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by ascar 6y ago
You two are right. Reading it again I think I corrected the mixed up hands in my head. While they say the chisel is in the right and the hammer in the left, everything else depicted paints the opposite picture in my head. If you hold the ha
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by ascar 6y ago
Right-handed Arabic writers have very much the same problems as left-handed latin writers. That Arabic is written left to right seems to come from chisel based writing. > Although it is hard to pinpoint why Arabic is sinistroverse, it h
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by ascar 6y ago
I have actually read that turning it 90° clockwise and pushing towards your body is a known method of left handed writers, though it was (unfortunately) never taught to me. It makes sense as it eliminates all the smearing problems. Your lef
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by ascar 6y ago
On the other hand, using a fountain pen is incredibly frustrating and exhausting for left-handed people (in a left to right writing system). I had to unnaturally bend my hand above the line I wanted to write so I don't immediately smea
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by ascar 6y ago
This is the kind of anecdotal response I was referring to with my statement. While I agree that you can shift your rhythm by a couple of hours, that does not mean standing up at 6:30 will ever be natural for me. Against your anecdote, I pre
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by ascar 6y ago
I mentioned 10 or 11, because I believe a shift of a couple of hours (by 1 or 2 classes) already brings a tremendous benefit for many students, while having only a small impact on the schools organization and other social activites of stude
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by ascar 6y ago
For me your snippet was just a bit too short to get a feeling on the context of the conclusion. The other two paragraphs of the summary make it much clearer. Here they are: A solution to the problem is shown in Figure 2C, which contains a
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by ascar 6y ago
> I stand by my opinion that calling a common evolutionary adaptation a disorder is abusive and disrespectful and needlessly oppressive While I agree with the general statement and dislike that a disorder might give the implication that
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by ascar 6y ago
School starting times are one of the worst things for night owls and I hope ongoing research helps to raise awareness and bring change so night owl kids don't needlessly have to suffer for 10+ years. I long thought having different sch
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by ascar 6y ago
> * set pw length beyond 128 back What's your usecase for such long passwords? 55 lower case ASCII characters (a-z) have over 258 bits of entropy. As an example, that's more than the key length of AES-256. If my limited underst
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by ascar 6y ago
On the other hand, supermarkets do that on a regular basis with food. Brand product and inhouse alternative. Sometimes it goes as far as the brand producer providing both products, with the exact same ingredients and the supermarket puts th
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by ascar 6y ago
I agree. I also tried to figure this out and couldn't narrow it down to a single person. However, while the lead investor companies are established, the "partners" of the lead investors listed on crunchbase do seem to fit the
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by ascar 6y ago
> He immediately gets angry at Facebook messing up his name. The company changes his name to ‘Hans De Zwart’, with a capitalized D. A small annoyance, but for De Zwart it signifies something bigger: “It is the arrogance of a giant Americ
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by ascar 6y ago
Previous submission 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15252426 Can't believe this was already 3 years ago. Interesting read! Previous submission 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71352
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by ascar 6y ago
At least Germany has this kind of law.
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by ascar 6y ago
Am I the only one mildly annoyed by the (on purpose) typo in the name? Edit: Considering there seems to be a charity with the same name active in Covid19, this also seems to be a bad choice for legal reasons. https://wellcome.org
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by ascar 6y ago
I'm very well aware of what you have to do as I immigrated to two countries myself. My point was not that it's not understandable that you were not aware of that, but that this change in law has nothing todo with being unaware of
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by ascar 6y ago
I fail to see how your points are correlated to the changes. (As far as I grasped them, because wsj is paywalled...) If a company lowered your wages by wrongfully registering you for a lower paid position, they could still do so, because th
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by ascar 6y ago
I somehow doubt that argument. My 65" smart TV cost about $2000. My advertisement worth as a user is how much? Maybe about $30 per year like a Facebook user [1] (which I would think is to high for Samsungs model)? That's $150 to $
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by ascar 6y ago
I want a smart TV so I can access Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ etc. right from the TV and don't need a separate device for it. Many people suggest buying a dumb tv and then an apple tv. The problem is, now I have two devices and inst
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by ascar 6y ago
I thought about this before writing that paragraph. The issue is much more similar to having advertisment on the home screen of your smartphone than using a service. It would be more similar to your ISP injecting advertisement in your traff
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by ascar 6y ago
I just don't believe that TVs really get cheaper because of this. My 65'' $2000 model is also affected by this with advertising getting more annoying with post-buy updates. Like unsolicited automatically playing movie teasers
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by ascar 6y ago
This should just straight out be forbidden and regulation is the only way out of it. Voting with money is not going to stop this as all major players with high-end devices are pushing this. On top of it, this information is usually a nice s
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by ascar 6y ago
However, the article's topic verbatim states privavy is "the most important", which makes it an either-or statement by the very nature of a superlative. The person you replied to did in no way say privacy is not also importan
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by ascar 6y ago
That's unfortunately so true. The thorough and strongly regulated engineering results in good quality for mechanical products, but is detrimental for the fast paced software world. SSL3.0 is from 1996. That's the life cycle of 2-3
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by ascar 6y ago
While I don't mind a specialized setup for work, you often don't really have a choice there or it comes with a lot of corporate pain. Just using whatever your team is using is the way of least friction. At home I'm using my c
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by ascar 6y ago
The flipped ctrl/alt keys is the worst part for me. I really wish there was a setting in MacOS to flip them around without causing weird issues. Unfortunately, while you can flip ctrl/alt system-wide some apps already use the Linu
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by ascar 6y ago
I feel like this is comparing apples to oranges. A mostly 2D creative work environment, where it has to be good enough for the human eye versus a 3D modeling software that has to hold up against real world physical constraints. It feels lik
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by ascar 6y ago
> "Professor Greg Patton repeated several times a Chinese word that sounds very similar to a vile racial slur in English. Understandably, this caused great pain and upset among students, and for that I am deeply sorry. It is simply
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by ascar 6y ago
I always have the feeling many people greatly overestimate the amount of nuclear waste that was actually produced. So far we have produced an estimated 370000 tonnes of nuclear waste globally, which can be stored in about 22.000m³. [1] This

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