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   by ketzu 4y ago

   They also have a more recent video on general drone delivery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-M98KLgaUU It was really interesting to watch. General idea discusses the problems it faced in the US in seemingly optimal circu
2. 272.▲
   by ketzu 4y ago

   This seems to have various angles to it. First, one question is if the intent of the original owner of the data important? When I put data on linkedin (or facebook, my private website, hackenews or my employers website) I might have an opin
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   by ketzu 4y ago

   I am not versed in law, especially not in US law, but this case seems to be very specific that scraping is no violation of the CFAA. I do support this interpretation. However, the case of scraping I personally find more problematic is the u
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   by ketzu 5y ago

   We seem to misunderstand each other, I am not talking about a miner making changes to their own mining code. There are, to my out-of-date knowledge, two fairly small groups with a lot of power within bitoin: * The maintainers of the bitcoin
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   by ketzu 5y ago

   > Bitcoin's monetary policy is fixed. It is in nobody's hand, but everybody who decides to run a validating node. My understanding is that bitcoins monetary policy can be changed through code, something a very small group is al
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   by ketzu 5y ago

   > I wonder what would happen if crypto somehow managed to replace central banks and how the world would change My personal guess is that we would recreate most of the infrastructure on top, but with monetary policy now in the hand of a s
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   by ketzu 5y ago

   For me, it is easier to think about this approach as "you can model it as a graph" and "you can solve this with graph algorithms". The argument seems to be too often: * Look at problem space * Recognize it has a graph st
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   by ketzu 5y ago

   Thanks for the reply! > support (that you're paying for, and has an incentive to be as helpful as possible) and on-going updates (a cookiecutter won't help you integrate improvements over time, as far as I know). That's tr
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   by ketzu 5y ago

   The descriptions seem a little bit scarce for me. Like others I also wonder who's the intended audience. For 1k/year/repository I need to be quite serious with a project, but that project needs to be basically non existent (o
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    Thank you, those are good examples to put the expression in context! I personally like well structured data over plain text, but plain text is preferable over extracting information from a pdf.
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    > easiest to convert to any other format I heard that a lot, but I feel like there are some very narrow assumptions involved. Could you give me some examples so I can better understand what people even mean by that? I am not even sure wh
12. 282.▲
    by ketzu 5y ago

    Aparently I copy-pasted the wrong link: [1] https://iq.opengenus.org/age-of-programming-languages/
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    I am not sure either follows. But it depends how we even define "older languages", especially considering differences between python 3 and 2, are they the same age (based on the original python release) or are they treated for the
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    > Vladivostok used to be a Chinese town once, and the Chinese hate the old Unequal Treaties. Could you provide some links? I would like to learn more about that. As far as I knew until just now the treaties between russia and china aren&
15. 285.▲
    by ketzu 5y ago

    Yes, because in some jurisdictions it is not possible to discard your rights.
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    Original claim was: Internet speeds are low in Germany (and other countries) because of the high age of the people living there. Countries with a younger population place higher importance on the internet and therefore have higher internet
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    > I reject the idea that everyone should know from these words that they will be subject to an enormous early cancellation fee if they forget to cancel before the 7 day trial period is over. Reading the twitter thread it seems to me that
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    Definitly. For me it was enough to see no obvious negative correlation(as was claimed) even though the data is not great and no analysis for other variables was done. The best result of that discussion was finding the tool and presentation.
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    I discovered datawrapper 2 months ago while looking at internet speeds vs age due to an unconvincing reddit debate [1] : I really liked it. Data presentation on the internet always frustrates me, because it usually is just a picture, or wor
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    Most sources I found on the topic seem to be as diverse as this one: [1] The estimates range from 80 years to hundreds of thousands of years, depending on the assumptions made, including: Possible sources (land mining, sea refining), curren
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    There was no significant public will or movement to get out of coal 10 years ago. It was never even discussed.
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    Point 2) is not about implementing authentication or even the user model from scratch. It is about using a custom user model, something the django documentation explicitly recommends doing, for the same reason the author recommends it: Chan
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    Location: Ulm, Germany Willing to relocate: yes, even preferred Remote: Yes, Possible (but not required) Technologies: Python, C++, Django, Git, Docker, JavaScript, Security, C#, Statistics CV: https://ketzu.net/CV/ Em
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    As someone running something similar, I thought it was quite easy when I first set it up: I used the similar setup of a friend as a baseline to get through the configuration. It took about 1 hour to setup the base things to have the infrast
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    > Do people keep forgetting they’re dealing with an authoritarian dictatorship? > ANYTHING is on the table, nothing should come as a surprise. That does not follow from the first part. People and politics can, at large, still be predi
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    After skimming the whitepaper and the storj website, I am not sure which parts are actually provided by Sliksafe. The website tells me I can pay by solana (or even by credit card!), but there seems to be no indication of how much I actually
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    In this thread I had the impression that the discussion widened to more than just cookie-banners, more general privacy on the web. One of the problems I have with the pure-local approach is that I want certain cookies (or certain cookie fun
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    consent-o-matic is an attepmt at this i believe.
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    Especially because many people that consider themseleves tech savy are more out of touch, e.g., thinking the privacy aspects could be solved through local cookie policies only, or that it would be a suitable solution to solve even just the
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    by ketzu 5y ago

    I think in the context of law, how it applies and should/could be enforced on the internet, societal implications like fake news, privacy and state surveilance (last was the actual context of the quote) she was right back then and is r