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My understanding is that viral load is always a factor for every virus. Laboratories don't use soap and water, because they want to kill 100% of the viral particles, not 99.9%. They work with sam…

It stopped working if the meeting has over 50 people.

Is there any way a random HN reader could help? I wish my country do more tests.

vehicles killed more than WW2. Coal kills more than Chernobyl, but our instincts are bad in assessing risks like that.

you don't want it random. You want to add a splay .e.g # add a random value (from 0 to X) to the timeout # This can be used to prevent the thundering herd problem splay = "5s"

and Apple is using slave labor TODAY https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22457389

You will became immune to it over time. My first scratched used to takes 2 weeks to heal. After a year it only took 2-3 days.

Deis socks used to be the best socks that I owned https://twitter.com/opendeis/status/841794642521739264?lang=... Great stuff and USPS shipping is free to Europe (DHL is $11…

That's why I go to gym at least 3 times a week. I build muscle to increase my "static" calories burn - and obviously burn calories while lifting weight. I kicked sugar as well.

> lasts a life time. This won't change much. Nobody will work on Pentium II, drive a gas guzzler or get a low resolution MRI. It's hard to regulate such stuff. You can only improve it a b…

> Avoid package level state Seek to be explicit, reduce coupling, and spooky action at a distance by providing the dependencies a type needs as fields on that type rather than using package variabl…

Is NOx an issue if it's far away from humans?

Did they want to get find then?

Maybe a warning like on a cigarette pack could help? e.g. "spending more than 15% of your income on a car can lead to a financial ruin". Warning on cigarettes reduced smoking by a few percen…

manual windows require more moving parts

I'm not sure how OLAP relates to CockroachDB. The use case for CockroachDB is quite simple. You have millions of applications that runs Postgres. A large chuck of them have to process more and mo…

Has anyone tried to run CockroachDB with GCP TrueTime?

I want to build an electric go-cart. Any good books on that? :)

I'd like to see some more granular status e.g. out of 15k cases 1000 are 25-35 years old males that were healthy. The survivability rate is X for that group.

>... completely end by 2027 Having a very tiny homeless population is a sign of healthy society. What are gonna do with some people that are non-violent and don't want to live in the building …

People adapt. Criminals wear helmets.

Does anyone have a good cost comparison of nuclear, gas, coal/lignite ? Total cost, with decommission. My understanding is that even with Carbon Tax coal is cheaper. From HN comment: > Take th…

I disagree. If one generator fails, it's not a big problem. If you have a failure in a large reactor it's a biggie, so you have to use very expensive materials and design to avoid failure.

I'm not sure how do you mean. You get economy of scale by saving in costs gained by an increased level of production. It's cheaper to create 100 widgets for 100 small reactors in 10 locatio…

Yes, you need to exchange heat, most likely water since it's most cost effective. > And if there's water in your mine, it seems like it could transport radioactive particles out You need …

I've been thinking about this for a bit and had a similar model in mind. You build small nuclear reactors in a containers - similar how Google builds their DC. You find an abandoned coal mine sha…

Good article, but the model is too simple. UK used to produce more cars than Germany, but it's the opposite now. Why? They haven't shared the same currency. German cars were better. > And…

There should be a ban on exports, unless it is proven they are recycled. You buy garbage from Germany to recycle in Poland. You store it in some field temporarily, before the recycling. You set them o…

They could still build an electric super card and pool with fiat.

That's why I use electric scooter to work. It costs 300$ and I spend 1$ a month on electricity to charge it (I could charge at work). It's an 10X improvement for short distance travel. It&#x…