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It’t not just that—they also overstate the severity of the event covered, in each report , even as they inevitably follow that by “well, no cause to really worry yet, we’ll have to see in coming weeks”. I wish for a solid news source tha
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As a counter-anecdote, I have been inundated with the Russia/Ukraine story every day for weeks since the US intelligence report. Every few hours there’s a new report on just this topic by DW or BBC on YouTube, and each time it’s 99% re
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The problem in this scenario will be feature disparity. If they want, they can add cool stuff to Bedrock, and make vanilla Java version feel old and obsolete just the way 1.12 (which probably has the most mods) looks now when compared with
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IMO the worst among the things Microsoft is doing to Minecraft is introducing an in-game currency (to an already paid game!). They target Bedrock for this, and I strongly suspect once it starts bringing in extra money they will essentially
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The situation with almost-no-appeal big tech platforms reminds me of an article titled “the human-built world is not build for humans”[0]. Related phenomenons keep coming up (cities for cars, ecosystems of tokens and identities dependent on
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So ex-VC tried to use an employee as a hitman, and after refusal sued him for questionable things he had previously done at VC’s request? To be fair, what Marshall claims to have witnessed doesn’t put him in the best light, but from the ou
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It’s wishful thinking that NFTs solve any real problem. For one, “digital watermarking” (if you can call it that) is useless without DRM. They do provide another mechanism for signaling riches, so cryptocurrency holders, who tangibly profi
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Why would you do that I don't know, but for me personally the reason is that LEDs tend to strobe (sometimes noticeably to peripheral vision) and do not emit a smooth continuous spectrum—unlike incandescent bulbs, they produce a narrow,
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> Healthy boys may be more likely to be admitted to hospital with a rare side-effect of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine that causes inflammation of the heart than with Covid itself, US researchers claim. Anecdata from another thre
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Intent matters. Buying a floor lamp just because it looks good in IKEA catalogue seems misguided. However, I find floor lamps extremely effective at creating a cozy relaxing ambiance (cold overhead LEDs are the worst). Luckily, it doesn’t r
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Of course zooming in "adds" pixels. And if we were to follow that pedantic logic, we should consider removing pixels from the original image (zooming out) equivalently problematic. But, apparently, no one cared that software prese
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My point was that (1) standards aren’t well-written if reading them is not enough to understand how to implement them in your business, (2) this benefits consultants (some of whom are involved with ISO, I’m not sure if possible conflicts of
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TL;DR: A bunch of businessmen in Helsinki were selected for a long-term study on cardiological issues (cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease). Some were identified to be in a high CVD risk group. Then, that group was split into int
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I am reading this comment section in disbelief. If I were into conspiracy theories, I’d think it’s a spontaneous collaboration to misguide developers and ensure continuous job security for those of us whom desperate businesses would have to
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The $XXX a business would spend on standards is insignificant compared to $XXXXX+ it has to give consultants in return for understanding how to actually comply with those impenetrable walls of text enough to pass an audit.
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> The hard facts state that historically, in China, the biggest problems occurred when central government was weak and when the country was divided. The hard facts also state that the past 30 years are the best in 3000 years. I heard the
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A situation where a small group of people wielding immense power over the rest is not peacefully replaceable strikes me as extremely fragile. To say it is not is to trust that group to be ever-prescient, ever-correct, never to become corrup
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My first question wasn’t rhetorical, knowing where you stand could help any further discussion, should it occur, be meaningful. What you instead wrote in response makes sense to me only under the assumption that people have a choice—to have
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I had seen China and talked to Chinese. The range of policy opinions my counterparts could express, and topics they could engage in, seemed to be extremely limited due to what I could only assume was the state of being misinformed (includin
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by goblin89 5y ago
Tried to buy a LaserEgg recently. It’s presumably less reliable than AirVisual, but also is a bit cheaper. Acts like a desktop accessory. Can’t comment on its performance, the customs of the country I’m in now have determined that air quali
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by goblin89 5y ago
There is an opinion that learning things more thoroughly is helped by making said things in some particular ways[0] harder to learn (so we struggle at first, make our discoveries and get that dopamine boost when we grasp a concept). If we t
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> what you say about untraceability not being entirely true Oh, OK. I have no idea, just true coin anonymity is something I regularly see cryptocurrency advocates brag about on HN. Some imply it's as easy as changing to Monero and b
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How is the system supposed to be able to tell whether a cryptocurrency holder engaged in laundering money? I recall reading the evidence is easy to completely erase with a few conversions across coins/exchanges/tumblers. This woul
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Exactly, people who keep honestly earned currency in a bank can probably afford to laugh on the way there—they are used to paying tax, they don’t have to worry about new KYC measures somewhere or theft of their token device invalidating the
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The result of successful propaganda and tech protectionism is that not that many regular people in China, apart from the “techies”, even desire to access the outside Internet. And, of course, paying for any related service or product means
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My takeaway is the illegal logging in Siberia, until now I believe there were just rumours. IMO the issue needs visibility as much as logging in Amazon area, but remote location makes it much harder. I agree that IKEA, possibly unfairly, mi
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The point is that once you receive lossy audio, you can’t even verify how well it was compressed. Can you trust that it was encoded from a lossless source and not re-encoded a hundred times? Do you consider “it’s all good, unless you actual
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Agreed that up-coding is bad. Still think preserving lossless, if it is available in the first place, is worth it, and a couple hundred megabytes probably don’t matter to someone who chose a quality download rather than streaming. The point
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> It was a re-encode at crf=22.5, with zero encoder tuning and preset at fast. Needless to say, it was blocking and artifacts galore. The icing on the cake? The audio was FLAC “to preserve audio quality”… I’m pretty sure there are more p
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> the company would be offering the “best” salary to employees in the lowest cost of living places, and so the incentives would lead these places to be dramatically over-represented relative to higher cost of living places What’s the con

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