kikoreis

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by kikoreis 7y ago
To me, the point of any close election is to warn society that a massive proportion of the population is very unhappy with the status quo. In some ways, it's irrelevant if there is meddling to influence single digit percentages -- the
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What has the level of increase been? Shark attacks are ultra rare, with only 5 deaths worldwide in 2018. See https://www.forbes.com/sites/duncanmadden/2019/03/05/the-201...
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by kikoreis 7y ago
Other than rate-limiting, I don't know how you can avoid WhatsApp forwards becoming a problem without violating E2E encryption. However, WhatsApp seems to act more as an amplifier than as a net originator of content, so it makes sense
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And narcotics and antidepressants to handle chronic pain and PTSD. Having spent the last month on the West Coast I have started to think these might have a real dampening effect on violence potential.
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Reactors of Gen III and beyond have significantly different safety characteristics. And solar (inherently) is unable to produce continuous 24x7 energy. Those together should be enough to warrant a fresh look at nuclear. The main practical i
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Come on, this is not accurate. My wife, a journalist employed in the local university and my mother, a shop owner, use Ubuntu every day and have never used the terminal. The demographic that has needs more advanced than the basic desktop fu
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by kikoreis 7y ago
Gen IV you're right. Gen III (and "III+") reactors already bring significant safety changes ("passive nuclear safety", though that is a spectrum) and we've had a few of those running for a while now, the longes
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by kikoreis 7y ago
When plans fail and crash, it's a catastrophe. And yet we trust technology and process to fly everywhere all the time. We need to put nuclear in the same place in our hearts. (I think the root cause of why it's not is irrational f
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by kikoreis 7y ago
I don't think it's actually that multi-faceted. It's simple. 1. We have a coal problem. Fixing that would buy us critical space in the climate change equation. 2. Nuclear is the only viable short-term alternative. 3. Nuclear
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You beat me to it. A lot of the comments here underscore how much better it is (which I don't doubt) without seeming to acknowledge that ads are very likely to come -- in fact, didn't they test already last year? Yeah, https:&#x2
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by kikoreis 7y ago
This is off topic but it was startling to me when I looked at CO2 stats that there was so little air travel and so much energy generation and heating. I think we have just stumbled upon the real reason we haven't fully grokked climate
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Are you really arguing that everything can be bootstrapped without up front investment? I know many things can, but equally many cannot in non geological time.
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by kikoreis 8y ago
It may be two steps forward one step back but we're step by step cracking the urban mobility nut that bothered me the most in my teens. Rock on human powered city centres, I look forward to having my children enjoy them.
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I would not just trust the courts on this one. We should all care and protest where we can.
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I was going to post the same thing but I fumbled in finding the right word, incongruent of course. In general the media will protest when they perceive a threat to freedom of press which is both self interested and highly useful.
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by kikoreis 8y ago
See other threads for details on the actual program. The restrictions are pretty moderate and have exclusions for local residents etc.
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by kikoreis 8y ago
Customer specific projects similar to what other integrators like Ericsson, Nokia (telco) and Accenture, ATOS, etc do elsewhere.
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How have you set it up, technology-wise?
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I keep thinking that the simple but fatal decision to mess with the timeline is the deepest sin of social media. If the timeline is purely chronological then there is a much higher barrier to create biases. Social media business models have
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Interestingly, the cities are in part broke due to the infrastructure cost of maintaining sprawl — which only cars make possible.
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Ironically, that's also the most dreaded phrase an employee can utter to an employer.
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by kikoreis 8y ago
Your reply seems equally ideological to me. The reality is that it's a complex situation, and that there is a non-trivial political concession in dropping reciprocity. I think dropping it makes sense, because pragmatically the damage o
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by kikoreis 8y ago
You are right that they are designed to prevent spoofing. The problem is that the recipient server needs to be configured to use it and not all servers do, for reasons spanning false positives to ignorance. So if you have a fairly old or kn
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by kikoreis 8y ago
In SMTP only the envelope headers are really required to be unencrypted. The rest, including the actual To, From and Subject fields are part of the payload. You can use milters that look at the payload which can affect email delivery (thin
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by kikoreis 8y ago
Yeah, I agree. MySQL was in a more robust position, and even then the outcome was disappointing. Open source business is tough.
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You are right, but it is hard to see how for profit Docker Inc benefits from that. MySQL had a business model that was similarly challenging, which lead to where it is today.
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Apart from media files, where does that limit really hurt?
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I did this -- working on open source founded by other people, from Bugilla to GNOME -- for two decades, and my experience is similar. Contract work is available for customizing open source broadly, and pays well, but it has all the common d
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For the record, half of the technical part of Canonical's engineering interview track is collaborative; multiple candidates join in to troubleshoot in real time a system that is malfunctioning. We gain from that a lot of insight into
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I'm curious about something closely related, which is: what are the practical things that need to be done to put brakes on the process? It feels like we've failed to articulate a concrete plan that we put to governments.

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