How expensive was it to participate in message boards. My parents used it so sparingly and with the idea that any minute was addding up.
I read 60 francs l'heure, so about 10 euros or more like 17 with inflation.
Even spending an hour a day would be a costly hobby.
If you have the skills, you should definitely try it.
We have a full team working on this for about 7 years. Constant improvements to our algorithms, new challenges, new technologies. A ton of other functionalities besides counting (e.g. forms, reports, integration). A lot of work on the backend, UX. Also, a lot of sales and marketing involved.
It is impressive you do it so fast. In case you have not thinked about it, some people will be interested by it in life sciences. Best I could do with the picture available on your website https://imgur.com/a/FKEkiFz compared to https://countthingsqanda.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/5-17... I got some wrong counts but the picture is really tiny to work with.
Technically many could do what dropbox did to create a similiar product when they were part of yc class. Many HN have a personal dropbox setup they made themselves.
The key that allowed them to be a billion dollar business was marketing, hype, strategy all things that could apply to any product technical or not.
If you want to make something similiar you could probably get to 80% really quickly. Putting together a product with a reputation is a different event with timing luck and risk. Building that 80% is low risk but high personal reward.
Has anyone built something to read and identify palms or lines in the hands?
It would be the test using QPCR to amplify the virus genomic material from samples collection. That test is a lot more specific though there can be issues with how the samples were obtained.
Well this one seems more rigorous. They monitored concentration in blood for 4 days, they checked viral presence two following days at the end. They don't mention viral load though and I don't know if they have a threshold for cycles in QPCR to estimate that.
This kind of paper is not here to say here is the proof it works or it does not work, it is meant to say: this what we had with us, this how we did it, this is the results we observed and whether or not it validates the hypothesis stated.
I don't think here are available storage solution for renewables and even if there was it would need to be a solution scalable without a risk of running out of resources to make the batteries.
Renewables are great but they work on the shoulders of nuclear/coal which need to pick up the load when there is no sun/wind.
Renewables feel like paying more for getting less with different but not necessarily less pollution issues.
Storage doesn't have to mean batteries. I'd have thought approaches like pumped hydro [1] could scale pretty well. I vaguely recall a similar story from a couple of years back that basically involved lifting giant concrete blocks.
If those solutions were viable at scale then countries like germany or england using lot of renewables and coal (gas or gb) would have been using them already.
They'd only be using them now if they cost less than gas + current carbon taxes.
The question is: at what level of carbon taxes would nuclear displace gas, vs. what level would renewables + storage displace gas. In the US, CO2 taxes would have to exceed $300/ton for new nuclear to displace gas CC baseload, and for intermittent applications the needed tax would be far higher.
Is it possible or ethical to offer a research option to f.lux? Like you would let the user pick that option and have the software dim the luminosity with or without cutting more specifically blue light then have them report and if they felt any difference after a week/month or a month, repeating the process for a few months/week while either alternating or changing the mode.
Maybe it is a dumb idea as it is too easy to tell whether the software is in full effect or not.
Question from a completely clueless perspective.
The points you mention I always have and I have been wondering where to simulate it and get numerical answers to all those behaviors that can be infuriating.
In your seattle full map you say you heuristically got the time for the lights, but where is that coming from exactly, like would it be possible to infer that for another city from some kind of public data.
Is it in the domain of science fiction, there are so many parameters to take in account so it probably is impossible, that you could model the usual behavior of commuters in a city and then simulate whether the current traffic lights are set for the right length of time. I suppose some are updated live to react to traffic jams but in these circumstances there could also be way to simulate how shifting times would be the best to refluidify the traffic, instead of just going with brute force and empirical intuition which I assume is how it works most of the time.
Some traffic signals are adaptive (they'll switch phases sooner/later based on real-time vehicle detection, bus priority, etc) or even centrally controllable. I'm not modeling that yet.
Is it, he constantly mixes aspect of climate change that are unrelated to each other and claims they are the same to say that concerns about the long term effect of climate change are overblown.
Coal plants are dying as gas became cheap due to all the fracking and shale gas in the usa.
Germany is about to start a brand new coal plant in 2020 https://www.power-technology.com/projects/datteln-4-coal-fir...
They need the coal plants to compensate lack of nuclear and alleviate the intermittent issue of the renewable.
That's because if the German government canceled the new coal plant, they would have to compensate the owners. The German government doesn't want to do that, so the plant is going forward. There's also political pressure from coal-mining regions in Germany to keep coal going.
This has less to do with electricity demand than with politics.
Also note that construction of the plant started in 2007 (ie years before Fukushima and the subsequent decommissioning of some nuclear plants). It was supposed to go online in 2011, but there were legal as well as technical problems that led to a significant delay.
I think you are looking at it backwards.
For a business to be successful they should not have to burden themselves with the livelihood of their employees. Truly businesses should be able to have people working and living close to the working facility as well as eating there. Dorms will be owned by the businesses and employee will either pay for them or have their wages reduced for the cost of living, same for food. If they fall sick they should pay for the missing hours, no hollidays of course or breaks since those are just wasteful idle time spent. Relationships are forbidden as they put productivity at risk. In an ideal world there will no silly government regulation and the market will sort it out, if the people were unhappy with this model it should be possible to import workers from countries with lesser opportunities who would be more than happy to fill the gap.
This is how it is going in most productive electronic facilities in china and why USA is falling behind with all those silly regulations killing businesses.
There is a reason they don't exist anymore. They were the quickiest to build but did not survive a downturn most closed up shop after the mine was closed.
Towns built with various piblic/private spaces/businesses can survive one part of the economy doing poorly.
Don't pine for a made in China solution until you could actually live one. If you were in that situation (the average Chinese factory worker) now you wouldn't be on the internet writing this you would be working your 7 day 16 hour shift.
Any thoughts at why production in the western world is becoming again competitive in sectors where production is automated to agree to make labor a negligible factor?
Also, I thought intended servitude was abolished quite a while ago.
