Riesling

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by Riesling 11y ago
> Why would European regulators even care about Facebook? It's a completely voluntary service and anyone's free to create an alternative. It's non-essential. Is it really too much to ask for a foreign company to play by th
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by Riesling 12y ago
There is a huge privacy problem even without browser fingerprinting. Some porn sites use google analytics. I find this irresponsible, especially since most people have their real word ID bound to their google account.
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by Riesling 12y ago
> Reality is much too interesting to avoid it. Some people do not take drugs to avoid reality. They take them to explore it. What one has to realize is that the experience we call "reality" is only a subjective image created by
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by Riesling 12y ago
Just made a short (about 3 minutes each) youtube test on a MB Air 2014 (HTML5, full HD, fullscreen). Result: There was a 3 Watts (roughly) difference favoring safari.
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by Riesling 12y ago
Headline is correct. Definition of "for free" according to MW: "at no charge". Examples given are: * They're giving out free tickets to the show. * The school newsletter is free. Neither of those examples support th
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by Riesling 12y ago
I have been suffering from a bad handwriting my entire life. In school and uni I would always be afraid, that answers could not be decoded by the person grading the test. I also thought that the resulting text looked ugly. Recently I have s
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by Riesling 12y ago
I find it interesting how public discussions in the U.S. often are centered around the semantics of single words instead of focusing on the larger picture, which is often connected to morality (entitlement vs. priviledge comes to mind). The
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by Riesling 12y ago
Since you are using go syntax... I don't think that this will work in go, because division by zero will cause the function to panic.
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by Riesling 12y ago
I just realized that the same argument could be made regarding gun control. > But why is that? Let's face it, if you care very deeply about GUNS then you're probably someone who actually has to protect from people (criminals, m
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by Riesling 13y ago
> The reaction by the community is completely irrational. I think you are missing the big picture because you are not realizing the potential of this technology (Mark probably has, that's why he bought Oculus). VR will absolutely ch
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by Riesling 13y ago
There are already developments towards blending in the real world into the VR space again. Attach stereo cameras to the front of the device detect certain important features (like other persons or mouse and keyboard) and merge them into the
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by Riesling 13y ago
Idea for improvement: Add an e-ink display and show the contents of the "readme.md" located on the stick.
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by Riesling 13y ago
Beautiful. If this was located in the southwest of Germany, I would probably buy it.
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by Riesling 13y ago
Yes you are right. I meant, copy it on your tablet / phone.
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by Riesling 13y ago
This problem can be fixed. I have done it myself with a Galaxy Nexus and a Nexus 7. This is a trimming issue of the internal memory. - Root the tablet (if you haven't already). - Install lagfix (free) from the market or crosscompile fs
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by Riesling 13y ago
> In general, as I have said in other recent comments here on Hacker News, I can be appalled by several of the recent allegations about NSA activity without applauding Snowden's actions. I think this needs some further explanation.
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NSA Snooping: The War on Terror Is America's Mania(spiegel.de)
8 points by Riesling 13y ago|0 comments
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Freedom: The Big American Lie(faz.net)
169 points by Riesling 13y ago|105 comments
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by Riesling 13y ago
I think with the fall of the rivaling system, the need for the western world to differentiate itself just went away.
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by Riesling 13y ago
> It took billions of years for the nature to create the foods that are perfect for us, we cannot create something better (in a few hundred years). Technically it's not that nature created those foods for us to be perfect. It's more lik
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by Riesling 13y ago
I wonder how much of the hate for newer and easier approaches stems from the fact that people made an investment by learning a more complicated technology and are now trying to protect this investment by ridiculing the new approach.
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by Riesling 13y ago
> The world does not exist to provide you with enjoyment. Why not? Why does the world exist in your opinion? In my opinion there is no reason, at least none of which we are able to understand. So why not make the best out of our time he
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by Riesling 13y ago
> That said, ask the people who laid your sewer pipes, built your building, pave your roads, how much they enjoy being out at 4am in the rain and snow working. I do not think that you can compare those kinds of jobs with modern jobs. Mo
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by Riesling 13y ago
Why do people have to adjust to the economy? Shouldn't it be the other way around in an ideal world? Why has the economy been created in the first place? As an end in itself? Or was it to make life easier for everybody? In my opinion, if th
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by Riesling 13y ago
This could also be used as a mechanism for micropayments. Want to read this article? Help us calculating 100 Gigahashes on your graphics card by simply clicking ok!
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by Riesling 13y ago
I think it is about time to create an open and standardized publishing model for academic papers, which also includes the datasets and the code used for all calculations.
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by Riesling 14y ago
I also prefer PyQuery over Beautiful Soup. Especially since you can use a Chrome or FFX plugin to inject jQuery into any webpage and then refine your selector via the JavaScript console. All you need to do then is to copy the selector in yo
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by Riesling 14y ago
> For comparison, Germany has no statutory minimum wage This is true, but you cannot use that as an argument, because the German system cannot be compared to the U.S. system. There are two reasons for having no minimum wage in Germany.
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by Riesling 14y ago
> WTF. He was essentially a WikiLeaks mole working on the inside... Calling someone a "mole" that has not been recruited, has not received any kind of compensation and has gotten no commands is a a really large stretch of the meaning of
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by Riesling 14y ago
> As I have said before, show me one company, one project, that has some in on time, budget and without bugs because of their choice of vim over even something like Notepad and I'll eat my words. Show me one transportation company that

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