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by 2143 4y ago
> I can't fathom this. I'm told that in northern Europe you could leave your laptops or whatever in semi-public places (like, cafès I suppose), and if you come back after a few hours it would still be there. Can northern Europe
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by 2143 4y ago
> 3) The solution for Google is really easy though: charge some fee for human support that keeps customer service requests to a manageable level. When it's a genuine issue, people will pay some fee to get an actual trained person to
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by 2143 4y ago
Long ago I thought Twitter was interesting, though at the moment I'm unable to precisely state why I thought so. I think it was perhaps the simplicity. Twitter seemed feature-complete a long time ago. Handle scaling problems and the od
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Tell HN: Wikipedia Seems to Be Down
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by 2143 4y ago
Linux
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by 2143 4y ago
> In my experience EU (particularly NL/FR/DE) engineers have a very different understanding of the level of effort work should entail Could you elaborate on this?
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by 2143 4y ago
They do. https://www.lg.com/levant_en/mobile-phones No idea if it's good or bad.
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by 2143 4y ago
> In which region? South Asia. > I've never seen people shoveling off kilos of dust from their roof like they would do for e.g. snow. And I've never seen people shoveling off snow from their roof. Because it doesn't sno
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by 2143 4y ago
> But you don't see dust accumulating indefinitely on roofs, do you? I do, actually.
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by 2143 4y ago
We've discussed this before. In [1], dang has a list of over a dozen past discussions for it [2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23749722 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23750755
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by 2143 4y ago
It'll keep accumulating and won't stay at 20%. Just so it's clear, dust is a problem regardless of whether it's in a desert or an urban area. > Moreover there are probably solutions to remove the dust when it becomes
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by 2143 4y ago
Yeah. I was viewing the comments link. Title: How do you recharge your batteries? Reply [1]: "You are never alone. You didn’t choose to come into existence-at the very least, your parents (and others who raised you) will always have a
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by 2143 4y ago
> Why is that? Isn't it the best place to build area-hungry, sun-hungry equipment?? Dust is a problem. Efficiency reduces once there's a layer of dust on top of the panels. Could happen anywhere, but I imagine the problem would
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by 2143 4y ago
I don't understand what's the novelty of the first example (payments split into regular intervals). Where I'm at (India) this has been a thing forever. They call it EMI (I think it stands for Equated Monthly Installments). Fo
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by 2143 4y ago
If anyone wants the YouTube link for the above: https://youtu.be/-VuXIgp9S7o You can thank me later.
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by 2143 4y ago
> any Australian citizen working for a tech company can be forced to create backdoors in code and altering their employer about it is illegal What the fish? > This one is so bad, that if it were China, we'd no longer hire any Chi
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by 2143 4y ago
> Are there any directives to the Operating System to say - “here keep this data in the fastest accessible L[1,2,3] please”? I'm probably the worst person to explain this. Long long ago, I took a parallel programming class in grad
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by 2143 4y ago
Since you mentioned cars, Team-BHP is one place I frequent. https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/ It's a car enthusiast forum from India.
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by 2143 4y ago
Try reading Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo. It won't make you an expert, but atleast it's a start. The authors are Nobel laureates in Economics, so they probably know what they're talki
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by 2143 4y ago
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Good quality of life, yet relatively cheap. You can totally get by with English. Congrats on being able to move anywhere you want.
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by 2143 4y ago
I don't know what you should do, but just keep the following in mind: - For high income America might be a better place. But it's also more expensive. So is money really what you want, or do you want a good happy life? - Depending
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by 2143 4y ago
> We all know which one of these usually results in a broken installation. And yet they're promoting snap. Have they given us the ability to stop automatic updates?
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by 2143 4y ago
Some car manufacturers have coherent names. For instance, consider BMW. For sedans/hatchbacks there's basically 1 through 8 (1 series, 2 series etc). Even numbered series tend to be high performance models and are usually coupes.
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by 2143 4y ago
You were atleast mildly annoyed by Indian migrants in Australia. But you went to America. Which is ironic on multiple levels but atleast you met your wife :) (btw, didn't you see Indians in America?)
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by 2143 4y ago
And my airport is wrong. My city has two airports which are like 50 km apart. One of them is for military only. It shows the regular passenger airport IATA code mapped to the military airport name. I wonder if I can correct it. I'm not
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by 2143 4y ago
I belive a big "LAX" signboard exists, based on a Google image search. Many airports around the world have a large signboard.
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by 2143 4y ago
That's my point. Google search has degraded. If Apple comes up with a great search engine, then Google would be concerned.
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by 2143 4y ago
> HN always has good takes from people who are actually in the room. Just to clarify, I'm not in that room :)
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by 2143 4y ago
Sure, but Android phones with better specs (and bigger screens) are cheaper. People naturally gravitate towards those.
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by 2143 4y ago
> I can only assume that product design/vision people at Google are watching this and absolutely shitting their pants (if I'm over-blowing it please let let me know). You're overblowing it. Nobody is shitting their pants.

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