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by gutnor 9y ago
From Europe, the dieselgate has had a lot of ripple effects. Diesel is king in Europe and that crisis shook the public trust in the technology. So the various other numerous complain about the diesel suddenly became more visible. Diesel-bas
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by gutnor 9y ago
Difficult to say, but one of the big factor for everyone saying they will stop to make gas cars was the Dieselgate. The world may have decided to reluctantly drag itself to electric the "Nissan Leaf" way, leaving the rich people b
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by gutnor 9y ago
> Does it have a fingerprint reader? Reminds me of the attributed quote from Ford saying "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a faster horse" Fingerprint reader is just a mean to an end to provide
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by gutnor 9y ago
Actually, I'm glad they did because the take away message is different. By all mean follow all the guidelines but the only rule that really works is hindsight. So test and don't bet the house on a single very expensive headline.
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by gutnor 9y ago
Forget 9) In the last days, Puidgemont refused to declare if he had or not declared independence. Even though he publicly called for negotiation, his refusal practically prevents the Spanish government to do just that. "Suspended Indep
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by gutnor 9y ago
Less experience to see through the bullshit from companies too and they do not yet really believe they are just a number in the cost center column in HR and that the company they are working with will not waste 1 second before getting rid o
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by gutnor 9y ago
Do the email client still default to TXT nowadays ? Regardless how basic the email, it seems Outlook, Hotmail, Gmail always send them in HTML and I need to do something special to send it in plain text. At work, the mail very often have som
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by gutnor 9y ago
Sorry, by customising I meant change the option list - eg: it comes with rear camera, but you want to add 360 camera instead. Even the colour of the car is set to "black" only and only the base trim is available. To be fair, the i
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by gutnor 9y ago
Volvo is starting something similar (Care By Volvo). However, that looks and smell like a leasing rebranded and slightly streamlined than what you are thinking of. Volvo is a 2 year contract, no option to buy and also no option to customise
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by gutnor 9y ago
I guess the elephant in the room that the article ironically illustrate is that "we have no idea what's coming next". The article reads a bit like "You are suffering from a well know incurable illness, you are going to d
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by gutnor 9y ago
There are plenty of stuff that does not work as a small company. You know the easy way that large companies balance their cashflow between countries selling IP and stuff. Try that as a small company (eg: make money in the UK, try to hire so
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by gutnor 9y ago
Sport/Media are ripe with awards and top personalities are paid a salary directly proportional to their recognition. Science powers the whole world, yet scientist receives a very minimal recognition for it, either in salary or prizes.
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by gutnor 9y ago
> If Catalonia represents 19% of the GDP and 16% of population is nowadays receiving in a sustained manner 8% of the country investment. That does not mean anything now is it ? The problem is to know if 8% is enough or not. And even if i
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by gutnor 9y ago
Entering any place where there are armed security personal with a paper bag on your face is a good way to get shot.
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by gutnor 9y ago
Or well, simply use both. Feature branch, use merge - the feature is an important artefact, and there it is important for the history to show it. Bug Fix branch, working on a shared branch, use rebase. The branching in those case is a side
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by gutnor 9y ago
Brand new flat or house built today in Madrid, Spain are fitted at best with a 20A connection. The standing charge alone is more than what I pay for electricity (standing charge and consumption) in a 2 bed flat in London. The vast majority
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by gutnor 9y ago
Indeed, 0-emission target (i.e. no car, truck, bus, train new or old circulating emitting CO2) for London is 2050. However, there is a trend at the moment both in local government and national one. If that is followed by actual investment i
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by gutnor 9y ago
The problem is that those companies exists to fulfil a very different objective than what in-house developers are expected to provide. You should see them as a Leasing system for Generic Development Resources: flexible and clear billing, fl
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by gutnor 9y ago
> Netflix is just getting started in ripping up the old order. Not sure I like the direction the new order is taking, really look more and more like the old order to me. Before you need to pay for cable packages to get a random set of ch
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by gutnor 9y ago
> Then the correct way to handle it is to drop another refutational evidence bomb attacking ... Well from a strategic perspective, that's a losing attitude though. You start in a defensive position in a debate you didn't call.
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by gutnor 9y ago
Confirmation that this is something real and not a theoretical risk. Similarly to Snowden, it wasn't newsworthy because it was possible and probably done, it was newsworthy because it existed and was currently done. (obviously the scop
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by gutnor 9y ago
All foreign terrorists have lived under some repressive government and privacy is unlikely to be one of their assumption. I wouldn't be surprised if they simply used the existing tools by convenience but with the same assumption the go
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by gutnor 9y ago
Why commute ? Remote working is a thing and everything the topic comes up, something that a significant part of HN is already enjoying. No need to pour billions in public transport. Also companies have proven that they are more than willing
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by gutnor 9y ago
In the UK, PassMyParcel is good. Your parcel get just delivered to your local NewsAgent, which in the UK generally has extensive opening times. Supported directly by Amazon and a bunch of retailer, but delivery companies use the same system
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by gutnor 9y ago
Londoner here. Building housing is not the biggest problem to solve though. I live in zone 2 and even there the housing density is not massive. You could probably double it without too much problem. The problem is that the transport network
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by gutnor 9y ago
The amazing internet infrastructure in Korea caused them to develop many service that relied on Internet Explorer, preventing them to pick up new standard as easily as countries that were later to the party. That's probably the same ki
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by gutnor 9y ago
> you're name's likely to get further up the redundancy list than you'd probably like. Sure but at the same time, that's only going to be one of the many elements that influence your position on the list. Actually, as
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by gutnor 9y ago
The moral bit is choosing between 2 competing blood donations service - one that is run publicly to save life, the other to extend the life of healthy individual. I make the assumption that the remuneration of the second one will be most li
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Western world is already struggling to find enough blood donor, and one of their main source are the students. You would not want to force those students to have to choose between morality and 1 order of magnitude more money than what they
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by gutnor 9y ago
Highway is the really the only setting I have ever been at risk of falling asleep behind the wheel. Also, for a human being, those are quite stressful jam: car pick up a lot of speed before stopping abruptly a few tens of meters later. As a

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