akafred

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by akafred 5mo ago
I pay for kagi on my personal machine, it is always a delight when my cmd-t search is answered kagi and not a list of ads ...
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by akafred 3y ago
"Vanity-URLs" is just a feature, usually a requirement for SSO. I cannot see that that would cause any different treatment of data related to your use.
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by akafred 8y ago
I don't like corporations in politics. Successful businesses have done a lot of good, but they need to stay out of politics. (Read: And as long as they are in politics the unions have to be, too.)
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by akafred 8y ago
There needs to be a balance between the powers of employers, employees and government (as a regulator and moderator between the other two parties). I think any reasonable comparison of this power balance between the US and other successful
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by akafred 8y ago
The coolest part is that git supports setting name/email for an entire folder. A new feature in git 2.15 (released late last year).
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Using two (or more) git/GitHub identities(medium.com)
6 points by akafred 8y ago|1 comments
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by akafred 10y ago
Ah, didn't know that. I guess they are mainly running on electricity from coal/oil/gas power plants, then.
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by akafred 10y ago
Cool, lots of cars running on nuclear energy, then!
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by akafred 11y ago
I have skimmed the book and it presents a skewed picture and is selective about its 'facts'. And some of it is about how the economies are not 'sufficiently' libertarian, which is part of the point.
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by akafred 11y ago
The author seems to have predicted an attack from liberalist Brits. However, what the article describes is real and the Nordics run circles around most countries when it comes to work/life balance and gender equality. In sum quality o
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Why Bernie Sanders should have kept talking about the Nordics(thenation.com)
4 points by akafred 11y ago|4 comments
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by akafred 11y ago
In Norway, there is a max price on child care which makes it affordable and the best option for most people. The government subsidizes somewhere around two thirds of the costs. I guess labour costs are 70%+ in most cases. There are both pub
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by akafred 11y ago
Land owners can generally chop down trees as they wish; with some exceptions, which mostly don't apply in these photos. I think there are three main reasons for the increase in woodland: 1. Less cultivated land; including less land use
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by akafred 11y ago
I agree, comparing is probably unfair, but still, 5-6 times higher water consumption is quite a lot and I found the numbers interesting. Actually, most poor people living in deserts around the world use a fraction of the water we use in Osl
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by akafred 11y ago
In Oslo, Norway, a city with abundant supply of fresh water, the water use per citizen is about 42 gallons per day. This includes industrial use and leaks from pipes. The city wants to further reduce this to less than 35 gallons per person.
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by akafred 12y ago
OkCupid has (or had, at least, haven't visited in a while) a pretty decent approach to ad blockers. They detect that you block ads and (after explaining that ads are a big part of the revenue of their service, for which you currently p
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by akafred 12y ago
If you want a process that takes you from problem to product I recommend one I have used in developing several real world solutions, described by Freeman & Pryce in the book "Growing Object-Oriented Software - Guided by Tests"
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by akafred 13y ago
Only-slightly-OT: In Norway there is a lot of people (40% in a less than completely impartial survey [1]) who thinks cash will be completely replaced by electronic transactions. We have well functioning clearing of even small transactions.