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by samcheng 6y ago
If you really want to get offended, they call those processed cheese slices "cheddar" in east Asia...
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by samcheng 6y ago
Maybe COVID will render many of these "must travel for work" use cases obsolete! One can hope...
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by samcheng 6y ago
Correct. Turns out blanketing the population with surgical masks, which are designed to block the sputum coughed into the air by a sick person, is an effective tactic against a respiratory disease!
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by samcheng 6y ago
Taiwan, for example, definitely DID ramp up mask production immediately after understanding COVID-19's threat. https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3924318 The government there commissioned a "national
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by samcheng 6y ago
It would have been a cool project, even if he used 8020 extrusion like most similar projects. Instead, he used salvaged gear for this: He pulled old stepper motors from hard disk drives, and even used an old laptop battery as a power suppl
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by samcheng 6y ago
It's very bad news for LINE if the Taiwanese people view it as a tool for the PRC...
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by samcheng 6y ago
I'm an electric car driver, and I'm still skeptical. It's hard to imagine a scenario where I accidentally run out of batteries and then can afford to wait for MULTIPLE DAYS before finishing my trip. Pretty sure I'd at l
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by samcheng 6y ago
This metaphor doesn’t make sense to me. As a matter of course, a gasoline car needs gasoline; unless you live on a farm with delivered fuel, that means going to the gas station for it. An electric car needs only electricity to operate, whi
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by samcheng 6y ago
That’s true; we’re going to want a substantial improvement in charging infrastructure over the next decade.
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With electric you plug the car in overnight while it is parked. It is full every morning, and you never need to go out of your way to charge it unless you are on an intercity trip. It really is more convenient than gasoline!
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by samcheng 6y ago
I agree - brushless DC motors really make AC motors obsolete in 90% of use cases.
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by samcheng 6y ago
50 or 60 Hz AC, especially 3-phase, makes it really easy to build and operate electric motors, too, and to transform between different voltages. The OP’s argument is that solar power generation, plus the fact that most electrical consumptio
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by samcheng 6y ago
If you’ve ever been to China, you might have had the unsettling experience of hearing a truck SPEED UP as you step out in front of it coming down the street. There is also the cruel practice of “finishing off” a pedestrian injured by a car
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by samcheng 6y ago
With glaciers and mountain snowcaps melting, I'd guess that developing countries would continue to invest in hydrological engineering projects. They give electricity, yes, but they also help prevent flooding, and provide year-round wa
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by samcheng 6y ago
I think you have it backwards. The advertisers can serve the publishers' content themselves, rather than the publishers serving the advertisers' content. See Google's AMP. Of course, the publishers will need to trust the ad
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by samcheng 6y ago
You should buy organic at the farmers' market AND the supermarket, but that's a different topic. It's definitely not clear to me that farmers' markets are worse for the environment - in many cases, it's the same far
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by samcheng 6y ago
If you can, please buy whole (not processed) foods at a farmers' market instead of processed foods from these mega corporations. - You end up eating a much wider variety of food, depending on what is in season. - You end up eating deli
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by samcheng 6y ago
If you look at the free market for recyclable materials, you will find that clean paper and especially clean cardboard are valuable feedstocks for paper/board processing, and should definitely be recycled.
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by samcheng 6y ago
Netflix is notoriously generous here. They allegedly auto-cancel accounts that don't use the service for too long! https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/net...
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At least Taiwan isn't a country in any kind of war (cold or hot) with the west. They are, however, in a cold war with China. The current technical situation does make peaceful cross-strait relations critical to global technology, howe
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by samcheng 6y ago
That opening shot with one spaceship launching while the other was still on the pad was priceless, though... and they are iterating so quickly that much of the value from SN10 was already gained in the manufacturing process.
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by samcheng 6y ago
In the Bay Area at least, there has been a movement toward walkable spaces and car-free boulevards as a reaction to COVID. A number of 'main streets' on the peninsula have been closed to cars, to provide space for struggling rest
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by samcheng 6y ago
The cleanup costs for a nuclear reactor can be more than the construction cost, and novel / experimental reactor types can present major challenges after decommissioning. Your trust idea is a good one, maybe with some insurance added,
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by samcheng 6y ago
This is important. I was initially shocked to hear of a big round of layoffs at Microsoft, until I saw the date. Maybe we can add the year to the link?
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by samcheng 6y ago
Dr. John Campbell (on Youtube) has been talking about using CO2 monitors as a proxy for understanding how recirculated (and therefore potentially full of fomites) indoor air is. It's a good concept, since indoor CO2 is primarily genera
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by samcheng 6y ago
By "normal" he means the glyph we are taught to write by hand, which is also the glyph young children are taught to identify individual letters.
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by samcheng 6y ago
I'm definitely no Facebook fan, but I think they're right to be upset with Apple. If you look at the documentation in the app store around the Apple privacy policy (which is required for any new app version right now) you'll
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by samcheng 6y ago
We already knew Zoom was ethically-challenged from the auto-install shenanigans, though, right? https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/07/09/zoom-vulnerabilities/
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The aggressive sales team focused on a video calling product; all of the other major solutions are afterthoughts owned by companies focusing on other products. Oh, and that "Brady Bunch" view that Google quickly copied, after refu
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by samcheng 6y ago
Because he keeps saying there are not problems "yet" and trajectories / forecasts are clearly indicating a region-wide hospitalization crisis. He admits that a crisis will come, and just wants to wait; I believe it is wiser

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