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by akie 5y ago
As a Dutch person I have to point out that the name of my birth country is not "Holland" but "the Netherlands" (pars pro toto), and that the flag that is shown in the graphic is the flag of Luxembourg - but upside down.
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by akie 5y ago
Install Firefox and then install the Google Container extension [1]. It keeps all your Google related stuff separate from the rest of the world. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai
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by akie 5y ago
You are justifying someone being paid $750m. No one needs that much money. No one. Why are you defending this? It's obscene. Really reminds me of this https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002&#x2F
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by akie 5y ago
Compare current screen with previous screen, if something is moving upwards you shoot it. That's the only algorithm you need here.
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by akie 5y ago
Cultural habits?
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by akie 5y ago
Why the pessimism, really? In my opinion we need both a severe reduction in carbon output AND carbon removal technologies. Any progress in either of those is a step forward. Don't be so dismissive, this is a young technology that can r
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by akie 5y ago
So only 125 of these mega turbines to replace one nuclear power plant? Amazing. France produces 75% of their electricity with 56 nuclear power plants, which - if the above is broadly correct - you would be able to replace with 7000 of these
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by akie 5y ago
For scale, you only need 75 of these 16MW turbines to replace one nuclear power plant (1200MW). Crazy. EDIT: Taking operational capacity (26% for wind, 86% for nuclear) into account, you arrive at about 250 to replace one nuclear plant. Sti
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by akie 5y ago
You literally said "abolish the state", of which there are only a few examples in this world (maybe only one) and they all suck. The empirical evidence for your deeply held belief that life is better without any centralized planni
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by akie 5y ago
If you dislike the state so much I might suggest you spend some time in Somalia and let me know how you like that.
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by akie 5y ago
It's fantastic! And not nearly ambitious enough: > carbon neutral by 2050
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by akie 5y ago
Having Armin Laschet as the new Kanzler would be an unmitigated disaster. He's about as clever as George W., and as helpless and uninformed as Jeb. Thank god he's not actively malicious. An empty vessel of a politician. Let's
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by akie 5y ago
And we're all worse off because of it.
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by akie 5y ago
I've seen that referred to as "Post-imperial delusion", and I believe it explains Brexit as well as Russia's belligerent behavior. Britain lost its super power status less than a century ago, Russia only in the 1990s. Th
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by akie 5y ago
I know. I'm just pondering if it's possible to come up with a design that guarantees a secure system even if you assume that all of your protective layers will have security holes in them that you will not be able to patch. Does o
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by akie 5y ago
I agree, but it also makes me consider what the role of software engineering (as a discipline) is in this disaster. Shouldn't we design systems that are hard to break by default ? Shouldn't the OS assume that terrible things are
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by akie 5y ago
A major software defect would be hard to repair or introduce otherwise.
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by akie 5y ago
What you want is not possible. They were at a much higher risk of dying, so they got the vaccine first. Because they got the vaccine first, they get to live "normal" lives again before you do. Yes, that's unfair. It would hav
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by akie 5y ago
> My problem with the entire system is that this code is basically a free pass for all the old people we've stayed inside for a year for to go on holiday, while everyone else gets to go through all the same hoops they've been g
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by akie 5y ago
Amusingly, one of the image captions in this article describes Kreuzberg as a "suburb". Kreuzberg is many things, but it's most definitely not a suburb. Depending on who you ask, it's either one of the most "dangero
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by akie 5y ago
So making life multiplanetary, what Elon Musk has been saying, is basically the only feasible protection? Not a Musk fanboy but happy that at least something is happening.
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by akie 5y ago
Of course I know that, but did you ever talk to someone who is not in technology but does have a say in determining what "we" need to do to cover "our" asses? Say, a lawyer with the responsibility that all of our websi
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by akie 5y ago
Then the EU tracks everything everyone does. Nice.
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You want to avoid cookies entirely so that you don't need a cookie policy and that you don't need a cookie banner. It's also significantly easier to convince a lawyer that you don't need these things if you can prove tha
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by akie 5y ago
> These databases already exist. That doesn't matter.
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by akie 5y ago
Hello, I get that you're trying to make websites faster, and it seems like you have some amazing technology, but I have to tell you in all honesty that you have a 1.5 Mb PNG on the linked page. If you want to optimize a website, then (
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by akie 5y ago
Two questions: 1. How much of the wealth (and/or income) do they have? 2. If they paid their taxes like the rest of the population, what would this number be?
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by akie 5y ago
I never said it’s uncommon, I just said I completely and utterly detest the people who do this kind of thing.
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by akie 5y ago
That’s an almost sociopathic way of looking at society. Government is the organization that we, the people, have created to accomplish our common goals. If you think that government is just a big fat cow that needs to be fleeced, and that p
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by akie 5y ago
I think it's better to build such systems on open standards, and to not rely on private companies to define and control the outcome. But since Stripe is way ahead here they might end up the de-facto standard anyway.

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