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by pge 2y ago
As an American growing up in the late 70s/early 80s, we called all die-cast metal cars “matchbox cars,” even though many (all?) of them were Hot Wheels. I never knew there were two competing brands.
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by pge 2y ago
But they also all use it!
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by pge 2y ago
the article supports this opinion, suggesting the new SE will be based on the iphone 14 chassis, which is larger than the current SE.
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by pge 2y ago
This situation is not any different from a ticket issued by a speed camera. Since the camera can’t tell who is driving, the fine is issued to the owner of the vehicle (determined by the license plate). The owner is legally responsible for t
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by pge 2y ago
The Leidenfrost effect is also one explanation often given for why walking on hot coals without burning your feet is possible. The theory is that the sweat on your feet evaporates creating a vapor barrier that insulates the feet from heat.
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Ancient Chesapeake site challenges timeline of humans in the Americas(washingtonpost.com)
62 points by pge 2y ago|50 comments
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FTX customers set to recover all funds lost, plus interest(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by pge 2y ago|1 comments
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by pge 2y ago
Interesting that the CIA conclusion for a device very similar to the article is "Not recommended for operational use due to its discomfort and very slight gain in speed over that of a swimmer equipped with fins."
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by pge 2y ago
equity financing rather than debt
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by pge 2y ago
I wish PG was right about this, but there are plenty of examples of frauds that were not conspicuous and took in lots of thoughtful people (Bernie Madoff being one of the most obvious and public examples).
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by pge 2y ago
Not plugging it in does not mean the battery is not used, it just means that the battery is always charged by the gasoline engine in the car, rather than from the electric grid
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by pge 2y ago
The battery looks like a standard hearing aid battery
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by pge 3y ago
Isn’t the issue there a software issue, not a hardware issue, in that a lot of windows apps don’t run well on ARM yet?
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by pge 3y ago
The funny about this is that despite all the beautiful pictures, it would probably be a very unpleasant boat to ride in. Submarines by design are not very stable on the surface (think of a cylinder that rolls vs the v-shape of a surface shi
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by pge 3y ago
so are Americans trying to say Eichhörnchen (the German word for squirrel). I’ve used that as an icebreaker for kids in a German-American exchange program - both groups trying to say the word in the other’s language.
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by pge 3y ago
And the HN discussion of that link - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38758355
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by pge 3y ago
It's also worth noting that names weren't as fixed in the past as we think of them now. Just as English words didn't have consistent spellings until at least the 1600s and often later, names didn't either (meaning a son
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by pge 3y ago
policy shouldn't be defined by extreme outlier cases
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by pge 3y ago
When I worked for the Navy, we hosted a human-powered submarine race in one of the model basins where we normally tested new ship designs. Anyone could enter but it was mostly university engineering teams. It was great fun to see the homema
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by pge 3y ago
yes, I used Outlook desktop for both work (2 O365 accounts with different organizations) and personal email (multiple gmail accounts). With a job change, I am no longer on O365 (new company uses hosted gmail), but I understand there is a pl
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by pge 3y ago
After 20+ years on Outlook, I recently switched to Thunderbird. Not quite as full featured and a little slow at times, but it’s finally a viable replacement for Outlook.
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by pge 3y ago
American readers may not have noticed that the dates are in European DD/MM format, so they thought disclosure was Sept 1 rather than Jan 9.
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by pge 3y ago
The Apple II+ still had a ‘bell’ key on the keyboard (I can’t think of a more recent computer that had that)
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by pge 3y ago
While I agree with your characterization of debt v. equity capital (e.g. VC money), it is important to recognize that what are strengths of debt from an entrepreneur's standpoint (limited upside, no control) are weaknesses from an inve
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by pge 3y ago
There's a good biography of Milton - "Poet of Revolution" by Nicholas McDowell. Really fascinating to see how he was educated in England ca. 1600 (e.g. having to debate in Latin, as well as write any of a variety of poetic fo
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by pge 3y ago
Note that Riis's results were before the 50% hematocrit limit (he was nicknamed "Mr 60%'). Hematocrit is a measure of the hemoglobin content, or oxygen carrying capacity, of the blood. So, even though later cyclists were also
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by pge 3y ago
Not the Cray-1, but the Navy used a Cray 90 a few years later for CFD calculations modeling flow around ship hulls (code written in Fortran). I wish I had access to the code I wrote back then - what took minutes or hours on the Cray could p
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by pge 3y ago
I get where you are coming from (and take no offense). If I understand your intent correctly, you are right that I should be more generous to teachers. In the context of larger educational challenges (and a recovery from the pandemic), I di
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by pge 3y ago
It’s not just trying to make it fun - a lot of teachers just don’t know the material well enough to teach it. My daughter’s English teacher (in a highly regarded high school) taught them that “Wherefore art thou Romeo?” was archaic English
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by pge 3y ago
Context for anyone not familiar with it - Julius Caesar has been assassinated by a group led by Brutus. They reluctantly allow Antony (a close ally of Caesar) to give a eulogy at the public funeral. According to Plutarch and others, Antony&

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