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Retrofuturism(en.wikipedia.org)
171 points by ccozan 6y ago|78 comments
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by ccozan 6y ago
I like this "deepie" :) sounds like cute name for an AI. thanks!
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Touchscreens and Spacecraft(techcrunch.com)
1 points by ccozan 6y ago|0 comments
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by ccozan 6y ago
I hear you. While I wanted to use the trackpad on my X1 Carbon + Fedora , and really was good enough, I got frustrated on the "nudges" and "slides" I was experiencing while trying to hit very exact targets. Then I got ba
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by ccozan 6y ago
Well, here you are: https://www.holidify.com/pages/oldest-languages-of-world-365...
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by ccozan 6y ago
"Most of the kids I know think MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint are lame " Wait until they reach the age and get hired in a corporation. I am a die hard linux user ( been on linux desktop more than i can remember ), but the late
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by ccozan 6y ago
Agree, but the average income does not give any indication of the said disposable income to the respective income ( in % ). Also averages reflect quite poor the distribution of income, since some outliers can move the point quite drasticall
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by ccozan 6y ago
Have you been lately in Romania? You would be surprised how much disposable income people have there. The country is one of the biggest cereal producer of EU, a major car industry player and has big reserves of oil and gas. Anecdotally, sin
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by ccozan 6y ago
So if I am reading correctly the article, this is just affecting 1% of the total ( 21k from 2.2M ). I would assume such fluctuation is normal?
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by ccozan 6y ago
...to power desalinization plants.
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by ccozan 6y ago
and the prices of storage as well.[1] ( Article quite old, but argument stays ) [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil-shipping/oil-t...
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by ccozan 6y ago
After the WW2 House of Saud made an agreement [1] with USA that in exchange for the US Army support of Saud, they will pump any amount of oil that is needed. Now not sure how long this will last, since the current price war is directly aff
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by ccozan 6y ago
me too. Human time is very differently perceived and experienced. This puts it into some perspective.
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by ccozan 7y ago
Wow, such memories with the 3D Vision. Was quite visionary. And indeed I had to buy a Sony Trinitron with 120Hz refresh otherwise it wouldn't work. I remember playing MoH:AA, the play experience was quite out of this world.
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by ccozan 7y ago
Or the crosswords section?
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by ccozan 7y ago
my ATH50 also refuses to die. After more than 10 years of usage, they look like they've been in a war but the sound and the quality are the same.
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by ccozan 7y ago
Well, every contract has a force majeure clause, so...
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Ask HN: How are VCs doing this times?
7 points by ccozan 7y ago|1 comments
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by ccozan 7y ago
That's why the only "reliable" way to extract text is to perform an OCR of the pdf rendering which is exactly what ABBYY is doing.
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by ccozan 7y ago
This is actually the plot of The Island [1] [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_44
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by ccozan 7y ago
Msybe we will be able to choose a "unsafe" mode from a menu, also by acknowledging the full responsability if anything happens. Hard to sell indeed.
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by ccozan 7y ago
In case no one noticed : https://xkcd.com/927/
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by ccozan 7y ago
it started more than 10 years ago. My hunch is on a mutual undestanding between major providers and some maturity of the equipment that supports IPv6. googling "what is my IP" from Telekom or MNet results in a IPv6. Virtually all
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by ccozan 7y ago
If you are around Munich, still looking for a job, drop me a line at info at langsys.com Deep thinking is what we look for.
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by ccozan 7y ago
Thinking of this I would have continued like: Me: are you confirming that if I start a scam you will not investigate it? Police:...? Me: Ok , then thanks a lot, I know now. Police: umm, wait maybe..
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by ccozan 7y ago
But maybe then is already irrelevant?
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by ccozan 7y ago
Then the only option would be delivery by ground based robo-trucks ( in all sizes ). I think there are a few who are in this business, at least controlling them from distance.
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VW plans a new OS for cars(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ccozan 7y ago|0 comments
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by ccozan 7y ago
There is more happening in the firmware that you can believe!! ( Disclaimer: I used to work there, could give more details, but NDA )
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by ccozan 7y ago
Can you tell me where to find these? especially "Dune". I try to bring my kids to quality SF and this could be much easier than the actual Dune books, as they are not quite easy.

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