Expez

121 ms·

1.
by Expez 3y ago
The article doesn't cover this, but it's worth pointing out why the study asks this particular question. With a single-payer system the Nordic countries want to know what the ROI is if we sent letters out to everyone above a ce
2.
by Expez 3y ago
The article says it will "diffuse away" which implies they just let it escape the device. It'll then move through the tissue / fluids, reach the blood and eventually be breathed out. I did a quick google search to see
3.
by Expez 3y ago
One of the four parties in the ruling coalition has rural voters as their main constituency. This weirdness might be the result of them negotiating to keep the cost of driving a tractor around low. I'm not sure what they are doing on
4.
by Expez 4y ago
> How come they can lose more money than they raised? The difference is debt they've taken on.
5.
by Expez 4y ago
In his book Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi dives a bit deeper into what sort of "problems" we should choose for yourself if we want a happy life. The gist of it is that we should pick activities that we can loose ourselves in. Ev
6.
by Expez 5y ago
This is a good point. In practice people (e.g. exchanges, that know who you are after KYC) still opt to wait a little because if something does go wrong it's a hassle to actually get paid. For the same reason, we are likely to check s
7.
by Expez 5y ago
The block time is 2 minutes. You can choose to wait for 0 blocks or 100. The longer you wait the better the security of your transaction, because there's more PoW behind it. All crypto work like this. You also get more security behi
8.
by Expez 6y ago
CIDER, which the author of this blogpost maintains, has support for such metadata, under the style/indent key. The hope, when it was created, was that more editors would adopt this, but after years it's not caught on. I use it ext
9.
by Expez 6y ago
Get one of the apps with a sleep timer :)
10.
by Expez 7y ago
The post has a good quote from Bill Murray: > I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first.’ See if that doesn’t cover most of it. There’s not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes a
11.
by Expez 7y ago
> Scientists also developed a way of "carbon dating" mutations. They showed that more than a fifth of them occurred years or even decades before a cancer is found. > He added: "Unlocking these patterns means it should n
12.
by Expez 7y ago
I just listened to the book Bad Pharma, by Ben Goldacre, which deals with this problem. The author works as a doctor and so has a bit of an inside view of how the industry does 'science' and how this affects doctors and patients.
13.
by Expez 7y ago
Guarding a refinery is at least doable in principle, but most oil is transported there by way of a pipeline. Guarding miles and miles of pipes in the middle of nowhere is going to be prohibitively expensive. The Trans-Arabian pipeline for
14.
by Expez 7y ago
Here's the paper itself, freely available for once, if anyone else wants to take a deeper dive: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.190327
15.
by Expez 7y ago
No, it's cash in and cash out. That's the entire point of an ETF, that it's very easy to buy and sell yet still tracking something complex. Imagine if you'd invested in the Russel 3000 index, which aims at tracking the
16.
by Expez 7y ago
I think this is bullshit. It seems completely unrealistic to get everyone to reduce their meat consumption and cut down on e.g. holidays abroad. I think it's much realistic to have people pay for their own negative externalities and u
17.
by Expez 7y ago
Is anyone working on putting these ideas into a working product? I'm taking guitar lessons over Skype and for the most part it works just fine. However, every once in a while we have to resort to recording and sending snippets over the
18.
by Expez 7y ago
In-house product development of a SaaS platform. You can check out it out at ardoq.com. The company is imo a great place to work, but this is also in Norway where it's pretty common for people (usually older ones, though) to work 80 o
19.
by Expez 7y ago
I work 60% now. Instead of having two days off each week I've opted to work 4.5h each day. I can only focus intensely for about 4h each day on coding, so this works out well. It's always been this way for me and to get to 8 hours
20.
by Expez 7y ago
I recently finished Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker and this exact point was made in that book. I'll paraphrase a salient quote from the book: poverty is the greatest polluter. Intuitively this makes great sense: when you're e
21.
by Expez 7y ago
Imagine a company has 100 shares and for argument's sake let's assume that company is never going to turn a profit but break even forever. What would you pay for one of those shares? Nothing, right? The company is worthless. Now
22.
by Expez 7y ago
Yes, it's only captured until the tree dies. After that the tree rots etc and carbon is released again. The clue to net carbon capture is to plant new forests and make sure the forest stays alive. While the forest lives, all the CO2
23.
by Expez 7y ago
I haven't seen this fact mentioned in this thread yet, but it's super important: This stack of money doesn't belong to any one generation. It's set aside for all future generations to enjoy. Each year the government can
24.
by Expez 7y ago
Really lazy reporting. We need the total to know how much $2B really matters to Broadcom. Putting the math on this here for everyone else: > Huawei accounted for about $900 million, or 4%, of the company’s overall sales last year. Broad
25.
by Expez 7y ago
There's so much talk about the growing inequality that I tried to find out what would happen if the rich were mobbed and all the money redistributed. According to [0] there were 73,110 ultra wealthy US citizens in 2017, i.e. individual
26.
by Expez 7y ago
Wonder if Hydro in turn will file criminal charges. They bought the business unit at fault here in 2000[1]. Surely they could hold someone accountable for fraud that way? They thought they bought a business capable of producing quality pa
27.
by Expez 7y ago
If the extra cost is labor it's fine, but not if it's material cost. People have been know to melt down coins and sell the metal when the intrinsic value of the coin exceeds its face value. This practice is illegal most places,
28.
by Expez 7y ago
It's when you send cryptocurrency to an address nobody has the keys to, or that is the cryptographic equivalent of a black hole (provably inaccessible). The problem GP is addressing is that the regulators aren't really incentivize
29.
by Expez 7y ago
What you're describing here is really what Ericsson refers to when he talks about 'deliberate practice' (from the 10 000 hours meme). You correctly recognized that instead of doing more laps some of your time was better spen
30.
by Expez 7y ago
TL;DR quote from the article: > Why do parents continue helping children into their early twenties or beyond? It seems to be, largely, because they can. Who said trickle-down economics doesn't work? :trollface:

More ›