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by ergl 2y ago
https://archive.is/DJpFG
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Accused Tech Spy Says Deel's CEO Recruited Him with Offer to Be Like James Bond(wsj.com)
1 points by ergl 2y ago|1 comments
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by ergl 2y ago
Having overtime pay that is a multiple of regular hourly rate is mandatory is many countries in Europe. Are you saying that European software tends to be more obfuscated? (answer: it is not).
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by ergl 2y ago
FYI you can "vouch" for dead comments if you have enough karma. But in general, if a comment is dead it is a sign that it is not worth engaging with it.
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Jury Orders Greenpeace to Pay Pipeline Company More Than $660M(nytimes.com)
5 points by ergl 2y ago|0 comments
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by ergl 2y ago
Calling 4chan an anime board is probably accurate, it started as a copy of 2chan, which was anime-focused. Taking a cursory look at the catalog of most boards on the site will confirm this, you will find an anime reaction pic with high prob
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by ergl 2y ago
I wonder if I'm an outlier here, or if buying from Amazon depends on where you live. I doubt I have ordered more than 10 items _ever_ from Amazon, going back 14 years (the last time I ordered something from Amazon was a travel pillow,
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by ergl 2y ago
Wikipedia says that PostNord is the resulting company of merging Post Danmark and PostNord Sverige, the former being the national provider for mail in Denmark after it got privatized.
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by ergl 2y ago
You know this is a serious article written by someone who knows what they're talking about when it earnestly quotes Curtis Yarvin on its third paragraph /s
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by ergl 2y ago
Is this comment satire?
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by ergl 2y ago
Lobste.rs has what they call "merged stories", where the moderator will merge into a single page the links for a few submissions, as well as the comments from all submissions. Here's a recent example: https://lobst
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by ergl 2y ago
They can hold a surprisingly big amount of cargo if you pack things right. Here in Spain they're definitely used for weekly hauls of groceries, although it might be pushing it if have more than two kids.
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by ergl 2y ago
Have you never heard of a shopping caddy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_caddy They're incredibly popular here, and yes, all supermarkets will have a lock stand near the checkout area so you can leave them
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by ergl 2y ago
Would a law specific to the United States apply when you're probing a Chinese company?
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by ergl 2y ago
I use Pollen for my personal webpage. I like using it, but it takes a bit to get going. The out-of-the-box experience with Pollen is more aimed at creating a single document, so expect to write a bit of plumbing in Racket to tie everything
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by ergl 2y ago
Everything in Pollen is written in Racket, so in theory you could do much more advanced stuff inside your documents than with Latex. For example, you could have a ◊tweet{} element that, given an URL, would go and fetch that tweet and embed
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by ergl 2y ago
This is cool. One way of solving spam problems might to only show links of people you explicitly follow / trust in some way, although that means associating identity to the posts. You could have a setting to toggle between only showing
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by ergl 2y ago
I'm biased since I work on it, but https://ditto.live/ provides an SDK that allows P2P and cloud sync. You interact with it like a database: write your queries against your data, and it will move between devices automa
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by ergl 2y ago
> The #1 valued thing in science is [...] reproducibility. If only. Papers rarely describe their methods properly, and reproduction papers have a hard time being published, making it hard to justify the time it takes. If reproducibility
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by ergl 2y ago
This is the kind of theory-free science seems to permeate the entire field of ML lately. I can only see this as a negative, what's the use of automatically generated papers if not to flood the already over-strained volunteers that revi
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by ergl 2y ago
Materialize seems to have a recently updated fork (two weeks ago): https://github.com/MaterializeInc/librdkafka Edit: this Github Search Link is useful to find other forks: https://github.com/search?utf
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by ergl 2y ago
It is mentioned under the "Bad tooling" section
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by ergl 2y ago
The ideas described here are very similar to what SSB ( https://ssbc.github.io/docs/ssb/faq.html ) implemented. The main problems with having a log is that it grows with every single change (how granular are your ch
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by ergl 2y ago
Sharing a CEO with Worldcoin
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by ergl 2y ago
Anyone that has used Siri would tell you that not even Apple could make this work
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by ergl 2y ago
There are actually a bunch of studies that explore the role of mass media, in particular the radio, in the spread of Nazi propaganda in the years before Hitler came to power.
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by ergl 2y ago
> They also don't compare with other countries Did you miss the graphs showing the same trend in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Nordic countries?
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by ergl 3y ago
Back in 2008, pg said: > Downvoting has always been used to express disagreement. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347
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by ergl 3y ago
Are we reading different posts? I saw nothing that could be described as "culture war" related in the OP. Are you perhaps talking about lesswrong in general?
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by ergl 3y ago
Is he happy?

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