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helsinkiandrew
24,889karma·4,776submissions·January 2, 2020
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Gift article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-17/billionai... …
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> The new benchmark has been set at the equivalent of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) B2 level. B2 is upper intermediate. Probably 2-5 years of study https://www.coe.in…
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Wouldn't the reasons for requesting identification be the same those for banning people - the system has flagged that you might be from the wrong location/under 18/creating multiple fre…
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The "Why did my account get banned after verification?" section gives some reasons: - Repeated violations of our Usage Policy - Account creation from an unsupported location - Terms of Servi…
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Free Read: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2026-04-14/nasa-s... …
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> Blend it with any dry ingredients like sugar before using. That's the key. I'm not an expert - and have only experience making/mixing liquids for cocktails - but Gum Arabic (often…
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> but that it can take up to 10 days to stop receiving emails when you unsubscribe This is a really bad business practice, people will just mark your mail as spam and the likelyhood of other people…
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From the github readme: > I am no longer developing JSON Formatter as an open source project. I'm moving to a closed-source, commercial model in order to build a more comprehensive API-browsin…
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> When miners can't cover costs, they sell bitcoin to fund operations Surely they should stop producing until its profitable again, or am I missing something?
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China also benefits that demonstrated its influence (by persuading Iran to negotiate) and from its supply of cheap Iranian oil: https://x.com/shanaka86/status/204168277994838…
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There’s a saying in Finland that foreign "saunas" are not true saunas at all, but rather just "untypically warm rooms". The experiments where at 73°C which is a lot hotter than mos…
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85% of Wordpress users are businesses with less than 50 employees [1], in most cases it will be one person who is uploading and managing content and fighting with the config they don’t really understa…
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There’s a tweet by Radigan Carter from a few weeks ago that has a great historical perspective - If you’re not interested on the possible financial outcomes skip to the “How This Started” section. h…
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> I think Tesla as a company is doing the right moves. The management (excluding Elon) seems solid and smart. How can (generally) dropping sales and having 50,000 unsold cars on stock be the right …
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The death of Byte magazine cover artist Robert Tinney, was discussed here just a couple of months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987425 …
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> Helium supply issues are only going to make this worse. I believe helium, although important constitutes a small percent of the cost of semiconductors, so its effect on price will be less severe.…
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> The US can't just pull out, either. The enemy gets a vote on when it's over. Israel, Iran, and Yemen now all have to agree Is that really true? Just claim that Iran's Nuclear ambi…
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> unfortunately, this is not the case Most users are fixing grammar/spelling, summarising/converting/rewriting text, creating funny icons, and looking up simple facts, this is all fa…
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Everything depends on demand. Much of US shale oil hasn’t been economical to extract at times in the past decade. If oil drops below $60 most of the newer basins are not profit making. If oil demand…
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Europe has massive lithium reserves in Germany, Serbia, Portugal and ukraine but perhaps more importantly it also has friendly relations with other countries with reserves