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by akie 7y ago
Honestly, it sounds you're both brilliant and a bit lacking in people skills at the same time. Most people are decent and try to do the right thing, so if they do something questionable it's usually because there's another (n
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by akie 7y ago
It's an uneven power relationship that the EU is trying to level, and I'm grateful for that. It has nothing to do with suppressing freedom.
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by akie 7y ago
Yeah, it's very disingenuous, what they actually should say is "You can't use our services your government asked us to be considerate about your personal data, and you are not important enough to make that happen"
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by akie 7y ago
The author wrote (somewhere) on this Twitter thread [1] that they have 150 developers, so that's 10 services for every employee. [1] https://twitter.com/JackKleeman/status/1190354757308862468
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by akie 7y ago
> In America, we understand that there is absolutely nothing more dangerous than an entity that feels entitled to control what is true. It might make things easier, and it might actually produce better results so long as the entity doing
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by akie 7y ago
Why? Most of this seems to be documented, no reason to be skeptical if you can just trace back the lineages...
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by akie 7y ago
It's going to be tricky. I did some of the "listen" exercises to validate how people pronounced some sentences, and I got a few people who spoke with very strong (Indian, Nigerian, UK, ...) accents. How would you take these t
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by akie 7y ago
I see a pattern here...
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by akie 7y ago
Oh come on, you’re being (deliberately?) quite liberal with the truth here.
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by akie 7y ago
The US doesn't need a protector, because the US has immensely large natural barriers (the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean) that protect it from any other country in the world, except from Canada and from Mexico. Unless you think o
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by akie 7y ago
On and on we slide towards fascism.
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by akie 7y ago
That's nice & all, but there's no good replacement that works as well (for example against a dedicated attacker with a botnet).
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by akie 7y ago
The government should enforce energy efficient building standards and tax those who don’t comply.
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Solar car with range of 'up to 800km' to launch next month(edie.net)
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by akie 7y ago
It’s also available without Google.
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by akie 7y ago
Are you saying that inner city crime is by brain damage, rather than by living in desperate circumstances?
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by akie 7y ago
The data comes from weather stations all across the US, which I assume are managed or operated by NOAA. This project is at the World Meteorological Organization, an international organization of weather organizations - of which the NOAA is
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by akie 7y ago
I once had lunch with a senior meteorologist at the WMO, who was (5 years ago) convinced that the European model was 5 to 10 years ahead of the US model and that it would be hard for them to catch up. Not sure if that's still the case.
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by akie 7y ago
That sucks, I’m sorry. I made this about 5 years ago and am no longer involved in the project.
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by akie 7y ago
I made this: https://www.wmo.int/cpdb/united-states-of-america - click on “climate normals”
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by akie 7y ago
Not always true. My wife is in academia and involved in multimillion euro projects, and oh boy - do they fight. Usually dirty.
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by akie 7y ago
Yeah but to be fair he did ask for alternatives in case you are targeted. It happened at work here too, someone with a grudge and a botnet waged a multi-month targeted campaign, and reCAPTCHA was the only thing that helped. Are there alte
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by akie 7y ago
I live in Germany and get to drive on the no-speed-limit Autobahn regularly. It's fun! But what many newcomers or tourists fail to understand is that you can't just go and drive 230 km/h just because there's no speed lim
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by akie 7y ago
I always put an index on nearly every field that could potentially be used to do a SELECT or an ORDER BY on. I'm not sure I've ever run into a serious problem doing this. Usually, the opposite is true - not having an index can cau
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by akie 7y ago
I'm just going to say that this is flat out amazing. Really super impressive.
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by akie 7y ago
I literally know no one who uses PEAR.
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by akie 7y ago
You're right, I didn't even mention the droughts and famines. I'm Dutch though so perhaps I'm slightly biased or preoccupied :/
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by akie 7y ago
What about all the people living in coastal areas or close to major rivers? That’s like 50% of the population, in addition to much of our shared history (buildings). It will all be under water and cause large migrations, unsettling much of
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by akie 8y ago
Wow, how can this conspiracy-theory-like nonsense be voted to the top of the comments? I thought Hacker News was a rational place. The reality is that lazy loading images really does help webpage performance, especially on mobile. You canno
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by akie 8y ago
Did you ever read any fairy tales? Hansel & Gretel is about parents deliberately leaving their kids in the woods, and then a witch imprisons them, which is eventually resolved by throwing her into the fire. Little Red Riding Hood is abo

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