dd_roger

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by dd_roger 6y ago
People are extremely bad at estimating how many people there are in crowds (respectively in pictures of crowds). Traditional media (newspapers, TV, etc.) tend to be pretty honest about it from my experience but on social medias pictures of
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by dd_roger 6y ago
I'm guessing vets take advantage of the ever growing tendency to consider pets as family members to inflate the price. Especially since (from very anecdotal evidences) it seems to be mostly middle/upper class people who are so inv
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by dd_roger 6y ago
Romania isn't in Schengen so yes, they are illegitimate. But you're the only one talking about Roma here. What should be taken into account for policy making is the interest of the country's citizens (and non-national legal r
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by dd_roger 6y ago
> Related news: European Court of Human Rights just made important ruling that decriminalizes begging. Making it criminal to be poor is against human rights. Lol, you're taking a very ungenuine shortcut. Legal residents who also
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by dd_roger 6y ago
Granted my commute is a 20 minutes walk so I don't get the The True American Commute Experience (TM) but working from home is a miserable experience as far as I'm concerned. Having the possibility to do it once in a while is ni
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by dd_roger 6y ago
The major problems with EV that will keep me from buying one in the foreseeable future are: * Low range, combined with a lackluster charging infrastructure. I think from my list this is the closest issue to being resolved, if I could consis
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by dd_roger 6y ago
> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7598463 Wow every new person who joins that thread misses the point more than the previous one. This was painful to read.
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by dd_roger 6y ago
Neither of these issues have anything to do with the license. Either Elastic's code used by Amazon is indeed stolen proprietary code and no licensing change is needed to obtain reparation, or Amazon is making lawful use of FOSS source
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by dd_roger 6y ago
I have a hard time understanding the point of the author. If Amazon is infringing a trademark (which indeed seems to be the case in my non-expert eyes), reparation should/could be obtained before a court regardless of the license of th
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by dd_roger 6y ago
This is a much more likely explanation but in all non-scientific accademic fields it's usually more important to come up with a narrative that's appealing to the general public or the political class than with an accurate narrati
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by dd_roger 6y ago
> However the majority of the plastic coming out of these countries is because of goods destined for western countries. Citation needed.
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by dd_roger 6y ago
> If their friendship relies on you installing an app on your phone, that's a very shallow friendship isn't it? This argument doesn't make sense. You can't just ignore practical aspects entirely and justify it with a
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by dd_roger 6y ago
The problem with Boston Dynamic's robots imo isn't the cost versus a human but the cost versus a simpler and cheaper yet just as capable (if not more capable) wheeled robot. I have a very hard time coming up with applications wher