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by positr0n 2y ago
There’s slightly more to it than that. There are also differences in strategy based on the differing distribution of letters in the game (Spanish removes some letters, adds other, adds ñ, and adds digraphs like LL, RR, and CH), differing di
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by positr0n 2y ago
Depends on how much you spend in it. And especially how much you spend in the underlayment for how it feels under your feet. Even in expensive homes in my area it's common because it has a lot of nice properties. Homeowners will pay $1
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by positr0n 2y ago
What part of a Samsung merger do you think would help them enter the phone market? My layman's understanding of history is that Intel tried and failed several times to build x86 chips for phones and they failed for power consumption re
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by positr0n 2y ago
If you have some space but not a lot, look up "Backyard Orchard Culture". Practitioners have amazing yields with tiny 5' tall fruit trees. I've seen some people do things that seem crazy like 4 different trees in one pla
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by positr0n 2y ago
Where do you live that it's hard to sell a few acre parcel? That is not my experience at all in multiple states I have knowledge of. Also, most people have little sympathy for someone who just inherited assets worth more than $13M (and
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by positr0n 2y ago
Chromium is open source and forkable, so it makes a huge difference in these types of discussions that involve control of the codebase.
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by positr0n 2y ago
Really good. It’s faster to send a packet from NYC to London via starlink than fiber because the speed of light in air/vacuum is c and the speed of light in fiber is roughly 2/3 c. Even just going straight up and back down to a gr
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by positr0n 2y ago
No the article is about Chrome, not Chromium
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by positr0n 2y ago
One of the times I reloaded the page I got a raw envoy error message!
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I would guess the majority of the streamed bandwidth was sourced from boxes like these in ISP's points of presences around the globe: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ So I agree the problems could have been loc
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by positr0n 2y ago
Netflix Party launched in March 2020 for that purpose.
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by positr0n 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42048358 The levels of buying internet service simplified: 1. Pay for best effort traffic level. E.g. A residential user paying for 1gbps service 2. Pay for guaranteed traffic level. E.g
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by positr0n 2y ago
I've worked at a company for 6 years and still been net negative a thousand lines of code for the project I was on the entire time!
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It'll slide through your intestines smoother than basically anything else you could possibly swallow :-)
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by positr0n 2y ago
At least in the USA Granny Smith and green apple are synonymous. I don't think I've ever seen another type of green apple at a normal grocery store.
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by positr0n 2y ago
Transaction costs for selling your house are incredibly high. Also depending on your personal situation, especially if you have kids in school, it can be extremely disruptive.
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Oh I see, so it's not the freezing process. Freezing is just a proxy for other bad stuff?
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> They're toxic * When heated to high temperatures Below 450F or so they don't react with anything. PTFE won't react with your egg you're frying, or the inside of your knee. (PTFE is used in surgical implants, among o
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by positr0n 2y ago
What happens when you freeze meat that you want to avoid?
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by positr0n 2y ago
Hard to choose, but I always enjoy this one: https://youtu.be/Jb4prVsXkZU - how to land the space shuttle
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Treatment of type 2 diabetes.
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by positr0n 2y ago
Good discussion on how at multi GHz clock speeds, the speed of light is actually limiting on some circuit design choices: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12384596
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People have been taking them for decades for other reasons, so if they had side effects reducing max life expectancy worse than being overweight surely we'd know by now.
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Yep, I'm never leaving my dentist because he tells me things like "this crown will probably need to be replaced some time in the next twenty years, but it's not worth spending the time and money to do it yet." Bonus anec
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Streaming the terrain/image world data. You can fly anywhere in the world so it's basically streaming Google Maps satellite view as you fly around.
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by positr0n 2y ago
Greenery at the bottom of a swamp would decomposes and emit methane instead of CO2, even worse!
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I know the efficiencies are variable among people and labels are not exact, but if you eat an amount of chicken breast labeled 100 calories, and an amount of butter labeled 100 calories, don't those numbers represent the amount of prot
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Do you know if it was really most the population? Or just most of the intellectuals, nobility, bourgeois, etc. Were peasants coffee drinkers?
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That stuff can easily fit in the attic of most suburban houses I've lived in.
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by positr0n 2y ago
Doesn't answer OP's question, but males and females have different behavior around suicide in general (in aggregate obviously). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicid... Females are far

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