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by Xixi 11y ago
Millions of people commute by subway everyday without suffering panic attacks. Tens of thousands (at the very least) ride Paris completely automated 14 subway line every day without suffering panic attacks, or any of the many other automate
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by Xixi 11y ago
I agree with the risk of overload. Sanity needs to prevail. But by similar attitude, I was mostly thinking about the rigorous and systematic efforts to find root causes of accidents, rather than the toxic attitude of attempting to deflect b
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by Xixi 11y ago
Which one will learn faster: each individual driver each time they have a minor accident (or a close-call)? Or the autonomous vehicle software updated from data collected from each and every accidents involving an autonomous vehicle? The re
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by Xixi 11y ago
The concept you are looking for is that of residency: because you are physically in a country doesn't mean you are a resident of that country. There are rules of residency even within the EU.
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by Xixi 11y ago
I think the rules are quite different, or at least they used to be. For instance as a French citizen if I find a job in Finland and want to move there, all I have to do is fill a EU form, and there I go. Finnish immigration is not allowed t
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by Xixi 11y ago
Formal proof in software engineering has been a thing for a very long time, no need for cryptocurrency for that. Control systems for rockets, autonomous subways [1], and many life critical devices are built using such methodologies. In a st
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Distributism (Economic Theory)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Xixi 11y ago
It really depends on the tea, if we still have it or if we can still reorder it from the producer. It will be pretty much impossible for a Shincha (new tea), as they are usually limited in quantity, and quite short lived. On the other end o
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by Xixi 11y ago
I adopted a similar strategy for Tomotcha: we pick/sell only one tea each month. Most of our competitors send several samples each month, and from a revenue point of view maybe it's better, but I like the ability to give focus to
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by Xixi 11y ago
Another way to look at it is that Erlang has been there for a long time (longer than both Python and Ruby), and it is not going away soon. Elixir and Phoenix may or may not last, that I don't know, but they are a joy to work with.
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by Xixi 11y ago
Sorry for publishing it too quickly! Note that it was already very much indexed by Google: I was worried I was suffering from CC fraud on my Japanese tea subscription service [1], and so I was looking for the blog post that you published on
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Candy Japan 2015 Year in Review(candyjapan.com)
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by Xixi 11y ago
Napoleon waged preemptive wars more than two centuries ago, most notably against Russia: that one didn't end up well for him or for France. But the concept of striking a known enemy before its army is fully prepared is probably as old
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by Xixi 11y ago
It does. The problem is simply solved because Elixir has preemptive multitasking [1], and supports millions of processes on a simple server. So let say you have a blocking function fetch_data_sync, and want to execute it in a non blocking w
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by Xixi 11y ago
AAC [1] has never been an Apple format, though in 2004 it was less ubiquitous than it is now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding
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by Xixi 11y ago
By some measures at 127 million inhabitants Japan is overpopulated. Example of such measures: - Japan only produce enough food to feed half of its population, so an embargo on food imports would certainly result in a massive population shri
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by Xixi 11y ago
Hasn't Apple always been offering AAC? At first at 128 kbps and then 256 kbps.
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by Xixi 11y ago
I would think it is more to prevent the theft of sensible source-code (cg drivers, etc.) that would "magically" end up on the desk of local competitors... Imagine that Google launches a self driving car in Japan, but the Japanese
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by Xixi 11y ago
Germany is not part of the TPP, but assuming it were: - probably not as a blanket precondition to allow them to sell cars, - probably yes during the course of a trial if their cars were measured to have too strong emissions. Not a lawyer ei
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by Xixi 11y ago
Assuming it falls into the category of mass-market software/product, it would indeed be forbidden as a precondition to sell VW cars. But if, for instance, VW cars were measured to have too high emissions, I see nothing in this articl
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by Xixi 11y ago
I think you missed a piece of the article: "by a person of another Party". So for example the Japanese government cannot force a US company to release source code as a condition to allow its use/import/sell in Japan. B
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by Xixi 11y ago
That's also how I understand this article, and it is scary: many industries (car manufacturers, for example) should have mandatory code audits.
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by Xixi 11y ago
IANAL, but I don't think so. Governments are not territories: "No Party shall require [...] access to source code [...] as a condition for the import [...] in its territory.". Because a given closed-source software cannot be
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by Xixi 11y ago
Sure, it will eventually decline. But when you see the sharp decline in electricity produced from nuclear power plants, it feels like a missed opportunity to lower CO2 emissions faster. I'm only looking at this from a greenhouse gases
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by Xixi 11y ago
Germany main source of energy is still, by far, coal (lignite to be precise), and it's not going down yet. The expansion of renewable energy, which is very real, is being done at the expense of nuclear energy. I wish they would be doin
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by Xixi 11y ago
Most people writing Delphi code in 2015 do it to maintain legacy Windows desktop applications. I don't think you can do that with Go. The most logical replacement would still be C# (or another language running on .net) with WinRT (or m
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by Xixi 11y ago
An airliner certainly is an asset (at least in the hand of a well run airline), but the lighter the frame the better: a lighter frame needs less fuel to fly, hence more money remains in the bank at the end. But without frame there's no
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by Xixi 11y ago
The part I'm wondering about, and can't find any answer on Apple website: what happens if your iPhone is stolen/lost/destroyed?
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by Xixi 11y ago
The part I'm wondering about: what happens if your iPhone is stolen/lost/destroyed?
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Delphi 10 Seattle Highlights(dannywind.nl)
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