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by kbart 9y ago
" Kodak was a far more progressive company that invested in their employees. Apple is now the world's biggest company, Kodak is dead." Kodak have missed digital revolution and stayed on analog for too long, that's why i
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Farming is a very localized activity as it greatly depends on a climate, soil type, irrigation, demand etc., so I doubt anybody from outside can help you with that. See what neighboring similar sized farms are growing, chances are that they
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It would be hard to find a country with worse food than UK, so no big surprise here. Just my personal experience reflected by many friends acquaintances living there.
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Don't forget visas. Many of these puffed-up requirements are just to show regulators that company "can't find" a suitable candidate in a local market so they must bring somebody from abroad (usually that somebody is fr
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"And you can't even install ad blockers on the phone." Nonsense. I've been using Firefox + uBlock Origin on Android for years. There are even browsers/add-ons that can disable JavaScript completely, but I find it
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What problems? So you can't collect all the data on your costumers and do with it as you see fit? And when it gets leaked just say: "Oops, sorry"? If for some startups taking private data seriously is a "problem", I
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Vague terms and conditions is even against current EU laws which mandates to state specific use cases for your personal data.
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EU institutions are not as toothless or easily bribed as national ones, so I'm sure there will be big clashes in near future.
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You do realize that "foreign" depends on a perspective? What is "foreign" for me isn't necessarily "foreign" for you. HN readers are from all over the world, and I'm sure much more of them knows what
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Maybe because here's a technical community. I'm much more interested in news about leading tech companies than some local crime lord in a foreign country.
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To be more pedantic, it's more than just a trade block, it's also a political union.
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I still use keyboard and mouse for development purposes, so neither of your example has any impact on my productivity. Meanwhile, few percentage of my country's energy is generated by solar power (combined with wind and other renewable
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What? Do you honestly think that pinch-to-zoom is more world changing invention than solar panels? I could totally live without pinch-to-zoom or even momentum scroll, but I doubt we, society as we know it, would survive very long without cl
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Don't know about other countries, but at least in Lithuania there are laws against such scenarios.
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Nonsense. How can any democratic government force to use Google search, post pics in Facebook or buy from Amazon?
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"World War surely would not start over a single assassination"[0]. Given a sufficient tension (which is all time high now since the collapse of USSR between NATO and Russia) any single event might provide a tipping point to a chai
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Given you are a seasoned programmer, most of the code written in familiar language should be obvious just by skimming it. But when it comes to a short and "smart" algorithms, especially including bit manipulations, I still find pe
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Most of recent CS graduates weren't even born when this game was released, so it's not even "old-school" -- it's "ancient" for them.
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Don't worry, it's rare to see manual bit level optimization these days as compilers are quite smart in optimization. It's kind of lost art. I work with embedded systems and even there bit manipulation is mostly used for contr
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by kbart 9y ago
Not necessarily. I don't know much details about other technologies you have mentioned, but user surveillance has many overlapping technologies with IT security: deep packet inspection, network flows monitoring, white/black listin
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"But I don't see how people can think TV shows were better in the 70s, 80s or even 90s. Since 2000 we live in the golden age of TV shows." I'm on the same camp. Absolute majority of TV series from pre-Internet times we
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by kbart 9y ago
I doubt VR will ever replace dangerous sports. You get adrenaline rush precisely for the fact that you realize it's dangerous with a real potential of getting killed or wounded and the fact that you get away with it. Sitting in an
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"It is legal to do so (in the US.)" How is that possible? Isn't that plain lying? Can't you sue such company? As an European, I can't comprehend that. If something is labelled "scallops" it must be real
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There were too few intelligent people to make a difference and standing out would only mean personal sacrifice without much overall impact. Smart people usually know when it's better to stay silent.. Dangerous parallels can be drawn to
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"Google, Facebook, and YouTube are obviously not essential, cause those millions get by just fine without them." Most of foreigners traveling in China would certainly disagree with you. No Facebook, no Gmail, no Youtube == &quot
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Why does anybody need two calculators on the driving wheel?[0] 0. http://www.citroenet.org.uk/prototypes/xenia/images/xenia12....
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I didn't check this data and you didn't provide a link, so can't comment on that, but do you honestly believe that women's position in 70s-80s were better than it is now? I seriously doubt that, just ask your mother or o
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Do you, by chance, also get sexual implications walking around sausage aisle in supermarket?
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"In what universe is taking 10,000 actions per minute an easier problem for a neural net than 100 such actions?" StarCraft is precisely such universe. If you could micromanage units perfectly, you can do some amazing tricks. Her
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"I thought some of his arguments were very weak" Sorry, but unless you are some leading researcher in a related field, your "thoughts" doesn't count for much and you should provide cited counter claims to be taken

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