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by vl 4y ago
My doctor in the Seattle area said that over the years all her patients tested with moderate to severe deficiency except one. I’m taking 5000 IU daily and it removed day sleepiness during winter months. Before taking it I would be just supe
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by vl 4y ago
Very cool project! I’m a big fan of vertical key rows and split design. So much so that I pulled the trigger and ordered new Kinesis Advantage 360 Pro - currently I’m a happy user of Advantage2.
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by vl 4y ago
Hans Grohe panel shower broke, they don’t make panels like this anymore. Repair parts - $1600. Even BMW is not that greedy. I replaced it with Chinese panel from Amazon for $500. Sure, not as fancy, but works just fine.
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by vl 4y ago
First rule of n-gate you can’t talk about it on HN. Now we both broke the rule. But honestly, his last updates stopped being fun. It became just too repetitive.
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by vl 4y ago
Apart from the question why it wasn't shot down before entering airspace, sensitive information it collects is altitude wind patterns over missile sites and inability of administration to make a decision.
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by vl 4y ago
Well, you can get Chinese thermostatic valve for few times cheaper.
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by vl 4y ago
All thermostatic valves have cartridges that eventually wear off and need to be replaced. Cartridge is accessible from outside by removing the handle held by the side screw (handle can be stuck and hard to remove) and then unscrewing the ca
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by vl 4y ago
When I worked at Amazon I brought my own monitor and chair. When I was leaving I put monitor on the chair and rolled it through security and loaded it into my car. Nobody asked a question, I’m still surprised many years later that security
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by vl 4y ago
Soviets send two dogs and a human on the space flight. Mission Control on the radio: “Belka!” “Woof!” “Press the red button!” “Woof-woof!” “Strelka!” “Woof!” “Press the white button!” “Woof-woof!” “Ivan!” “Woof!” “What “woof”?, feed the dog
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by vl 4y ago
>incident is in a large part why they don't put airstairs on planes any more. They don't do it because it's completely inefficient to carry this weight and waste this space from economic point of view. It's way better
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by vl 4y ago
Nobody asked yet why manhole covers are round? Another curios question since most of the common answers are incorrect.
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by vl 4y ago
There is moment when a guy rolls a manhole out of the holder by hand.
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by vl 4y ago
Also, if your data is binary-heavy, protobufs will give you better bandwidth and storage cost than JSON.
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by vl 4y ago
By any possible metric people in the world today live better than in any point in history. Sure, last two years created a minor setback, but it will be forgotten in the next few years, when there will be another "everything is good and
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by vl 4y ago
If you look at the Pacific Ocean from "top" (i.e. get a globe and rotate it), you'll see that it effectively covers almost entire hemisphere. So there is no surprise that most of the land has no antipodal land. The more inter
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by vl 4y ago
Exactly, this it’s the new research. Standard (incorrect) explanation is because ice melts because of the pressure from the object put on it. Robert Wood showed it to be untrue at the beginning of the twentieth century, but “popular scienti
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by vl 4y ago
>Certainly there are many unexplained effects in solid state physics Wait for it… Why ice is slippery? Usual explanation is completely incorrect. Actual semi-conclusive research just recently happened.
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by vl 4y ago
The irony, of course, if other cars would have been software-driven they would just safely stop. I’ve been in the situation when Tesla auto breaking saved the car from crush, which was similar situation to this.
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by vl 4y ago
The secret is that American school doesn’t really bother itself with that much teaching. Nobody teaches children how to hold pens properly, cursive writing, etc.
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by vl 4y ago
I’m actually not concerned about demographics. With coming automations and workforce becoming irrelevant societal changes are going to be so tremendous, that age of the population is not going to matter.
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by vl 4y ago
([3] link) Are you implying that US sabotaged Nord Stream?
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by vl 4y ago
>We could see a return of manufacturing to the US which leads to continued employment in US labor for while also meaning that labor force gets paid much less. Interesting! Why is it happening? Shouldn’t labor earn more in this scenario?
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by vl 4y ago
It's not exactly a skill they teach you at college. Once you understand concept of work-life balance by yourself it's a bit late and takes huge effort to recover.
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by vl 4y ago
How can you mitigate burn out/mental health issues caused by lack of human interactions and working in the hugely competitive field?
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by vl 4y ago
But you are doing exactly same stuff as software developer - sitting all day at computer is not healthy for body or mind either.
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by vl 4y ago
But event if you would want to hire someone, good luck finding somebody to show up for a small job!
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by vl 4y ago
We essentially came to simple choice: less people, higher standard of living, more people, shittier standard of living. Either choice will require unpopular measures, but at least let’s make the choice consciously. I’m convinced “more peop
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by vl 4y ago
This is flat out incorrect. Depopulation events (like plague) in over-populated areas historically led to higher standard of living for the remaining.
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by vl 4y ago
There is no need to specifically pursue this policy: it works out this way economically anyway. As it getting harder and less convenient to have children, populations growth slows down. If there will be time of prosperity ahead, it will pic
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by vl 4y ago
This explicitly implies that population growth is desired. However, our total resources are limited, and at some point growing population is unsustainable. It can be argued that some countries are already at this point. Ie they have stagnan

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