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by mtw 8y ago
It's also possible that amidst the trade war China vs US, a few people in the US fed a business-oriented outlet about Chinese spying. You can add micro chips in a few Supermicro servers and Bloomberg journalists would eat the story lik
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by mtw 8y ago
In the same manner that in a conventional ECG, 10 electrodes are used while this only requires you to put your finger on the crown. The data is less accurate but apparently good enough to detect 98% of AFib cases.
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by mtw 8y ago
For your own sake, follow a diet of attention-seeking material, such as hacker News, Reddit, Facebook, email, video games. Delete all apps on your phone. With the time saved, exercise. Running is a good option. Or if you can't , go on
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by mtw 8y ago
> the freedoms the United States guarantees I might be wrong, but I thought you didn't have any rights or freedoms at the border?
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by mtw 8y ago
> found a physio who taught me how to strengthen my core, now I'm at the gym 2x a week and loving it Most other patients demand quick and effective pain relief. When most doctors operate within a system that promotes total customer
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by mtw 8y ago
Also everyone drives, even to fetch milk from nearest convenience store. It's too easy not to have any exercise all day
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by mtw 8y ago
With deep learning and techniques such as text and image generation, as well as the existence of motivated and well-funded state or corporate organizations, I fear the age of social media as social manipulation is just the beginning.
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by mtw 8y ago
Everyone's moved to WhatsApp and IG these days. If you know asians, WeChat is also very strong. People are just moving on.
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by mtw 8y ago
I don't know, you can build a racing drone for $200 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MwKdHZ8OlM these go at 100mph and can change directions multiple times in one second.
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by mtw 8y ago
Most of these can be countered by having hundreds if not thousands of cheap, fast and autonomous drones launching grenades from high or very low altitude. The swarm can loose a couple because of a fishing net or anti-air flak, but they can
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by mtw 8y ago
> Not to mention the hassles of the American healthcare system, doctors, lawyers, bills, and enough paperwork to fill a small office building. For reference, each new case costs the Canadian healthcare system $1m CAD.
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by mtw 8y ago
In the same wikipedia article >A history of asbestos exposure at work is reported in about 70 percent to 80 percent of all cases. This means in 20 to 30 percent of all cases, health effects occur in subjects who do not have periodic expo
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by mtw 8y ago
One of the design constraint comes from the size of batteries. This is the battery for a Toyota Camry hybrid, a car with very limited electric range : https://images.hgmsites.net/med/toyota-camry-hybrid-battery-... Ima
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by mtw 8y ago
They should just move to a much smaller bank. To Bank of America, he's just a number, they don't care about him. A much smaller bank would value his business and would take time to discuss with him before shutting down.
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by mtw 8y ago
Going to Mars is the same idea of leaving the Rift Valley and leaving humanity's roots to see elsewhere. It's the same idea of going into a boat west and then realizing there's a continent West of Europe. It's the same d
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by mtw 8y ago
Is it just me or the card animation has rendering issues when scrolling? Using latest MacBook Pro 15"
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by mtw 8y ago
Cheap buses from China ? Wait until Trump puts tariffs into those!
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by mtw 8y ago
Not recent, but last time I bought a new MacBook Pro, it was $1800. Now starting price is $2400. Is there similar inflation for other laptop manufacturers or it's just Apple?
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by mtw 8y ago
History has a consequence to current activity. Take China. They had to open their borders in 19th century and then saw the British flood the market with opium and thus making millions of addicted chinese. Years of shame that all Chinese sti
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by mtw 8y ago
It sounds like you have good programming experience and can write decent English. I would look for remote work with a North American or European startup, send them your GitHub account and recent work. That would be better than trying to fin
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by mtw 8y ago
Is it me or there's been recently China articles with a negative bias recently on hacker news?
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by mtw 8y ago
Isn't there a lot of desert land in the US as well? and easier access than going all the way to Northern Africa
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by mtw 8y ago
This is just wrong. If the cost of food doubles, then price of eating merely increases by small amount ?? Where did you get that fact? Any studies??
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by mtw 8y ago
The are subsidies everywhere. The US government subsidized the oil industry for dozens of years, same for agricultural sector and major sectors of the economy (See Great Depression). Currently, electrical vehicles are also receive subsidies
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by mtw 8y ago
Macbook pro (if you can find one without keyboard issues) I also use an old Thinkpad 11.6" inch - it runs Ubuntu. I put it on a self-driving RC car and it won't die. Generally recommend Thinkpads. I also have an HP Spectre x360 13
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by mtw 8y ago
If these were true, how would a company protect against such attacks? Esp. family members or vulnerable employees
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by mtw 8y ago
I didn't get how the parties knows about new incoming messages. The app has a wallet that watches the blockchain for new transactions involving the user? What if the app is turned off? Or you guys have a central server that watches the
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by mtw 8y ago
Take this study with a grain of salt. Shanghai is an extremely competitive and expensive city. There is a lot of social pressure to work hard, or at least pay for overpriced rent. If the employees were authorized to work from home, they can
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by mtw 8y ago
I'm still wondering why there should be an economic, political or commercial conflict between China and the rest of the world esp. US. Such conflicts are wasteful with when we all should work together on common goals - space exploratio
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by mtw 8y ago
"difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility" - hey I can get a robot with vision cameras and a couple of LIDARs to go from point A to B. Better than your one year old

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