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by ako 3y ago
You can't blame the corporations, if they wouldn't have moved the manufacturing while the competition did, they wouldn't have been able to compete on price, and consumers would have bought the cheaper options.
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by ako 3y ago
These agreements are not the only cause, if everyone would have kept on buying locally produced products, the jobs would have remained. Problem is that we bought the cheaper products, making it impossible for companies producing locally to
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by ako 3y ago
Speech recognition is getting to a point where keyboards can be replaced for certain cases. And there are many situations where keyboards are not an option.
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by ako 3y ago
It’s not dead on arrival as it’s purpose is not to be a massive consumer success. It’s purpose is to get the ball rolling, it is an early adopter release that will get developers started, and that may have some useful purpose for some pro u
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by ako 3y ago
It wouldn’t surprise me if Apple has been working on this for more than 9 years. They know not to release until all parts are mature enough to make a successful release. Sometime the hardware just isn’t there yet, and you have to wait a few
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by ako 3y ago
Sports referees could also benefit, instant replay. Once there’s a cheaper, lighter versions you’ll see mums and dads running on the soccer/hockey fields with these.
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by ako 3y ago
AWS RDS, AWS Aurora or Retool database?
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by ako 3y ago
My main problem with ride sharing is that it allows companies to compete with taxi's by exploiting car owner needing extra income. In the Netherlands we treat public transport as a basic necessity that should be available to everyone.
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by ako 3y ago
By what metrics do you determine public bus system isn’t working, and how would you expect these metrics to change in your proposal? As far as I can tell many people are using public transport, including buses, so it seems to work to some e
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by ako 3y ago
The fact that banks would like this to better determine risk, doesn’t mean a society has to allow for it. Banks could also just accept the higher risk, and work with that. For example by asking higher interest or insuring the debt. There ar
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by ako 3y ago
Do you have a source/link for that original goal? I wasn’t aware of this, and as such expect that I can rely on kafka for my events. Also, if this is really the case it should be mentioned on the homepage of Kafka. Just checked kafka’s
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by ako 3y ago
Maybe there was no response because it was expected. Probably all countries spy on all other countries. Especially during the Trump era, it wasn’t clear that USA was still an ally, so I hope other countries prepared for that by increasing
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by ako 4y ago
We have made a system that has no room for seeking understanding. It needs to be fast, affordable, and without mistakes otherwise you’ll get sued, so everyone simply follows protocols.
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by ako 4y ago
IBM Simon was the first in 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon I had a Sony Ericsson p900 a few years before the iPhone, it had a small keyboard you’d usually flip out of the way to get a full screen touch di
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by ako 4y ago
Maybe you should be happy they’re not voted in, voting is a popularity contest that completely ignores capabilities. I want the people in charge to know what they’re doing.
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by ako 4y ago
Sometimes it takes a few tries before they get it right, the iPhone also wasn’t the first touch based screen only phone.
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by ako 4y ago
What is the benefit of decentralized money, other than it makes crime easier?
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by ako 4y ago
Most architects have limited influence on the entire stack, so they try to achieve results in the sub part they can control. This leads to overly complex sub parts, as you can’t optimize the entire stack. Probably another example of Conway
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by ako 4y ago
Housing prices are mostly a function of supply and demand, but heavily influenced by demand from investors, and the limitation that not all supply is created equal: it’s all about location, location and location.
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by ako 4y ago
What is this 7th row of keys you’re talking about? My P1 thinkpad has 6 rows, just like my 75% external mechanical keyboard. No problem getting work done with just 6 rows, as long as I don’t visit HN too often…
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by ako 4y ago
Unfortunately, the only proof I see is that you’re expecting too much from humans. We’re just not very rational, and have a problem doing the right thing. We believe in unproven stories about gods, kill millions of people for temporary gree
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by ako 4y ago
It will never fully work, as we have as many opinions on what good government looks like as there are people on this earth. What one considers good government, is someone else’s nightmare government.
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by ako 4y ago
If damaging outcome to our youth is your main concern we might want to start by censoring social media altogether. And alcohol, and not doing any sports, and eating fastfood, and being overweight… But back to religion, I think religion open
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by ako 4y ago
I’d prefer if we’d start by censoring violence and religion. Religion is just a big lie to manipulate people.
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by ako 4y ago
At the same time, having to subscribe to specific periodical keeps me from doing it all. I see the these subscribe pop-ups every time I visit a newspaper, at least 5 different newspapers per day. It is just not affordable to have 5 subscrip
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by ako 4y ago
There are many small teams within large enterprises, one does not exclude the other…
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by ako 4y ago
As a dutch person, i'm very happy our governments made this choice: makes cities way more liveable, benefits those who can't afford a car, saves many lives, improves the health of 1000s, and reduces healthcare costs due to improve
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by ako 4y ago
As a dutch person i found this an interesting read, didn't know some of the history how we got here and how much we benefit from it. "All of these changes have had an incredible impact on The Netherlands. In the 1970s about 500 ch
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by ako 4y ago
Don’t talk him out of motorcycling please, motorcyclist are one of the best sources of donor organs we have these days…
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by ako 4y ago
We have two cars, but anything within walking or cycling distance I prefer to do walking or cycling. E.g., 10 minutes walk to school with the kids, 20 minutes cycling into the city to do shopping,

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