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by tompccs 3y ago
Must be very niche as lasers operate typically below 10% efficiency. And one speck of dust or defect on a component and you're setting fire to something.
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by tompccs 3y ago
I'm sure Byzantine HR processes are constantly being bungled, but you almost never hear about it. These processes only exist because every hiring decision needs a paper trail to show compliance with a myriad of employment and discrimin
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by tompccs 3y ago
A few years ago I had a strange experience of sitting through a gig in an East London pub while a hipster "sang" a spoken word song about Deptford (where he had moved to) and how the pre-existing community there has been ravaged b
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by tompccs 4y ago
It's surprising that ATC works in such a human-driven manual way. Compare to train signalling, where tracks are divided into signalled sections, and a train cannot enter the next section until the section ahead is clear, with automated
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by tompccs 4y ago
Have you heard of a small movement called organic farming? https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
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by tompccs 4y ago
I'd put microbiome research high up on my list of things which will turn out to be junk science in a few years. A lot of the actual numbers in this are pretty tenuous. Primates have 80 species of bacteria and city dwellers have 50? Wow
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by tompccs 4y ago
The whole premise of this article rests on the idea that an employee will do exactly the work required of him regardless of his output being visible to his manager. I say to that: bollocks. Outside of the most scrupulous employees or those
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by tompccs 4y ago
Everything you have written is wrong. Gas is very efficient. If you have the choice of burning gas at a power station (which is how a lot of electricity is generated now a days) and piping it directly into people's homes for the end go
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by tompccs 4y ago
Get a job as a security guard for an office building. You will have fewer interruptions than most full time software engineers.
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Ask HN: M1 Mac – is Mighty still worth it?
4 points by tompccs 4y ago|0 comments
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The Heidecker Family Website(heidecker.eu)
1 points by tompccs 5y ago|0 comments
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by tompccs 5y ago
This problem _is_ a result of central planning. Government backed loans have over inflated the price of degrees and created an oversupply of graduates with little attention paid to the skills employers actually want. In a free market kids w
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by tompccs 5y ago
He's saying the workforce is being drained by people retiring, not resigning. Hence the headline.
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by tompccs 5y ago
People mistake schoolchild-level analogies for the way the real world works all the time. Kids grow up disillusioned that the neat causal view of history with a strong moral arc they learned at school is a gross simplification, and assume t
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by tompccs 5y ago
"And this is just the US. Imagine how much variety there's gonna be outside of it." Less than you think. America is an outlier among developed nations for how non-standardised their road signs are.
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Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's (1970) [pdf](nymag.com)
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by tompccs 5y ago
Stalin could have only dreamed of such things.
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by tompccs 5y ago
Ironically something which makes this much less viable (unless the cars are exported after being refreshed) are the ever-shifting goalposts of EU emission standards. This is fundamentally what limits the usable life of a car in the UK - man
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by tompccs 5y ago
How is withdrawing your crypto keys from an exchange functionally different from hiding jewellery around the house? At least the value of the jewellery is far less volatile, plus you can wear and enjoy it, which makes you less likely to los
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by tompccs 5y ago
"With the shift to mobile, we now live firmly in a world of clients and servers – with the former completely unable to act as the latter – and those questions seem more important to me than ever. Meanwhile, ethereum actually refers to
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by tompccs 5y ago
At what point does brute forcing wallet private keys become more lucrative for miners than mining? Presumably you can use almost identical hardware too.
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by tompccs 5y ago
Because the talent can't get into America because of its terrible immigration system.
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by tompccs 5y ago
Interesting perspective. The solar system seems like an easily exhaustible frontier.
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by tompccs 5y ago
I think this is very wrong, and the foundation of modernism in art and architecture (which is to say, you are wrong in a very unoriginal way!) The Greeks used all sorts of forced perspective tricks in their architecture. Columns aren't
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by tompccs 5y ago
There are two types of technologies: those which give the user leverage in the real world; and games. Which is Meta? Ben Thompson tries to make the case that it's the former, but I have my doubts. Thinking about my current 95% remote w
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by tompccs 5y ago
How do you square that with the fact that there are literally millions of people willing to travel hundreds of miles on foot risking death just to live there?
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by tompccs 5y ago
Classic Economist to miss the story behind the story: "The working-age employment rate (the share of 16- to 64-year-olds in a job) was at an all-time high in over half of rich countries." Yes, because about half the population - w
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by tompccs 5y ago
Headline is misleading. The infectivity is comparable to Delta (within a standard deviation). From what I can tell, they only compares immune escape relative to the original wild type, not delta. I'm not an immunologist but the headlin
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by tompccs 5y ago
I don't think you can compare the network effect of people with VCRs and charging networks. Each person only needs 1 VCR, in their own home, and it's not that expensive to switch to the dominant format. Charging on the other hand
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by tompccs 5y ago
BBC story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57589822

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