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by ed_balls 5y ago
We are, but not Niger.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
That's why it's never gonna happen, they don't have resources to support this population growth.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
> Africa and - a bit less - the Islamic World which spirals towards overpopulation on the other hand. I don't think this is true. Every single country is on the decline. They may sill grow in this century, but it's very likely
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by ed_balls 5y ago
I've been to a few michelin-starred shushi places in London and Europe. A regular shush place in Tokyo was much better. Even a cheap place with no waiters (conveyer belt). It was the greatest difference between food X and food X in the
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by ed_balls 5y ago
in a few years there will be 10x number of factories. Covid just sped things up. It's too critical for army and other industries. Food and army cannot be outsourced.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
I only know my neighbours, because of a dog.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
one screw up. There was multiple reports half were straight up lies the rest were extreme exaggeration. I was software engineer and never noticed any bad behaviour.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
I used to work there. There was one screw up, but later on company fixed the mistakes.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
Sorry, but this is fake news or black PR.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
The link describes the attack vector. pipenv locks the dependencies using hash. if you company has my-company-py-lib then pip could install public library that pretends to be internal.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
How do you make sure your dependencies are not tampered with? https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60f...
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by ed_balls 5y ago
It could be, because cultures that were using human bodies, instead of burning or burying them, went extinct. > Prehistory of endocannibalism controversy Whether or not endocannibalism was commonplace through much of human prehistory rem
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by ed_balls 5y ago
> A mediocre musician or a mediocre sportsman can expect $0, It's actually worse than that. If you go to school and invest a lot the expected value is negative.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
I wonder what is the risk of prions diseases. > A 68 kg (150 lbs) body which contains 65% water will require 100 MJ of thermal energy before any combustion will take place. 100 MJ is approximately equivalent to 3 m3 (105 ft3) of natural
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by ed_balls 5y ago
I guess there was a change in law in Poland as well. Now it's illegal to let someone younger than 7 to wonder alone.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
I grow up in a small town in Poland. I was walking on my own to preschool since I was 5 (it was about 400m from the house). If I had kids I'd let them free roam the city.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
To play devil's advocate: Rich kids are doing cocaine in Ferraris. It's the poor kids that make stuff happen. > Starting conditions (where one was born, levels of wealth and opportunity there, one's parents' education
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by ed_balls 5y ago
what if you just build it? What are the sanctions? Can you legalise it later?
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by ed_balls 5y ago
I upgraded my 2017 macbook to Big Sur and the OS doesn't detect camera anymore. I tired 10 different things from checking permissions, reseting SMC and VRAM. No dice :/
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by ed_balls 5y ago
What the score? (paywall)
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by ed_balls 5y ago
> If your company cannot pay 1% of the revenue you don't have a viable business. Average corporation spends more on accounting and consulting. Accounting costs banks and oil companies around 0.8%, so the will be fine. I don't
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by ed_balls 5y ago
because it's fresh blood and there is a skill set filter which reduces nepotism and other forms of corruption. Looking at other departments, say, sociology* it's a dumpster. Full of cronies, retired politicians and relatives. *Jus
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by ed_balls 5y ago
Sweden has life expectancy of 82. Ukraine - 71. Most of the deaths happens are in 60+ age group. You can't compare stats like that.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
Poland had a secret CIA prison which were used to keep Talibans. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/15/poland-pays-25...
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by ed_balls 5y ago
I didn't not set up 2FA, it was forced on me. The problem is that Amazon wants to send a notification, not a SMS or something else. I can't pick an alternative. If I don't have a smartphone i'm screwed. https:/&#x2
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by ed_balls 5y ago
I just tried to login into amazon.co.uk to buy some stuff. I can't get 2FA notification on my phone and in order to see the recovery page for "I don't have access to my Two-Step verification" I need 2FA........
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by ed_balls 5y ago
pretty much. This what happened with 7 cold viruses and 2* flu viruses. I don't think it's realistic to destroy the virus reservoirs. *not sure if these are the exact number I remember from the lecture.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
> "soft" on crime - Scandinavia, Whats does it mean soft? Sweden has no parole you go straight to jail.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
> Audi diesel car (79g/km CO2) for now thanks If CO2 was the problem, diesels would be fine. We would recapture CO2 in the future. The bigger problem is particulates and NOx
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by ed_balls 5y ago
That's the reason why so few people buy pickups in Europe. Vans are better in many ways (you can transport 9 people; get more cargo, especially when you remove seats; better weather resistance, you can use it a storage when you live in

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