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by ucha 6y ago
The same way there is a protuberance to fit large lenses on the back of phones, there should be one on top of laptop monitors. The exterior of the laptop wouldn't change but we would be able to get a smartphone-like camera in a laptop.
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Covert microwave weapon “most plausible” cause of Cuba “health attacks”(arstechnica.com)
1 points by ucha 6y ago|0 comments
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by ucha 6y ago
I'm not surprised by this at all. I used to work in the US at at a large international bank with headquarters overseas that preferred having employees from the same country as HQ. We would advertise a position, internally or just to al
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by ucha 6y ago
Timnit Gebru has a BSc, MSc and PhD in electrical engineering all from Stanford. She did actual electrical engineering work at Apple previously. Maybe it's hard to believe but she's not just another SJW. The idea that companies on
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China’s coal capacity surge need not be at odds with ambitious climate action(chinadialogue.net)
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by ucha 6y ago
You can't run Linux on Macbook Pros released after 2016 in any meaningful sense anyways...
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by ucha 6y ago
They're comparing single-core perf
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by ucha 6y ago
I'm using AdGuard and it covers pretty much everything and is very customizable, including the annoying "accept cookies" banners that we have in Europe.
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by ucha 6y ago
Interesting... I didn't expect people to spend that much on games as I do sometimes wait for sales or buy used, and even sell back back disc games I'm done with.
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by ucha 6y ago
Is the gamepass incredible value? If you keep the console 7 years which is about its expected lifetime, would you expect to spend $840 in games?
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by ucha 6y ago
I understand why no one would want to trust Google and after Snowden's revelations, I don't see why anyone should. But when it comes to the largest VPNs such as ExpressVPN or Nord VPN, it is impossible to tell who is truly behind
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Tesla FSD beta rollout happening tonight(twitter.com)
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by ucha 6y ago
Martin Landry: "People will argue about the need for earlier use (possibly) or that with even more data there may be a benefit (possibly - but where are those trials going to come from). But the effect is modest at best - and so far th
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Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents(bloomberg.com)
286 points by ucha 6y ago|341 comments
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‘There is a fear that this will eradicate dwarfism’: controversy over a new drug(theguardian.com)
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by ucha 6y ago
There will be energy savings for the nodes that have a copy of the blockchain and need to verify transactions but not for the miners. Market forces fundamentally tie the energy consumption of the miners to the price of bitcoin.
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by ucha 6y ago
GM didn't pay $2B. They took a $2B stake in Nikola and agreed to be remunerated to manufacture their truck by using their electric battery tech which they were working on regardless of this deal.
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by ucha 6y ago
I was on the market for a GPU and I would agree with you and wouldn't say it's confirmation bias. On Amazon, most Radeons have 3.5 stars vs 4.5 for Geforces; many reviewers say they purchased a Radeon only to return it later becau
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Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens(projects.tampabay.com)
4 points by ucha 6y ago|1 comments
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by ucha 6y ago
By that line of thinking why not tax the poor to give to the rich, that would accelerate economic growth, wouldn't it?
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Antitrust Politics(stratechery.com)
1 points by ucha 6y ago|0 comments
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by ucha 6y ago
A free trade agreement must be abided by both parties. By prohibiting Chinese companies from operating on US soil, Americans aren't renouncing their values or losing the moral high ground as long as companies from other free countries
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Cerebral Micro-Structural Changes in Covid-19 Patients(thelancet.com)
17 points by ucha 6y ago|2 comments
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by ucha 6y ago
That's somewhat true. The advent of targeted ads allowed lots of niche companies to thrive and compete with the established behemoths that have an oligopoly on shelf space. Internet advertising essentially launched the direct-to-consum
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by ucha 6y ago
nVidia forces cloud providers to use their expensive professional line-up. But other providers that use consumer GPUs are way cheaper, 4x or more. If your models don't need a lot of memory or double precision, providers such as GPUEate
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by ucha 6y ago
There is this very good article of Ben Thompson [1] predicting that Zuckerberg won't budge: 1/ large advertisers represent a small portion of FB's ad revenue 2/ if large advertisers leave and price of ads fall, other &qu
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Did a Chinese Hack Kill Canada’s Greatest Tech Company?(bloomberg.com)
11 points by ucha 6y ago|1 comments
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[video] Fighter Pilot Breaks Down Every Button in an F-15 Cockpit(youtube.com)
1 points by ucha 6y ago|0 comments
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Malaria Drug Promoted by Trump Did Not Prevent Covid Infections, Study Finds(nytimes.com)
6 points by ucha 6y ago|1 comments
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by ucha 6y ago
For reference, this is the original study and HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23273615

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