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by fzzt 4y ago
This appears to be a poorly-sourced "research" page put together by a marketing agency. There's really nothing there about the methodology of this work, and there's plenty to suggests the authors have very little knowled
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by fzzt 4y ago
The prospect of the images getting "structurally" garbled in unpredictable ways would probably limit real-world applications: https://miro.medium.com/max/4800/1*RCG7lcPNGAUnpkeSsYGGbg.pn... There's
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by fzzt 4y ago
Yeah, it's usually a combination of these two factors. You live beyond your means for a decade or five, and then something else goes wrong : natural disaster, war, crop failure, sanctions, whatever. Situations that could be survivable
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by fzzt 4y ago
The history of coinage spans thousands of years. Despite the popular tales, spot barter was almost certainly not the basis of any real economies. There is definitely some bias in the availability of data, but it was comparatively harder to
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by fzzt 4y ago
Many countries that suffer hyperinflation keep the historical name of their currency, but establish some exchange rate between the "old" and "new" money. Zimbabwe went through four cycles - currency codes ZWD, ZWN, ZWR,
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by fzzt 4y ago
"Allied" in the sense of having a USSR-installed puppet government propped up by the massive presence of Soviet troops. This was a part of the concessions made by the West to Stalin, not an expression of the will of Polish or Germ
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by fzzt 4y ago
Teflon is very non-reactive and any small pieces you ingest should pass through unchanged pretty quickly. You likely ingest a lot more plastic from other sources.
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by fzzt 4y ago
Recessed lighting fixtures are a common cause of problems with LEDs due to poor heat dissipation. But a lot of newer homes have recessed lighting, and in at least some parts of California, the fixtures are now required to be sealed (I guess
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by fzzt 4y ago
Many LED lightbulbs make claims about their expected lifetime. Except these numbers are often a fantasy. The LED itself may last almost forever, but the capacitors commonly go bad in a year or so. I suspect that would be the reality with a
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by fzzt 5y ago
A lot of these questions touch on important topics, but I think there are too many of them and they are far too specific - to the point where you might be inadvertently signaling some kind of unreasonable inflexibility ("you better be
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by fzzt 5y ago
> Maybe we don't want them to be able to do any of that "We" who? Application owners want that, browser vendors want that (their greatest fear is that mobile will eat the web, so they don't want to make the platform l
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by fzzt 5y ago
There's a lot more to that. A bank doesn't want the "back" button to work forever; they want to control the lifetime of your session, ideally on the server. Google wants to let you sign into multiple accounts on the same