angio

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by angio 6y ago
As an European, I'd rather have no foreign government collect data about me. Legislation like the CLOUD Act should get more backslash from European leaders.
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by angio 6y ago
It's more nuanced than that. The government decided that a population with access to grenade launchers is bad and so they banned all grenade launchers. The law to ban this type of weapons was also approved by the Congress and was not
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by angio 6y ago
> Are you sure? What law does Youtube and Twitter need to follow to be allowed to operate in China? They need to start censoring content based on the Chinese government direction. That's what Microsoft, Apple are doing. > I don&#
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by angio 6y ago
China is not banning foreign companies from operating in China, in fact for many it's their second or third biggest market.
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by angio 6y ago
Chinese companies can operate in America as long as they follow American laws, likewise American companies can operate in China as long as they follow Chinese laws. Since America is a freer society that China, it follows that Chinese compan
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by angio 6y ago
China banned these apps because they don't follow the Chinese law in regard to sharing data with the government (FB was banned after some protests where they didn't collaborate with the police). It follows that if the US wanted to
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by angio 6y ago
I'm not sure that's the reason, but for sure things like standard nutritional labels and semaphores on labels help making healthy choices.
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by angio 6y ago
Good point, rice could be substituted by another carb, but OP was explicitly talking about low carb diets. South Korean maybe don't eat as much beard or pasta, but for sure they are not having a low carb diet, yet they are not fat.
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by angio 6y ago
There are rich countries like Japan and South Korea that consume between 8 to 12 times [0] as much rice as the US and have much lower obesity rates (almost a tenth) [1]. [0] https://www.helgilibrary.com/indicators/rice-
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by angio 6y ago
> Second, we need better food labeling. "Server size" is too arbitrary. Instead use ratios: ratio per N calories, and ratio per weight. That way we can easily compare across product types. It can be worded as "X units per
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by angio 6y ago
In my experience it's because people test their websites only on Mac + Chrome, where thin fonts look fine. Case in point, this website is hard to read on FF + Linux but it's much better on Mac + Chrome.
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by angio 6y ago
The European Union is also investing in RISC-V to become independent when it comes to chips [0, 1]. In the presentation they gave at the RISC-V Forum they explicitly mention tech embargo as one of the reasons why they started this project,
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by angio 6y ago
Dosen't the CLOUD Act mean that the US government has access to all data owned by American companies, even if the data is physically outside the US?
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by angio 6y ago
Historically, from steam engines to 3D printing, innovation has been stifled by patents. The book "Against Intellectual Monopoly" [0] from Boldrin and Levine (two economists, Levine website has more work by other economists) gives
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by angio 6y ago
I'm aware of that, I was explaining why `some{T} | undefined` is problematic in Typescript. If you have a signature with both option type and undefined it's a signal of a code smell.
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by angio 6y ago
The advantage of the Option type is that you don't need to check for nullability, you simply pattern match on Some(_) or None. A type of `some{T} | undefined` means that the expression can have values `Some(_)` or `None` or `undefined`
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by angio 6y ago
Even with a salary of 200k per year, it's unlikely they will be able to afford a 2 or 3 bedroom flat in South Kensington. According to Zoopla/Foxtons, the average price is around 2M.
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by angio 6y ago
I like "Domain Modeling Made Functional" [0] from the same author as fsharp for fun and profit, and "Stylish F#" [1] to learn some idiomatic F#. [0] https://pragprog.com/titles/swdddf/domain-mod
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by angio 6y ago
That's why I'm happy to use a tiling window manager that I've setup years ago (bspwm) and never touched since. Likewise, I learned how to use emacs over 10 years ago and, while it got some nice improvements over time, it neve
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by angio 6y ago
> WeChat alternatives? I don't think there's even any alternatives to that in any form. ByteDance (the same company as TikTok) launched feiliao [0, 1] last year to compete with WeChat but I don't think they gained much mar
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by angio 6y ago
I think people reading the article should familiarize themselves with ASPI [0]. Their funding comes from: Embassy of Japan, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Australia, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Thales Group, and
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by angio 6y ago
Italy has a digital identity provider (SPID) and certified email (PEC, which is basically email + digital identity) and only government websites, bank and insurrances use it. It is much better than the alternative in the UK, where you eithe
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by angio 6y ago
The US also has the highest prison population in the world, I'm so surprised everyone seems to be fine with that. I cannot imagine calling yourself free when 1 in 150 people is imprisoned.
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by angio 6y ago
At least someone in the EU is thinking about a digital firewall [0] to keep European citizens data within the EU. [0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/6487...
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by angio 6y ago
lemmy.ml does moderate content and does not allow hate speech. Once federation is implemented they said they will ban "free speech" instances.
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by angio 6y ago
There's Husky, a fork of Tusky that allows users connect to Gab.
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by angio 6y ago
Not OP, but I share some of his views. > Inadequate package manager -> Somewhat nebulous, most package managers on Linux are available on Unix. Here he probably compares homebrew with apt/dnf/zypper. Compared to these three,
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by angio 6y ago
My favorite app is Tusky and is still available from F-Droid [0]. I think Tusky will be fine since they block Gab and so they won't be affected by this ban. [0] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.keylesspalac
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by angio 6y ago
Taiwan has a similar graph [0], you can also use the South Korean CDC data [1] as proxy of the number of infections and see that South Korea hasn't imported a single case from China in the past 28/29 weeks. [0] https://
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by angio 6y ago
I always wonder what would happen if governments legislate that advertisers (or everyone really) have to respect the Do Not Track header.

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