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China allows couples to have three children(bbc.com)
217 points by jgilias 5y ago|322 comments
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by jgilias 5y ago
There are only a few dozen countries that allow people to express those attitudes, or even recognize the right of people to harbor varying attitudes in the first place. No matter how much you might not believe in God, there are plenty of pl
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by jgilias 5y ago
I'm really late to the party, but here goes anyway. Some context is due. The article is almost twenty years old. The experiences described there are from a time period when Latvia had gained independence from the Soviet Union only some
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by jgilias 5y ago
Interestingly, I don't really see any 'other side' of the story here. It's the same story: 1. Christel sells 'something' to Andrew while under apparent financial distress. 2. Tomaw somehow learns that Andrew is
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by jgilias 5y ago
This may be a silly and naive question, but what happens next? The BTC address that received the stolen funds is known and can be monitored. How do you convert it to fiat or use it without revealing yourself?
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by jgilias 5y ago
Going a bit on a tangent here as far as the topic of the article, but... It's mind-blowing and depressing to realize that there are apparently millions of Americans who believe that dogs can't feel pain.
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by jgilias 5y ago
But how do you actually know the intent if you can't trust the words and you weren't there when the text to write down was discussed? This is literally your interpretation of the document versus someone else's.
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by jgilias 5y ago
To me it seems like you contradict yourself. > it would be better [to adopt a law system] which maximizes the human interpretive element rather than attempts to remove it. > twist the law in any direction which benefits them, even in
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Is software abstraction killing civilization?(datagubbe.se)
3 points by jgilias 5y ago|1 comments
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by jgilias 5y ago
Yeah, if it's actually OK or not depends a lot on the particulars. Like, if it's not actually your job, and the data people were supposed to produce production ready stuff themselves, and then you have to go out of your way to act
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by jgilias 5y ago
But that's fine, no? I mean, it's a pretty common workflow where the people close to the science part of something write a prototype in their language/ecosystem of choice, and then the engineering side is in charge of taking
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by jgilias 6y ago
People in not too distant future will likely view with envy the readily available fresh air we currently have. Given that in a century or two the CO2 concentration in outside air may reach the 'stuffy classroom' level[1]. Imagine
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by jgilias 6y ago
You mean, using something like bython[1]? [1] https://github.com/mathialo/bython
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by jgilias 6y ago
There is a categorical difference between the Space Shuttle boosters and the Falcon 9 rockets. First of all, the external tank of the space shuttle didn't get reused. The solid rocket boosters were, but only after they were recovered f
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by jgilias 6y ago
But that's exactly the modus operandi of Musk's companies. Figure out the big picture of something based on first principles, assume that the industry is stuck on some local maximum, and try to do it in a different way. Sometimes
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by jgilias 6y ago
I've been bashed before for saying something along the lines of "Haskell-ish C++". Their fair point being that the only Haskell influence is the typeclasses, and all other ML-influences are just ML-influences that are not uni
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by jgilias 6y ago
I do agree that Rust 'feels' more like C++ than Python or Java. But then, from my limited experience with dabbling into Haskell, to me it feels more like Haskell than C++. In Rust, from the language perspective, I have to deal wit
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by jgilias 6y ago
The code I've had to work with was definitely more on the OOP paradigm side. Can you provide an example project with a more 'modern' C++ code base that I could check out?
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by jgilias 6y ago
I've done my share of C++ and now Rust, and I don't really get why people keep saying that Rust is a 'cleaned-up C++'. In my opinion this couldn't be further from my subjective truth. I see C++ as an effort to exten
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Netgate's Take on the WireGuard Debacle(netgate.com)
4 points by jgilias 6y ago|1 comments
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by jgilias 6y ago
The way I view it is this. Given inflationary currency, if the overall world market is actually going downwards for a prolonged period of time, say a few decades, the events having lead to this are of such magnitude that the return of my in
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by jgilias 6y ago
Having thought about this a bit, I think the suggestion to increase the goal/reduce the goalie would make ice hockey considerably less interesting to watch. It goes something like this. The inherent thrill of watching a sports event co
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by jgilias 6y ago
I feel like I would like to agree with the article, but I don't. It's described in a way that makes one believe that it's completely impossible to score a goal in a one-on-one situation, as the goalie can just sit on his knee
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by jgilias 6y ago
Thanks! This is a very useful clarification. I wonder how the last paragraph relates to automotive. I guess they still want to be able to do updates.
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by jgilias 6y ago
In our case tampering with the sealed parts of the hardware by the user would be illegal. I'm not sure if providing an illegal method to load the firmware fulfills the GPLv3 requirements. EDIT: So, I don't think this is actually a
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by jgilias 6y ago
I have to deal with government regulated certification in a different industry. In our case there's a hard requirement to make it impossible for the end-user, which is some business, to run modified software on the devices. Reason bein
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Face masks may boost the immune system(economist.com)
4 points by jgilias 6y ago|0 comments
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by jgilias 6y ago
Regarding speed limit changes, since September last year all streets in Bilbao have a maximum speed limit of 30km/h (18.5 mph). Now, if you can't legally go faster than 30km/h, then something that can go at 45km/h max st
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by jgilias 6y ago
Sorry, I was not meaning to digress, I think it's very much on-point. My point all along is that miniature EVs are a solution in need of a problem. I used to live in Oslo for some time, and the ratio between Buddy cars (Norwegian made
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by jgilias 6y ago
People living in cities that have been (re)built to make them convenient like that, such as Copenhagen or Amsterdam, tend to use bicycles to get around a lot. Going from bicycles to small EVs would be a step back on pretty much any metric i

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