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by philshem 7y ago
Regarding point 1. It's not fair to compare a hasty transition to remote work, and during a period of time with so much uncertainty that surely has a negative impact on concentration and productivity, with a properly rolled-out remote
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by philshem 7y ago
Don't be dismayed by html tables... import pandas as pd df = pd.read_html('https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/testing-in-us.html') print(df[0]) requires
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by philshem 7y ago
99% sure you are referring to a bike but 1% curious if it’s a horse.
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by philshem 7y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20171010081410/https://addons.mo... seems poorly rated when it was available 3 years ago
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by philshem 7y ago
I had searched the Firefox Add-on catalog and the official tool has never shown up: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?platform=wi... Interestingly, the link from Amazon, clicked through your li
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by philshem 7y ago
I use the "push to kindle" browser extension for online content, which seems to work fine for this page: https://pushtokindle.fivefilters.org/send.php?url=https%3A%2... The content is sent to the Kindle via the em
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by philshem 7y ago
Thanks for sharing. I wanted to know more about the HN moderators and was pleased to read your profile in the New Yorker from 2018[0]. Keep up the good work. [0] https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley
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by philshem 7y ago
I wonder what ever happened with "The Man Who Knew Too Little" (2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/style/the-man-who-knew-to...
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by philshem 7y ago
You may be interested to hear the ongoing podcast series "The Other Latif" from NPR and RadioLab producer Latif Nasser. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/809233558/the-other-latif
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by philshem 7y ago
Curiously, I saw the Sam Altman post on the front page a couple days ago, but then it quickly disappeared and I couldn't re-find it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22513316
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by philshem 7y ago
AirBnB and similar platforms have business models based on quantity of transactions, not quality of experience. If you can obscure an honest assessment of the quality, you can increase the quantity of transactions (at least in the short- an
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by philshem 7y ago
Some backstory (2018) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/did-uber-steal...
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by philshem 7y ago
Thanks for your answer. I posted my question to the open data stack exchange site[0]. If there isn't an existing dataset, maybe we can create one country by country. [0] https://opendata.stackexchange.com/q/16182&#
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by philshem 7y ago
Rates of drowning in Europe[0][1] vary by more than an order of magnitude. I'd be curious about compulsory swimming lessons in schools, as is done here in Switzerland[2], and its correlation to the rate of drowning. [0] https:/&#
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by philshem 7y ago
We have burnt through hundreds of millions of years of fossil fuels (aka trees) in the past couple centuries. How can we regrow that “forest” one time and make a dent in carbon emissions? Edit: I’d be happy to proven wrong, I just can’t im
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by philshem 7y ago
Plants get their carbon from the air (CO2) via photosynthesis.
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by philshem 7y ago
Trees that grow and die and decompose release their carbon back into the atmosphere. The only way to make tree-growing carbon negative* is to sequester the grown trees underground. *edited from “neutral”, sorry, typo
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Tim Skelly Passes Away(twitter.com)
2 points by philshem 7y ago|1 comments
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by philshem 7y ago
> But right now I feel like lack of commitment from him... At this point I realized that this post is appropriate for Reddit's AITA[0]. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole
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by philshem 7y ago
In this case travel insurance would be valid. It's not required, but many if not most Swiss residents have policies.
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by philshem 7y ago
I've even gotten a hotel costs reimbursed when my "guaranteed" train connection couldn't be made.
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by philshem 7y ago
Ah yes true, although I thought that was cancelled before the press conference.
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It's also a highly federal democracy, with Cantons being considered "sovereign"[0]. So it's not to be taken lightly that the federal government has taken such steps. Several questions in the press conference have been ab
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by philshem 7y ago
As a Swiss resident, I'm happy to see a federal-level decision that is effective immediately and made despite economic pressure to keep the status quo. Cancelled are the Geneva Auto Show (600k+ guests), Basel Fasnacht (carnival), and m
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by philshem 7y ago
I’m not saying coincidence or conspiracy, but this 2017 Nature article mentions some concerns: https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to... > But worries surround the Chinese lab, too. The SARS vi
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New study explores what can happen, and the after-effects of an LSD overdose(iflscience.com)
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by philshem 7y ago
> Experience tells us that it’s the boring menial jobs that get automated first. I doubt that the economic drivers of automation consider if the job is boring or menial for the worker. I think this “experience” needs a source. Furthermor
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by philshem 7y ago
Nitpicking, but... the original article title is "I Bought These Things From Amazon Prime. Can You Tell Which Ones Are Real?". The current HN title is "Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?" The current HN titl
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by philshem 7y ago
I consider it a 20% bump in time. edit: or is it 25%?!
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by philshem 7y ago
> Can you elaborate? > Yes.

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