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by sfifs 7y ago
As an addendum - explanation of the electricity distribution losses on grid: https://electrical-engineering-portal.com/total-losses-in-po...
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by sfifs 7y ago
There's significant power loss in transmission on grid and to avoid power loss, you need fairly expensive equipment to convert to and from high voltage. If you are adding wind to the mix and working on an AC grid as normal, phase sync
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by sfifs 7y ago
PayPal generally these days doesn't get hacked. As an alternative to supplying credit card number to a random online merchant, it is infinitely more secure.
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by sfifs 7y ago
This is interesting. Doesn't this make comingling a high business risk activity for Amazon? If the item shipped was from a different third party seller than the one billed, Amazon would get sued instead of the third party seller if it
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by sfifs 7y ago
> Ad tech was extremely profitable That was the era when marketers were dumb, drank the internet look aid and were taken for a ride by the industry. That's not quite true anymore.
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by sfifs 7y ago
So... form over function? In my field (data analytics), a Mac indicates the user is in sales :-)
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by sfifs 7y ago
Even if there's a massive investor driven housing development, ultimately the units have to be rented out which will put pressure on rentals down and make housing more affordable. If rentals are lower, yield for ownership will also go
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by sfifs 7y ago
Basically if your personality is such that you like to adapt your environment to suit YOU, you'll probably hate iOS and Android is the way to go. If on the other hand don't mind adapting your workflow to someone else's concep
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by sfifs 7y ago
In India, we always boil milk irrespective of source. That's way hotter than pasteurization.
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by sfifs 7y ago
How many kids do you have & what kind of a job?
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by sfifs 7y ago
I was about to. Then I heard quite a few of my colleagues who used Mac had endless keyboard problems and surffered from lack of function keys in the high end laptop which was a good 1000 dollars more expensive than similarly specced ThinkPa
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by sfifs 7y ago
True and Singapore's government has been very systematic about broadening public transport access - not just for energy reasons but also for economic participation & health reasons (people walk a lot more). But Singapore also air c
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by sfifs 7y ago
This is the "Reduce" philosophy. Not all agree with that philosophy - especially in the developing world who feel unfair if development and conveniences that the west got is denied to them. I personally moved from a energy non-int
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by sfifs 7y ago
Recurring payments have been intentionally blocked by the banking regulator in India by requiring 2FA for every online transaction to prevent abuse/fraud. It is a known pain intentionally traded off - hopefully will get fixed at some p
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by sfifs 7y ago
> Only if you(and the person receiving) can afford a smart phone, and an internet connection The number of people in India who can likely exceeds adult population of the United States :-)
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by sfifs 7y ago
And the two lead characters in the third one are also women
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by sfifs 7y ago
Not OP but if you're posting here on HN, you're probably not going to find too much trouble parsing the actual academic papers vs. press releases and IPCC summaries When you do, you may find that while there's virtually no qu
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by sfifs 7y ago
If it's a only few thousand enterprise users, I'd actually say log to a bog standard relational database from server side like MySQL or Postgres. Think through table schemas for everything you're going to log and make sure pr
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by sfifs 7y ago
Very nice! Might be great to add an option to crop pics and possibly also change brightness/contrast of the source pic. I got a beautiful pallette out from a pic I had but realized it's dull because the source pic exposure was po
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by sfifs 7y ago
What makes you think China is a "Command" economy? USSR was a command economy. In China the Government funnels money into areas that are its priority but much of the economy runs on private innovation & fairly intense competit
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by sfifs 7y ago
> you still have a paper trail audit, why not just use paper to begin with? Basically because of ballot stuffing, booth capturing, ballot tampering, fake ballots etc etc. Paper ballots have been a major vurnerebility from experience of s
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by sfifs 7y ago
On the other hand, Indian elections have been electronic for almost a One and a half decades. These are standalone units with no networking. They added paper trail audit recently. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro
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by sfifs 7y ago
Yes that works with one person-person engagement, not when an entire entire locality covered is threatened by a political party. All this and more has actually happened in the hundreds of elections in India since democracy was established l
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by sfifs 7y ago
The change in legal thinking has been that fewer and fewer situations are held "per se" anticompetitive in US law and cases have to be analyzed by the "test of reason". Even vertical pricing actions (fixing ceiling and i
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by sfifs 7y ago
It will be interesting to see how prosecutors argue any anti trust case against Google. In American case law, the doctrine of consumer welfare being the objective of anti trust is pretty deeply enshrined in recent case law [1]. The philosop
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by sfifs 7y ago
> each vote with each token is then published and people can see for themselves that their vote has been taken into account. Generally this is precisely what you want to avoid because then the parties can verify who cast what vote by sim
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by sfifs 7y ago
Wasn't that a misinformation cover story by CIA for the Glomar Explorer so they could retrieve a sunken Soviet sub?
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by sfifs 7y ago
I've seen something like this predictably happen with Grab in my office area in Singapore. At 5 you suddenly can't get cabs. You can at 4:55.
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by sfifs 7y ago
If you read the paper, the age calculation reads like assumption upon assumption upon assumption upon assumption. The distance measurement is remarkable though.
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by sfifs 7y ago
Interestingly, only a quarter of the businesses are employers in UK, so most of the company creation is presumably basically city of London financial engineering :-)

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