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by foepys 4y ago
You will never be able to look into every intersection, even very open ones. You will never be able to look out for cars traveling 50kph/30mph unless you literally stop before entering every intersection. You also don't have any c
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by foepys 4y ago
If that's such an important issue for you, why don't you just switch to a bank with an app with good UX? There are so many banks out there, one will surely either support Apple Pay or have a decent app. Apple Pay will not just die
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by foepys 4y ago
Some of those are pretty major, while others are nice to have, and some others are privacy nightmares and Firefox not implementing them is deliberate, like the battery and gyroscope APIs. Safari doesn't support CSS subgrids, AV1, Push
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by foepys 4y ago
Google's push notification framework is baked into the kernel. There is no way to make a competing framework as efficient as Google's solution in Android, so next to no app supports something else. Every app you see working withou
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by foepys 4y ago
Apple can be broken up in multiple ways. - smartphones - desktop/laptops - music and video streaming - App Store and payments with Apple Pay - chip design - physical stores All of those could stand on their own. Edit: I'm not sayi
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by foepys 4y ago
In today's webbrowser landscape Safari is the one lagging behind. Firefox is doing very well in regards to implementing web standards while Safari doesn't implement enough to be called up to date or modern.
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by foepys 4y ago
uBlock Origin is already working better on Firefox than chrome since Google is crippling features. See "uBlock Origin works best on Firefox" in the official GitHub repo's wiki: https://github.com/gorhill/
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by foepys 4y ago
You can still not safely eat mushrooms from the south-eastern parts of Bavaria because they are still contaminated by the Chernobyl desaster. The anti-nuclear stance is not irrational, it has strong roots in reality.
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by foepys 4y ago
That is the exact thing that children get told when they are being bullied. "Stay away from them, ignore them, just don't read it online." It doesn't work
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by foepys 4y ago
> Yes you can do that with a SASS product but no you cannot for a physical product. Why? Not that I am in favor of this but are there really objective arguments to support that? One can argue that the ecological impact is higher due to t
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by foepys 4y ago
I don't understand why breaking up the mafia wasn't a more pressing issue? What makes Uber drivers different that they won't be dragged from their cars and kicked to death?
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by foepys 4y ago
You can fashion an AM radio receiver from very basic parts and it needs very low power. Transmitting and receiving is very easy, although the transmitter needs more power. Digital radio is bad when it comes to components, for both transmitt
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by foepys 4y ago
Musk has enough Tesla shares he can sell. When in doubt he can also sell his share of SpaceX.
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by foepys 4y ago
> Even if the top performers are insulated from the "heat" there are a non-zero number of them that this won't sit right with and/or they are affected and they leave. I have seen instances where the "underperform
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by foepys 4y ago
E.g. Hetzner will give you DDoS protection for free with every dedicated server you host with them. If you need more security you can also put another provider in front of it. CloudFront on the other hand will bleed you dry with their prici
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by foepys 4y ago
Why should you be worried about large bills if you are working at a big company? This whole Tell HN is about personal projects where costs matter, the startup tangent here is just a jab at people underestimating the raw processing power of
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by foepys 4y ago
Look into the /r/celsiusnetwork subreddit and see for yourself how many people mortgaged their houses and put their spouse's savings into it. A lot of people are not fine, they just didn't feel the full ramifications for
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by foepys 4y ago
It seems that we are only one step away from "verified by Ancestry.com".
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by foepys 4y ago
This is a fight between whales, nothing more. If the average "retail" coin holder thinks they have any influence, they are dead wrong. This is the cryptocurrency reality where the small man is overpowered by the bourgeoisie who ow
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by foepys 4y ago
> for something that could potentially cost them millions You can be very sure that if a piracy case went to court, Sony would claim to suffer billions in damages.
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by foepys 4y ago
Why would is this energy go to waste now if it was so cheap?
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by foepys 4y ago
What we are seeing is the cryptocurrency market reinventing all the mechanisms the "traditional" banking industry has been using for decades. There is no disruption when the whole thing is doing exactly the same just unregulated c
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by foepys 4y ago
Many miners are currently finding themselves in an interesting situation. Money was cheap. So if a miner thought that their cryptocurrency was going "to the moon", it was better to borrow money at low interest rates and stash the
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by foepys 4y ago
You are forgetting that the Stasi needed quite a lot of concrete and border guards to keep people from leaving and that the whole thing collapsed in the end in a peaceful revolution because the people didn't want to take it anymore.
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by foepys 4y ago
There is a libre version of VS Code but it is missing features like access to the official extension marketplace. https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
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by foepys 4y ago
A problem of the .NET ecosystem is that there is no open source debugger for C#. The Microsoft-provided debugger has strict license terms that only allow it to be used in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. JetBrains needed to write their
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by foepys 4y ago
Some (most?) regions compare fuel efficiency by how much fuel in liters is needed to travel 100km. English speaking countries (or at least most of them) usually do it the other way around and compare the distance one can travel by fuel unit
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by foepys 4y ago
JetBrains' All-Products Pack costs me only 150€/year + VAT (250€ individual license minus 40% for subscribing for 3+ years) which is also fully tax deductible. In the end it costs me less than my cinema budget for a year of top no
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by foepys 4y ago
This argument is not convincing to me, especially considering JetBrains publishes their IDE base as open source. Everytime I have to use VSC to develop typescript and angular, I am having problems with finding definitions (works 30% of the
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by foepys 4y ago
Not only that but Bitcoin fell over 23.5% over the last 7 days.

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