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The article doesn't cover this, but it's worth pointing out why the study asks this particular question. With a single-payer system the Nordic countries want to know what the ROI i…

The article says it will "diffuse away" which implies they just let it escape the device. It'll then move through the tissue / fluids, reach the blood and eventually be breathed ou…

One of the four parties in the ruling coalition has rural voters as their main constituency. This weirdness might be the result of them negotiating to keep the cost of driving a tr…

> How come they can lose more money than they raised? The difference is debt they've taken on.

In his book Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi dives a bit deeper into what sort of "problems" we should choose for yourself if we want a happy life. The gist of it is that we should pi…

This is a good point. In practice people (e.g. exchanges, that know who you are after KYC) still opt to wait a little because if something does go wrong it's a hassle to actually g…

The block time is 2 minutes. You can choose to wait for 0 blocks or 100. The longer you wait the better the security of your transaction, because there's more PoW behind it. All cr…

CIDER, which the author of this blogpost maintains, has support for such metadata, under the style/indent key. The hope, when it was created, was that more editors would adopt this…

Get one of the apps with a sleep timer :)

The post has a good quote from Bill Murray: > I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first.’ See if that doesn’t cover most of it. There’s n…

> Scientists also developed a way of "carbon dating" mutations. They showed that more than a fifth of them occurred years or even decades before a cancer is found. > He added: "Unl…

I just listened to the book Bad Pharma, by Ben Goldacre, which deals with this problem. The author works as a doctor and so has a bit of an inside view of how the industry does 'sc…

Guarding a refinery is at least doable in principle, but most oil is transported there by way of a pipeline. Guarding miles and miles of pipes in the middle of nowhere is going to …

Here's the paper itself, freely available for once, if anyone else wants to take a deeper dive: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.190327

No, it's cash in and cash out. That's the entire point of an ETF, that it's very easy to buy and sell yet still tracking something complex. Imagine if you'd invested in the Russel …

I think this is bullshit. It seems completely unrealistic to get everyone to reduce their meat consumption and cut down on e.g. holidays abroad. I think it's much realistic to have…

Is anyone working on putting these ideas into a working product? I'm taking guitar lessons over Skype and for the most part it works just fine. However, every once in a while we ha…

In-house product development of a SaaS platform. You can check out it out at ardoq.com. The company is imo a great place to work, but this is also in Norway where it's pretty commo…

I work 60% now. Instead of having two days off each week I've opted to work 4.5h each day. I can only focus intensely for about 4h each day on coding, so this works out well. It's …

I recently finished Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker and this exact point was made in that book. I'll paraphrase a salient quote from the book: poverty is the greatest polluter. …

Imagine a company has 100 shares and for argument's sake let's assume that company is never going to turn a profit but break even forever. What would you pay for one of those share…