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Re:Erlang/OTP 29.0 on Friday May 15, 2026 @09:20PM (#48155918)
Can someone please explain the innards?
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.

Re:Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses on Saturday December 12, 2020 @02:45AM (#25396514)
At this point, it’s the same as RF spectrum. Yet clearly there is no regulatory body to manage it.
Re:Calm Before the Storm on Friday November 15, 2019 @05:38AM (#21543819)
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

Re:Norweigan oil fund on Thursday August 01, 2019 @11:32AM (#20584726)
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...

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?)

Re:YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views on Sunday July 14, 2019 @10:49PM (#20437758)
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.
Re:Twitter was down on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:18PM (#20414642)
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.
Re:Twitter was down on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:07PM (#20414503)
The Google, Cloudflare, and Stripe outages all affected Shopify. So Shopify has had several meaningful outages over the past few weeks.
Re:Mailchimp to Sendy: Cutting Email Costs on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @12:11PM (#20345638)
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.

Re:Too much money and too few places to invest it on Thursday June 06, 2019 @09:42PM (#20120928)
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.

Re:3D interfaces are usually worse than 2D interfaces on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:43PM (#19962942)
John currently works for Facebook as CTO of Oculus.
Re:Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019 on Friday May 10, 2019 @10:14AM (#19877871)
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.
Re:Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo on Sunday April 21, 2019 @08:18PM (#19715412)
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.

Re:Firebase.com and all firebase hosted apps are down? on Thursday April 11, 2019 @07:26PM (#19640332)
Mine were down and just went back up. What really made me panic was when seeing no issues on the status page:

https://status.firebase.google.com/

For a moment, I thought it was an issue with my account.

Re:Cloudflare Registrar on Thursday March 21, 2019 @10:53AM (#19452987)
They get you to sign up, give your credit card, use their nameservers, and then if you get any serious traffic, they will conveniently be there to offer extra features with a paid plan. In my opinion, this is exceptional marketing.
That is because both are the same thing: sodium hypochlorite
Re:SpaceX Launches 19th Rocket in a Year, a Company Record on Monday December 03, 2018 @03:27PM (#18592576)
Additionally, this was the first time that the fairings were recovered and are expected to be reused for a future launch:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1069679948103847939

The fairings currently cost a total of $6MM for each launch, or at least 10% of the physical rocket cost, so this could lead to significant savings for future launches.

Re:I’m Chinese, Google’s DragonFly Must Go On on Friday November 30, 2018 @10:29PM (#18574916)
The objections to DragenFly are not about what is best for the Chinese citizen.

This is not the concern in the signed letter. It is also not related to any of the core concerns from commenters here, as far as I can tell.

Yet somehow, many people are feeding the idea that the primary question is a cost-benefit analysis from the perspective of a person living in China. Of course, access to a pseudo-Google in China would be better for people there. It would be another option, and probably a tad closer to uncensored.

The concerns are simply not about that.

This is about setting a precedent of a company in a liberal democracy bending to the wishes of the government of a non-liberal-democracy.

The concern is that this compromise is not only something that happens in China, but also something that happens next in UK and then in Germany, and then in the US.

The concern is that any society with an "unfiltered" Google becomes a thing of the past. The concern is that the largest organization in the world controlling access to information begins "partnering" with governments and we step into an accelerated path towards disinformation.

Just wait until you hear about science.
Re:Finance makes Apple and Google forced friends on Thursday October 18, 2018 @11:35AM (#18249175)
I've wondered what would happen if Apple acquired DuckDuckGo.

In theory, Apple could overpay a lot and still make a ridiculous return by using it as their default search engine. The usage would multiply overnight.

It would also reinforce Apple's position on privacy, and make Apple less dependent on Google for revenue.

Hmm the halt code appears to be T1, which is for pending news:

https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=TradeHalts#

Re:Trump caves in and signs order to keep families together on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @03:42PM (#17359001)
A quick google search suggests that is not true. I'm curious where you heard that.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/jun/19/...

I disagree. I think the Boring Company FAQ addresses both labor and station costs fairly directly.

Labor: they want to increase automation so there are fewer workers needed, and tunnel faster so they can pay for fewer hours of work.

Stations: they do not want to make expensive subterranean stations, and instead just want small stations at the surface. People have questioned the throughput, but I think throughput appears reasonable if 1 car can leave every 0.5 minutes vs a normal station in which 10 cars leave every 5 minutes

Re:Falcon Heavy Demonstration Mission [pdf] on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @01:27PM (#16318225)
Here’s a to-scale graph of the path each core/stage takes:

https://imgur.com/a/XvPXG

Re:Watch the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Today on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @11:15AM (#16317185)
Here's a to-scale graph of the launch:

https://imgur.com/a/XvPXG

I think the feature makes lots of sense for Robinhood from a business perspective, but I cannot see the majority of Robinhood users fully understanding the risks of buying cryptocurrencies as an investment. It feels similar penny stocks and late-90s tech IPOs in that the price is driven primarily by uncertainty/unknowability in outcome and hype from recent returns.

Also I'm curious if Robinhood Gold (Robinhood's version of margin accounts) will work here, letting people easily borrow money to buy cryptocurrencies. This seems particularly dangerous for a product targeting small/layman investor.

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