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by jfk13 5y ago
> exponentially better each year I'd love to see sources supporting that; it sounds a lot more optimistic than I would expect.
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by jfk13 5y ago
That's not a realistic "solution" for any more than a minuscule fraction of users. If we don't want to live in a surveillance-based dystopia, we need to push back against it politically as a society, not play cat-and-mou
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by jfk13 5y ago
There's also some discussion a few days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28108432 .
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by jfk13 5y ago
So this is basically an ad for https://www.windsor.io/ , I guess. Wonder what sort of deal they worked out? Shame it leaves such a sense of disgust in most people here, to judge by the comments so far. They may have picked t
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by jfk13 5y ago
> Higher productivity is the way out of this mess. Lower consumption might also help.
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by jfk13 5y ago
I suspect airships are much more vulnerable to bad weather than most other forms of transport.
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by jfk13 5y ago
I hadn't heard of the company before, but now I'll know to steer well clear of it, should the occasion ever arise -- thanks.
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by jfk13 5y ago
If you can derive them, what are the chances someone else can do so too?
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by jfk13 5y ago
Although shipping the cable-manufacturing plant out there might not be entirely trivial either.
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by jfk13 5y ago
If you're going to label scientific papers you don't like as a "wall of FUD" [edit: I see you've decided to remove this remark], I'm not sure there's much we can discuss further. I didn't say it shoul
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by jfk13 5y ago
I'm not familiar with that "awesome herb", so I wondered what other sources might have to say. While the numbers are small (unsurprisingly, if it's not nearly as widely known and used as some other substances), it may no
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How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda(bbc.co.uk)
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by jfk13 5y ago
No, Scottish income tax is different, so the employer does need to deal with it. (Though I imagine most UK payroll systems have such options.)
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by jfk13 5y ago
http://www.richardiii.net
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by jfk13 5y ago
At this rate, we'll have to stop calling it "unprecedented".
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by jfk13 5y ago
> switching jobs will get you a raise If only that option were realistically available to all, rather than just an entitled few.
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by jfk13 5y ago
A couple of years ago, my wife had been practising a particular piece of music on the violin for some time in preparation for an exam; after a while, she noticed that the blackbird in our garden began using the opening few bars as part of i
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by jfk13 5y ago
> "only a 112 KB Grammarly-check.js script" Just that requires 112KB? Seems easily an order of magnitude bigger than it ought to be.
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by jfk13 5y ago
> The correct approach is to let customers choose if they want real-time billing or a fixed rate. Wasn't that the situation that led to a mess in Texas?
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by jfk13 5y ago
And even if they did, many of the readers/viewers people use wouldn't fully support it. While it's possible to royally mess up accessibility in HTML, too, the chances of getting something usable are at least somewhat better.
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by jfk13 5y ago
And the story is both touching and devastating, whether or not you're watching from a religious point of view. The same is true for the earlier Robert Bolt film, too: A Man for All Seasons .
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by jfk13 5y ago
I guess the Americans here may be blissfully unaware that this word could have other connotations on the right-hand side of the pond. https://british-american-dictionary.com/bad-words/spunk-uk/
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by jfk13 5y ago
However evil you expect people to be, someone will exceed it. That's why we can't have nice things.
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by jfk13 5y ago
"no good deed", not need
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by jfk13 5y ago
I was going to ask about this too -- my suspicious nature immediately thinks they're improperly taking advantage of Cliff's name to promote their product. But maybe there's a genuine collaboration and it's all above boar
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by jfk13 5y ago
If they're not still on Win7 or XP, that is...
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by jfk13 5y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965771
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by jfk13 5y ago
Checking the Oxford English Dictionary ( https://www.oed.com ), and taking the first non-obsolete definition for each adjective: Complex: Consisting of or comprehending various parts united or connected together; formed by combina
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by jfk13 5y ago
Sometimes the foreign-language packaging of an otherwise-familiar brand item makes this really obvious!
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by jfk13 5y ago
Presumably the lookup is based on Unicode character names. The name of "你" is CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F60. Charmap must be showing you information from some sort of dictionary entry or similar, but that's not part of the ident

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