nhkssol

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What does a 95% chance of heavy rain at 14:00 mean?(morgans-site.neocities.org)
1 points by nhkssol 7y ago|0 comments
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by nhkssol 8y ago
> One big problem is that a lot of the popular books written about physics (especially those by famous physicists) are incredibly speculative and tend to present an unrealistic view of what the study of physics is all about. This is irri
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by nhkssol 8y ago
If you're interested in the modern risks of coronal mass injections, there's a report called "Solar Storm Risk to The North American Electrical Grid" [0] (2008) that summarizes the topic well. From page 4: "The tota
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by nhkssol 8y ago
Ironically this webpage's certificate is verified by "COMODO CA Limited". I suppose it takes time to inform browsers that "SECTIGO" certificates are safe.
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by nhkssol 8y ago
Then the dislikes were probably registered as bots by YouTube and removed for being fake even if they were actually legitimate. Botting dislikes on your competitors game announcements is probably common as a way to increase your own sales.
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by nhkssol 8y ago
They can take down the video and reupload it resetting the views, likes etc.
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Solar storm of 1859(en.wikipedia.org)
109 points by nhkssol 8y ago|45 comments
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by nhkssol 8y ago
> Video games weren’t simply an alternate form of media, but the most bankable form of entertainment. 20 years later, and video game sales surpassing movie box office profits is no longer news. Yet playing old video games is significantl
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by nhkssol 8y ago
HN isn't the place for self-reflection but if someone else or an article raises a topic that you have a discussion provoking opinion of, feel free to comment.
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by nhkssol 8y ago
Soft skills matter in more than just the workplace as everything we do requires communication. In short, people love talking. The more you talk, the less they talk and so the less they like you. Avoiding personal pronouns is good practice a
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by nhkssol 8y ago
The EFF improved on Reinhold's original Diceware wordlist which included unmemorable and short words such as "wq", "ll" and "zf" by replacing them with longer, actual words. The same technique still applie
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by nhkssol 8y ago
I fully understand that a single experience doesn't equate to a full study, but I've been using melatonin (as an adult) for 4 years without issue. What is an issue is when I forget and am still awake at 1am.
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by nhkssol 8y ago
Privacy is the right to chose who knows what about you, or in the modern world, who has your data and what they use it for. When large companies say they support user privacy, they're referring to preventing data breaches not preventin
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by nhkssol 8y ago
The series 1, 4, 6, 8, ? might be better applicable to general jobs as an assessment of a persons mathematical knowledge.
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by nhkssol 8y ago
Does the issue not stem from the human obsession to measure, record and categorize things? We aim to preserve the species that already exist because we can observe them, so when a species faces extinction we care more about that one observa
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by nhkssol 8y ago
Brooks' Law: "nine women can't make a baby in one month."
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by nhkssol 8y ago
Partially inspired by FairPhone (mentioned in the article), Luke Leighton designed the EOMA68 standard to create modular open-source computers. The project was fully funded on crowd supply [1] a couple years back and is currently testing a
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by nhkssol 8y ago
The author understates the issue by quoting a 2.5% average annual increase in rent since 1980. Far more relevant is the 10.9% average annual increase in property price [1] over the last six years. [1] > Median house price September 2012:
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by nhkssol 8y ago
Yes. My instinct is that it was a result of running Linux as it is likely the majority of spam requests come from Linux servers whereas the majority of legitimate requests come from Windows computers. It makes sense that anti-spam systems w
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Ecocomputing (2015)(rhombus-tech.net)
3 points by nhkssol 8y ago|0 comments
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Airline passengers still concerned about paying extra to sit together(caa.co.uk)
2 points by nhkssol 8y ago|1 comments
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by nhkssol 8y ago
It would be possible to handle the quantity of ad campaigns, but not without false positives or missed fraudulent ads. If you paid a person or a team of people to remove adverts promoting fake websites, the person reviewing the advert would
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by nhkssol 8y ago
I've looked into purchasing a face mask to filter pollution whilst commuting to and from work but I feel as though it's not social acceptable to obscure your face in public. Has anyone else had similar concerns?
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by nhkssol 8y ago
> Say a couple has $10 million in the bank. With $10,000,000, they consistently make $400,000 a year from investments managed by an investment banker. They pay 15% taxes on those gains. So they bring home $340,000 a year, without working
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by nhkssol 8y ago
Nothing in the article links energy drinks to PTSD. > High energy drink use, which was classified as consuming two or more drinks per day, was significantly associated with those survey respondents who reported mental health problems, an
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by nhkssol 8y ago
Bing makes it clear when a site is promoted by prepending "ad" to the search result. Other search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Google do the same. It is near impossible for Bing to manually review every advert so perhaps it woul