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by fvdessen 8y ago
If you content address your files then you have problems when tracking entities linking to the same file. (like email sender and recipient linking to the same attachement. Same file; different owners)
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> What works? Not prisons, not punishment, but rehabilitation. Prisons & harsh punishment seems to work quite well in Singapore; they have one of the lowest crime rate in the world.
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Economic growth doesn’t necessarily means ressource consumption growth.
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IIRC, in Airbus planes the pilot has no direct control. He gives inputs which are then accepted or rejected depending on what the computer thinks is safe; at take off you can pull the stick as much as you want, the computer will not let the
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> Imagine if all the car companies were competing against eachother on tech for brakes, seatbelts or how a steering wheel works. Except for the seatbelt, That’s how it went. Especially with Airbus and Boeing who have chosen completely di
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by fvdessen 8y ago
There's also much more competition in entertainment; Video-Games, TV Series, Manga & Anime, Youtube, etc. The market for Bande-Dessinée has shrunk immensely.
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Well this week we've seen the first Belgian Unicorn (Collibra) but that news didn't seem to reach HN. http://www.brusselstimes.com/business/technology/13911/bruss...
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Audi e-tron and Jaguar iPace compete with the Model S; BMW i3's small range puts it in another category entirely. There's no competition for the Model 3 yet, and I don't think there will be for a while.
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Isn't replacing people with machines what we've been doing uninterrupted since the beginning of the industrial revolution ? In what sense is replacing a translator with DeepL different from replacing a farmer with a tractor ? We&#
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> You can't point to a similar statistic, study or what not that shows 'The Deep State' is specifically targeting Donald Trump It usually gets more personal at the extreme. People will show you stats that shows a dispropor
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Being poor is a very real issue somebody can face. Attributing the cause of this state of affairs as being the intentional result of a coordinated group of people, without real evidence that this is the case, is a conspiracy theory. I seems
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GMO/Monsanto, Big Petrol & all their wars, Putin controls XYZ, "The Oligarchy", "The Patriarchy", "The Privileged", Plastic straws from Europe killing turtles in the Galapagos, "Systemic Racism&qu
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Like the pregnant men demographic apparently.
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A Raytracer in SQL(beta.observablehq.com)
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Has 'non-traditional' masculinity been studied long and extensively enough to do an outcome comparison with the 'traditional' one ?
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I have a decent hi-fi audio system at home, and there is a clearly audible difference between playing from my high-end CD player, and playing FLAC from the audio out of my Macbook. The difference is not one of loudness but of 'energy&#
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Ask HN: New feature for a customer and generic solution at the same time?
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Do you support the freedom to deplatform practicing Jews as well ?
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> I'm still chuckling that they called the rocket "It's Business Time". A more sensible choice than "The Humans Are Dead"
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> The only counter to that is vague tabloid anecdotes that are quite transparently racist and xenophobic. I know it's not a scientific experiment, but the latest French interior minister (Gérard Collomb) recently resigned while givi
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How many SpaceX could we have for one ITER ?
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Either you don't profile at all, or you profile with something that correlates with looks, which will seem like profiling on looks.
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It’s especially nuts when you compare his business with tokyotreats, a competitor who manages to get many millions of views for their unboxing videos. Their website is on another level as well.
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The advantage is that the resulting website being just static pages will be much faster and secure that your hosted wordpress. And compared to wix etc, you have a lot more control on the appearance and structure of your website, because you
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> but if you want to elevate those that don't come from privileged backgrounds you have to work harder. I'm not white yet from a very privileged background. I find the way you so casually equate ethnic origin and social backgro
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It violates the spirit, but not the letter of the law. This is why supporting Free Speech as a value is important.
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> Google could in principle make its results insanely left-leaning and the first amendment should protect them. Well, freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences. While the Government cannot police google's speech, it
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I did that and switched back to 5 as I found after a year that the extra day per week just didn't make enough difference compared to earning 20% more. I would much rather work full time and take a full year off every 5 years
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Both man and women have the right to enter marriage, which is defined in the document as the union between Man and Women (Much clearer in the french version).
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The ECHR was founded in 1953, at that time homosexuality was illegal pretty much everywhere. And if you look at UDHR (from 1948), There is article 16 that is kind of against same-sex marriage. But it's not very clearly stated; I don&#x

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