Nitrolo

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by Nitrolo 5y ago
As far as I understand patents still have to be "novel", i.e. new. You can't patent something that is already known to the public, otherwise people could start patenting chairs and sandwhiches. Patents are meant as a reward f
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by Nitrolo 5y ago
Growing up in Italy around the same time my experience was very similar, movies would come out weeks or months later, and access to english media wasn't great until fairly recently. Piracy and torrents were amazing though. We could fin
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by Nitrolo 5y ago
What apps or programs do you use to make your phone work as a webcam? I've tried that last year but none of the solutions in the play store seemed to work for me.
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by Nitrolo 6y ago
I'm guessing they might mean the literal roundness of the country, i.e. how close the geographic borders are to a circle. Quick search suggests they might mean Poland.
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by Nitrolo 6y ago
I believe they were referring to England, where you do get legal counsel for free (though my understanding is that restrictions to that have been placed in recent years).
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by Nitrolo 6y ago
I have to admit I don't know a lot about the history of Wikileaks (I was still in school when they started going after Assange), but how did it hurt democratic movements in developing countries?
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by Nitrolo 6y ago
Wouldn't a US citizen still have those obligations if they, for example, had committed crimes in Germany but just happened to fly back to the US before being arrested?
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by Nitrolo 6y ago
I'm almost certain it is. There's a housing project in Rome that has the same tale, apparently the architect killed himself after seeing it completed. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corviale
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Microsoft backs Epic against Apple in legal fight over Unreal Engine on iOS(arstechnica.com)
21 points by Nitrolo 6y ago|6 comments
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by Nitrolo 6y ago
I'll admit I'm not an expert in this area, but why are apps using Bluetooth useless? Because people turn Bluetooth off?
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by Nitrolo 6y ago
I agree that contact tracing is important, but there are ways to do it without tracking each student's location all the time. The contact tracing app we have in Germany simply communicates with phones nearby, remembers who it has met,
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by Nitrolo 6y ago
I rarely if ever go out of the house without my phone on me, but I reckon it wouldn't be that difficult to get a small group into a car and just drive out, maybe writing down the way beforehand. It would be annoying, but they'd ma
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by Nitrolo 6y ago
Do you have more information or some good sources on the MI5 director? That seems like a fascinating read.
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by Nitrolo 6y ago
Here's a post breaking down a few details of the ban wave: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/idclo1/unde... As you can see a big majority, over three quarters, of banned subreddits ha
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by Nitrolo 6y ago
Not doubting that this is the case, but what's the reason for nVidia wanting to restrict use in virtual machines?
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by Nitrolo 6y ago
Fair enough, of course any vaccine that does get distributed to billions of people should be tested very, very carefully. Chances are the first option might not be the best one (see the vaccine that's being rolled out in Russia). But t
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by Nitrolo 6y ago
I'm a bit surprised to see so much opposition to vaccination here on HN, I would have thought that this would be a very pro-science and pro-vaccination crowd. As far as my understanding goes, herd immunity is not a real alternative to
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by Nitrolo 6y ago
Because getting infected still carries a significant risk of illness, permanent health problems, or death with it, especially for at-risk groups. Getting vaccinated would sidestep that risk. And even if everybody did recover, there's t
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by Nitrolo 6y ago
Why does letting EU-Immigrants in limit immigration from the rest of the world?
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by Nitrolo 6y ago
I think I just naturally gravitated to that method after a few levels. I wonder what an algorithmic approach to this would look like, would it act similarly?
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by Nitrolo 6y ago
Acting in your self-interest does not excuse you from the consequences of your actions. That is not a justification one would accept from individuals and neither should it be acceptable for companies. It may technically be legal (which I w
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IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption(arstechnica.com)
247 points by Nitrolo 6y ago|165 comments