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by ahakki 9y ago
> I'm thrilled that you're embarrassed by the UKs voting system though. If that's the thing weighing on your mind life must be pretty damned good A nations voting system is one of the most important things in any functioni
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by ahakki 9y ago
I do not need your empathy. foreign invasion?! Are you proposing «let them die of malaria» as a solution to increased immigration?
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by ahakki 9y ago
I have a similar experiance. German is my mother tongue, but I learned English from an early age at bilingual primary school. I «think» in both as well, but depending on the situation it might also be just one or the other. I have started t
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Audi introduces its level 3 semi-autonomous A8(engadget.com)
1 points by ahakki 9y ago|0 comments
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Faraday Future Halts Construction of Billion Dollar Factory Amid Cash Crunch(jalopnik.com)
2 points by ahakki 9y ago|0 comments
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by ahakki 9y ago
> Of course there are people that will microwave their device for fun and demand a replacement This is known as insurance fraud.
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by ahakki 9y ago
Yes, I habe worked at a company where we would ship a high amount of construction machine spare parts with FedEx, DHL et al. We had a ~90% discount on their regular prices.
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by ahakki 9y ago
Just from my personal experiance in Switzerland I think this is mostly the case, but not always. I have a contactless Visa with a rather low limit that I use for small day to day purchases. I only use it contactless and most of the time I c
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by ahakki 9y ago
That is simply not possible. While it is possible to render a digital scene at 60fps with any arbitrary shutter speed (e.g. 1/48s the default 180° shutter used in 24fps film productions), it is not possible in real life with a real cam
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by ahakki 9y ago
Because instant > wait a couple hundred ms simple really
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by ahakki 9y ago
At least here in Switzerland this is definitly a legal business arrangement that you could go to court over. Proving your claims will be more difficult than if you had a written formal agreement, of course.
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by ahakki 9y ago
> Workplace suicides are rare in places like the US and make up approximately 1% of all suicides. This might be true, but Foxconn employees mostly live at their workplace, so all suicides of Foxconn employees are technically «workplace s
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by ahakki 9y ago
For me HN seems to be one of the few websites that is usable on 2G.
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by ahakki 9y ago
Yes, I remember that. I had to explain this to my parents so that they would let me use their Creditcard for this purpose.
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by ahakki 9y ago
The main confusion seems to stem from the fact that the 2% goal (agreed upon in 2014, to be met by 2024) is not "money for NATO", but how much eah member state shall spend on their own armies. NATO is a military alliance, not a se
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by ahakki 9y ago
For certain films it can be vital that subtitles can be styled in multiple ways. For example: I recently watched the movie "The Handmaiden" which includes both spoken Korean and Japanese. The language the characters speak in any g
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by ahakki 9y ago
Yes, it is very rare as it is highly expensive. These cameras use film sheets with a size of 4x5 or 8x10 inches (depending on how you process the film and scan it the total might be in the hundreds of dollars per image). The image quality h
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by ahakki 9y ago
There is a saying that the market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent. esp. if you are betring against the ECB
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Justice.exe: Bias in Algorithmic sentencing(justiceexe.com)
43 points by ahakki 9y ago|50 comments
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by ahakki 9y ago
Does it really matter why an infant is not vaccinated in this discussion? Unless we immeduatly vaccinate everyone as soon as they leave the womb (unlikely / impossible) there will always be unvaccinated people.
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by ahakki 9y ago
I am pretty sure the sieve can be written like this in Haskell, which might be a bit short for a research paper: sieve :: Integral a => a -> [a] sieve l = sieve' [2..l] [] where sieve' (p:ns)
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by ahakki 9y ago
> Why would you meet up with someone to sell cash for cash? Forex
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by ahakki 9y ago
Couldn't it just be a heat dissipation issue? These sensors pack a lot of photo sites into a tiny package.
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by ahakki 9y ago
Definitly not. Sodium lights obly emit a very narrow spectrum of light (esp. the kind used around observatories) which can be easily filtered without losing a lot of the availible light. LED + Phosphor emits a much wider spectrum.
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by ahakki 9y ago
In the given example the benefit is stated as lower prices.
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by ahakki 9y ago
IIRC IANAL: in a self defence situation you are required to use the least amount of force necessary or run away if possible (e.g. someone threatens to stab you in an alley. You may shoot them only if you can't escape. And you may only
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by ahakki 10y ago
I assume because the swastica has many uses that are far older than it's modern western usage [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
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by ahakki 10y ago
It probably means that the license is well known and understood by many compliance experts.
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Ask HN: What's Up with the Seva Coffee Submission
3 points by ahakki 10y ago|1 comments
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by ahakki 10y ago
There are two kinds: 1. An addition to the constitution. The parlament then has to implement that into law. 2. A referendum on a law that has been passed by parlament. This allows the citizens to revert a parlamentary decision. There is no

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