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by obblekk 5y ago
I wonder if the reverse is also true, or if we're about to see white collar wages in the US get crushed. On the one hand, American workers now have the ability to work for more companies, including outside the US. On the other hand, th
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by obblekk 5y ago
If this paper is not fraudulent, this could be the tipping point against climate change. Gallium is cheap (~$300/kg), abundant (by product of Aluminum mining). This process runs at 200C and 1 Bar (=0.98 ATM). Temperature can be concent
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by obblekk 5y ago
This is very clearly laid out writing - props! Only suggestion is to add 1 more option for the town: pass the cost of excess road maintenance to the owner of the land where the road goes. At the end of the day, I don't particularly min
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by obblekk 5y ago
This only applies to “business” transactions and the labels are largely self reported. > Also, if you sell something at a loss; for instance, you purchased a bike for $400 and sold it for $300, the amount is not subject to the new law. T
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by obblekk 5y ago
I think Persianisation of India occured mostly due to conquest by Muslim leaders from Persian roots (see: https://www.historydiscussion.net/history-of-india/invasions... ). This is different than Hu Shih's point ab
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by obblekk 5y ago
Also worth considering that a 3-4yr old iPhone is quite usable without much noticeable lag (maybe just need to replace battery for $50). 3-4yr old androids have been, in my very anecdotal experience, completely unusable (software bugs that’
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by obblekk 5y ago
The map design itself is really beautiful. I wonder if there's a mobile app that lets me skin google maps in this kind of aesthetic?
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by obblekk 5y ago
1. Removing senescent cells extends life by 30-40% with huge quality of life improvements in the last 25% of the life (relative to control), in mice. This isn't an elimination of all aging, but quite a valuable thing regardless. Eventu
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by obblekk 5y ago
Deepfakes might not even be relevant soon.
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by obblekk 5y ago
*Technically*, this is very cool, impressive, and generally an elegant work of art. *Pragmatically*, I see 2 flaws in their thesis (as explained on the about page): >> "The entire network already consumes 10% of global electricit
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by obblekk 5y ago
FYI virtually all of the professions have elementary teacher within top 3 professions... probably over-represented in data set since it would be reported through government channels more often. No opinion on your main point though - you may
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by obblekk 5y ago
this is actually one of the few usecases for which a globally distributed blockchain makes sense. maybe host an html file on an ethereum smart contract with a very, very large trustfund that people can donate to? i'd guess the ethereum
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by obblekk 5y ago
Wouldn't this violate free speech laws? I'm all for regulation to disclose information, but regulation to prevent people from saying something is a bit more dicey. Even trademarks to an extent feel unfair (should you really be una
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by obblekk 5y ago
Are Apple Watch engineers doing better or worse than they would otherwise by being remote? Genuinely curious.
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by obblekk 5y ago
Interesting. I've owned macbooks since 2010 non stop and each one has last 4-5yrs, upgraded only because I wanted something faster (ending in M1 which is incredibly solid). You may be triggering some hardware failure vector given the f
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by obblekk 5y ago
I'll take an unpopular stance. This is the least bad way a backdoor scan could be implemented. At the very least, this makes retroactive scans of a newly banned content difficult without explicit deployment by Apple, and explicit softw
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by obblekk 5y ago
This quote sounds like a bit too similar to the political proposal… maybe a cherry picked quote but doesn’t seem like something most police would say without prompt.
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by obblekk 5y ago
We’re a 5 person startup with a small amount of angel funding. One of our engineering interns is from China and we really want to convert her to full time. What’s a good resource to learn about what that even requires, costs, and feasibilit
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by obblekk 5y ago
As a country so far from most of the world, it makes complete sense for the Australian government to subsidize development, and maybe even operation of super sonic flight. At least as long as virtual is not a better experience than physical
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by obblekk 5y ago
Someone should re-run this test with an airtag in the envelope to see where the delays are. I wonder if a few non-performing nodes are slowing down the whole system...
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by obblekk 6y ago
I wish this article reported the denominator. 25 out of how many doses administered? What is the baseline % of people who should have gotten thrombosis naturally in the last 3 months (since doses started being administered). Perhaps the ans
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by obblekk 6y ago
This doesn’t explain why dogecoin was frozen on RH
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by obblekk 6y ago
I agree that it’s likely impossible to completely sensor information. What is much more feasible is to add so much friction/risk to spreading it, that it defacto is unavailable to 99% of people. I would argue that legalizing marijuana
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by obblekk 6y ago
I’m supportive of free distribution of scientific knowledge, BUT HN has a significant bias against believing in the power of legal systems. No matter how good the technology, it can eventually be censored if the law is strong enough. In the
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by obblekk 6y ago
"Raising children in China is extremely expensive" I do wish more countries thought about childcare as part of their industrial policy and engineered large social changes to make it easier for parents to raise children. Basic thin
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by obblekk 6y ago
The iPhone. Unbelievable hype when it launched and it delivered beyond what was expected in 2007.
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by obblekk 6y ago
This is a really fun read - I like the core insight of graphing the log statement timings to see what's going on.
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Ask HN: What does “platform” mean for software/web?
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by obblekk 6y ago
I’m really curious what Xcode and IntelliJ compile times look like for real world repos. It’s a single use case, but by far the most common one for me where I genuinely feel productivity slowed by my computer. Hopefully good news there as w
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by obblekk 6y ago
Interesting and lines up with other brain development factors found in human fasting ( https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/apnm-2014-0290 ). I often read these threads about fasting/intermittent fast

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