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by rolleiflex 5y ago
I laughed at espresso, I’m glad that has been a shared experience. I spent around $2k on coffee equipment since the start of the pandemic. No way I’m going to go back and drink sad office coffee or deal with poorly maintained espresso mach
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
Yes. James Hoffmann on YouTube talks more about the margins of coffee business if you'd like to learn more, that's where my knowledge comes from for the most part.
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
Yes, that used to be the case I think. The espresso world backed off of that in the last few years. Nowadays the average dose is trending lower. Possibly, half the reason is that a larger dose is more inefficient (i.e. it drops your extract
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
Yes, and honestly you’re doing fine, because your 3 pulls of espresso is about the same as a Starbucks venti latte at 180-190mg. I think in Europe the caffeine content is even higher at something like 225mg for the same latte. If you really
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
Heads up, this depends on what you mean by double shot of espresso. One ‘payload’ of espresso as regularly consumed is usually 15-18g of ground coffee and has about 75mg of caffeine. Confusingly, traditionally and especially in Italy this
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
It really is depressing just how much information, from life expectancy to health outcomes, can be gathered from a simple five digit zip code. Very accurate too.
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
An example to the last part in the real-world: Geico is widely known to be the cash float of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett’s main investment vehicle. It’s basically a costless margin loan for Berkshire that it can freely use in investment. Th
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
This is misleading. It sounds like when they say ‘From Show HN to Series A’, the implication is that the Show HN was the beginning of the company. Turns out, it’s the moment where they had 30+ integrations already, a mature company. I guess
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
No joke, there’s a nontrivial change that’s it, with an expensive instance of ‘Norton Corporate SecurityWorks DeepLearning Firewall 3.0’ prefetching the URL and running ‘hot dog or not’ classifier on it.
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
As a subscriber to the Economist myself, would you be able to give examples as to what you found wrong and in bad faith? I have found errors in the past, especially in subjects that I am more of an expert on, but none (so far) in bad fait
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
If the gene sequence is short enough, this is probably the best gene to do a clinical trial on the human use of CRISPR-Cas9 because it’s one healthy people would be willing to risk their hide to splice in. It’s essentially as close as we ca
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
You might like to hear about Henrietta Lacks, arguably the first immortal human being, now called HeLa. Her living cells are one of the most widely distributed living human tissue available, still alive, still replicating because they have
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
That then would create the ‘perverse’ incentive for poorer people who are dying of major diseases to sign up for any and all trials possible to lock in prices, regardless of relevance, and make things much, much worse for themselves due to
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
The risk with that is that it creates a ‘perverse’ incentive for the FDA to not fully approve drugs because the approved drugs might shoot up in price 1000x the moment they exit the ‘purgatory approval’, and granting the official approval m
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
This is oversimplifying it a little. Yes Baratzas are great grinders but they are not one-size-fits-all depending on what kind of coffee you make. For example Baratza Encore is everyone’s darling with good reason (I have one and I use it fo
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
That is an urban myth unfortunately, darker coffee does not have less caffeine because caffeine is heat stable at typical roasting temperatures. (20 to 240C). Here’s a more thorough explanation of it: https://www.kickinghorsecoff
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
Up until the time industrial revolution really started to get going, it was true. If you look at the literature, poetry or philosophy of most any culture before 1880s it’s easy to see an unwavering belief of the invincibility of Nature agai
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
I took a bet on Sublime Merge with some amount of skepticism and boy it has paid off. After two years of using it, git sort of makes sense now.
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
The other end of the argument is also interesting. It is possible that this has already happened before the age of Homo Sapiens , and we lack the one crucial thing that makes fusion power possible, say, deuterium oxide (heavy water) in suf
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
My concern was less about hospitability to pathogens (indeed, half the point of cooking is to render things safe to eat), and more about the fact that neither polymerised fat nor carbonised food is good for you in terms of free radicals. It
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by rolleiflex 5y ago
I’ve bought into the cast iron hype a few years ago, and I have found it a little overhyped. There are several reasons why cast iron is not a common component of the average kitchen today. Here are mine: - The non-stickiness of cast iron ha
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by rolleiflex 6y ago
From your description, it's possible that you have undiagnosed ADHD, though probably not caused by lack of sleep. It's always worth talking to a doctor about these things — there might be a way to get your focus back.
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by rolleiflex 6y ago
My understanding is that almost no one drinks 100% Robusta, since it tastes something between burnt tire, wood (not in a good way, in a 'trying to bite raw timber' kind of way) and rubber. However it's very commonly used as,
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by rolleiflex 6y ago
I’ve had blue lights that black sharpie could not dim. The solution for those is black nail polish. Dirt cheap, easy to apply since it’s more of a goo than a liquid which you apply it by a brush that comes with the bottle, and it’s complete
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by rolleiflex 6y ago
I did this with a 2015 MacBook Pro, because I needed it to go full tilt and didn’t want it to throttle. https://twitter.com/nehbit/status/1243329494481432581?s=21 In my case, the weight of the fan connected to a
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by rolleiflex 6y ago
While this is a good description of Armenian government’s general mismanagement, this article refers to this crucial bit of information far too deeply buried in its narrative to the point it starts to make me doubt its impartiality: “Karaba
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by rolleiflex 6y ago
They do, they just stopped calling it surge pricing (or anything else). They just show you the higher price with a microscopic grey text underneath that says 'there's a lot of demand, prices are higher now'. If you don't
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by rolleiflex 6y ago
Taking an Uber ride is easy as long as you don’t want to optimise for prices. I meant extracting as much money from you as possible in the context of other options in the app that might be more economical for you (if you don’t mind waiting,
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by rolleiflex 6y ago
What Uber is doing is likely by design, for the most part. They do highlight the user journeys in the app that generate more revenue, over others that might be cheaper or more close to what you need. That usually means the lower-revenue pat
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by rolleiflex 6y ago
Yes, IIRC dang mentioned once that a 'second chance' feature exists where a mod can give it a second shot if they decide it's interesting. I think it's essentially discretionary and it doesn't edit the votes, it jus

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