Aaronmacaron

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by Aaronmacaron 3y ago
Off topic: why can i read this tweet? I don't have an account. Didn't they recently put all tweets behind a login?
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by Aaronmacaron 3y ago
Nitpick: It is officially Europe but not EU
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by Aaronmacaron 3y ago
Seems to be down http://web.archive.org/web/20230425113650/https://neocha.com...
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by Aaronmacaron 3y ago
No worries. I am very aware that HN is heavily biased (actually, most places where discussion happens are biased). Also of course HN is not my only exposure to american culture (would be kinda absurd if it was though lol). But your comment
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by Aaronmacaron 3y ago
> It's the moving to China for a year that would increase your understanding of Chinese culture and people far more than learning Chinese by itself. Not really. Language and culture are inseparable. In my opinion, you cannot learn a
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by Aaronmacaron 4y ago
I mean that is a large part of what HN is, but not exclusively. As a non-american I frequently see posts that are obviously only on the front page because most people on this site are from Silicon Valley or USA in general. Some examples: -
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by Aaronmacaron 4y ago
It would be great to have real high speed trains in Switzerland. Unfortunately it's just not possible though. A train can only go very fast if the tracks are very long and straight. In switzerland there just is no space for that. The n
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by Aaronmacaron 4y ago
He's got a 'Date Me' button on his website which takes you to a Google Form where you can apply to be his girlfriend. I can't decide if this makes the blog post more or less believable. Could it be that he's just a
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by Aaronmacaron 4y ago
It is true that the plasticity of children's brains is higher than that of adults. Research also suggests that in very early childhood, children have an exceptionally good ability to discern different sounds and the ability to learn ho
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by Aaronmacaron 4y ago
I don't really believe this. Of course some people have more of a tendency to be good at languages than others but I think the guy from you story probably didn't try hard enough or maybe had a completely wrong approach. There are
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by Aaronmacaron 4y ago
For Context: This interview was originally published in the Swiss newspaper "Die Weltwoche," which is owned by a far-right politician known for taking pro-Russia and pro-China stances. The owner of the paper has publicly called th
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by Aaronmacaron 4y ago
I came across a YouTube creator who shared their revenue with their audience. They mentioned that the idea that sharing revenue is not allowed has been a myth for many years. However, I believe that some channel networks may prohibit creato
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by Aaronmacaron 4y ago
This is not true. There are quite a few large (and also some smaller ones) youtubers who shared their ad-sense revenue.
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DuckDuckGo Traffic Data No Longer Public(instruments.digital)
1 points by Aaronmacaron 4y ago|0 comments
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by Aaronmacaron 4y ago
Micro dependencies and dependency hell are two of the Javascript ecosystem's most frequently mentioned issues. Anyone aware of any initiatives to lessen dependencies in important projects? For instance, the typical number of dependenci
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by Aaronmacaron 4y ago
- The WC is primarily a football tournament. Qatar is a country where it's too hot to play football even in the winter. They had to add ACs to the Stadiums so it's somewhat tolerable (not a joke). - Because it's so hot in Qat
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by Aaronmacaron 4y ago
I also got this ad yesterday when I opened PM. It's the kind of ad you'd expect from a free tier but not as a paying customer. At first it made me wonder if my subscription had expired.
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by Aaronmacaron 4y ago
I have two cheap WiFi Access Points. They worked fine when I got them. After a few weeks one of them stopped working and I had to restart it. A few days later the other one had the same problem. This repeated every few weeks. Once i got tir
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by Aaronmacaron 4y ago
What do you mean? Fahrenheit is not logarithmic. The conversion function from Fahrenheit to Celsius is literallay a linear function: c(f) = f(5/9) - (160/9)
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by Aaronmacaron 4y ago
I think the problem is that the "easy" parts of netflix such as the UI or the recommendation engine seem like they were hacked together over the weekend. Of course deploying and maintaining something of the scale of netflix is inc
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Pixel Guesser: Test your sense of pixels(fakeclients.com)
23 points by Aaronmacaron 4y ago|13 comments
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DuckDuckGo Traffic Chart No Longer Available on Official Page(instruments.digital)
4 points by Aaronmacaron 4y ago|0 comments
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by Aaronmacaron 5y ago
Love it. Use it as my default calculator when I need one occasionally. I would love to see support for plotting graphs and solving equations. Also a more touch friendly UI would be nice when using my 2-in1 laptop in tablet mode when doing m
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by Aaronmacaron 5y ago
Yes. In Switzerland it's Twint. It's easy to use, instant and free for the user. It started out as an easy way to move small amounts of money around among family and friends without the hassle of doing a bank transfer. Now large g
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The Biodegradable Battery(empa.ch)
69 points by Aaronmacaron 5y ago|19 comments
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by Aaronmacaron 5y ago
This looks like a good idea on the surface but there is one factor which is easy to forget but still very important. If you have a subscription with a news site instead of paying for articles individually you might not read articles you wou
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Football Team Stock Market Game(prediction.games)
2 points by Aaronmacaron 5y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Inflation-adjusted Hacker News(instruments.digital)
437 points by Aaronmacaron 5y ago|120 comments
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by Aaronmacaron 6y ago
Here's a few reasons: - You trust the VPN provider more than your ISP - You want to circumvent geoblocking (Netflix, Sports broadcasts, etc...) - You have to use an untrusted Wi-Fi - You want to circumvent your government blocking cert
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Threema 4.5 for Android: New Features Galore(threema.ch)
2 points by Aaronmacaron 6y ago|0 comments

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