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by donkeyd 4y ago
A couple of years ago, I was going through a short stint of burn-out. I needed some time away, so I put a mattress in the back of my car and went to Germany for a few days. I loved the idea of not having to go anywhere and not having to dis
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by donkeyd 4y ago
I understand, but Uber used these practices everywhere. And, like I mentioned, they used it on their company machines, not the servers where their customer data would probably be stored. So the hypothesis of doing this to protect customers
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by donkeyd 4y ago
I understand where these questions are coming from, but many Western countries have decent legal systems where data unrelated to a case cannot be used by law enforcement and this will be tested by both prosecutors and judges. I'm curre
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Sure, that doesn't help. Most scientists don't do it for the money though, so that doesn't have to be an issue per se. The barrier to entry for becoming a scientist, however, is extremely high and not filled with equal opport
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Maybe it's changed, but in the Netherlands PHEVS were mostly bought because of lower taxation when driving them as a company car. Because the companies paid gas, people used them as regular cars and ended up polluting more due to the w
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Anonymity is a broad term though. I would be incredibly surprised (and fascinated) if anyone on HN can find my true identity from my account, even with an e-mail address in my profile. I also know that Google (and therefore powerful bad act
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> Is there a middle ground? Yes. Raise awareness with targeted, limited, protests and try to keep the awareness by remaining visible. You can remain visible with banners, brochures, interviews and in lots of ways. Increasing violence is
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Because we have too many in the Netherlands, it's that simple. We are a tiny country where nearly every area that isn't used for housing or industry is used for farming. Go to any other European country, you have large forested ar
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by donkeyd 4y ago
The farmers' reaction is mostly due to the first part: > not all farmers will continue in business The farming differently mostly has to do with scale. We're already really good at producing efficiently, but we're building
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Correct, but in the Netherlands the problem is that they're killing our existing flora and fauna. Especially in areas where nature reserves and farming are close together, this causes issues. The Netherlands is the 2nd biggest food exp
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> Many of them are truly good people. If prison hasn't fucked them up. I really hope these people will find their way in society if there's ever a pardon, because it might be really had to adapt to normal life, even if you ende
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Well, it's not about that. It's that one of the reasons the Netherlands never legalized is that the rest of Europe didn't. So we were afraid that we'd become a place where international criminals come to produce massive
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by donkeyd 4y ago
No problem. I read another comment that said it would not be legalized. But now that I read the responses to that comment I feel like I probably shouldn't have taken that comment as the truth.
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by donkeyd 4y ago
DSQ seems pretty interesting. I don't have a use for it right now, but I'm sure it's something that'll be useful in the future!
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Same. This ended causing me to quit my start-up. I was the tech lead and kept getting asked to estimate features that were completely new to us. I had a completely junior team due to budget constraints. After playing this game time and time
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by donkeyd 4y ago
The funny thing to me is that the BTC promoters keep talking about the blockchain being used to pay for stuff, like the occasional Tesla, or bananas in third world countries. However, last time I checked, about 90% of transactions involving
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Larger drops have had clear news about Tether to blame for the drop. From what I can tell, this one is more natural and caused by turmoil in crypto markets themselves. That's what makes this interesting to me. Edit: Apparently there&#x
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Interesting. The receding ground water level in the Netherlands could possibly impact our electrical infrastructure on a local level then, right?
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by donkeyd 4y ago
TVs are massive, so they don't have to be this small and you can already buy TVs with built in cameras, since it can be used for video conferencing. Also, this type of tech can already be used to measure ad awareness in stores [0]. It&
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> SWEs in 1st world countries no longer price-competitive, and they have to either move to 3rd world countries or change career In the Netherlands we have a lot of outsourcing to India and a lot of Indian IT workers moving here. We still
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by donkeyd 5y ago
> If corporate systems were stand-alone/isolated, we probably would not have this problem to the extent that we do. Well.. Yeah, but also... This is what we used to have and have been moving away from. We used to have on premise and
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by donkeyd 5y ago
The update under the article has an explanation of where the name probably came from: > I had no idea what it meant or was used for, thus assigned it a “descriptive name” when collating the symbols for the STIX project. If I understand t
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by donkeyd 5y ago
> now they are extracting profit So? They're a business, what do you expect? The previous commenter was saying they're doing more than just hosting video, which is true. If you want to create a nonprofit for video hosting, go a
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by donkeyd 5y ago
> Hopefully this changes with time Looking at Europe, nearly every gas station is starting to get a fast charger installed (along major roads, at least). A couple of years ago there were waiting lines at super chargers during the yearly
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by donkeyd 5y ago
> unless you have a portable charging station of some sort Teslas come with those by default. You just plug them into a socket and you're charging. Sure, it's slow, but it works. I used it to charge overnight at my hotel during
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by donkeyd 5y ago
You underestimate the amount of nuclear material that's still in the ground around there. Vaporizing that isn't a great idea.
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by donkeyd 5y ago
I recently told my SO this exact thing. They were doubting whether to apply for a higher position because they might be rejected. I told them that not applying would definitely mean they wouldn't get the job, so at least applying means
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by donkeyd 5y ago
I recently saw a video of an awareness campaign by police at a crosswalk. Someone in a heart costume was trying to cross the road (at the crosswalk) and nobody stopped. When one car did end up stopping, it got rear ended by another car that
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by donkeyd 5y ago
Why do you need to look for such far fetched explanations when you can clearly see massive amounts of people texting while driving? I drive quite a lot (for European standards) and I've seen the amount of people holding phones increase
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by donkeyd 5y ago
This has already been the case, as the article specifies. However, they did this through providing different SKUs with specific feature sets enabled. Hardware was already identical between SKUs.

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