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by yobbo 5y ago
As I gather, the interesting part is that the hull was built of oak planks sandwiched between pine planks. Total thickness 18 cm. It seems it was self-reinforcing, not built by "cladding" a frame.
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by yobbo 5y ago
This comments sounds ugly but before dismissing it, count instead how many of your own friends are poor or destitute. How would your own friendships be affected if you yourself became destitute?
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by yobbo 5y ago
Limerance is the agonizing feeling that happens before (or after what-could-have-been) a relationship. The wiki article equates it with "a crush". It's what nature invented to keep lonely guys looking for relationships instea
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by yobbo 5y ago
The posts are from before they lab-tested if it was contaminated; and no news since aug 2019? Likely, it was contaminated and not ancient. Yeast/bacteria is everywhere. Any flour/grain can be turned into sourdough. The "feedi
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by yobbo 5y ago
Yes, one usually needs to "intuit" the meaning when there are mixes of subscripts/superscripts/parameters, assumed definitions, mixes of variable naming conventions, the order of function arguments randomly adjusted to t
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by yobbo 5y ago
The published numbers are opaque. There is no way of confirming what mechanisms are used since the data is secret. See the paragraphs on data confidentiality.
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by yobbo 5y ago
The effective purpose of CPI is to be the rationale for credit and monetary expansion. Without that, the housing and stock markets would be left to drift freely. The exact mechanisms behind something like CPI are probably secret to prevent
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by yobbo 5y ago
To anyone who thinks "it is easy", try this experiment: recreate a popular song (+100M views on YT for example) in some DAW. (the songs are produced in similar DAWs.) You won't be able to recreate the vocals, but you should b
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by yobbo 5y ago
> We are not even remotely close to living in a "We have too much power" world Not a "world", but this happens locally in Europe due to wind/solar momentarily producing more than demand. There have been instances
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by yobbo 5y ago
> can be turned on and off quickly and on demand Nuclear can be throttled up at most within an hour? Down almost immediately I suspect.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> More competitors ... are helpful to workers and producers.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> between iDeal / Tikkie / and bank transfers These things are usually cartels between the local entrenched banks, and not the sort of innovation GP meant. The idea is the existence of urls such as paynow://any-bank-a
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by yobbo 5y ago
Realistically only an issue in places like Singapore or Hong Kong. The scarce asset is not actually land but infrastructure such as roads, water, sewage and electricity. These are usually financed publicly, but the increase in land value u
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by yobbo 5y ago
Japan's housing market is on a different trajectory. It peaked in late 1980s, I think. The problem with London is not building codes or zoning. Rather it's policies that make opportunities concentrate there.
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by yobbo 5y ago
Housing is more "consumption" or "speculation" than "investment", since a house generates a negative cash flow. What defines an investment is generally expected future positive cash flow. What makes most house
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by yobbo 5y ago
> it's not a depreciating asset Yes, they depreciate, and much faster than you imagine before you have seen it. This can be experienced in buildings in depopulated towns that have been vacant for only a few years. Houses that are no
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by yobbo 5y ago
> by supply and demand. The relevant unit of supply/demand here is mortgages, which are indeed controlled by government policies.
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by yobbo 5y ago
They became speculative assets (not investments) when prices started appreciating faster than incomes. Government subsidised mortgages are the cause of this. The technical implementation varies in different countries. House prices are &quot
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by yobbo 5y ago
But the space is not 2D unless it's a small calm canal. Waves/swells/wakes can make the difference in vertical position of the bow relative to the stern change by meters (or whatever depending on length) but it can be signifi
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by yobbo 5y ago
Railways outcompeted canals for shipping, and then road trucks outcompeted railways. Controlling the boat near the dock is probably more difficult than cars or air planes since swells/waves/winds can move the boat relative to the
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by yobbo 5y ago
> People are people and many don't understand or are actively afraid of technology. One possible alternative is that people are suspicious/defensive (sometimes justifiably) when techies ask questions about "what problems a
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by yobbo 5y ago
So many of the designs are timeless classics, but the older pictures make them look dated. It's the look-and-feel of the room, decor, colour balance, lightning, picture quality that make the pieces in the pictures look dated, as if the
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by yobbo 5y ago
How would anyone compete with a scam business model? Ad buyers don't care if it's effective. Or rather they need convincing-looking gibberish to convince their bosses that they're worthwhile. Bosses don't want to seem st
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by yobbo 5y ago
Mind blown
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by yobbo 5y ago
A big point is that a class is testable in isolation if all its dependencies can be "faked". A class with dependencies that can't be faked is problematic, so the class should generally not create any members itself. I think t
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by yobbo 5y ago
The problem is that power from wind is random. To match supply=demand, a regulating/controllable power-source like coal/gas/hydro is needed. Because Europe is closing their coal/nuclear plants and hoping to replace them
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by yobbo 5y ago
> What's the systemic issue that keeps doing wealth gatekeeping? UMC wants these jobs reserved for its children. Btw, what's wrong with that? If the job itself doesn't require any particular skill or competence but is very
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by yobbo 5y ago
Einsum is a generalization of matrix multiplications to "tensor multiplications". It can take as_strided objects as input. I don't think there exists a cuda-accelerated einsum, so the equivalent matmul is always faster? With
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by yobbo 5y ago
If multiple applications with limited functionality are interfacing with the db, then adding certain logic with procedures can be a good solution for consistency. Procedures can be triggered by inserts/updates/deletes. This means
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by yobbo 5y ago
The risk taking that matters is done by investors, not by individuals. Random European engineers have few opportunities to take risks at all. It is not a question about attitude.

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