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by svara 7y ago
This article addresses your questions: https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-how-electric-vehicles-... Check out the "lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions" figures. It's really interesting in how it shows how d
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by svara 7y ago
Electric aviation always strikes me as an odd idea, given the low power densities that batteries achieve. By contrast, biofuels are available today and can be made from agricultural waste products (2nd gen), in bioreactors using salt water
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by svara 7y ago
Attibuting any specific catastrophic event to climate change is hardly possible, though. Arguably, climate change is already playing a role in conflicts around the world. The arab spring (and therefore the ongoing war in Syria) was partly t
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by svara 7y ago
Slightly tangential: Does anyone know how Uber was able to skirt Taxi regulation in the US? Did they actively lobby, or fight this in the courts? It's something that I've always been curious about, since this was a big problem for
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by svara 7y ago
They have substantial investments in ARM and NVidia which seem more reasonable...
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by svara 7y ago
You're not wrong, but the realistic alternative is having it the same way, just without any encryption.
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by svara 7y ago
We often hear the complaint here that nobody cares / cared about Snowden's revelations. But to me it seems he did provide a lot of the impetus for having HTTPS virtually everywhere and a lot of the instant messenging apps being en
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by svara 7y ago
When I pay by card in a restaurant in Germany I always leave one or two Euros in coins on the table. You can also ask your server to include it in the bill and put it on the card. It would seem quite rude to me not to leave an tip at all.
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by svara 7y ago
Like the comment above pointed out, no obligation to tip doesn't mean it's not poor form not to. I'm German and I always tip unless the service was really bad. I'm not the only one. [0] Quick Googling confirms this is tr
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by svara 7y ago
Where in Europe are you talking about? Here in Germany, and everywhere I've traveled so far, tipping is expected. You just tip less than in the US. I guess you could not tip, but your server will be miffed and assume something was wron
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by svara 7y ago
That's interesting - for me it was the first time seeing it explained that way, and it immediately made perfect sense. I think the intuition behind is that, when you initially choose one door out of 1000000, you are almost sure not to
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by svara 7y ago
> Added new multiprocessing.shared_memory module Hard to understand why this is so far down. This is fantastic news!
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by svara 7y ago
That's not true for Germany, see my comment above. Germany has nearly completely replaced nuclear with renewables, and is now (slowly) phasing out coal. Coal has been mostly constant with a slight downward trend in the past 15 years.
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by svara 7y ago
That's totally false, where did you get this from? Germany is a net exporter of electricity [0]. Nuclear is being phased out and replaced by renewables. [1] Yes, that totally sucks for CO_2 emissions... [0] https://de.statis
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by svara 7y ago
>She's literally a child lecturing the grownups. It fits that "emperor has no clothes"/out of the mouths of babes trope. >The people who back her want to hold her up as someone wise beyond her years. The entire thi
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by svara 7y ago
I do not understand the hate she consistently gets specifically in the anglosphere. Even the reddit thread about her the other day was full of hate. I honestly don't understand, can someone explain? Of course she's can't save
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by svara 7y ago
In many places around the world, commercial or taxi driver's licenses require additional medical and background checks compared to a regular license, plus taxis require additional insurance. E.g., UK https://www.gov.uk/
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by svara 8y ago
The sense of smell is a sense for the identity of (typically small) chemical compounds. So there absolutely are machines that can "smell" things. E.g., mass spectrometers, or in a broader sense any technique that can detect specif
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World’s first gene-edited babies created in China(theguardian.com)
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by svara 9y ago
How do you know the total amount of fiat put into crypto?
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by svara 9y ago
A lot of people here on HN agree that Tether is shady. Honest question: If that is so, why is it trading so stably around 1 USDT / USD?
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by svara 9y ago
I really wanted to like this article, because I came accross the term MCMC quite a bit, but never knew what it was exactly. I'm slightly disappointed, though. Almost all of it is dedicated to introducing prerequisite terminology (prior
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by svara 9y ago
> What this all tells us is that we can watch the relationship between Bitcoin’s price and difficulty to see situations where Bitcoin is overvalued. These situations would be times where the difficulty rate stayed the same while the pric
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by svara 9y ago
Cool setup. But if you're incrementally sending snapshots to a non-ZFS host (S3), your S3 storage will keep growing indefinitely, because you can't delete any snapshots from there ever, since they reference each other. Correct?
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by svara 9y ago
I don't think it's the wording - for me the problem is that I get the intuition that, at the time just after the game show host opened a door with a goat behind it, the system can be in one of four states of equal probability: * C
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by svara 9y ago
Also, you can export the event and birthday calendar to a different calendar app ( https://www.facebook.com/help/152652248136178?helpref=uf_per... ).
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by svara 9y ago
Exactly. That's why we keep going in circles when talking about these things, and why people have been repeating themselves for hundreds of years, yet the problem still seems fresh. I wish I had something more substantive to add, but
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by svara 9y ago
I would expect any effect of atmospheric CO2 concentration on a person's carbohydrate intake to be totally dominated by food preference / availability / choice and by selective breeding of plants used for food. That's my
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Really? I actually liked that solution, I think it's both readable and clever. The rule priority is defined by the order of your list of tuples ('fizzbuzz' vs. 'buzzfizz'), so easy to change. That's superior to
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by svara 9y ago
> PyTorch is becoming much more popular among researchers, even if TensorFlow use is widespread among data scientists. Could you maybe comment on why this is the case? Are there technical reasons for that?

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