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Depending on whether you‘re someone trying to build clever, distributed applications or someone trying to defend a corporate network against them, that may be a bug or a feature.
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The Boomer generation needed just 306 hours of minimum wage work to pay for four years of public college. Millennials need 4,459. Calling that out doesn't sound like entitlement to me.
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Here in Berlin, the measure has large support and I don‘t know why. It‘s mostly because the measure is called „disowning“ corporate landlords, which seems to resonate with everyone being angry at the rents. Had they called it „paying out th
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Note this is just murder, but murder is merely a small fraction of gun deaths. The multiplier for all firearm-related deaths between the US and EU average for example is around 12X, more than an order of magnitude [1]. The elephant in the r
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> Have you seen what it takes to get a PhD? In the worst case, the extreme willingness and patience to waste years of your life on writing a thick paper that has a high chance of never being read by more than a handful of people and then
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That's a fair point indeed, and it's what these laws are supposedly made to counter. I mainly wanted to raise awareness to the fact that tipping the scale in favor of people sharing the same concerns as you do will also tip it to
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> Think about it: Every business, from tiny boutiques to online giants like Amazon, tell you exactly how much each of their items costs. Why shouldn't it be the same when we're shopping for a job? Despite the question being rhe
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It's Norway. The system is pretty neat actually in a way that all salaries are _registered_, but if you query someone, the other end figures out who queried you. So in that way, the data is still protected from large-scale scraping and
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This is as false at it can get: https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/poll-finds-startli...
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q.e.d.
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It's way simpler actually. Functional programming isn't the norm because — while it's extremely good at describing "what things are and how to describe relationships of actions on them" — it sucks at "describin
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The air-q pro comes pretty close (I‘m thinking of buying it), but it‘s rather expensive and I haven‘t seen any reviews yet: https://shop.air-q.com/air-Q-Pro-air-analyser-14-sensors
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Doesn't everyone use five stars these days? :)
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This, a thousand percent. Most of the current and last generations leading the current discussion (aka the developed world) grew up in democratic, capitalistic societies. Captialism at its core is soulless and I hate it — BUT so far I'
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I own one, it's a true three star experience. It's completely unique in its class as it's a true e-ink display at A4/Letter scale and even has two monochromatic backlight sources, one without any blue light. That rocks.
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> Can you become a brilliant theoretical physicist with an average IQ (95-105)? > [...] > I have an IQ below 105. > I also graduated with a degree in Mathematics and received Highest Honours. > [...] > And the answer is ‘N
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It's not that there won't be consequences. I'm just firmly believing in a possibility of managing those and be better off afterwards. Supposing free energy and a common goal of not letting salinity increase, why not invest a
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> Fundamentally exponential growth is not sustainable in the long run. Besides being a fundamentally politically charged statement, I see no good argument on why not, so I'm sure you're ready to present some evidence behind tha
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In the end a mix of all of the below: - overprovisioning because it's still cheap enough - peak shaving with battery storage - dynamic demand applications, powered by hours of "free" energy, taking them outside the peak deman
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Except that it runs counter to the rules that enforce record deletion. Right now the path companies need to tread on is already razor thin: Companies are already feeling the heat from both sides. Customers already sue because right after ac
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Put this into our whole domain blocklist, but can confirm only about a 20% reduction. In the end, it's playing whack-a-mole. I've played with the idea of building a managed incoming email gateway SaaS (Codename Project S.H.I.E.L.
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which to be honest is less of a testament to increased efficiency and more of a mathematical effect of circle area growing to the square of the diameter. The other main reason to get bigger that‘s not even discussed is increased capacity fa
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As much as I love jq and it has helped me, it always has an „awk“ vibe to me which is one of the tools I use less despite its capability, because of the same reason: I tend to forget all the special syntax over the years. Compare that with
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I understood Americans much better once I understood Calvinism. The very belief that a core group of the first settlers brought to America which is that there exist not just fundamentally good and bad people, but that God would reward good
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While there is some truth in your statement, a lot of unintended consequences only show up after considerable time and at scale, and then only if you know where to look. The original steam engines standing in as a pilot project didn‘t do mu
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Counter-intuitively, having more and cheaper batteries will help with that. Given cheap enough distributed battery storage gives you leverage on scaling back the current requirement that all electricy currently produced needs to be consumed
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> According to World Harmonized Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP), the Mercedes-Benz EQS will offer a range of 770 kilometers, or roughly 478 miles
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I find it harmful to jump to a conclusion too early and blame the victim. Forcing someone to merge these accounts can take many forms and Apple has thousands of different teams and managers. Even if there was zero explicit or implicit force
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As someone who‘s been through the dotcom bubble, I vividly remember talking to my classmate driving home on our bikes and he told me about the Infineon stock he just bought. We were kids, 16 years old and felt like the smart brokers in the
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> Email is at the centre of most of life and business, and so we must ensure it is trustworthy and authentic. While it‘s certainly true, to me it‘s missing the most important aspect for practical use here: Email must be deliverable . I

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