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by berdario 5y ago
That's basically GeForce Now, in this context... So, I'm afraid that they already got (and applied) the idea :p
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by berdario 5y ago
> I believe in the UK (where I live) one has all of the legal and financial implications automatically when a relationship reaches a certain age (3 years I believe). Legally you would be treated the same way as if you were married. That&
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by berdario 5y ago
Native speakers don't necessarily use their native language every day, and in fact a non-native English speaker might use English every day. There are cases in which non-natives might have better grasp of orthography compared to native
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by berdario 5y ago
The Right to Health is an inalienable human right. I suppose "organ donation" might be better phrased as "organ recovery" then? You can't use it anymore, and it would go to waste... Hence it should be recovered. Peo
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by berdario 6y ago
You're mixing up home builders with landlords. The latter aren't fulfilling housing demand: they are capturing it by outcompeting people who cannot afford property prices (prices driven up by buy-to-let demand). You say that landl
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by berdario 6y ago
If buy-to-let is profitable, people will do it as a business... If people do it as a business, it'll drive the price of housing up even more, and since businesses have more capital than workers, the latter will be priced out (if lucky,
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by berdario 6y ago
People cannot actually choose the location, without giving up their work. "You can only find work in a big metropolitan center that demands 60% of your salary in rent? Though luck..." Let's say that you work in London... if y
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by berdario 6y ago
I'm not aware of how things work in the US, but... Surely if you are only handling Names and DOB you don't have to be HIPAA compliant? I mean, if you have to be HIPAA compliant (your application is medical-adjacent and/or i
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by berdario 6y ago
I never said anything about converging or not. My GP's post simply points out that having repeated computations with arbitrary input is wasteful. "Your argument is as invalid as..." ROTFL Wake me up when Bitcoin moves to a Po
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by berdario 6y ago
The nonce used as input of the mining hash function IS random (or rather, arbitrary). Comments like the above are a sad demonstration of the fact that, while Bitcoin was originally an interesting technical project... Discussion of it has no
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by berdario 6y ago
1- You don't, but it's not a real problem since non-cryptocurrency payments are reversible and trackable, so scammers won't use them. They'll rather exploit analog ways to get money out of you, recent example: https:&#x
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by berdario 6y ago
Maybe? the wage gap has clear reasons (mens' jobs are better paid, women get promoted less) and thus clear solutions (stop discriminating against women at hiring/promotion time, or improve women's retention thus allowing them
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by berdario 6y ago
A huge boulder of salt. The document has been produced in consultation with Adrian Zenz, and his work is referred several times. Zenz is widely known to have made numbers up, and in fact he has now been sued by Xinjiang farmers that complai
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by berdario 6y ago
It's not only one-off social media samples... When an actual genocide happens, you see massive flows of refugees trying to escape. Where are the news of massive flows of Chinese refugees in Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan?
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by berdario 6y ago
Btw, censorship in China is often misrepresented here in the western world... For example, we all "know" that Winnie the Pooh is banned... The reality is a bit different: https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/sta
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by berdario 6y ago
I'm in a similar situation, and I'm just using an electric heater... No fancy mining setup. But I'm also thinking, maybe actually this is for the better? (Not only for the stingy landlord, but for the environment). I mean, ev
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by berdario 6y ago
The WHO really dropped the ball in early 2020, since they were also recommending against personal mask use. That said, I think it's fair to say that some kind of response might've been faster in one place vs another... But any res
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by berdario 6y ago
> Taiwanese warnings The disease originated in Wuhan, mainland China, not Taiwan. The emergency was communicated in China (as well as Taiwan): http://py.cnhubei.com/py_news/2019/1231/3290.shtml Sure, liste
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by berdario 6y ago
I really want to see positive news, and the vaccination rollout (despite how uneven it is) is definitely positive. But the focus on herd immunity, if conflated with immunity after infection, is misleading: Look at what's happening in M
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by berdario 6y ago
Which country are you talking about? It's unclear if you're criticizing the US (borders being completely open for months), or if you're praising the way it handled the pandemic
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by berdario 6y ago
Propaganda doesn't work like you are implying it does. It's part "bullshit asymmetry principle", but it's mostly repetition of the same talking points. I.e. find something true but inconsequential (Dominic Dwyer sai
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by berdario 6y ago
If the agency that published the article is twisting the truth, shouldn't that be called out?
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by berdario 6y ago
From the article: "China refused to give raw data on early COVID-19 cases to the WHO-led team probing the origins of the pandemic, according to one of the team’s investigators, potentially complicating efforts to understand how the out
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by berdario 6y ago
Look at what happened with QAnon and anti-maskers. It's not about 1.4G people: it's about 7G people... The whole of humanity is suffering because a small vocal minority has been deceived and is causing problems for others. Before
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by berdario 6y ago
Yeah, but the story about covid19 being in europe in October 2019 always seems implausible to me: Recall how much the situation changed in 2020 between the beginning of January and the end of March... Even if we just had an handful of cases
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by berdario 6y ago
Reuters is twisting the truth. We should rather listen to the scientists who actually worked at the WHO. https://twitter.com/PeterDaszak/status/1360551108565999619 https://twitter.com/TheaKFischer&
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by berdario 6y ago
> were a problem since foundation of Google You might be right, but Google changed as a company. They started selling phones (ok, even if your account gets locked... you can still use your phone and/or create a new account to instal
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by berdario 6y ago
Notably, it also happened to an employee's husband: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24791357
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by berdario 6y ago
The UK should be the same color as Russia and Turkey. Either they're all red, or they're all grey
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by berdario 6y ago
There are plenty of countries in which Google is not blocked, but knowledge of English is still relatively rare.

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