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by johbjo 5y ago
> The attraction of the city is its rich social life. Ok, we agree then?
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by johbjo 5y ago
The OCR codes/checksums are readable both by machine and human, which was the point. Not a hack. But the bit-length of the QR-code is probably bigger than what humans would accept so putting the information into alphanumerics might not
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by johbjo 5y ago
Young people want to work in cities for the same reason kids want to return to school after summer. For so many, work is connect to lifestyle and meeting people.
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by johbjo 5y ago
Coordination is a bit euphemistic. Redistribution is probably a better term. The owners of the burnt houses are not the beneficiaries of the growth during rebuilding. Likewise for guilds and institutions.
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by johbjo 5y ago
As long as the points are not above/below each other, it will always intersect. We can see in one of the linked notes that vertical points are defined as each other's inverses, and adding them results in a type of "zero-eleme
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by johbjo 5y ago
The linked article doesn't support either view. The link reports that vaccines have been observed to generate higher antibody-levels than natural infections. It was also observed that vaccines seem to protect against a set of variants.
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by johbjo 5y ago
> Telling people to have fewer children in an area where few children make it to adulthood ... Are you arguing for more or fewer children? Seems plainly obvious the birthrate is too high.
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by johbjo 5y ago
Yes? The session layer should confirm and only accept that the other SSL-endpoint is an authenticated app. The app should do this as well. If a toggle box exists that can cause this, I'd wonder how much of else of the implementation is
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by johbjo 5y ago
Also consider age distribution/population density in areas you compare. Death rate is exponential in age, so small differences in age distribution gives big differences in relative deaths.
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by johbjo 5y ago
> What is astounding to a lot of us in South East Asia is the reluctance of the West in learning from our lessons. Agreed. We should have relocated Britain and NYC to the equator long time ago.
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by johbjo 5y ago
> It needed to record and store information about individual particles in order to decide when to open and close the door. This isn't true, all it needs is to store the average speed of particles on either side of the door and it wo
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by johbjo 5y ago
I got: for her it's a job, for the rich it's a hobby and a pass time.
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by johbjo 5y ago
The value google provides here is not the technology, but a "neutral" external partner. It means that bosses do not need to elevate anyone's responsibilities to some niche (but probably better) alternative tool. It's the
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by johbjo 5y ago
The suit of a guy who doesn't need to answer to anyone.
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by johbjo 5y ago
The "founders" were GenXers and older but the internet or "cyberspace" was so tiny then that there are as many clueless GenX now as from any other generation.
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by johbjo 5y ago
Another perspective; blogs and wikis are two use-cases of essentially the same interaction. The different designs guide and inspire people how to use them. Then, they discover that the use-cases are beneficial. In some ways, all of social m
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by johbjo 5y ago
> it was found that masks were effective Citation for this would be helpful.
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by johbjo 5y ago
> lost all faith in public and academic institutions The people wearing masks outside, what are they afraid of and where are they placing their faith?
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by johbjo 5y ago
Not really. Early/immature tech causes early movers to overspend and be invested in the wrong things. Early, usually the tech is expensive so it's perceived to be valuable on its own. Later, when the tech has diffused and is ubiqu
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by johbjo 5y ago
One aspect of leadership is symbolic. If the company falls on hard times and needs to restructure/fire people, we can let the current CEO be associated with all the ugly stuff, and then bring in a new CEO to raise hope. There is a need
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by johbjo 5y ago
Content creators are not the beneficiaries of the current copyright legislation, which enables accumulation of large catalogues of old works that can be used to strong-arm central platforms to act as gatekeepers (for lack of a better word.)
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by johbjo 5y ago
Just have a part of the article+ads visible on a news site, then show the rest without ads after a click on 'see the rest for $0.01'.
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by johbjo 5y ago
No. The reason d'etre for the centralised platforms is that they are accountable to the major rights holding companies. That's all. One can speculate why this is so important for society, but ostensibly it is to protect the rights
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by johbjo 5y ago
There seems to be the intention to lower incentives to be infected, and to raise incentives to get vaccinated. Therefore, the party line seems to be to dismiss natural immunity. I think the talking points will change once all 50+ people in
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by johbjo 5y ago
Antibody tests are designed to have low false positives, not low false negatives. And blood samples have found that a proportion of samples have t-cell immune responses to sars-cov-2 without antibodies, possibly with no exposure to sars-cov
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by johbjo 5y ago
There are different mechanisms involved. Wealth inequality in general is caused by cheap credit which drives up asset prices. Facebook and Google are not tech companies. The own all the best advertising real-estate. Amazon owns all the best
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by johbjo 5y ago
> This becomes the limiting factor almost everywhere, meaning that prices would be equally unaffordable if credit wasn’t cheap. The point is that cheap credit (mortgage regulation) significantly raises the upper bound on this limit.
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by johbjo 5y ago
> last great booms we saw in the States The exact same booms were seen all over the world. It's probably due to innovation and sharply falling energy prices (oil, hydro and nuclear.) A boom the 90s is probably attributed to IT-produ
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by johbjo 5y ago
> “We hire top talent” These phrases are mainly intended to flatter the employees, to make them grateful for being "chosen", and maybe to increase trust and confidence among them. Choosing who to hire (once basic requirements a
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by johbjo 5y ago
> The best coders can demand the highest salary. How would you confirm this with data?

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