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In addition to the 12 hour shift for all, and night shifts being allowed for women, there is still a 48 hour workweek, and maximum overtime of 145 hours in a 3 month period (an average of one extra 12 hour shift per week). Indian employers
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The article is also only covering HDDs, not SSDs. For portable consumer SSDs over 5TB, I can find some at 8TB https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?storeName=External-SSDs&pageTitl...
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TFA has a section called "The Burden of Proof" which is a collection of causal studies and natural experiments on the topic of smartphone use.
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Don't forget HN on that list. I think the minimalist design and lack of notifications are good nudges to log off, but it's very possible to spend too much time here. (As I would know from experience.)
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I'm somewhat randomly guessing that the amount of housing in your town has increased under 10% since the start of the pandemic. With just remote work, it's feasible for the same population to expand into that much more housing, gu
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I'm very confused how you get to the point where water and coffee are mixing in your Aeropress before adding the filter. I know that people like messing around with their coffee, but I assumed that the process had to be 1) filter, 2) c
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Those costs are all distributed over the manufactured product, as opposed to requiring bespoke engineering and construction work on each installation. I would also argue that designing more energy efficient transportation is worth doing reg
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Solar panels are dirt cheap, so throwing them approximately everywhere makes good sense. We're not really limited in the number of panels we can produce right now. Rooftop solar is mostly expensive because installed costs are 10x the r
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> “The chemical reaction for lithium superoxide or peroxide only involves one or two electrons stored per oxygen molecule, whereas that for lithium oxide involves four electrons,” said Argonne chemist Rachid Amine. More electrons stored
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It's a literature review, and no social science question is replicated 100% of the time. But here's the main question and answer: > 5. Question 3A: Do Experiments Using Random Assignment Show a Causal Effect of Social Media Use
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Z-Wave uses a signal around 900 MHz. The differences in how countries regulate it leads to this fun map and table of exact frequencies: https://www.silabs.com/wireless/z-wave/global-regions
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> Even if the estimate is accurate, there is a massive qualitative difference between slowly dying horribly for 'x' years and living a normal life for 'y' years. The difference in measured in QALYs - quality-adjusted
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Here's the study: https://www.ncpe.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Libmeldy-Bene... It's worth mentioning that the study in Ireland indicates that the treatment extends life by 14.49 QALYs (avera
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> I'm pretty sure that maintaining a C++ codebase is less than 7.7 times more expensive than Node, even if you throw in extra development time etc. The problem here is assuming that a 7.7x less expensive AWS bill is the same value a
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In this case, crossing 1000 tons is crossing the Gg (Giga-gram) barrier, so there is some justification
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The opening of this article is confusing. It contrasts relatively expensive Zigbee and Z-Wave devices with cheap sensors emitting radio signals in the unlicensed ISM bands. But Zigbee and Z-Wave both operate in ISM bands, so the distinction
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What climate zone are you in? (assuming US) https://learnmetrics.com/wp-content/uploads/hspf4-and-hspf5-... If you're in 1, 2, or 3, heat pumps are definitely the right option. In zone 4 or 5, newer cold temp
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It's kinda both. From the article: > That explains why the “below premium” segment was the only one to see an increase in demand in January compared to January 2022, according to the National Beer Wholesalers Association’s Beer Purc
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I have seen units like that Frigidaire before, and can never tell whether it's actually a heat pump, or just an AC/resistance heat combination. Edit: Nevermind I'm an idiot. From the spec page of that unit: BTU (Cool): 11,000
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> burdening 8 billion law-abiding Citizens with impossibly complex and arduous KYC/AML requirements TFA notes that "This will affect the typical user of the financial system precisely zero times during their lives." It is
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> I also learned that batteries cannot be recycled. That seems factually incorrect, and the anti-renewables paragraph was the thing that jumped out at me most, though the author claims not "to say that we should abandon renewables a
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NYCHA is currently running a contest to develop a heat pump window unit. All of the proposed units are expensive to get those contest dollars, but should come down in price after. https://www.gradientcomfort.com/pages/p
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> over 95 degrees Note that a heat pump cooling a building is essentially the same as an air conditioner. So it's more a matter of how efficient the air conditioner you're replacing is. Cooling a house is much easier than heati
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Single-unit buildings close to downtown can have higher land costs. But single-unit buildings in single-unit neighborhoods are, again, around 1/5 land cost. https://property.phila.gov/?p=492129100 https://pr
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Note that both of their rear tires were flat, which complicates things
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Awesome. Thanks for the explanations!
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> How can it do merges in space (much) smaller than the input. That's part of it. More specifically I'm interested in the dynamic nature of the space overhead. In the video you linked, from 10 to 12 seconds, it looks like the a
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I used the word "allocate" imprecisely. (The plain English description in the README did a good job of explaining the up-front allocation needs.) What I meant to ask: How does the algorithm stay bounded in memory usage? Is glideso
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The ability to work with different memory sizes is pretty intriguing. How does the algorithm decide where and when to allocate?
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The main roadblock here is the crime. You would need some safeguards to make sure these people aren't real enough to receive any government benefits, or open a bank account.

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