berdario

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   by berdario 6y ago

   I recently wrote some comments that are contrarian in respect to this topic. Frankly, my perspective is that the HN hive mind just downvotes anything that does not toes the US line (there are also upvotes obviously, but other topics don&#x
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   by berdario 6y ago

   You're currently right, but the world is changing https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-12/russia-di...
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   by berdario 6y ago

   Croatia is not an island, Vietnam is not an island. I included multiple countries exactly to pre-empt straw man objections like those.
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   by berdario 6y ago

   Sweden: 8% GDP drop countries that locked down early: China: 3% GDP increase Vietnam: 2% GDP increase New Zealand: 2% GDP drop Croatia: 15% GDP drop Denmark: 7% GDP drop Norway: 6% GDP drop (obviously, the numbers cannot be easily compared
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   by berdario 6y ago

   Sweden's handling of the pandemic has been a catastrophe, causing the death of thousands of people. If you look at the numbers of countries that had a decent pandemic response with lockdowns... like Vietnam, Croatia, New Zealand. These
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   by berdario 6y ago

   Han Chinese children have to learn Tibetan in school: https://mobile.twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/12992582723... I think that rumors of cultural oppression in Tibet have been vastly exaggerated
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   by berdario 6y ago

   First of all, China didn't kill a million muslims. Second, discrimination or racism is never right, but the arguments related to Xinjiang prisons are being used to drum up popular support for a [cold] war against China. We have a duty
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   by berdario 6y ago

   Those effects are vastly overstated. https://lwn.net/Articles/825602/ If you participate in the community, you can be a boon or you can also be a drag (if you just use the software in the privacy of your home, rep
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   by berdario 6y ago

   Just name your payload something like "foo\u200fism.jar" (\u is the Python escape for arbitrary unicode codepoints) And Windows will (as of a couple years ago, at least) render it as "fooraj.msi" (Though I'm not sur
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    by berdario 6y ago

    > Even mentioning usage of differential privacy for a single feature of Gmail seems pointless to me when they obviously not only have everyone's emails in full history, but also develop countless algorithms to scrape content from em
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    by berdario 6y ago

    Also, since it might be unfamiliar to many, here's another article that puts forward a criticism of Bitcoin, many of which are for ethical issues: https://blog.habets.se/2017/11/Why-bitcoin-is-terrible.html I
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    by berdario 6y ago

    There's a law from 1992 that describes the process of "state of emergency" and decrees https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/1992/03/17/092G0253/... Starting from article 5. It
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    by berdario 6y ago

    I liked: Beneath a steel sky Psychonauts Ico (I don't think there was much of an explicitly stated story, it's mostly atmosphere)
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    by berdario 6y ago

    The Zika and Ebola outbreaks were not pandemics.
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    by berdario 6y ago

    That's infuriating, especially because you get that email even if you haven't made transactions on Paypal in months
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    by berdario 6y ago

    For people that prefer not to waste time on that, like I did... It's a covid19 conspiracy from antivaxxers The first debunking of it I found: https://zdoggmd.com/undercover-nurse/
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    by berdario 6y ago

    "Virus never spread as fast as was feared" Except in the US, in Italy, etc. where it's spreading or it has been spreading exactly as fast as feared.
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    by berdario 6y ago

    You're omitting one important quote: "less than 4000 deaths for SARS-CoV-2 at the time of writing" That paper is worthless.
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    by berdario 6y ago

    I think that GP point might be about being able to direct the military and economic might. The US is surely ahead in terms of numbers... but even if they wanted to stop any military involvement in the middle east tomorrow, and pull back
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    by berdario 6y ago

    Fox News doesn't change because apparently they don't get most of their money from advertisement, but rather from cable bundling https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/31/1933075/-If-you-hav
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    by berdario 6y ago

    FWIW, Facebook, Dropbox and Github use Fido2 just fine on mobile (Chrome browser). You don't need the TOTP fallback for Facebook on mobile browser (though annoyingly they'll still always send you the code via SMS, if you haven&#x2
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    by berdario 6y ago

    I installed 2 of the ones using the Exposure Notification API, just to check what happens in this circumstance (the german app is implemented differently, though) and Android allows access to it to only one app at a time. You can choose&#x2
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    by berdario 6y ago

    > Obviously nobody expects the police not to shoot back when fired upon. I do. They should temporarily cover to safety, understand the situation, announce themselves and attempt to de-escalate. Only if gunfire persist after that, it&#x27
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    by berdario 6y ago

    Just use dom/sub :)
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    by berdario 6y ago

    Please don't write inflammatory comments that spread misunderstanding and disinformation. I'm very skeptical of this move, its sustainability in the medium term, and I overall really dislike Uber as a business, but equality is NOT
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    by berdario 6y ago

    I'm not using Signal as heavily as I was in the past (due to the fact that they dropped support for Chromeos), but issues that I personally was annoyed by: - message delivery was not very reliable when your connection is poor and inter
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    by berdario 6y ago

    No, it's not too harsh. I have a T440s, bought with the wrong (rtl8192ee) wifi chipset, and their support has been practically nonexistent. If you're a big company, you can test the hardware before letting all your employees adopt
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    by berdario 6y ago

    Ok, but which country would Google Search have to be nationalized into? The brits won't be happy if Google is nationalized into a french public service
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    by berdario 6y ago

    IANAL, but if the license is illegal, it wouldn't mean that it's illegal to sell a product under such a license. It would just mean that enforcing all terms of that license would be impossible.
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    by berdario 6y ago

    They shouldn't have used external storage while using API for silent installs, full stop. https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage... The fact that the norm is different is a good poi