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by emerongi 7y ago
If people start migrating away from those regions en masse, is there a chance it will trigger a war?
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by emerongi 7y ago
Why do you want to invest in Europe specifically? There are European ETFs that track US indexes if that's what you're interested in. Europe is a harder market for sure. There are less internationally recognized names, so you have
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by emerongi 7y ago
I'm not running anything abnormal, have a 2018 Thinkpad with a decent connection (20Mbps). GMail loads like I'm on Win95, which is the first OS I've ever used. It's 2019, the app is built by one of the leading tech compa
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by emerongi 7y ago
GNOME has been nuking features for a while, recommending people to go and install extensions. Extensions work by monkey-patching and once you have a critical mass of them, you're guaranteed to run into some glitches where one monkey-
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by emerongi 7y ago
Does anyone have good books to recommend on global warming?
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by emerongi 7y ago
In my country (not US) it is by law allowed for either side of the lease to terminate it under extraordinary circumstances. This situation would certainly fall under that. Obviously, if the other party objects to the termination, you'd
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by emerongi 7y ago
Netflix's UI is user-hostile in many ways. I don't mind having these defaults, but at least give me options to customize the way I use the app. I don't want a 5-second countdown, I want 15 seconds. I know Netflix likes to kee
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by emerongi 7y ago
A lot of search results in my native language return totally garbage results where clearly they just scraped for keywords and then threw them on a site. Another tactic is to Google Translate articles from other languages, which obviously en
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And now it's a full-blown sitcom scene
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Discussions held in private can be very different from the ones held in public. I think it's very human to want privacy. Having confidence that someone isn't listening/watching to you can have a tremendous effect on how you
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by emerongi 7y ago
Has nothing to do with inviting someone to a coffee. A person can be pleasant to work with and not a great conversationalist. Plus many assholes are not assholes on the surface anyway.
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by emerongi 7y ago
Facebook is actually good for groups & chat, but everything else around it ruins it. I just try to stick to other chat apps instead.
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by emerongi 7y ago
I know someone making tens of thousands a month from shilling VPNs. They have site where they "review" and "rate" VPNs. The reality is that the customers of those products barely understand them and are buying into the B
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by emerongi 7y ago
There is no problem, the same way GraphQL does not automatically allow arbitrary queries. The parent author holds some very stubborn beliefs about how systems are built (his/her way is the correct way!), which is great for discussion,
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by emerongi 7y ago
Good correction: the outages do happen at a fixed rate. Regarding GCP, I only see a couple events that have lasted more than 8 hours, not sure how many of those affect more than one subsystem.
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by emerongi 7y ago
Can you calculate the chance of the cluster size being >5 when we can cluster events within a one-week period and the rate of events is one every 2 months (debatable, but feels right to me)? I think that would just end this discussion. I
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by emerongi 7y ago
That's calculated with the assumption that you can cluster the events within a 1-month period and that the events happen at a fixed rate. We are talking about a period of a few days here and about only a handful of services that tout 9
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by emerongi 7y ago
"Can we meet up on Friday?" "No" vs "No, I already have plans with X" First case gives you all the information needed (denial), however in the second case I understand the situation much better. I wouldn't
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by emerongi 7y ago
Pretty sure it is how the majority of software projects are doing it, but I agree that NPM is not your average software project.
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by emerongi 7y ago
I bruteforced a 4-digit 2FA in 2 days, of course with the help of a small script instead of trying it myself. It's always fun to see dumb solutions work.
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by emerongi 7y ago
Will you actually be charged with theft? If I don't pay my mortgage, I don't get charged with anything. What's the difference between lending money vs a car/camera etc? I guess it all comes down to intent, but intent is
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by emerongi 7y ago
If you live in a place that already has a good number of bees around: have pollinating plants, trees, bushes in your yard, possibly a (small) stream of water; know how to spot a swarm and have a bee-friend that you can call to collect the s
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by emerongi 7y ago
We have a few hives and honestly it's just fun watching those guys work. Every single bee has a very small role, but in unison the operation that these dudes run is absolutely amazing. And spotting the queen is fun every time. It'
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by emerongi 7y ago
How is that different from transferring money through a bank? I can understand the benefit of this from the standpoint that it will be essentially a global currency, which will reduce transfer times and just generally make it easier to send
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by emerongi 7y ago
Is the m365 good? I was thinking about getting one a few days ago. I usually cycle, but a scooter would be nice for smaller distances around the city.
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by emerongi 7y ago
The jackpot grows off of people losing money. Once people have lost enough money ($5M), the chances of winning the money with a single ticket are raised, however you can no longer win the whole $5M with a single ticket - the money is now di
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by emerongi 7y ago
> Jeremy Brenno, 16, was killed on a golf course when, frustrated, he struck a bench with a 3-wood golf club. The shaft broke, bounced back at him, and pierced his heart.
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by emerongi 7y ago
And yet there's a thousand vulnerabilities from C/C++ code being used out in the wild, stemming from bad memory management, whereas we don't see those with many other languages. Yes, there are still other types of bugs that a
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by emerongi 7y ago
I haven't read a chess book, but I did some tactics a few years back and got to 1300-1400 online. Around that rating, the most important thing is to learn how to not blunder. Doing tactics is the most helpful for that. You also learn t
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by emerongi 7y ago
They sieve, blow and wash any foreign bodies out.

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