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by Strom 7y ago
Yes this most definitely happens with the euro Amazons. In fact, it's the .com Amazon that seems to be running a newer version / experiment lately where sometimes the search only shows stuff that ships to my configured address. Th
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by Strom 7y ago
20km seems awfully low. The Kármán line at 100km [1] is what most would use. Alternatively 80km is also used. -- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_line
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by Strom 7y ago
This issue comes up with a reused bytes.Buffer. var buf bytes.Buffer buf.WriteString("foo") b := buf.Bytes() fmt.Printf("b == %v\n", string(b)) // b == foo buf.Reset() buf.WriteString(
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by Strom 7y ago
That seems like way too high of a bar for the word knows . Someone who plays the guitar for 3 years certainly knows the guitar, even if they're not great at it. Who would you say knows Africa? Someone who lives all their life in Kongo
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by Strom 7y ago
I don't think there are any decent alternatives to replace TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt. There are some once you narrow the scope, like being fine with linux-only etc. With the same scope as VeraCrypt there's nothing better. Additiona
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by Strom 7y ago
There is no US-only restriction. Some locations might be restritcted, but I could watch the episode in Estonia. https://southpark.cc.com/
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by Strom 7y ago
It's even easier in a language like Estonian where there's no grammatical gender or gender pronouns at all. Everything is neutral/universal. Example: He wanted her number -> Ta tahtis ta numbrit . If for some reason you
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by Strom 7y ago
> Almost everyone in society would castigate me What are you basing this on? Is there wide-spread castigating going on in Sweden that would lead you to think this? I certainly agree that laws don't always match what people think,
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by Strom 7y ago
Having sex with a 14 year old person is completely ok in a lot of countries, including places like Germany & Italy [1], with no pedophilia panic going on. -- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Euro
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by Strom 7y ago
MDMA is a stimulant so it's more likely to promote dancing around than sitting around. MDMA also suppresses social inhibitions, so you're way more likely to talk about your feelings and dreams. I also think you're setting up
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by Strom 7y ago
It is amusing how in their goal to be carbon neutral they're just heating the sea directly, cutting out the atmosphere as a middle-man. I'm not sure what the numbers on it are though. I guess heating the sea will only be once but
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by Strom 7y ago
Faster speeds help with downloads. Yeah you won't notice the difference when downloading a selfie, but when you buy Gears 5 on Steam and want to start playing, you will notice the difference between waiting ~1h45m @ 100Mbps / ~11m
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by Strom 7y ago
> That would be a minor PR scandal Here's one that made it to the front page of HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18886804
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by Strom 7y ago
Apparently the word unlimited now means 22GB. [1] Also no international tethering. [2] Then you need to also account for the fact that if anything happens with your Google account (say an AdSense terms violation) you will also lose your p
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by Strom 7y ago
If free trade ends up being bad for a country, it's much easier to change that compared to deporting some insane amount of people. Especially when the migrant home country can't even be determined. Having a constant flow of immigr
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by Strom 7y ago
I've ran into this a few times and so now I always store the question in my password manager too.
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by Strom 7y ago
You can create the vendor directory with "go mod vendor" and have everything use that vendor directory by having "-mod=vendor" in your GOFLAGS env variable. Is there something I'm missing?
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by Strom 7y ago
> And Google is giving exactly the guarantees they promised - 1 year of notice before shutting down a product. This is mostly true, but a bit more nuanced than one might think. Let's take the Go 1.9 runtime for App Engine. It was
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by Strom 7y ago
The article contains predictions that VW will go from 26k electric cars sold in 2018 to 1.4m in 2025, while the current sales leader Tesla will only manage to go from 200k to 400k. There's a bunch of rhetoric in the article from car ma
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The great electric car race is just beginning(edition.cnn.com)
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by Strom 7y ago
Microsoft doesn't have anything even remotely resembling a monopoly on server OSes.
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by Strom 7y ago
If you go out of Germany you'll see that Germany is pretty unique in it's love for cash. Especially striking when you go north. The more north you go from Germany, the less cash there is, with plenty of places in say Sweden or Est
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by Strom 7y ago
It's because there's no unified grand vision driving this and the GitHub team is an independent silo. Yes there will be duplicated efforts, but at least the GitHub login system doesn't get replaced with Microsoft Account logi
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by Strom 7y ago
> I would expect of (and would be acceptable for) a 10 person company, not a massive corporation with millions of users. As it happens, there are only about 10 people [1] working on Steam. [2][3] This is the result of both Valve having
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by Strom 7y ago
Even today Twitch chat is full of "Hold CTRL and type "WTF" for ℱ𝓪𝓷𝓬𝔂 𝓦𝓣ℱ" and people end up pressing ctrl+w, which closes the tab.
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by Strom 7y ago
I was there just last December and there weren't that many tourists. Didn't see a single cruise ship. Walking around Venice during late evenings was pretty nice as very few others were doing it. I'd see another person every 3
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by Strom 7y ago
Here's some video footage of the cruise ship ramming that was mentioned in the article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyCLhvxpQt0
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by Strom 7y ago
There's a big difference between standard styling and optional styling. Yes a single team could decide on a custom style, however when you need to cooperate with other teams, it takes a lot of wasted time in politics to agree upon a st
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by Strom 7y ago
Reaching 90% is hard, even if you count additional taxes. Take Sweden, where you first remove 31.42% social tax, then 60% income tax, then 25% VAT. You will still end up with 24% of money left of the initial payroll.
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by Strom 7y ago
There are undoubtedly major benefits in the war against cheaters by completely removing user access to the underlying system. However I think there are two fundamental points to keep in mind on why it's not going to be an ultimate solu

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