulere 5y ago
Depends on the market. You are probably talking about Northern America, with cheap fracking gas which is slowly coming to an end.
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by legulere 5y ago
You could also construct the argument the other way around: Demand is highest during the day and nuclear is struggling to follow the demand. It’s also not weather-independent. When the water temperature is too hot the power stations have to
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by legulere 5y ago
But that’s a false dichotomy. Renewables are already good enough and are still getting better.

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