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by jfk13 5y ago
I'd guess that people wouldn't mind the "consolation message", but are objecting to the blatant self-promotion that accompanies it. We don't read HN comments because we want yet more ads; the internet has more than
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by jfk13 5y ago
> you are not allowed to take a photo of people without permission, even in public I'm curious how this is expected to work in practice. Is there a clear definition of "a photo of people"? Taking a close-up portrait of a r
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by jfk13 5y ago
Handshake, what's that? Oh, I see... blockchain... "Handshake coin (HNS)"... PoW... the way you're plugging it, I thought it had that kind of smell.
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by jfk13 5y ago
You may be looking for https://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/n258a-heartd...
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by jfk13 5y ago
> "While constitutionally given the right to vote by the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870 and 19th Amendment in 1920, the reality of the country was such that most African Americans and some poor whites could not vote until the passage o
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by jfk13 5y ago
Or if they do have side-mirrors, the bulging load may well obscure them anyhow. https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-overloaded-truck-carrying-...
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by jfk13 5y ago
Interestingly, I just noticed a Zip Pay option here on a UK retailer's site, and in this case there doesn't appear to be any flat fee involved; the 4 payments add up to exactly the standard retail price of the product. I guess thi
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by jfk13 5y ago
Do you know some magic formula that would have enabled Mozilla to halt Chrome's "unchecked rise", given the behemoth that was pushing it? Despite having only a fraction of Google's resources, Mozilla continues to develop
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by jfk13 5y ago
Have you personally tried moving from a stable, developed country to somewhere with much lower cost of living? I lived for some years in a "good" suburb of a pretty well-known third-world city. Everyone had security bars on the wi
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by jfk13 5y ago
You could email them in English. Der Spiegel is large and international enough that it's reasonable to expect them to cope with that.
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by jfk13 5y ago
According to https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/b... , the bar-tailed godwit weighs around 230-450g. So the tracker would add somewhere around 1-2% of its weight.
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by jfk13 5y ago
He documented this plan already in 1990: > At the time of my death, it is my intention that the then-current versions of TeX and METAFONT be forever left unchanged, except that the final version numbers to be reported in the “banner” lin
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by jfk13 5y ago
While SILE is an interesting project, it's some way from being ready to be "the successor to TeX".
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by jfk13 5y ago
pdfTeX was an extension to TeX (as was XeTeX), for a long time maintained as a collection of change-files applied to the canonical TeX source, although nowadays they're managed as separate WEB files. LuaTeX was in turn an extension of
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by jfk13 5y ago
Actually, the Web2C build process normally used these days (e.g. in TeX Live) does first run tangle, to convert the WEB source to Pascal. Then the web2c tool (along with a few helpers) translates that Pascal to C.
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by jfk13 5y ago
Quite a few TeX-oriented editors support something like this; a couple that I've used personally are TeXShop (macOS only), TeXworks (cross-platform). Searching for "SyncTeX" suggests that others such as TeXnicCenter and TeXSt
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by jfk13 5y ago
Although I'm a language traditionalist at heart, this is a reasonable point. Nevertheless, the site does suffer from a number of unquestionable copy-editing errors, which do not inspire confidence in the product -- given that it is ent
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by jfk13 5y ago
Shouldn't this have been submitted as a [Show HN], given that it's basically someone promoting her own service?
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by jfk13 5y ago
Note that while this may be the case in the US, where interchange fees are outrageous and therefore the cards can offer such "rewards", the relevant figures may look quite different in other places.
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by jfk13 5y ago
Presumably because some people here found it interesting. Not everything has to be about computer technology. If it doesn't interest you, that's fine. Just move on.
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by jfk13 5y ago
Your prejudice is showing. "Exfiltrate" implies a surreptitious operation. E.g. Merriam-Webster: "to remove (someone) furtively from a hostile area"; Dictionary.com: "to escape furtively from an area under enemy con
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by jfk13 5y ago
If you want to know about Mozilla's telemetry, you could start with https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid and its links to additional details.
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by jfk13 5y ago
Oh, some random stranger on the Internet said so? That must be right, then.
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by jfk13 5y ago
Are you implying that Firefox is "surveillance malware"? Precisely what surveillance are you referring to? Telemetry isn't surveillance. Recommended content (e.g. on the default New Tab page) doesn't involve surveillance
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by jfk13 5y ago
> probably just using it to push ads Telemetry isn't about "pushing ads". https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid
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by jfk13 5y ago
It's nice to know that the specialists who'll be operating these vehicles are autonomous.
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by jfk13 5y ago
> Where is all this extra demand coming from? Blockchains? (More seriously, I guess an awful lot of it is used to keep producing the cheap goods that Western consumers demand. We need to adjust our lifestyles to "consume" much
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by jfk13 5y ago
Yes.... but the development that lifts people out of poverty may at the same time exacerbate the climate problems. I'm not sure we've yet reached the point of lifting people out of poverty in a climate-friendly way.
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by jfk13 5y ago
Mass migration to New Zealand would pretty quickly overflow the islands.
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by jfk13 5y ago
Given that the two sites explicitly link to each other, and the author's page on github.io points to both of them, it looks like the same person to me.

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