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by Svip 7y ago
I was merely arguing that the recent turn of events has not proven, Assange's theory about the consequences of being extradited to Sweden, nor that it was the right thing to jump bail.
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by Svip 7y ago
Swedish policy has changed since 2001. I wonder if there are any more recent examples. But that was on par for the course for Sweden. Back during the Cold War, Sweden sent a lot of Latvians and Lithuanians back on request by the USSR. Sw
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by Svip 7y ago
How can it be treason, when he's not a US citizen?
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by Svip 7y ago
Wouldn't he have been safer in Sweden than in the UK? If I were to bet on who were more likely to suck up to the Americans of the two, my money would be on the Brits.
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by Svip 7y ago
I think a lot of people want to be pedantic, and point out that an aeroplane's autopilot can't do all of it itself, and you therefore still need pilots to manage an airliner. However, that's because a lot of people on HN unde
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by Svip 7y ago
It is quite a complicated system, particularly because it was unique to Citroën. Only a few one-offs from other manufactures used the suspension system. So getting parts was not particularly easy. Effectively, you ended up making them you
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by Svip 7y ago
It's worth noting, that the Tissier modifications extended the hydropneumatic suspension to the extra axis. So despite being a flatbed or newspaper truck, they were still very comfortable. I have seen a Tissier modification of a DS my
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Lobbyists rewrote Washington state’s privacy law(politico.eu)
106 points by Svip 8y ago|50 comments
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by Svip 8y ago
Nothing's really free. That's true. By "free service", I mean a service where you or other part (or both) don't pay some sort of subscription fee and/or have a contract with the service provider. But I thoug
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by Svip 8y ago
This is the warning I give people: Do not let your livelihood depend on a free service.
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by Svip 8y ago
OP is not saying they cannot monetise their product as they see fit (it's their product). No one is saying that. But when you have been offering something for free for years, people get used to that being the way of things, users ar
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by Svip 8y ago
For most simple queries, that is correct. But if the query gets complicated, and/or the tables involved have several indexes, where several might be useful, then it might make the wrong decision. I've written plenty of complicat
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by Svip 8y ago
For a simple query like this, then yes, it will be optimised. But once your queries get more complicated, the optimiser might not be able to make that deduction on its own.
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by Svip 8y ago
Indeed, Sybase for instance treats a single space (e.g. ' ') the same as an empty string (e.g. ''). For the purpose of concatenating in Sybase, NULL is '' (and thus ' '). So `SELECT a = "a&quot
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by Svip 8y ago
Indeed, a faster way to check if a table does _not_ have a comparable row is a LEFT JOIN with a WHERE NULL clause: SELECT t1.* FROM t1 LEFT JOIN t2 ON t2.id = t1.foreign_id WHERE t2.id IS NULL Is a lot faster than the naïve alternative: SEL
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by Svip 8y ago
The subquery would be in the WHERE clause, and it would be called for each row, thus making it N times slower than the JOIN syntax. There is a reason why this style has been abandoned.
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by Svip 8y ago
That's the old join syntax before ANSI SQL was designed. Except your operators look like "* =" and "= *" (without whitespace of course, blame HN's markdown parser). Sybase supported this syntax well into its
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by Svip 8y ago
I know I'm a tiny minority on this usage, but I own cars because I like cars; as in tinkering with them. My two cars are pre-2000, and I only drive them rarely. But when I do, I usually cover several hundred, if not thousands some ti
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by Svip 8y ago
Certifying aircraft is a long and expensive process. So generally speaking, aviation authorities 'share the burden' by relying on each other. By the same token, the FAA will take an EASA certification of an Airbus aircraft as va
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by Svip 8y ago
The fact that he tried to port a lot of the Java code directly to Go, where Go had no suitable comparable feature. With generics, he mentions there are two different approaches in Go, but then only mention the one he calls the least prefer
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by Svip 8y ago
Could have used `:target` instead then.
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by Svip 8y ago
How is the T490 a regression? I've decided to get a T490, and willing to wait out it becoming available with full options in my country. But if it's a regression, I might as well get a T480.
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by Svip 8y ago
FAA have (or had) such a good record, that other regulators, like EASA, simply trusted a FAA certification. In the same way, FAA trusts an EASA certification for an Airbus plane.
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by Svip 8y ago
The first figure is a bit obfuscating. It says 1922-1939, but only shows 1926 through 1939. Which is probably a good thing, because then it doesn't include the hyperinflation of the early 1920s, which might undermine the point of &#x
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by Svip 8y ago
> - Lion and Ethiopian Air are near the bottom when it comes to maintenance and follow up with Boeing Another commenter mentioned that Ethiopian Airline is considered Category 1 by the FAA, and is a member of the Star Alliance. Surely t
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EASA suspends all Boeing 737 Max operations in Europe(easa.europa.eu)
8 points by Svip 8y ago|0 comments
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by Svip 8y ago
Over 300 people dead sounds pretty serious to me. It's probably safest to ground the plane model until we know more.
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by Svip 8y ago
Norwegian appears to be one of the two airlines that fly to the UK with the aircraft, and they have taken the consequence and grounding their 737 MAX-8 fleet as well.
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Boeing: UK joins countries blocking aircraft(bbc.com)
17 points by Svip 8y ago|0 comments
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by Svip 8y ago
How would it take some time for news to notice? In the wake of this latest crash, news media and amatuers alike are constantly paying attention to what airlines with the 737 MAX-8 are doing. If they notice that airlines are starting to re

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