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by mdbug 15d ago
https://jeden.day A habit tracker that allows for more flexible goals than daily ones, such as N times per period.
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Show HN: Flipdot display with an AI chat that codes sandboxed animations for it(github.com)
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Show HN: jeden.day – a compact habit tracker with flexible schedules(jeden.day)
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by mdbug 3y ago
Extinguishing any fire with water is like saving the environment with nuclear energy. It might work, but if the fire turns out to be a metal or grease fire, you have a problem just like when the final waste repositories later turn out to be
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by mdbug 3y ago
> How did Germany evolve to be so anti-nuclear? Given the alternatives nuclear seems the way to go. Nuclear power is currently by far the most expensive way to generate electricity. And this despite the fact that the insurance sum for th
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by mdbug 3y ago
We did that indeed for decades and then it turned out that the site was unsuitable, because of water inflows, and now we have been planning since 2013 how to recover the barrels again. The beginning of the recovery is planned to start in 20
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by mdbug 3y ago
We tried to bury the waste deep underground in the 60s and 70s already. Let's say it didn't work out so well and now we are still planning how to retrieve it since the decision was made in 2013. We have not yet found a geologicall
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by mdbug 4y ago
You find "interesting" that someone just wants to report a security vulnerability without having to accept any conditions first? Funny, I find it interesting that they want to pay a bugbounty even though nobody asked for it. But I
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by mdbug 5y ago
"You can't make this stuff up." Well, ...
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by mdbug 5y ago
If they had taken the risks and incurred the costs of development themselves, of course. But they were massively subsidized. In that case, the state should either get a share of the profits or negotiate fair prices that exclude all too huge
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by mdbug 5y ago
The market is not normal because countries have invested massive sums of money into these companies without acquiring shares in return, so I just hope they have negotiated other terms to get the vaccines at fair prices.
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by mdbug 5y ago
Mainly sugar causes a secretion of insulin, as you seem to know. But you seem to assume that insulin or frequent high insulin levels cause insulin resistance. As far as I know, that's not the case. Insulin sensitivity can be affected b
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by mdbug 5y ago
Regarding sugar vs. fat: large amounts of saturated fats are known to be unhealthy. In small amounts, sugar can even be healthy, e.g. after exercise. One problem with taxes on addictive substances is that they have little effect on consumpt
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by mdbug 5y ago
The costs of the pandemic are one side. The other is the cost of developing and producing the vaccines. In a normal market situation, prices are determined by supply and demand. But that's really not such a situation here. The question
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by mdbug 5y ago
That's not true either. You can definitely develop type 2 diabetes without eating carbohydrates.
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by mdbug 5y ago
I agree with the concept, but not a tax on sugar. With sugar I could at most harm myself, not others. A tax on sugar but not on fat would be discrimination of one diet form or even lifestyle over another. I can offset a lot of sugar with a
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by mdbug 5y ago
Interestingly, the whole thing now seems to have turned into the opposite. sugar = bad, fat = good. But that is not true. Sugar is actually only problematic because it's a bit addictive and it's easy to eat a lot of it. The real p
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by mdbug 5y ago
This is a common misconception. Insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes is mostly caused by obesity. Sugar has a relatively high caloric density and can be addictive, leading to obesity. However, you can eat large amounts of sugar if you do
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by mdbug 5y ago
Sugar does not cause diabetes.
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by mdbug 5y ago
It is actually my best example, as it shows very clearly how much he is willing to say untrue things in favor of Tesla. Why should only mechanical engineering examples be valid?
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by mdbug 5y ago
Saying only positive things about a mediocre product makes him a shill.
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by mdbug 5y ago
> I've seen him say quite negative things about Tesla, and quite positive things about Tesla's competitors. What I've seen from him, he always shows a clear bias towards Tesla. > Can you give me an example of something
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by mdbug 5y ago
Sandy Munro, by now, is a Tesla shill who can't be taken seriously. Andrej works at Tesla and understandably says nothing bad about his boss. If I thought my boss was technically clueless and needed to say something nice about him, I w
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by mdbug 5y ago
Reusable rockets: https://youtu.be/JzXcTFfV3Ls
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by mdbug 5y ago
Reusable first stages are not an achievement. Reusable rockets were invented 30 years before SpaceX. Using such rockets as first stages is a questionable decision by SpaceX, which may be a means to an end if it can save costs.
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by mdbug 5y ago
Reusable rockets were developed by a private company 30 years before SpaceX.[1] Using such rockets as first stages is what SpaceX did first, I give them that. But it's more of a means to an end than an achievement. The savings so far a
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by mdbug 5y ago
You probably shouldn't have started the sentence with "No" then, but never mind. Let's hope that space travel will be safer in the future. Anyway, I really just wanted to point out that 50 years ago it was apparently pos
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by mdbug 5y ago
This does not contradict what I wrote.
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by mdbug 5y ago
I don't want to deny the successes at all. But everything SpaceX has achieved so far was possible before. I guess the statement that Starship is getting closer to its promise can be expressed that way, but it almost sounds like it&#x27
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by mdbug 5y ago
I don't know. You can probably figure that out on your own if you want to.

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