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by hrktb 6y ago
Those other viruses could as well come from bats or be leaked. I’m arguing that precise knowledge of what happened a year ago might not be a priority to help us deal with what happens in the real world now. Basically I see it as preparing t
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by hrktb 6y ago
Does it still matter that much once we have a series of effective vaccines ? It seems the crux of the argument is to better react in the short term, but it looks to my untrained eyes that we already passed that level of investigation if we
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by hrktb 6y ago
There’s a lot of other points that work in different ways. A mortgage has extremely low flexibility, it’s not something you’re able to diversify and you’re stuck with for a decades at times depending on your situation. Also most predictions
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by hrktb 6y ago
I’ve had changes go through, but sometimes in a monkey’s paw way. I ask the labelling of a school on the map, specifying the name and providing the home town site as proof (a page listing all schools with their adresses and picture), and tw
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by hrktb 6y ago
Wouldn’t a smartphone work for you then ? it might need a mount to be properly positionned, but that would be the only IRL hurdle. On the software front I don’t know how good the current options are, but fixing bugs should be doable.
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by hrktb 6y ago
Epic doesn't seem to quite agree with you. Jesting aside, it's not a bug in the sense that Google also gains nothing and actively loses money from making it easier. At this point it's just to avoid PR nightmares that they are
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by hrktb 6y ago
I don’t know for London, I wouldn’t describe Tokyo as full of cars. There are major axes to accross the city with constant traffic and most bigger blocks are accessible by car (even just for deliveries). But there are pretty large areas wit
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by hrktb 6y ago
I kind of see Nikon and Canon as frenemies, together in the tranches trying to survive in an hostile world. A bit like how Vim and Emacs’ future is not bound to how they do against each other. It would more about securing a place in their u
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by hrktb 6y ago
They are slow to move and have a hard time to keep up with the world moving on. That leads to a world of trouble for them: - mobile phones eating the “good enough”/ “well integrated” spectrum - Sony eating the “best value”/“modern
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by hrktb 6y ago
That ship has mostly sailed, and people seem to be OK with ‘made by a Japanese company’ For instance Sony products are not seen as ‘made in China’, just ‘made by Sony’
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by hrktb 6y ago
This is a great point often forgotten in this kind of discussion. Size matters, and depending of the system size we’re dealing with it will have a significant impact on what approach we take. Or how we handle documentation for instance.
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by hrktb 6y ago
This feels powerful in a world where TV consumption is already on sharp decline, yet you managed to move a few floors deeper in the historical entertainment stack. No TV for us just meant playing games elsewhere (not complaining either, jus
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by hrktb 6y ago
I am not completely up to date on the right/left positioning, but I agree state-funded media is needed as a baseline to at least properly convey any purely factual issue (i.e. it's optimal for official info, like which law passed
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by hrktb 6y ago
The interesting part is competitors can co-exist as long as the user see them as worth the monthly fee. For instance a user can have Amazon Prime and Nintendo Online, with Spotify, and be happy with the mix. It's not completely zero-su
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by hrktb 6y ago
The question I get me from your dilemma: it is worth the time evaluating a source for trustworthiness ? I see it as a proxy for actual cross checking every time, but more and more, cross-checking is needed anyway. Some sources could be perm
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by hrktb 6y ago
Amazon got suspended for a while during COVID times, people weren't rioting in the streets over it (they were still rioting over other issues, just not Amazon)
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by hrktb 6y ago
As other said, really talk to your doctor, not just as the generic advice but also because there are many other options that can replace/complete/work better than Tylenol. For instance there are Codein (an opioid) laced versions t
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by hrktb 6y ago
You now have billions of people to share that happiness at any time ! And I had to pause to decide if I mean that sarcastically or not, but I’d say it’s still true in so many senses, be it in a facebook way or a video chat with grandma, or
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by hrktb 6y ago
I sympathize with the point, because as an individual that’s what I would do. I see it as a less clear situation for an entity that has so much control other everyone’s life. Phrasing it in a “innocent until proven guilty” would be too much
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by hrktb 6y ago
There is such a bias towards regularity, I feel like an alien when trying to question why we should care. I had a coworker that might have been bipolar as well but didn’t really explicit it, and we felt we shouldn’t dig. In a week to week b
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by hrktb 6y ago
Edit: I wasn’t thinking about financial regulation applied to processors on a whole range of illegal behavior, where regulator will go after the payment processor to force it to police transactions Gist of the original comment: As other com
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by hrktb 6y ago
In addition to that, before getting to the "accepting" part, it's often a PITA to even request new contracts with other vendors. Justifying the need for it, go though the paper work, estimate costs etc. VS just adding a new l
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by hrktb 6y ago
About the expensive part. In the grand scheme of things the iPhone is 1000+ EUR, with an extra 200 for AppleCare, a watch would be around 500 on top of that. Adding 550 for something that will sit on one's head for hours and hours isn&
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by hrktb 6y ago
My take on parent's comment that the people in charge had no more clue what they were doing than the rest of the group. It's an issue solved by training on both parts (evacuation leaders and evacuating people), and also why fire d
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by hrktb 6y ago
I’d guess it’s as legal as including random big company names in the company’s front page, while promising interesting problems to solve with a culture valuing good life/work balance. As long as there are no serious effects/money
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by hrktb 6y ago
I can’t imagine people trying to bring back a “golden age” of white supremacy are ignorant of the past. I think there is a solid point made by the GP about what literacy is needed for. To me the end game is not to have a randomly erudite p
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by hrktb 6y ago
I follow one of these communities, and the hard part is that the old Reddit is broken in it’s own way, and we’re guaranteed it will never be fixed. It’s basically a lose lose situation all around.
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by hrktb 6y ago
That can’t be accidental, can it ? Even imagining a bug in the registration code, you would at least go to a confirmation page before creation is commited.
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by hrktb 6y ago
Your point seems to be that not willing to compromise on a specific point means the employee is lost forever. There’s tons of issues I wouldn’t compromise on, and better leave the company if I had to. Does that mean I’ll be fired the very s
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by hrktb 6y ago
TripAdvisor had a very strong “no lock in” policy that impacted the technical stacks we could keep/choose when we got bought by them. We could use an nginx installed and maintained on EC2 by ourselves but not the AWS flavor on it, or I

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