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by fguerraz 3y ago
Google seems pretty comfortable with making automatic content scanning a legal requirement, and it's easy to see why: it nips the competition in the bud. They can afford to spend billions on this, other can't.
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by fguerraz 3y ago
Is that a photo essay on the commercial real-estate bubble?
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by fguerraz 3y ago
How about you don't write on HN in the first place?
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by fguerraz 3y ago
I can't wait for Quanta Magazine's interpretation of this... Surely we're all doomed, right?
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by fguerraz 3y ago
The leading theory being defended here is tha bigger and bigger particule accelerators are a good investment for society. Not blaming the guardian, but the PR of physicists.
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by fguerraz 3y ago
Yes, the problem is not the paper, but Vice's reporting. It is, as usual just clickbait.
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by fguerraz 3y ago
I have my I WANT TO BELIEVE poster ready
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by fguerraz 3y ago
And all this (including the electricity grid upgrade and new power plants required) are going to be financed with loans at a 5% or more interest rate. Sure.
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by fguerraz 3y ago
Yes, I agree. I think it's incredibly stupid not to wear a seat belt. I refuse to go in a car where not everybody is wearing it.
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by fguerraz 3y ago
I don't see the connection. But if I'm trying to interpret, no, I disagree with the right to shoot people just because they're trespassing.
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by fguerraz 3y ago
you're missing the point. I'm happy to have laws that prevents causing harm to other people (the highway code for example, or for the food industry to have a responsibility to not poison their customers). But I'm not happy to
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by fguerraz 3y ago
> Of course, governments have a responsibility to protect all Absolutely not. Government's job is to enforce laws and protect the national territory. But my personal protection is my sole responsibility. If someone endangers me by n
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by fguerraz 3y ago
I must say, there is no written media that I know of that pleases me. Of course, it doesn't mean they don't exist. I much prefer the treatment from some YouTubers, such as Sabine Hossenfelder (to name just one). It's far from
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by fguerraz 3y ago
Quanta magazine and all these pop science websites need to be stopped. (Not because popular science is bad, but because they do it badly, and the clickbait is insufferable)
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by fguerraz 3y ago
> This is due to the rapidly accelerating energy transition.. Err, just NO. This is largely due to global trade being flat for the past 10 years [1], this is a good proxy to measure real economic growth. Don't believe GDP as an in
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by fguerraz 3y ago
I'm getting along great with my surviving parent.
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by fguerraz 3y ago
That's an interesting point of view. I really don't buy that garbage collection has advantages for the user. Sure it has advantages for the developer of the language, like a GIL, but for the user, it's more a constraint they
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by fguerraz 3y ago
Even the last sentence is complete nonsense > However, you would need to weigh more USB drives than exist on the planet together at once before the difference in weight became easily measurable. Scales precisions limits are not absolute,
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by fguerraz 3y ago
Is there a bright side to the Mac App store?
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State actor still main suspect behind Nord Stream sabotage, says investigator(theguardian.com)
11 points by fguerraz 4y ago|12 comments
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by fguerraz 4y ago
Did anybody have the slightest doubt? Seriously...
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by fguerraz 4y ago
> it doesn't translate to humans Says who?
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by fguerraz 4y ago
How long did you have to wait for it to load? On my machine it's been running for 15mins, I'm still waiting for a prompt...
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by fguerraz 4y ago
Let's not forget 10 millions Soviets. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/documentin...
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by fguerraz 4y ago
Second question: the area I'm interested in has notoriously bad DEMs (including Tandem-x), is it possible to download images that are not orthocorrected?
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by fguerraz 4y ago
Hello! I couldn't find this information on the website, what DEM do you use for othorectification?
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by fguerraz 4y ago
Never lost any data either in 10y of use as main driver. I've ditched RAID 5 mostly because performance sucked so much, but I have never lost any data despite going through many changes of hard drives, changes of RAID mode, rebalancing
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by fguerraz 4y ago
I thought it was going to be an article about fiat currencies. USD is funny money after all...
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by fguerraz 4y ago
Ali Wong, Dear girls. Very funny yet insightful. One of those unpretentious books that is actually a lot less stupid than the cover suggests.
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by fguerraz 4y ago
It doesn't matter, the app is closed source so they can still access your messages regadless of what protocol they use. https://gizmodo.com/whatsapp-moderators-can-read-your-messag...

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