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by choeger 4y ago
So how does that work? I install some app that "needs" location data to function and in the EULA I "consent" to that data being sold. Police then buys this data via several proxies. So far so "told you so years ago&
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by choeger 4y ago
That's the equivalent of "just run with sudo". People don't want to deal with different configurations, policies, etc. So to provide a "one-click" Installation, they'll just change the whole environment to
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by choeger 4y ago
It is indeed a pitty. Imagine how much carbon could be captured if these pesky seas had their fair share of trees.
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by choeger 4y ago
> No-one expected creative AIs to come for the artist jobs first, but here we are! Maybe that's because we never really thought about it. In hindsight, it's only logical. For an artistic rendering, correctness doesn't matt
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by choeger 4y ago
The Y-combinator (or any other fixed-point combinator) turns the lambda calculus into a Turing-complete language by showing that it can express recursion. The lambda calculus in itself is an extremely simple declarative language. Its simpli
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by choeger 4y ago
> so are you suggesting then that just because a company's revenues (I think you mean "earnings") have exceeded X, that they should be completely broken up as a company? Yes. But I meant revenues. If we want companies to
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by choeger 4y ago
Simple. Revenue. Tax a company's revenue progressively. (Of course it's complicated to implement this with companies owning companies, but you get the gist.)
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by choeger 4y ago
I think that this trend is self-reinforcing: When you have fewer children, you need to activate a larger part of your young population for work. A big pool (the largest?) is women who traditionally don't work or work less than men. Wor
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by choeger 4y ago
Distance ain't a choice. Family doesn't live in a single village or city. And no, they're not conveniently close to a train station nor does traveling by train with kids and luggage compete with a car economically and practic
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by choeger 4y ago
A VW Golf from the 2020s could not cover that use case legally or practically. First of all, kids need safety seats nowadays and these seats are to be mounted via ISOFIX. And guess how many such seats you can mount in a Golf? Right. Two. Wh
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by choeger 4y ago
The sad thing is that at least some part of the growth of vehicles on the road is because few people can afford to own (and park) multiple cars or other vehicles larger than a bike. I have to move 3 kids and 2 adults regularly over longer d
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by choeger 4y ago
> The EU Commission is apparently aware of the problem and is consciously accepting it. So they're fine to read 10% of all messages? Probably more, because of context? Besides this obviously being a massive DDOS on whatever dystopia
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by choeger 4y ago
> So: If you here on HN can think of a way to dramatically increase travel speed for people, goods, or information, I think you will become rich, famous, and very impactful. I think it's nearly trivial to have a system with much hig
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by choeger 4y ago
Don't forget that right now, a PV or battery plant will be producing after a couple of years, while your NPP is still in planning or, ignoring any legal battles, in construction. The renewables will produce power for years when that NP
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by choeger 4y ago
With the current advances of PV and, amazingly at the same time, wind energy, we certainly don't need more nuclear fission plants. It is pretty obvious by now that building a PV factory and a battery factory instead of a NPP is the e
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by choeger 4y ago
Here's the thing: If I am in a country that harbours these abominations of nature and I see a suspicious spider near or even inside my home, I'll kill it. I'll drop the whole weight of the "sapiens" part of my speci
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by choeger 4y ago
I'd raze the whole town.
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by choeger 4y ago
> There's this whole scene of people who do performative, almost theatrical, quality programming but nigh on forgot how to actually ship features, and questions like those are a hint they might be in that camp. Sorry, but I think yo
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by choeger 4y ago
The observation about the focus on unit tests is well-made. I think it's a crucial problem that stems from very good tools for unit testing and developers that are very familiar with these tools. It's then very simple to discard a
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by choeger 4y ago
> It's way-ay-ay more effort Just because you tend to ignore the many complexities that are actually involved in a form on a web page. It's exactly this bias that stems from untyped languages and that needs to die. Http is a co
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by choeger 4y ago
Could you look over them?
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by choeger 4y ago
I think it's, quite literally, a question of the point of view. I know about installations that were (during planning) allowed to be 4m tall. If that happens right next to your home or any other place you visit frequently, I, and many
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by choeger 4y ago
That's at the same time true and misleading. Land usage for energy crops will vary year on year (natural crop rotation). On top of that, only some crops are really disturbing people living close by (e.g. rapeseed stinks when wet). Larg
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by choeger 4y ago
> Cargo bikes scale far better than cars. That's a huge misunderstanding. They scale in exactly the same way: they have space usage that grows linearly with the number of owners. They are of course smaller, but also carry only one
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by choeger 4y ago
People aren't dumb. Cars are expensive yet extremely popular. Thus, car travel is superior when it comes to satisfying the needs of the owners. Train travel is often more costly and much more inconvenient. Air travel obviously doesn&#x
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by choeger 4y ago
But energy efficiency is not the single goal and it shouldn't become it. The most energy efficient mode if transportation is to stay put. The most energy efficient form of living is a bunk in some barracks and so on and so forth. And s
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by choeger 4y ago
Hah, they didn't even notice how Maybe is algebraic and State is coalgebraic ... (I completely made this up, it could be true according to my limited understanding, but more likely it's completely wrong.) I think the confusion com
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by choeger 4y ago
It is. People get confused all the time when their "compilation" of a TeX "document" doesn't terminate or yields other typical runtime problems. LaTeX is a very leaky abstraction in that regard. For more than basic
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by choeger 4y ago
> What exactly here makes any compiler/interpreter distinction important? In my book, a compiler is an algorithm that (if implemented correctly) terminates for every input. An interpreter (of a Turing-complete language) will obvious
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by choeger 4y ago
Important distinction: TeX is an interpreter, not a compiler.

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