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by krona 2y ago
Denmark is one of the few countries that actually has targets for integration, not just immigration. It's extremely draconian and I'm surprised (actually, not surprised) the article doesn't mention it. See, for example: http
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by krona 2y ago
Everything has been vandalized but we shouldn't blame the vandals. [They were] built by vandals and those who added the graffiti merely finished the job. - Scruton.
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by krona 2y ago
It's a form of respectable begging, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that it would eventually be exploited by entire families of professional beggars who come thousands of miles to use the magazine as a prop alongside their whee
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by krona 3y ago
> 6. M3 Extreme is going to be insanely power, without any E cores. This chip's integrated GPU will likely be neck and neck with Nvidia's flagship desktop GPUs. NVIDIA has a market cap of $2.31 trillion.
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by krona 3y ago
Approx. 100 litres. for 100 sheets. How many you need would depend on your diet and technique. It was a genuine question, not a gotcha.
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by krona 3y ago
How many litres of water are you using to do this, that you wouldn't have otherwise used?
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by krona 3y ago
Being strawmanned in the most mundane and cliched of ways is deserving of opprobrium. HN is better than that. It's tiresome.
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by krona 3y ago
Either you willingly misunderstood my comment, or you are so absolutist in your thinking that you're incapable of understanding the concept of a limiting principle in social policy.
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by krona 3y ago
> A city NEEDS to have people of all ages, backgrounds, income levels etc in it to not die. Correct. Therefore, subsidized housing is good and more of it is better? No, it does not follow. What you say is correct, to a degree. Beyond tha
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by krona 3y ago
Serious question: Can we presume he knew he was doing something wrong?
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by krona 3y ago
Could someone who knows Skia internals describe, if possible, the tradeoffs that Skia has made between performance, rendering quality and API DX? Presumably this is partly why it has become so popular, but as someone who's been writing
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by krona 3y ago
Dunno, seems to have worked well for Figma.
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by krona 3y ago
I'm surprised HN barely noticed. Or, maybe not.
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by krona 3y ago
> How did this pass Boeing QA? https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/safety/146074-boeing-inte...
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by krona 3y ago
> C# doesn't have ownership/lifetimes and the kind of safety that comes with them. I believe .net Core has supported several forms of escape analysis for quite a while.
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by krona 3y ago
> The Norman Conquest brought French kings I stopped at the first sentence. It's historically illiterate to say the Normans were 'French', in particular William I. If that were the case, then Edward the Confessor was just
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by krona 3y ago
> Bard is free, while GPT-4 is not, so it doesn’t seem like a totally fair comparison. Wait so if Google suddenly started charging for Bard, it would be instantly better?
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by krona 3y ago
> People are consuming more food In the US, calorie consumption/person peaked around the year 2000 and has been falling since. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8805510/
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by krona 3y ago
Most boilers sit in peoples homes. An ASHP sits outside and you will need at least 5sq meters of space with excellent ventilation. That excludes many people (including me). But even then during winter the average ASHP makes too much noise.
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by krona 3y ago
I thought this was a new kind of air-source heat pump without all the problems of existing ones, but no, it's just a heat pump. Inappropriate for many (possibly most) dwellings in the UK, and the government is bribing people to install
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by krona 3y ago
But you don't disagree with the central claim that the X200 is the best laptop in the world, just that the idea invokes a peevish internal emotional state?
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by krona 3y ago
Wouldn't 95% vs 90% mean 2x better, not 5% better?
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by krona 3y ago
Watching one ad and then clearing cookies seems to work for me. ( shrug )
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by krona 3y ago
Doesn't Argentina have some kind of soft-peg to the USD? I suppose they could turn the Peso to a more conventional peg.
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by krona 3y ago
As I point out, the critique is simply that the paper isn't very good. In fact I'd go as far as to say its egregiously bad, even if the conclusion is 'correct' in as far as something was measured and they reported it.
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by krona 3y ago
This paper evaluates performance compared to a 'human' which presumably is an average adult human without cognitive impairment. I had to dig in to the references: In the first batch of participants collected via Amazon Mechanical
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by krona 3y ago
You could easily take the opposite conclusion and say the "needs another breakthrough" was him breaking kayfabe which cost him his job.
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by krona 3y ago
You could easily take the complete opposite conclusion and say the "need another breakthrough" was him breaking kayfabe that cost him the job.
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by krona 3y ago
> would that be an infringement of the patent on the mechanical device? No because a patent has to describe the mechanism (the non-obvious inventive step). If there are multiple ways to achieve the same thing then in practice it's h
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by krona 3y ago
This is the Guardian so it's definitely about resentment of one form or another.

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