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by olau 3y ago
At that age span, you're looking at 3-5 children per adult.
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by olau 3y ago
I've read several studies that say that you're wrong. You need to get your information from other places than nuclear trade organizations. The reason storage hasn't been yet been addressed much is simply that the demand is no
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by olau 3y ago
It's a tough problem. Steve Yegge blogged about the complexities involved when he wrote js2-mode: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/js2-mode-new-javasc... I guess comp. sci. people studying languages h
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by olau 3y ago
Just a note on the hot water supply: Whether this happens depends on three factors: - Does the dish washer support it? Not all do in the EU. - Did the plumber install a warm outlet when they set up the connection for the dish washer? - Does
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by olau 3y ago
Oral treatment is really low tech as long as you're not dying from it. For instance, for grass, the pollen is easily available, you can just chew seed stalks and spit them out. I've gone from being pretty miserable 5 years ago to
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by olau 3y ago
Yeah, but this project is actually delivering stuff that's been shipped. That's perhaps why it's taking a bit longer. As far as I can tell, they haven't gotten to the boxing removal stuff yet where the really big wins pr
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by olau 3y ago
The impression I got over the years is that perhaps de Icaza was actually less interested in the Linux desktop and more interested in language technology, starting with CORBA, and then when Microsoft released C#/.NET, he shifted to tha
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by olau 3y ago
The Wikipedia link you provide states just after your highlight that this theory has been challenged.
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by olau 3y ago
This is not what happened. A quick reference is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ximian
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by olau 3y ago
You might be interested in reading the classical book about cultural difference by Geert Hofstede as it provides another perspective on this. He describes what he calls uncertainty avoidance cultures that try to reduce uncertainty by making
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by olau 3y ago
Form Energy is a bit light on details, but it looks like they are using a water based electrolyte, add oxygen, get electric power and rust when discharging, then add electric power and get iron and oxygen when charging. The project mentione
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by olau 3y ago
Online store sells great products. But nobody knows about them. Online store buys ads on Google to tell people about their products. People click the ads, and buy the products so the store can scale up and lower their per unit cost. Everyon
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by olau 3y ago
I think that's why they're trying to go about it in a way that still allows Google to provide the search. As for the benefit, when Google and Facebook jack up the prices of ads, it's probably increasing the prices of many thi
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by olau 4y ago
You may have a point, but your terminology is off. Graeber was decidedly against the prevailing economic system, but he was not a Marxist: "He was an anarchist from the age of 16, according to an interview he gave to The Village Voice
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by olau 4y ago
Another side of this is that when people are confronted with someone doing things different from what they're used to, their innate ego centrism makes them react if it is about them. It reopens the identity crisis of their teenage year
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by olau 4y ago
Having well-functioning children is valuable to a modern society like the Swedish.
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by olau 4y ago
The same is true for your own appearance. I think the original motivation for much of the intricate housing as well as intricate body sculpturing/make up/clothes is status assertion. But as I grow older, and especially for houses
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by olau 4y ago
There's the theoretical argument against hybrids that while you might think you get the best from both worlds, you also get the worst - two drivetrains you need to buy, maintain, refuel. In practice, what seems to happen is that surpri
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by olau 4y ago
I think what you're missing is that Tesla is trying to make things that people buy on their own. What you're talking about would probably require a political campaign of some sort since it doesn't appear to be happening on it
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by olau 4y ago
Wow. I went to a school with perhaps 500 pupils total covering all 10 grades, and in retrospect I think it was too big. My own children attend a much smaller school. I should add that there were some specialized classes available, like prog
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by olau 4y ago
> Lastly, cycling is probably always going to be less safe than getting around by car (we can and should improve cycling safety, but I don't know that we're ever going to get to parity with driving) I think you're biased t
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by olau 4y ago
My children ride their own bike to school at age 6. I bought light-weight bikes (like Frogbikes or Woom, they keep a great resale value), and accepted that it takes a bit more time. There's a certain joy in being propelled by your own
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by olau 4y ago
Ah, I see where you are coming from. The standard solution (for > 25 years) where I live is that you install a vapor barrier (plastic) to prevent the moisture from diffusing outwards. It needs to be on the interior side of the insulation
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by olau 4y ago
I agree on low humidity being bad, but your remark on insulation does not seem correct. I'm only familiar with cold climates, so perhaps I'm overlooking something, but mold needs moisture to grow, so it will appear where water con
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by olau 4y ago
I think it takes generations for the right culture to develop. If you look back at early Western large-scale democracies (as opposed to the historic smaller scale Greek ones), most of them weren't all roses for the first couple of gene
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by olau 4y ago
> The parents weren't very concerned. I guess when you have 6 kids, it's like you have "spares". As a parent of 4, having multiple children does tend to put things in perspective, but really what makes the biggest dif
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by olau 4y ago
> This article also highlights some pain points I have with python. They say avoid big list comprehensions, but there is no nice way of piping data in Python one can switch to instead. Especially with lambdas being so underpowered (so th
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by olau 4y ago
I think the answer is simply that if you run the numbers, it's just not economical to use nuclear plants for district heating. It's probably great if you can use district heating for cooling, but generally nuclear plants are very
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by olau 4y ago
You forget that if you could earn 50x the price regularly, then there would be people willing to invest in say batteries, and those people would compete and bring the price down. Of course, if it only happens rarely, there would not be enou
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by olau 4y ago
They won't add features but will fix bugs in it. Like distributions with long term support. You may ask why this matters, but I just installed 6.1 in Debian (testing) a couple of days ago, and it has a fatal bug in a graphics driver I

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