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by lixtra 8y ago
This is surprising since food is one of the oldest subjects of “IP” in Europe: > [Sybaris around 700 BC] pioneered the concept of intellectual property to ensure that cooks could exclusively profit from their signature dishes for a whole
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by lixtra 8y ago
See also [1]. The top comment there links to the article (2017). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18220906
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Why you need to say no at work(blog.trello.com)
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As we learned yesterday colorized movies from the past could be a commodity soon. https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify
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by lixtra 8y ago
What was the earliest of these tools? Mathcad? Mathematica? Maple?
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http://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/ my version only works with X11, not wayland though.
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This is not true for the Congress which is the comparable institution to the European Parliament. Each state is apportioned a number of seats which approximately corresponds to its share of the aggregate population of the 50 state
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> The EU Parliament is elected based on popular vote. Depending from which country you are from your vote may weight differently up to a factor of 11 (Luxembourg vs Spain) [1], hardly democratic. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by lixtra 8y ago
Thanks, but the animation is unfortunate, because the later predictions are compared to shorter periods and make predictions about the past (so most likely they were fitted against them). Of course it looks like a good match. At least they
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Did you search for existing ones? https://github.com/smhanov/qb.js/blob/master/README.md https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1042896
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For example german academics suffer from the fact that they have to change state after some years. Short term contracts can only be prolonged so long. After that you get a permanent position which university rarely wants. Therefore they tel
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> Everyone likes to be super stimulated. >> by vapid and shallow experiences GP does not deny being super stimulatable. Just not by a beautiful face. Once AI reaches the level that it can be an intellectual mentor people like GP ma
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Do you know of some data that relationships within companies (and in particular where one person has power over the other) are significantly more abusive than the average? That's what it would take for me to reconsider my belief that r
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Indeed, a small search yields: https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764672
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I’m too young (or studied in the wrong time or place) so my CS teachers failed to impress me to such an extent. However, I very well remember reading the Compilerbau book by N. Wirth and the awe I felt. It’s just a few pages but it was a re
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It’s opposite from what i feel. On one hand hand I suffer from seeing all the PDFs or papers with poor MS Office type set. But when it comes to the web I feel like people spend too much time (and waste my resources) to arrive at a perfect l
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by lixtra 8y ago
Bob and Alice can be connected in many different ways. They could be highschool friends, follow the same faith, be of the same ethnicity (different from Ted). Why single out a romantic relationship? Professional employees will handle it pro
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You will be left with your dogs dead even if you are innocent.
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> But how do you plan to prove that no explicit coercion took place? How do you do that on regular dates? Do you record them? What’s the difference? Proving is always difficult. You just have to take contextual evidence. > Or is ins
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But why? The fact that they date someone in their organization becomes only problematic if they coerce their partner into something using their position. Or if the partner accuses them of such. Ruling out theses intra company relationships
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by lixtra 8y ago
A lot of policies, contract clauses, and even laws exist only to be applied in certain situations, not rigerously. I can accept that google wants to avoid trouble at the work place and love dramas can cause trouble. And sexual harassment is
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by lixtra 8y ago
I think the way github manages pull request was not forethought back then.
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Thanks for sharing, why would you do that in Java? Especially since you apparently rely on expect anyway. Why not one of - bash - python - tcl so it's easy to extend.
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The highest discriminatory factor I see in the tech community is the English language. You either have to invest a lot of energy to master it or you are left with local niche communities. Of course that is difficult to tackle, but it can se
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Can a in kernel Webserver be understood as unikernel? I.e. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUX_web_server
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> ‘Aren’t we all in the legal field to some extent?’ I heard a CCO complaining that non-legal people should not have access to any contracts. Her claim was that they would read those contracts and think they understand them, while in fac
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I’m sorry, i tried to figure out what this is about for 1m then I left because I couldn’t stand the design and colors. Also leena leena takes up expensive real estate and attention where you could pitch your value or what it is about. Maybe
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Don’t you have an nginx/Apache in front? If you tell it to serve HTTP/2 don’t you already get 95% of the benefits? EDIT: e.g. bottom of https://www.speedshop.co/2016/01/07/what-http2-means-for-rub..
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by lixtra 8y ago
>> People are dying en masse but because you can't see it and say "my car was the one that killed them" most people just. don't. care. People are dying en masse, because people read forums like HN. His argument is
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The very computer you are typing on and throw away in a few years poisoned people in its production and operation. We are all alive for selfish reasons and compete for resources with others, including clean air. An absolute standpoint does

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