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Comment · 5 months ago
Can someone please explain the innards?
Comment · 5 years ago
As a layperson interested in effects of compounds on the human body, this is not super surprising.

It’s a vasodilator, which lowers blood pressure. That takes away one of the main limiting factors on lifespan - the heart’s ability to keep pumping.

Comment · 5 years ago
At this point, it’s the same as RF spectrum. Yet clearly there is no regulatory body to manage it.
Comment · 7 years ago
Nuclear is the only technology that sufficiently solves the heat problem.

Lots of our energy is spent on heat, whether residential or industrial.

Nuclear produces heat. If only we used this for district heating, container ships, and electricity

Comment · 7 years ago
First, a nitpick - your numbers should be per million people, not per person:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_produ...

Second - the output itself depends on management, so I'm not sure it would be fair to compare current production numbers to show the potential help to the population. In fact - Venezuela has more proven reserves per-capita than Norway, by an incredible margin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oi...

Comment · 7 years ago
The media might not be intentionally manipulating the stock so much as publishing information which short sellers find, package, and hand over for free. The incentive is there to create a misleading information campaign even without assuming the media is being very deliberate or coordinating.

Edit: I have no idea why I'm being so downvoted here. All I am saying is that short sellers have incentive to hand the media whatever they can to help their case (not so controversial, right?) and that the media might be taking it for free rather than, as the parent poster says, coordinating to specifically harm Tesla (is this the controversial bit?)

Comment · 7 years ago
Others are suggesting practical reasons for having watch history enabled, but I would think that the vast majority have it enabled simply because that is the default.
Comment · 7 years ago
I was also under that impression until the Cloudflare event happened. I do not actually know what their dependency was, but all shops were taken offline.
Comment · 7 years ago
The Google, Cloudflare, and Stripe outages all affected Shopify. So Shopify has had several meaningful outages over the past few weeks.
Comment · 7 years ago
It's worth noting that there are a few open source email marketing platforms out there too. Sendy is $60 and obfuscates some of the source code.

Mautic and Mailtrain are two that I have tried. In my experience, both have some odd areas, but Mautic is a bit more flexible and has fewer significant bugs.

Comment · 7 years ago
I've wondered if, in this context that we are in, it actually starts to make sense to both raise interest rates and simultaneously monetize government debt.

We want some inflation, but we also do not want a late-1980s-style Japanese asset price bubble.

I cannot find a real answer to this question anywhere - would this plan produce any negative effect? The plan would, as far as I can tell, help the long-term outlook of our currency and economy while incentivizing wealthy people to stay invested.

I might be missing something obvious. Maybe this would lead to businesses having a harder time employing because of the higher borrowing cost (but we are at full employment now), or maybe the effect is just too uncertain on the money supply. Either way, I really want to know the answer, so I'm asking it here.

To be clear, I am not suggesting that politicians have direct control over monetizing debt, but rather that the central bank deems this to be best for the economy in the long term.

Comment · 7 years ago
John currently works for Facebook as CTO of Oculus.
Comment · 7 years ago
I've been using Node Red for a few automation things too, basically as a self-hosted ifttt/zapier, and it's been working well. I would recommend it beyond home automation for the kinds of things that are "too small" to warrant their own code project and deployment setup but are still important enough to be automatic. This includes things like checking a webpage every 10 minutes and sending a text if it changes, or remapping webhooks between random services.
Comment · 7 years ago
This is not totally true. It’s not 100% syntax. Elixir has one additional and widely used feature: macros.

In Elixir, as in Lisp, you can transform your code as a data structure into new code. This is importantly used in Ecto, the de-facto object data mapper in Elixir. It’s also used in Absinthe, a library from the posted link for making GraphQL APIs.

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