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by brmgb 6y ago
> would you say that your experience as a Frenchman is the same regardless of the colour of your skin? You are committing the American mistake of thinking that people sharing a skin colour also share a culture. There will be a tremendous
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Industrial argon is produced by fractional distillation of air and is a mostly inert gaz. Most of it is not food rated because it's mostly useless in food production. You are taking an extremely limited risk by using it to displace air
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> If they didn't want their content to be indexed by search results, they could ask Google to remove it No, they can't. The first answer to the Google issue from the French press was sensible. Individualy they know their conten
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I don't know if it's that I'm getting old compared to the rest of Hacker News or if I have a different life but sending calendar invite to friends for events (lunch/dinner) seems fairly standard. A typical week I will pr
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by brmgb 6y ago
Touch panels on military boats are called MFDs too. They are actually surprisingly good but they come with large handles you can use to stabilize yourself while the boat is moving.
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Qualcomm isn't the only microprocessor vendor. Well, actually, on this segment, they kind of are. > It is fundamentally a lack of commitment by Google to support their product line. Yes, I think I did say that repeatedly in the
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> A smartwatch should not be burning a lot of RAM. Then again, the Gen 5 has 1Go and works fine. That's the same amount than an Apple watch serie 4/5. > It has a battery the size of a dime, it should be doing very little wit
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At the same time, the Linux kernel uses so many GCC specific extensions to C that an unpatched Clang couldn't even compile it until 2019. It is not in any way a typical program.
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Wear OS needs work but it's not garbage. Given enough RAM it's usable. The Fossil Gen 5 for example is somewhat fine. The issue is more with Qualcomm releasing garbage CPU. Google releasing a watch would help in the same way the N
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> What was wrong with my tone? We are not on reddit. You can't start a reply by "This is a lie" and follow with preposterous claims. > https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/g/
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> pronounce ps as in "pissed" without the "i", instead of just the "s" (the "p" is silent), which is the correct way to pronounce it in English. I'm genuinely lost reading your comment as neit
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> This is simply a lie. All wolf packs are strictly hierarchical. Meaning there is no wolf pack without a hierarchy. Tone it down a bit. You should inform yourself. I gave you the name of the author to read, Mech, in my previous post. Wo
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> Counter-question: Does your operating system have all its files directly placed in "/"? Why not? That's not a counter question. A file system is an abstraction over the physical layout of your hard drives. An accou
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Wild wolves are social but not particularly hierarchichal. A typical wolf pack is formed of a couple and their offsprings. Adult wolves leave the pack to form their own. The idea that wolf pack have complex fixed hierarchical structure is m
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> Any criminal worth their salt will split up illicit transactions into smaller ones to avoid these types of rules, it’s money laundering 101. FinCEN mandates that all transactions conducted by or or on behalf of the same person during t
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by brmgb 6y ago
> If Paypal freeze your account then any money in it is simply lost (and your loss is Paypal's gain!). While this is completely tangential to the current discussion, I feel compelled to inform you that that's not how it works.
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The US embargo prevents doing business with Iran. Providing service in Iran would be a violation of the embargo. Blocking a whole European company not conducting business with Iran because one of its employee tried to login while there is n
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by brmgb 6y ago
It's not an Iranian employee. That's just someone visiting Iran and login to their GitHub account. GitHub reaction is outrageously disproportionate. They should just prevent login from Iran. They had no basis for blocking a legiti
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> you do not know who will see that data or how long it will be shared for. Of course I know, these things are regulated separately. Sure, my bank could share it illegally but they could already have done that even without mandatory reco
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Hard limits to cash transactions exist in most countries around the world. For example, in France, as a business, you can't accept payment in cash above 1000€. Between consumers, you need to produce an invoice. I personally deeply disa
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It's a geopolitical matter. China doesn't want to be seen as the culprit. It goes against its global ambition. Internally they are heavily pushing the preposterous claim that the virus is of foreign origin, possibly imported via f
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> They most certainly did try to pursue herd immunity, but didn't message it publically. The email published by The Guardian don't support this. He is mainly discussing the impact of keeping school open balancing the potential
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In the case of BD, the question seems to be what exactly is the end. Making walking robots is an incredible feet of engineering but one that doesn't seem to solve an actual industrial problem. For a lot of use, as a mean of locomotion,
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There is no wrong side of the line. A manichean dichotomy between winners and losers is an unproductive way to look at the world. You can both be successful while trying to carry everybody up. Life is not a zero sum game. The end game of ri
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Most likely a case of "if you don't change the text you don't need to change the system". You have to remember that this is not actually a new agreement. EU countries and the UK are already exchanging this data and have
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Citymapper is so much better in Paris where Google Maps is very poor for public transport. I'm extremely impressed. It can not only tell you which exit you need to take (extremely important in Paris) but also which car to board to be t
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If your take away from "the world seems to be becoming less and less livable for most" is "I need to get on the side of the abusers as fast as I can", you might want to take a hard look at the person you have become.
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Unlikely to cause problem. Giving people multiple vaccines using different vectors is common and tend to help in reaching immunity. Tests are currently under way for dual inoculation of the Oxford and Russian vaccines. A multi-vaccines prot
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The US press still pilling up on the far cheaper and extremely easier to store and distribute UK vaccine. Color me surprised.
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I am with you on this one. Pull existing by default is one of the numerous aberration of git. It is just an alias for fetch/merge or fetch/rebase anyway. It doesn't even work the same way for everyone as you can configure wh

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