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by lysace 5mo ago
On the other hand the US often relies on relatively crude chlorination to reach those levels, which those 'top' European countries don't. They instead put a strong emphasis on protecting the source water and then treating it
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by lysace 5mo ago
The Chinese government has spent 18 years and an unknown amount of funds trying to compete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac They have delivered 185 aircraft to domestic airlines. Maybe Africa is next? Note that the
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by lysace 5mo ago
Cool splashdown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiWX1nsvqBs&t=173s
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by lysace 5mo ago
I always wondered what the division of pro-MS astroturfing was betweeen: a) Waggener Edstrom (now: WE Communications) or similar b) Microsoft employees c) Third-party Microsoft-only developers/IT people (with an obvious vested financia
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Just five years ago this opinion was heresy on HN. Those of us who still remembered their behavior in the 80s/90s were belittled. "They have changed, gramps. This really smart Satya Nadella is CEO. They are the good guys now. Don&
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by lysace 5mo ago
Ignorant eyeballs are also eyeballs. One might argue - sometimes even more profitable eyeballs. Silicon Valley built this machine. Many tens of thousands of software engineers worked on this.
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by lysace 5mo ago
They have really invested focus in creating mass market content lately - like, actually having someone spend some time creating the text on this page. Didn't really see that earlier. And a number of long form videos (like "Test Li
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by lysace 5mo ago
My professional career: Year 0-12: Coding lots, learning lots. Year 12-22: A product I built really took off. Now primarily building new stuff by talking to other engineers. Lots of product management/politics. Atrophying coding skills
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by lysace 5mo ago
There are some counter-examples of companies that have been publicly traded for a long-ish time and still aren't "terrible": Berkshire Hathaway, Novo Nordisk, ASML, TSMC, Saab, Atlas Copco, Texas Instruments. (Perhaps not tha
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by lysace 5mo ago
This part caught my interest: > each server (so called “shards”) ran on multiple Solaris machines (the map was split by regions). Found this 13 year old Quora commment (from https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-technology-s
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by lysace 5mo ago
The slow-branch problem, where the team avoided branching because it took five minutes to create one and an afternoon to merge it. I kind of "enjoyed" this aspect of CVS (for small teams, at least) since it strongly encouraged t
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by lysace 5mo ago
An extreme and related example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opticom_(company) Popular science kind of backgrounder (can't vouch for the accuracy/relevancy - details are very scarce): https://www.
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by lysace 5mo ago
Intel does these "throw spaghetti on the wall" kind of investments into potientially interesting companies/technologies all of the time - and have done so for decades. Every time the recipient hypes the shit out of it, of co
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by lysace 5mo ago
100% agreed. I think it's safe to say that good software UX is incompatible with the way German hardware companies are generally run. It's the same old story about how hardware companies can't do software UX, except extra amp
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by lysace 5mo ago
My old little home county/region in Sweden fell victim to a similar scam about 20 years ago. It also originated from China. Use browser based translation tools on https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/smaland&#x2F
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by lysace 5mo ago
Not sure that is applicable here. The practice — supported by artificial intelligence and known as dynamic pricing or surveillance pricing — can lead to two consumers paying different amounts for the same item from the same retailer, at ro
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by lysace 6mo ago
Good point. I'll add an edit.
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by lysace 6mo ago
Thanks!
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by lysace 6mo ago
So I really wanted to understand the different kinds of margins. Yes, this was made with the help of an AI, with lots of iterations to make it applicable to Apple and easily understandable. I attempted to verify the numbers manually fwiw. N
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by lysace 6mo ago
One of the few good outcomes: Mark Klein never faced a lawsuit or criminal charges from the government, AT&T or the justice system in general for his disclosure.
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by lysace 6mo ago
Is there some string to recursively grep for to know if you have been infected?
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by lysace 6mo ago
That's also quite incorrect. You're missing a lot of countries, like Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, etc. etc.
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by lysace 6mo ago
The single visible data point is interesting, as an illustration Seriously…
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by lysace 6mo ago
Key words: can be Longer time series are indeed composed of many samples/anecdotes.
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by lysace 6mo ago
Anecdotes like that with a 1 year horizon.. that's what we call weather. A 1,200 year time series.. that's definitely in the climate area.
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by lysace 6mo ago
So it's a reformatted version of: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/date-of-the-peak-cherry-t...
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They just lost the Claude lottery, that’s all.
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Lots of odd assumptions there. As an example: I was out on the streets protesting the 2003 GWB Iraq invasion war. It was mostly obvious before the invasion that the cause was bogus. It was later proven to be bogus. And you seem to have this
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by lysace 6mo ago
There are two perspectives here: Americans like you (I rudely assume) care more about US domestic policies than I do. Foreigners like me care more about global stability compared to US domestic policies.
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As a European center/moderate kind of person I agree with the US POTUS about this one thing: Iran can not be allowed to build nuclear weapons. I personally don’t buy the line of thought that Iran has no such ambitions; YMMV. Whether t

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