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by manarth 10y ago
Korbin’s Chinese housemate, Oscar, spent several thousand dollars on a laptop so powerful that it blew out the fuses in their host family’s house. I was fairly engrossed in the story, until that sentence. The jarring hyperbole o
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by manarth 10y ago
I think we had the same issue in the UK, when uber drivers wanted to be classified as full time workers. Yep, the drivers won that tribunal in 2016 [1]. Courier company City Sprint also lost a case this year, where the judge descr
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by manarth 10y ago
I ended up using dev-tools to delete all the gifs. I can live with play-once-then-stop, but the continual repeated movement was distracting.
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by manarth 10y ago
The NASA article [1] gives a little more background, and offers another explanation: Bailey found Scott’s telomeres on the ends of chromosomes in his white blood cells increased in length while in space. This could be linked to i
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by manarth 10y ago
The time dilation from a year on the ISS would only be around 0.014 seconds [1][2], so sadly it's not the fountain of youth just yet. [1] http://ideonexus.com/2009/02/17/how-much-does-time-dilate-fo... [
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by manarth 10y ago
they refreshed the Macbook product line for the first time in years. That should have resulted in a big infusion of growth. You are right, refreshing a popular line should (generally) inevitably result in an infusion of growth. Wh
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by manarth 10y ago
Well, USB-C is specifically specced to accommodate displays over USB. A similar argument might be said about "displays over display-port" or "displays over VGA". If you "wouldn't wish this on anyone" , wo
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by manarth 10y ago
if the purpose of a license is to verify that a particular person or business entity has satisfied some regulatory requirements That's not always the purpose of a license. In some instances, the license is to regulate access
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by manarth 10y ago
A license shouldn't be sold. I cannot sell my driving license. There are different types of licenses. The driver is still licensed: e.g. in NYC they need a "New York State DMV Chauffeurs License" and they can then
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by manarth 10y ago
"Often, the moderators are workers in developing countries, like the Philippines or India" It looks like those two countries do have a legal minimum wage [1], although it's pretty low - $0.28 for India, $0.61 for the
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by manarth 10y ago
CO2 poisoning is insidious, and can go unrecognised, due to its cognitive effects. It's a known risk in using rebreathers when scuba diving. The UK HSE has published a video of a real-life incident where someone experiences CO2 toxicit
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by manarth 10y ago
A CO monitor will set you back $235. $235 sounds (relatively) expensive. I recently replaced the 3 CO alarms in my flat - they cost me around £23 (29 USD) each [1]. [1] http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Electrical
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by manarth 10y ago
the really pricey trashcan Mac Whose last update was 10 months older than the mac mini's.
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by manarth 10y ago
I've had a few versions of a mac mini over the last 6 years or so…they've all had fans, although the fans only kicked in when it was under load. For most routine stuff, it's pretty quiet.
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by manarth 10y ago
According to the Lifehacker article on building a Hackintosh, the process is a lot less fiddly than it used to be, and a lot more hardware is now supported. Other guides suggest that the NUC is mostly supported, bar a few issues (e.g. on-bo
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by manarth 10y ago
every business will keep at least 1-2 employees per location, mostly to handle extreme edge cases like flooding, cars being driven into the building, or hostage situations. I wonder how many McDonalds has experienced a flood, a
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by manarth 10y ago
The article's date says 1 February 2016, but the slug is even earlier, dated July 2015. It popped up on HN back then, too.
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by manarth 10y ago
And in 2015 (although that source article has since disappeared): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987816
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by manarth 10y ago
Deja-vu. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303544
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by manarth 10y ago
I don't remember any truly spurious accusations against him. The only one I can think of is the MLK story. In 2009, Obama removed a bust of Winston Churchill (lent by the UK to George W Bush after the 9/11 attack) from the
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by manarth 10y ago
a brisk trade in AK-47's would develop Sure, popular gun, available in large numbers (outside most western countries). How long would it take for them to become commonplace in western countries/Europe? Hypothetically imagi
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by manarth 10y ago
I can't see weapon tech falling much below the 1850s. I can imagine short-term or more localised effects. The USA could be viewed as an outlier, given the amount of gun-ownership: 22% of the population (and as some people own m
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by manarth 10y ago
If house calls aren't going to be brought back, the best I can think of is to allow consulting over the phone. My local (UK) GP does do this, although I'm not sure how widespread this is. The times I've had a GP con
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by manarth 10y ago
Good grief, I can see why a bizarre incident like that would stick in your mind. That said, I can relate a story where I was ordering takeaway on a Friday evening in (the UK city) Bristol, when one of the customers started weeing where they
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by manarth 10y ago
I find it very hard to believe you could experience much of the city without the smell of urine at least a few times. To be fair, there are parts of all cities that I expect to smell of urine: there's something about stairw
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by manarth 10y ago
How can you actually think you are qualified to have an opinion here after visiting part of a city one time? Well, you know what they say: "Opinions are like assholes. Everybody's got one and everyone thinks everyone el
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by manarth 10y ago
I visited SF a tourist just over a year ago, and I didn't experience any of the issues being described. Sure, in places, there were homeless people sitting in doorways, and some of them asked whether I could spare any change - much lik
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by manarth 10y ago
It's interesting to see such a different perspective: my 2-bed apartment is 645sqft. It seems the average house in the USA is over twice the size of the average house in the UK [1], and is significantly larger than many countries. [1]
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by manarth 10y ago
Ebola didn't cause an epidemic in any moderately developed country despite being one of the easiest diseases to transmit? Ebola isn't airborne, and an infected person isn't contagious until they start to present sym
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by manarth 10y ago
Now, if you use up all your current supply, what do you do next time you get sick? By the time you know you need an antibiotic How do you know you need an antibiotic? Even doctors are discouraged from self-prescribing, so withou

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