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> Taxes should go to your current city/state to run the services there. Generally, families in rural areas have more children than families in big cities. There should be some kind of monetary compensation (money transfer from citie
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This answer explains how to edit the url to get to the oldest commit in Github https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28533602/how-to-navigate...
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Long build times are more of a Western thing. China has reactors started in for example 2010 and 2015 that were finished in 5 or 6 years (and some others that took 10 years). India and Japan has reactors started in 2000 finished in 5-6 year
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> imagine that you have an address name.surname@gmail.com > imagine that someone else has an address namesurname@gmail.com If gmail ignores dots, it shouldn't be possible to have name.surname and namesurname as two separate gmail
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Maybe this site has the data as open source: https://www.hydrosheds.org/products
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A map (and the data) of river drainage basins (American: watersheds) would also be interesting.
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The credit score of the dead person, or the spouse?
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What happens if people move to a new address, or to a new country? The hospital mails the bills to the old address but nobody will know?
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So many of my books are in pdf, I would not want to use separate apps for pdf-books and other format books.
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Perhaps in the future, learning how to run native binaries on bare metal, will be viewed as learning specialized tooling.
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> some deprecated technology In numbers, IT jobs are dominated by social media companies, and companies selling ads and services on the web and via mobile apps. But I don't think these areas of applications should define what is or
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> Is there anything unique about Fortran that prevents experienced engineers from quickly learning it on the job? Perceived prestige, or rather the lack thereof. People with CS background often feel that learning Fortran is beneath them.
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Music theory is ... is like git. The underlying framework is pretty nice and based on only a small set of basic principles. But the user interface is badly designed and none the tutorials explain it well. Once you understand the basic princ
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> I still have no idea how to play some specific chord like for example the most basic C major chord. The harmonic series or overtones goes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ... C1 C2 G2 C3 E3 G3 B♭3 ... You could play 1,3
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Maybe someone could analyze from 2009-2010 data, did the introduction of ESTA have any effect on how much Europeans traveled to the US.
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> I think there are really two types of programming languages, "idea" languages and "practical" languages. Idea languages invent features (first order functions, closures, garbage collection, algebraic types, structur
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Side note: EU is planning to retaliate, and just as US is requiring ESTA from EU citizens traveling to US, in 2024 EU will start to require a similar application caller ETIAS, from US citizens traveling to EU. https://en.wikipedi
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> For example, I've had experts in quantum field theory -- people who've spent years calculating path integrals of mind-boggling complexity -- ask me to explain the Bell inequality to them. My favourite quantum mechanics textbo
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> paying rent/bills seems anathema to them Social services can pay rent and utility bills directly, so the person receiving rent assistance does not have the option to forget to pay the bills. > People are severely disabled by me
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> "they aren't optimizing their discovery algorithms for your enjoyment, they optimize them for profit." Still in 2016, I could start with a song in genre X and then let Spotify autoplay for hours staying in genre X. I dis
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> It was a one-way street I don't think pedestrians are generally aware if a street is one-way or not.
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> Does this change the scientific consensus? No. This "possibly carcinogenic" classification (IARC group 2B) comes from IARC. While nominally IARC is an agency under WHO, in practice IARC is known to operate very independently.
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> WHO declared aspartame, a key ingredient in Diet Coke, to be a “possible carcinogen” Not WHO. IARC declared [1]. WHO itself took a more nuanced position [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Agency_f
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> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Extincti... There are several findings of humans being present in North America much earlier than 13 000 years ego. One recent paper in Science :
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> The first time it happened, as I understand, there simply wasn't a huge amount of oxygen in the air When cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) originally cleaned out Earth's CO2 atmosphere and produced O2, I don't know where
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> I think the really significant term in the Drake equation is the question of time overlap between our civilization and any civilizations in other star systems. universe begins 0.1 Gy first stars 9 Gy our solar
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On the opposite side, James Lovelock suggested that life controlling the planetary conditions, is a necessary property for long term survival of life. For example: Too little oxygen, too much CO2 in the atmosphere: CO2 feeds more plants, ox
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> The whole Covid fiasco can't really be discussed on HN. "Covid fiasco" is not a monolith. On one side, there are people with a position "Covid is much less severe than we though, we should have just let it spread th
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> qbit counts in the biggest machines are multiplying every year similar to Moore's law 2001: Shor's algorithm was demonstrated by a group at IBM, who factored 15 into 3 × 5 2012: factorization of 21 was achieved 2019: an attem
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> Maybe that's a new change. Yes, I think about 3 months ago.

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