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by sehansen 2y ago
And then accidentally un-implemented it again when steam power made it (almost) unneeded: https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
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by sehansen 2y ago
It's really interesting how much Uber was trying to do things the right way, only to then over-correct into being the most devious and underhanded app-taxi company. But the other company that Uber reacted to was Wingz, Inc, not Lyft.
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by sehansen 2y ago
> answer questions The FAQ page of their website already does that. > schedule appointments I've been scheduling all my doctors appointment through their website for years already. > complete purchases PG himself sold a compan
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by sehansen 2y ago
Tesla Model 3 was the most sold electric car sales in Denmark in 2020 at around 1/3 of electric cars sold: 1 Tesla Model 3: 4,277 2 Volkswagen ID.3: 1,722 3 Hyundai Kona: 1,160 4 Kia Niro: 834 5 Renault Zoe: 704 6 Volkswagen Golf: 625
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by sehansen 2y ago
Hybrids (including plug-in hybrids) aren't usually grouped under electric cars in Danish media.
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by sehansen 2y ago
No, it was dynamic based on voltage. iPhones with worn batteries had higher performance at full battery and swapping the battery with a fresh replacement restored full performance even at low battery percentage. In fact this is how the slow
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by sehansen 2y ago
Cargo cults are a specific kind of cult where the ceremonies come from imitating some other community. And complaints about cargo cult programming aren't only about people doing ineffective things, it's also about people seeing so
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by sehansen 2y ago
I feel compelled to plug a sculptor I've been a fan of since college: https://www.bathsheba.com/ They have a lot of more or less mathematically inspired metal sculptures for sale, for instance a functioning Klein bottl
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by sehansen 2y ago
Without any personal experience with the Austrian labour market, it seems like firing people is around as easy in Austria as it is here in Denmark. And wages are higher in Denmark than in Germany, Belgium, Sweden and Netherlands. So the low
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by sehansen 2y ago
Weird article. The tone of the article is as if the wealth tax has been a huge disaster for Norway, but the only concrete problem the they spell out is that the wealth tax will only bring in $594 million instead of the expected $1.46 billio
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by sehansen 2y ago
No, the guy who killed Boeing was Jim McNerney, their CEO from 2005 to 2015. McNerney was the guy who started the 737 MAX program in 2011. He got an MBA from Harvard in 1975 and worked for GE from 1982 to 2001.
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by sehansen 2y ago
Einstein received the Nobel prize in 1921, but your point is still correct.
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by sehansen 3y ago
From a quick search of the FDA's adverse event database I only found five reports of events relating to the Philips Dreamstation from before 2020; only the fourth could related to the foam-dust: One relating to filter problems: https:
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by sehansen 3y ago
No, before Elon the blue tick was just a blue tick next to your name. Now posts by blue ticks are also sorted before other posts in the interface.
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by sehansen 3y ago
This life force "Vril" is from a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, best known in hacker circles as the author of the opening line "It was a dark and stormy night" and the namesake of the Bulwer-Lytton (bad) Fiction Contest.
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by sehansen 3y ago
Wikipedia has a number of cool, interactive SVGs. This illustration of satelite orbits is my personal favourite: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Comparis...
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by sehansen 7y ago
Bulgaria is the origin of the oldest, still-functioning satellite in earth orbit, the Bulgaria 1300. It will turn 40 next year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria_1300
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by sehansen 18y ago
Well, my mom has been trying to make me start a company since I was 16 and told her I wanted that someday...
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by sehansen 18y ago
My parents always told me not to swear, because if I did, I wouldn't have anything to say when I got hurt. So whenever I cut my finger or anything like that, I would make sure to swear as much as could. :)