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by xorfish 8y ago
Combating aging will mainly extend your healthy lifespan.
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by xorfish 8y ago
How inefficient can a sort algorithm be with O(1) or O(n) memory usage?
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by xorfish 8y ago
Cost is around one dollar per 35 litre bag. There are no landfills for common trash. Average is around 80 dollars per person per year. Less if you use PPP-Dollars. That is not enough to cover all cost of proper disposal, so the rest is paye
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by xorfish 8y ago
Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Austria All these countries throw less than 5% of their trash into landfills. https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/environment-at-a-g...
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by xorfish 8y ago
A much simpler concept is that you pay for the trash that you don't recycle. Switzerland recycles 93% of all glass bottles(color sorted by consumers) and 83% of all PET bottles. Everything else has to be burned in a plant with minimal
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by xorfish 8y ago
If done properly, PET bottles can be recycled into PET bottles. Consumers have to do their part though. But that is possible. 83% of PET-Bottles in Switzerland get recycled, this is done without any bottle depot. Recycling cost is between
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by xorfish 8y ago
It's not a petition. It is a popular initiative that will add an amendment to our constitution if 100'000 people sign it and it passes a public vote.
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by xorfish 8y ago
USB-A can be 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 Gen 1, 3.1 Gen 2. Same for USB-C. It is just a standardized connector with a defined pinout. If you force the standard to always provide 15 watt, then how will you do that on phones or a raspberry pi or other
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by xorfish 8y ago
You bundle your paper and cardboard. How much metal do you throw away? https://www.newlyswissed.com/a-primer-on-recycling-in-switze...
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by xorfish 8y ago
Homelessness is declining in the US: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homeless-per-capita-us
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by xorfish 8y ago
How can you know that it isn't doing that? I imagine sex crimes to be really hard to proof. Because the difference between a completely legal act and one that is deeply wrong is the state of mind of two people at the time. The justice
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Most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle(youtube.com)
2 points by xorfish 8y ago|0 comments
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by xorfish 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge-localized_mode For anyone wondering what ELMs are.
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President of Switzerland: How can democracy deal with inequality(youtube.com)
3 points by xorfish 8y ago|0 comments
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by xorfish 8y ago
There are lots of opioids that are safer than alcohol. Sure none are completely save, but some have a lower overdose risk and are less damaging to the body.
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by xorfish 8y ago
I wonder how many death could be prevented by legalizing and regulating opioids and other drugs and educate users on different opioids and safe use.
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Psilocybin therapy for depression granted Breakthrough Therapy status by FDA(newatlas.com)
5 points by xorfish 8y ago|1 comments
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by xorfish 8y ago
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184253-ssd-shadiness-kin... It has with SSDs.
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by xorfish 8y ago
Dependence is similar to alcohol, so quite a bit less than Tobacco. But it is a lot less harmful than those two because you either smoke it less than tobacco or the damage is less severe than with alcohol. But smoke is nearly universally ba
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by xorfish 8y ago
Lifetime psychedelic use is associated with reduced suicidality. "Lifetime classic psychedelic use was associated with a significantly reduced odds of past month psychological distress (weighted odds ratio (OR)=0.81 (0.72-0.91)), past
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by xorfish 8y ago
classes of drugs, e.g. opioids, stimulants, cannabinoids, psychedelics and so on Don't forget the dangerous drugs alcohol and tobaco in that list.
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by xorfish 8y ago
A Tesla isn't a status symbol?
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by xorfish 8y ago
https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/ Average dividend reinvested and inflation adjusted return between 1949 and 2016 is 7.5% >>> def comp(A, n, i): ... m = 0 ... for x in range(n): ...
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by xorfish 9y ago
I think the premise is right and I try to minimize my exposure to any kind of advertising. But if you claim to "using science" how about actually using science?
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by xorfish 9y ago
Why not around 50'000 years ago when sapiens drove most megafauna of Australia into extinction?
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by xorfish 9y ago
Do you know how common heat pumps are in the US?
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Will the Future Be Human?(youtube.com)
1 points by xorfish 9y ago|0 comments
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An Algorithm Will Be Your Best Therapist, but It Can Be Hacked Too(youtube.com)
1 points by xorfish 9y ago|0 comments
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by xorfish 9y ago
I know, not all immigrants are low skill. But nearly 25% of Swiss residents do not have a Swiss passport. (Even if you account for the difficulty of the naturalization process, that is a lot)
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by xorfish 9y ago
Hartz IV? That is more than 4$/day

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