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by legulere 6y ago
From the Wikipedia article you reference: > Criticism > Several sources point out that the banana equivalent dose is a flawed concept because consuming a banana does not increase one's exposure to radioactive potassium.[11][12][
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by legulere 6y ago
Zero emission vehicles still pollute with their tires.
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by legulere 6y ago
Chip supply is inelastic. Paying more still doesn’t increase production capacities.
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by legulere 6y ago
Lowest homicide rate in a US State is 1.5 in Maine, average is 5. Germany has 0.9 on average. In general poverty (which is more common in the US) leads to violence and other crimes. Bringing weapons into conflicts usually escalated them and
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by legulere 6y ago
It’s not so surprising considering Unicode is about text, not about symbols.
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by legulere 6y ago
> A government can scream and shout but they cannot block a bitcoin transaction. Blacklisting bitcoins gained from mined blocks containing blacklisted addresses would easily do that. Probably processing transactions from those addresses
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by legulere 6y ago
Physical activity helps the body regulate appetite though.
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by legulere 6y ago
You wouldn’t want it to be reflective in infrared though, so it can emit heat well into space.
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by legulere 6y ago
Like how elephants were greatly reduced in numbers to make billiard balls?
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by legulere 6y ago
The felt sensation of temperature depends not only on the temperature but also on thermal conductivity. With a low conductivity you feel less of a temperature difference to your body temperature. Most stuff in your apartment should have th
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by legulere 6y ago
Or they just continue blocking UDP and browsers fall back to http1/2
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by legulere 6y ago
C# is a better Java and nowadays is cross platform and open source.
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by legulere 6y ago
The mainly peaceful protests were calling for federal laws being changed, as the only reason the law is invalid is that there already is a laxer federal law about it.
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by legulere 6y ago
It's the other way around. First there was personal debt, then impersonal money. In the beginning you would just lend stuff from other people and give it back, or with consumables give something back of similar worth. Precious metal wa
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by legulere 6y ago
Very likely much less "work" would need to be done. There are a lot of bullshit jobs that are not productive and are just making people feel bad.
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by legulere 6y ago
What I find an interesting is command interfaces in GUI applications. For instance ctrl + shift + p / cmd + shift + p menu of visual studio code or the new windows terminal, or the commands in slack. A GUI gives way more options for di
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by legulere 6y ago
Big Data, Big AI, what's next? Big Bullshit?
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by legulere 6y ago
Our economic system is totalitarian as it is based on the increasing extraction of resources without any regard of the externalities.
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by legulere 6y ago
It’s also subject to laws.
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by legulere 6y ago
> Up front analysis is not the problem It depends, the idea of working in short sprints with deliverables at the end of it is that often you do not know what you need and the best way of finding out is by trying out and talking to the cu
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by legulere 6y ago
A lot of things have entirely historic reasons, that don’t apply anymore.
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by legulere 6y ago
Microshift is Taiwanese, not Chinese. Which also makes sense because the great majority of bicycle components are manufactured in Taiwan (also including Shimano components). There are also some other high end companies like Rohloff and Pini
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by legulere 6y ago
All trailing bytes and only trailing bytes are of the form 10xxxxxx. If you read such a byte you just have to iterate backwards until you find a non-trailing byte.
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by legulere 6y ago
* if llvm does not optimize them out
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by legulere 6y ago
There’s a lot of long term sickness that is skewing the average. For instance cancer or a herniated disk can keep you from working for pretty long. The source of the 18.4 days has a lot of further information, albeit in German: https:&#x2F
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by legulere 6y ago
As a hired developer you usually get 30 days of holidays + 12 days (which is a bit more than 8 weeks). The year has 52 or 53 weeks, so you end at around 44 weeks instead of 48 weeks. That’s 123K€ per year. Then you have to still subtract th
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by legulere 6y ago
Child rape is a form of violence. You think we should tolerate sentences like the following? Richard Stallman: “I am sceptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children.”
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by legulere 6y ago
You cannot take one sentence by Stallman and ignore all the rest, Stallman has a year long history of trivializing child rape. This is not about one sentence discussing the age of consent (which in my opinion has little place in a discussio
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by legulere 6y ago
I am very aware of the various things RMS said like the following: “I am sceptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children.” https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/09/13/free-software-icon-rich...
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by legulere 6y ago
Please read his email again and think about if what you said is really true. It’s quoted in this article: https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/09/13/free-software-icon-rich...

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