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by lrem 6y ago
Because the alternative to the nuclear plants that have shut down has reliably been ramping up fossil fuels. Note that nuclear has the longest of power up/down cycles, so it's mostly practical for providing the base load. I.e. you
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by lrem 6y ago
Recommending you a video you don't want to watch is a wasted opportunity. If you don't want to watch it, you won't, so YouTube's earnings are zero. If something you do want to watch is recommended instead, you will, and
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by lrem 6y ago
Let me just quote what I originally responded to: > A 25% gain over a horizon of four years is not bad for your average investment -- but this isn't an average investment. > First, compared to the SP500, this underperforms over t
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by lrem 6y ago
But you don't buy a company for tens of billions ignoring anything that's not relevant today. You pay basing on what you predict the company will earn between today and liquidation. When Softbank originally bought ARM, no competit
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by lrem 6y ago
There's also a fundamental threat to ARM in the raise of RISC-V.
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by lrem 6y ago
When you look at that map, you'll see the main cities being covered, but only them. Even rural Romania is mostly covered, while Germany is almost as blank as Bosnia.
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by lrem 6y ago
Amazon does not have a shop in three out of the four European countries I lived in, including the current one. Edit: technically, it operates in two of them, having both some warehouses and R&D offices, but does not have a storefront fo
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by lrem 6y ago
Switzerland does a lot of raising livestock near mountaintops and I think none of the cows in boxes factory farming. Prices of beef in shops seem to not exceed $100/kg, for most cuts hover around $50/kg ($22.5/pound). How doe
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by lrem 6y ago
I pay 1.5CHF per 35l trash bag ($1.65 per 9.2 gallons) and recycling does not accept plastic other than bottles. Still have no way to evade plastic packaging.
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by lrem 6y ago
Filtering that out is a solved engineering problem and you still remain energy positive.
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by lrem 6y ago
There are a couple European countries that burn all their waste. Sweden has been _importing_ waste to burn for a while. Switzerland is now retrieving various kinds of metals from the ashes. Ireland has installed an incinerator at a landmark
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by lrem 6y ago
Have it crossed your mind that maybe these people had the time and means to raise the kids, until a global pandemic has broken the plan a, the commercial plan b, the social plan c and the plan d? Because at the time the schools closed, the
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by lrem 6y ago
Yup, 60kIU from my understanding. And here I am wondering if the 2kIU I'm doing would have any effect...
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by lrem 6y ago
Can someone tell what is the equivalent dose of said calcifedol in regular D3? The article claims 0.532 mg have been used, which seems too large. From [1] I gather it's about 3x more potent, meaning we are talking about equivalent of 1
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by lrem 6y ago
Uh, why 1:3? European cars are generally about 4x lighter than European TIRs. If the proportions are similar in the US, you should be asking about 1:64 if the cube is right, or 1:256 if the fourth power is. Edit: also, there's the dura
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by lrem 6y ago
Do you have any alternative ideas on how to make this better?
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by lrem 6y ago
Let's try a thought experiment. There is a `Feedback` button on the bottom right, imagine that Google developers actually look at them. Let's assume some numbers: - Once every ten searches there is that "smart" box. - On
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by lrem 6y ago
Heh, sure. But Borg was not part of the stated question, just of the expected answer. It wasn't even close to being needed to meet the stated parameters (IIRC the whole data set would fit into a single SSD card, so one could even have
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by lrem 6y ago
Do you test new grads for their political skills? I don't.
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by lrem 6y ago
Back in the day when I interviewed for Google I had this beautiful question. The interviewer fished for a basic distributed key-value store. I just kept coming up with single machine solution to his numbers. "No, I really can have that
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by lrem 6y ago
This so much. I'm a senior SRE in Google. I've got myself a NAS to back up my photos. Guess how many weeks it has been before I got the first terabyte of stuff onto it... Wrong, I'm still procrastinating on it :(
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by lrem 6y ago
> in mice fed one of 25 diets ad libitum You got me for a moment.
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by lrem 6y ago
"Please install this extension" is one that springs to mind. Disclaimer: I work at Google, but unrelated to any of this.
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by lrem 6y ago
The response of various countries mostly follows pre-pandemic approach of the respective governments to science, public services and making hard decisions. Personally, the only major surprise here is the level of defending the stock market.
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by lrem 6y ago
Witcher 2 is a good introduction to the state of the world in 3. You can read the books (or watch the whole series after it concludes), play 2 and understand the geopolitics of 3. It is also short, has a good but nearly-linear story (there
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by lrem 6y ago
It does stray quite far from the books though. Especially the angle on infertility is hilarious. In books the infertility was a side effect of hormonal imbalance caused by the use of magic. Impossible to recover from for males, nearly impos
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by lrem 6y ago
What has happened in 2020 that was far fetched?
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by lrem 6y ago
What kind of a statistical bias would explain having 1 million Belariusian phone numbers claiming having voted for a candidate, that officially received around 0.5 million votes total?
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by lrem 6y ago
Seeing Google from the inside, I have way more trust in it than the general public. But I do use Firefox as my personal browser because I like what they're doing with the tech stack. Having everyone just slap their logo on Chromium sou
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by lrem 6y ago
Oh :( How would you upload the content to said elasticsearch instance?

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