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by chinesempire 7y ago
> Same in Sweden, UK, parts of central Europe and large parts of eastern Europe Exactly. Locally. I live in Italy, it affected us in 1986, then everything went back to normal. And the laws in place are there only for precautions, nobody
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by chinesempire 7y ago
But is he the richest man in history? Don't forget that Rome was the largest empire of its times but also the most powerful military entity by a large margin. Is India comparable?
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by chinesempire 7y ago
The problem with the lack of winds is that the pollution precipitate on the ground and ends up polluting groundwaters Rain can sometimes dilute them and winds disperse them Another problem with the perception of reduced pollution is that pe
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by chinesempire 7y ago
I guess the OP was answering to > To many developers, what the software does is several orders of magnitude more important than how it looks. Native widgets are still the easier way to produce an UI that looks good enough to work with
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by chinesempire 7y ago
Do you think that cockroachdb, squid, seamonkey, wine, f-spot (talk about jokes...) are better names? do you know that mist means manure and angel means fishing rod in German, in Swedish kiss means pee, slut means end, final, fart means sp
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by chinesempire 7y ago
Age groups is the most important factor IMHO In Italy we have less than 100 deaths in the range 1-49 and only 347 in the range 50-59 87% of deaths are in the range >=60
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by chinesempire 7y ago
> Looking at the curves now, I’m pretty satisfied even though the numbers are very different absolutely (for many obvious reasons), the curve doesn't look very satisfying to me comprared to others left Italy, right Sweden https:&#x
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by chinesempire 7y ago
> What do you mean by 'just Firefox'? Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari all support Progressive Web Apps in general. Chrome runs only on Windows/Mac/Android (Linux if you allow proprietary software on your distro) Safari
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by chinesempire 7y ago
> If you try the same thing with a B2B or other high-touch service, it's not going to end well for you. In my experience B2B businesses call you, they want to talk to someone, not to a chat bot. My biggest complain is in fact that I
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by chinesempire 7y ago
> Getting downvoted on this so I'll provide some citations That's what usually happens here on HN when you say "this is wrong" to the crowd doing that wrong thing.
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by chinesempire 7y ago
> What was the cause of that? Well in my case it's quite easy to explain: I'm not a professional driver, but I've been competing in the same races over and over, there are tracks were I have good runs, because I know the p
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by chinesempire 7y ago
> Web apps are better because they are as much device-independent as apps can get nowadays They are actually not really. If you can't run a modern browser on your platform, you're out of luck. I think the real "as much dev
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by chinesempire 7y ago
Yeah, seasoned, with no motivation whatsoever... I have beaten a seasoned champion in a Rally competition a couple of times (means I arrived before him), but he won the championship that year, I was in the lower 20% of the rankings at the e
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by chinesempire 7y ago
That's what email, phone or support tickets are for... My experience with this kind of services has always been lame and I strongly believe only bad businesses use them For example the two larger e-commerce sites in the world,Amazon an
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by chinesempire 7y ago
In whhat way a web app is better in this regards? Most app that need to push updates to the client do it by having a background service talking to the update server or polling for updates You can even do it via HTTP(S) if every other protoc
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by chinesempire 7y ago
Then I'm sorry and I mostly agree.
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by chinesempire 7y ago
what about the software that opens that web page?
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by chinesempire 7y ago
This is a classic false sense of security People identities are stolen constantly by web apps, they just don't know An app like Excel could steal my data, yes, but it is my willingness to give away all my connections to Facebook and le
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by chinesempire 7y ago
OS constantly execute untrusted code as well. Many game engines do it as well, just think about DOOM mods I think the point is that browsers are not as good as an OS as an application platform (given the limitations) but are as complex as a
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by chinesempire 7y ago
I guess you're trying to be sarcastic, but it's not working
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by chinesempire 7y ago
If we talk about "mass of land" - and wanna split hairs :) - it does not include the ocean I guess. Remember that UK is very close to continental Europe Strait of Dover is just 33 km wide. One could almost swim from one side to th
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by chinesempire 7y ago
that's why we have invented the concept of "greater distance" :)
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by chinesempire 7y ago
True, but technically both are - North of the Mediterranean sea - West of the Ural mountains - no land route to America
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by chinesempire 7y ago
Is it though? ---------------------------- Wuhan Central Districts population: 6,434,373 density: 7,242/km2 ---------------------------- New York population: 8,398,748 density: 10,715/km2
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by chinesempire 7y ago
An assholes can be completely rational, become incredibly rich and still be an asshole. It doesn't mean being an asshole it's the best strategy to become rich, it isn't enough to become one and generally I think being good de
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by chinesempire 7y ago
Still one in a billion
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by chinesempire 7y ago
The money doesn't disappear though and I'm sure the Bush family is still doing well
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by chinesempire 7y ago
I think we can agree that billionaires main trait is not being nice Putin is worth 200 billions...
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by chinesempire 7y ago
I think you made some mistakes in your math. There are 535 Congressmen in USA, 99.99999999% of them is well... 535. If I find the son of a Congressman that made billions your model will prove wrong Warren Buffet is one.
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by chinesempire 7y ago
I wish my father was professor at University. How is it not upper class?

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