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541.
by zajio1am 4y ago
1) flickering 2) fuzzy pixels
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> Solar requires surprisingly little space Not really. If i look on average production for utility-scale power plants (e.g. [0]), i get average net production of 5 MW/km^2. Germany has average total primary energy consumption ~387 T
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> What country/party has this position? Northern Europe. In Iceland even porn is illegal.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Solar on geosynchronous orbit is 24/7 power supply. Solar on land works only in day, and in northern latitudes like in central Europe it does not really work during winter (there are too little insulation, so production is on 10-15 % o
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Europe did not introduced energy sanctions, both gas and pipeline-transferred oil were exempt from sanctions. But even before the war, there were gas shortages. Part of gas was delivered based on long-term contracts, part based on spot cont
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Problem is that fractional scale factors are broken, unless your GUI is completely vector-based. While OS can render texts and vector graphics on fractional scales, bitmaps has to be scaled, which makes them blurry.
547.
by zajio1am 4y ago
Slaves are not no-cost labor, they have market price (i.e. capital costs), and you need to feed them (i.e. operational costs). Also, to get simple rotational power, you do not need slaves, you just need oxen.
548.
by zajio1am 4y ago
> In the world we live in, this would be used to abort babies that don't pass the PGS to the vast majority of people who have this information. Does it matter? Neither fetuses nor abstract population groups are moral agents, only in
549.
by zajio1am 4y ago
As a non-native english speaker, i have no problem to understand plain american/canadian english, but i got lost fast when the speaker have some strong accent. So i can see that such product may improve usability of call centers for no
550.
by zajio1am 4y ago
> The 1 makes a lot of sense in a human world, when we count, we start at 1, we talk about the "1st", counting on finger starts with 1, etc. It is more like counting from 1 is just a leftover from times where zero was not commo
551.
by zajio1am 4y ago
The scheme supposes mailto: scheme works (by web browser starting MUA after click to mailto: scheme link). I cannot imagine that is true for majority of people. Perhaps it worked in the past where people used real MUA application, and such
552.
by zajio1am 4y ago
Most books have reasonably-sized paragraphs.
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Car Seats as Contraception (2020)(papers.ssrn.com)
99 points by zajio1am 4y ago|180 comments
554.
by zajio1am 4y ago
'VPN' is just a nickname for secure tunnels. These can be used for many different purposes.
555.
by zajio1am 4y ago
Middle eastern and north african people are generally considered white here in Europe. Using 'white' just as synonymum for 'european-ancestry' is some recent US quirk.
556.
by zajio1am 4y ago
Both religion and national identity are changeable, they are 'just opinions', but both are key historical examples of protected class. You can say that both are predicted by geography, but must conflicts happen in situations where
557.
by zajio1am 4y ago
'protected class' is just legal criterion that varies between jurisdictions. For example, political opinion is protected class in EU.
558.
by zajio1am 4y ago
These two things are not related in any way. You could clearly have a communicator that stores its contact lists exclusively on the client, but does not abuse identifiers and contact lists of different applications (PSTN calling software).
559.
by zajio1am 4y ago
People who want reliable operations use wired connections (e.g. USB). People who prefer wireless are anyway accustomed to things that suck.
560.
by zajio1am 4y ago
But you have to also take into account damage caused by not using these chemicals.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> It surprises most people that even your stockbroker, who is supposed to hold "your" shares for you, does not do so. Depends on contract with stockbroker. For example stockbroker i use cannot lend my shares unless i allow it i
562.
by zajio1am 4y ago
Why do you think that predispositions for human will are not genetically determinted?
563.
by zajio1am 4y ago
I think there is clear philosophical division between 'humanist' medical position, which tries to fix what is broken, but considers healthy human body and mind as ideal, and 'transhumanist' medical position, which consid
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> Creating novel waterproofing chemicals that don't have naturally-occurring ways to break down and then dumping them into the water supply isn't something beavers, or ants, or birds, can do. Genes encode proteins, proteins are
565.
by zajio1am 4y ago
> stuff like ... leads to a possible exploit where the input is manipulated so n is large The same is true for most recursive calls, should recursion be also banned in programming languages?
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> I will be the first to criticise the fact that Pine seems to be increasingly leaning on the community to produce working software/firmware for their products Isn't this a double standard? Linux is most commonly used on PCs an
567.
by zajio1am 4y ago
Demand-driven recession means there is insufficient demand which leads to decreased production and a level of slack in economy (real GDP lower than potential GDP), while unemployment is a manifestation of such slack. If you have decline in
568.
by zajio1am 4y ago
> Windows also has the context menu key, which I think it pretty useless to be honest but others might get value from that It is a convenient key to map compose key on.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Because societal official/legal time is based on UTC and not on TAI. So the point is to change societal official/legal time, not just to use different time standard.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
I would add Austria and Czechia since 1945. They had about the same GDP/capita after WW2, but after the end of communist rule in Czechoslovakia in 1989, It was about 2-3 times higher in Austria.

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