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by sfifs 7y ago
Well yes. From the article the digging out of the ground part likely happened but maybe a 100 years previously.
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by sfifs 7y ago
How do you think the "fake news" push back on Climate change started? Some climate activists started taking this above approach to their propaganda and succeeded in generating so much opposition the whole effort has been pushed ba
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by sfifs 7y ago
Well since there are so few B2 and they are essentially irreplaceable, I imagine standard wartime doctrine for the adversary would be to ignore target protection as a concern and go straight for the plane even at the risk of losing several
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by sfifs 7y ago
The B2 especially is huge (there's one on display in Dayton) and likely slow. If it's been localized to within a few km or so, it's probably a sitting duck to any reasonably modern air force.
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by sfifs 7y ago
If you can localize down to the range of a km? Can't you just shoot down optically? A giant dark plane blotting out the stars...
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by sfifs 7y ago
Or allow multiple return values like Go. EOF gets returned as an explicit error value and the io.Reader interface is standardized and widely used.
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by sfifs 7y ago
Many people say the same about the traditional Outlook style clients. Maybe it's just a matter of what people are used to and nothing logical?
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by sfifs 7y ago
People I know (outside Hubei) in the megacities are already back in office (cautiously). The management felt confident enough to also request the expats to fly back and join (most had left before CNY which is when this started blowing up).
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by sfifs 7y ago
Indian manufacturers actually make several complex cancer therapies under the new compulsory licensing law that are made to my knowledge nowhere else except the US. The original manufacturer refused to launch in India. (Source: a colleague
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by sfifs 7y ago
No there's a separate system for NEFT. UPI is a central bank mandated payment gateway standard. It runs on top of an instant settlement system called IMPS. Implementations tend to be very low cost but there's a cap on transaction
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by sfifs 7y ago
@mods - could you please edit the headline to "India's Yes Bank's meltdown..." There's actually a big bank in India called "Indian Bank" that is not affected here.
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by sfifs 7y ago
In any real going business, cost of hiring and training someone of a type who is eligible for compensation with stock options and the subsequent morale dip if discovered doing such manipulation would by far outweigh the benefits of doing th
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by sfifs 7y ago
Because to some people (like me) the gov.uk website looks ugly and gives off a harsh "beware" vibe? Design is at least as much about achieving a certain emotional reaction as it is about legibility and clarity
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by sfifs 7y ago
If they can identify people involved, they can issue arrest warrants and a red corner notice via Interpol. That can make travel very difficult for the people involved and they'll essentially be unable to leave their own countries witho
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by sfifs 7y ago
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge constructs a very good description of such a world. I see it coming more and more to life with each passing year. If you've not read it, definitely worth a read.
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by sfifs 7y ago
I've lost track of the number of times I've had to find the specific version of msvcrt and install just to get some piece of software working. It's a highly user unfriendly process
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by sfifs 7y ago
Doesn't spread by air from all current evidence. Spreads by saliva and nasal fluid droplets. In the churches in Singapore, it is thought that the spread happened from the congregation eating food from shared bowls after the service. Co
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by sfifs 7y ago
> because you could just pick high-quality products from smaller manufacturers by looking at user reviews Well one of the things big brands - especially in the consumer products industry like the one I work in - do quite religiously is
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by sfifs 7y ago
Yes but activation energy is still a "system" level concept. It's not the actual atomic level mechanism that results in the reaction.
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by sfifs 7y ago
Interesting. Is this how catalysts work? By bringing the atoms/molecules reacting together and providing a path for taking away the excess energy more easily?
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by sfifs 7y ago
Because most professors are scheduling classes for THEIR convenience, not the students. You don't typically keep your professorship and grow in an academic career by teaching students. They're scheduling classes in a way that maxi
502.
by sfifs 7y ago
Counterfactual : Steve Jobs
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by sfifs 7y ago
Coming from Asia, I have always been shocked at how expensive trains are in Europe vs. here and how flights are cheaper. I would suspect someone is profiteering in the value chain... probably the construction and maintenance industries whic
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by sfifs 7y ago
In practical life, people who chose to live in less accessible places actually don't get visited much except by very close relatives & friends (I can think of 4-5 of my relatives like this). So probably proves the point :-)
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by sfifs 7y ago
Nope they won't. Over 60% of their revenue comes from Search advertising (Ref: latest quarter financial reporting). If people lose trust, they may no longer hand over the data that makes their search relevant and also will broadly agit
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by sfifs 7y ago
You're creating extra cognitive load for people. If there's one thing behavioral psychology has reliably taught us (in spite of the repeatability issues on a few findings), it is that our brains are wired to avoid cognitive load a
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by sfifs 7y ago
HPC where you try to wring the last ounce of performance from machines insufficiently powerful for the task. Weather forecasting, weapons simulation, protein folding...
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by sfifs 7y ago
I don't know why you're getting down-voted. This is basically the answer. In general, politicians tend to be very smart people - you have to be smart to convince people to vote for you (or even in dictatorships be your enforcers).
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by sfifs 7y ago
If they're not removing obvious frauds in these numbers, they'll be the target of shareholder class action lawsuits. In general, numbers published by big corporations tend to be reasonably sourced due to this reason - gotchas tend
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by sfifs 7y ago
Also Tik Tok launched outside of China only in 2017, much too late for the supposed 11 to 15 year olds to turn 18 to 21 as implied by the GP's comment :-) The thing people miss about why TikTok (and WeChat for that matter) are so good

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