gpvos

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by gpvos 4mo ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by gpvos 4mo ago
I think the current title, while admittedly a bit clickbaity, describes the core issue better.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
The infrastructure operators have to allow anyone with a train operating license on their tracks, and such license is very nontrivial to acquire. Usually you would hire a train from a train operating company, and those companies are not
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by gpvos 4mo ago
For day trains as well, more often within Spain than on the border with France.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
On a night train such as the Transsib that takes several days to get from A to B anyway, being able to sleep through it and not needing to lug your stuff around is usually considered more important. (Although in some cases you are woken u
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by gpvos 4mo ago
And reversed the polarity of the neutron flow.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
No.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
The number of straw men in your post is dazzling.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
Apparently, yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411805
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by gpvos 4mo ago
For many, there's a cost involved in stopping, and not all can bear it.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
Side question: what's wrong with Sonos playing a song? Are they generating AI music now?
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by gpvos 4mo ago
In what way does it do that? It in fact strongly urges people to take responsibility and stop being hypocritical.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
> I didn't say we're all equally culpable. That didn't come quite through. You seemed to be taking a rather extreme position, while replying to someone who just pointed out the systemic issues, which of course don't
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by gpvos 4mo ago
Not a straw man at all; sadly, a very common set of arguments.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
It's a summary of what you hear climate change deniers say all the time. Using quotes in this way is fair and common, to indicate that it's not your own opinion.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
It's moralizing, yes, but far from empty. The rich and powerful companies, near-forced to be amoral by our economic system, and run by the greedy by natural selection, have resources to influence policy, public opinion and information
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by gpvos 5mo ago
I'm pretty sure it is. Maybe a little less so in Germany, but even there.
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by gpvos 5mo ago
I thought Bluetooth devices only announce their name when specifically asked to do so, and usually switch out of that mode after a minute or so. Or can the name be retrieved even when they're not broadcasting it?
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by gpvos 5mo ago
> Indicating that you sympathise with terrorist But that isn't what they did. And even if they did, sympathizing isn't being a terrorist yourself. Law enforcement has nothing to do there, unless you're in a totalitarian
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by gpvos 5mo ago
I assume you mean proportional–integral–derivative control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller
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by gpvos 5mo ago
(2004) Previously: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19196664 (25 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16215130 (88 comments)
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by gpvos 5mo ago
Which aren't? It seems all (or most) are.
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by gpvos 5mo ago
Yeah, it's "newest" in the URL but labelled "new" in the menu.
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by gpvos 5mo ago
Almost the only time when I check "newest" is after I submitted something myself, since then I am redirected there. But then I do read and upvote what I find interesting there (in a way diluting the score of my own submission).
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by gpvos 5mo ago
Not quite (but maybe differs per bank?). You get a notification a few days before the first debit takes place, and you have the right to request the debit be annulled for at least a month after it happens. I've never seen an address ne
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by gpvos 5mo ago
Absolutely, no one would have batted an eyelid.
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by gpvos 5mo ago
...but yeah, every now and then I do get comments that I'm very wordy.
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by gpvos 5mo ago
I think a nice thing about BLIK is that it actually worked in my case, even though it was cumbersome. Using iDEAL from a Polish account just isn't going to happen.
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by gpvos 5mo ago
Some people, like me, have developed this communication style because it turned out that when they didn't they were very often misunderstood. When properly applied (i.e., not excessively, no actual walls of text), giving appropriate co
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by gpvos 5mo ago
Too bad you will be forced to use a phone then. I don't like having yet another single point of failure. But maybe by that time, the EU requirement to accept cash will have taken force.

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