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by marshray 7y ago
Not overreacting: This is not the flu, current estimates are ~20% of cases require hospitalization. Where it has hit with full force, hospitals fill up and people drop dead in the streets. China has shut down big parts of their economy and
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by marshray 7y ago
Which is not any less ambiguous.
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by marshray 7y ago
Metals futures seem pretty responsive. E.g., https://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/HG_/W
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by marshray 7y ago
Thank you for linking that interesting article. > We performed a systematic review of both clinical and surrogate exposure data comparing N95 respirators and surgical masks for the prevention of transmissible acute respiratory infections
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by marshray 7y ago
The insidious thing about this virus is that people can be contagious for weeks before they notice symptoms.
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by marshray 7y ago
That's what makes this conversation interesting. People who are in the market for a $20K piece of test equipment are likely to be experts who are well equipped to evaluate the product's specifications.
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by marshray 7y ago
Most complex boards will have a few parts (like plastic connectors) selectively soldered on after reflow.
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by marshray 7y ago
If you have a way to run a server anonymously, then you could just use that instead of Tor.
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by marshray 7y ago
What would it take for a valid program to depend on this behavior? How weird would it look? How likely is it to arise in practice? I'm a believer in standards in general, but there's a time and place to move beyond them too.
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by marshray 7y ago
Emergency medical responder is an example of a role that requires both specialized training and the ability to carry heavy weights.
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by marshray 7y ago
I don't think anyone is claiming that "one square meter powers 400 homes". I think it's probably just the usual case of the scientists' actual claim getting garbled by pop-sci writing.
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by marshray 7y ago
But that's per square meter of membrane , that's huge! For comparison, the sun delivers about 1 KW per square meter (at Noon, in Arizona). Fig 11: https://www.newport.com/t/introduction-to-solar-radiation
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by marshray 7y ago
Or humans for that matter.
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by marshray 7y ago
There's no comparison in the degree, but Manning, Assange, and Snowden are perhaps recent examples of radical who argued that individuals should be able to read the raw source text used to justify the structure of society (not to menti
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by marshray 7y ago
These things are so fundamental that you don't see economists writing articles about them. Macroeconomics generally lumps those things under "productivity". Container ships were almost the poster child of globalization. Faxes
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by marshray 7y ago
The whole page appears as blank to me (Windows, Chrome, no addons, incognito mode). I suspect that actually reading the article is unnecessary at this point.
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by marshray 7y ago
What if you promote this service with a name that starts with "You" and ends with a word referencing one of the most dominant media of public record for over a half century?
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by marshray 7y ago
I tend to think statements like that say more about the knowledge and passions of the writer than about the laws of the universe. The fundamental point underlying the Nature article is that we don't actually know "the odds of life
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by marshray 7y ago
I would expect sys.exit() to be more efficient since it skips the final GC and calls to finalizers. Sys is always already imported, so 'import sys' amounts to a dict lookup. These are not the same semantically. It may or may not b
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by marshray 7y ago
If the language runtime supports threading, in the absence of explicit documentation, code that assumes single thread access is broken.
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by marshray 7y ago
Well if we can get a cable to the Moon, we could attach it to a crank at the North or South poles to generate electric power.
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by marshray 7y ago
Not sure what your point is. They're looking for exporters. If/when they find any, it seems likely they'll look closely at how the exporters obtained the products. This may or may not lead to the manufacturer.
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by marshray 7y ago
This is not about being friendly at lunch. Most jobs involve working with others. Due to the nature of 'work', it's not always easy. The ability to work together towards a shared goal even in the presence of pressures that wo
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by marshray 7y ago
It's entirely possible to disagree with someone without accusing them personally of being dishonest. This is not controversial. The circumstances of the discussion are not comparable in any way to interviewing a mass murderer about his
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by marshray 7y ago
Just some theories, but I suspect a lot of the enabling probably came from: A. The work on USB3 to allow more complex negotiation for power, voltage, etc. B. More experience with managing radio frequency interference as USB gets used in the
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by marshray 7y ago
What in this jar you ask? It's, uh, "reindeer" urine, yeah.
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by marshray 7y ago
"disingenuous" - Adjective. not candid or sincere ... Synonyms: dishonest deceitful underhand underhanded duplicitous double-dealing two-faced... You get the idea. ( https://www.bing.com/search?q=disingenuous )
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by marshray 7y ago
We're long past the days when you had to be paranoid and 'computer illiterate' to believe computing devices couldn't pick up speech. For a decade or more vendors have been shipping voice recognition technology onto consu
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by marshray 7y ago
There's little evidence that he's some kind of financial genius and a lot to suggest the opposite. What we do know is that he inherited a very large sum of money, has a very long public record of losses and bankruptcies, and overi
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by marshray 7y ago
Seems consistent with the usual pattern of an incompetent executive letting political operatives run the show. Except this generation of political operatives grew up believing the misinformation spread by the previous ones. Consequently, th

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