lmilcin

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811.
by lmilcin 5y ago
First, there is no centralisation of power simply because WHO doesn't have any power. Guidelines are not power. Any influence (not power) they may have comes exclusively from trust. No trust == no influence. Second, WHO cannot "
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by lmilcin 5y ago
It is not just pesticides. We are killing all flowering plants around us that are not crops or garden flowers. Bees do not care whether it is a weed or crop. But they do care that there is always something flowering. When there is little va
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Only technically. But still, Java does not have unsigned integer types for 32 and 64 wide integers, just a way to treat them as such if you need it so much that you want to go out of your way. For example when you need to parse a binary w
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Sometimes you need float packed in memory efficiently. This might be useful in graphics, for example. In general, I believe it is good to give people options. You never know what people will find useful. But if you don't want support i
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> Europeans in Canada survive and thrive. But will European ecology, crops and infrastructure? Europe is dependent on high yield agriculture that would basically be impossible in Canadian climate. Canada has 38M population mostly huddled
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by lmilcin 5y ago
The basic thing to do is to inform your choices on who you vote for for public functions.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
This is one of the very well known biases. Thinking that just because something has been true for a million years it is also going to be true tomorrow. This is how our brain is wired and it helps us function, most of the time, but sometimes
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I was always disappointed that I can't get the ball to curve. I now know a bunch of things need to be exactly perfect for this to be controllable or even happen at all. I no longer feel guilty on company bowling parties to just shoot s
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by lmilcin 5y ago
A lot of assumptions. Maybe people no longer want to live in US and it is wealthy that have it easier to actually go through with this? Or maybe they actually live somewhere else and don't like paying their taxes TWICE. Almost every co
820.
by lmilcin 5y ago
And the egg and cholesterol example is even more complex. Because the cholesterol that is ingested does not necessarily increase amount of cholesterol in your body. Because body produces cholesterol on its own and when you ingest cholestero
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by lmilcin 5y ago
We are cheating our eyes and brains with 3D goggles. Don't you think you are too enthusiastic saying 3D facial authentication cannot be fooled? It is basically an exercise in projecting right image, something that already a large numbe
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by lmilcin 5y ago
We are cheating our eyes and brains with 3D goggles. Don't you think you are too enthusiastic saying 3D facial authentication cannot be fooled?
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by lmilcin 5y ago
There is more systems that can't tolerate downtime than you think. And this is mostly because you treat it as fabric of everything around you and you only notice when it fails. Mobile networks? Power delivery (basically all utilities)?
824.
by lmilcin 5y ago
The question is not whether you get advantage, but whether it makes it impossible to break. I am responding to this comment: "By far the largest deployed facial authentication system is of course Face ID, which this has zero/zilch
825.
by lmilcin 5y ago
It is practically the same assuming the output from facial recognition is then fed as input to authentication.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
So I understand the first part of your argument, and it may be very bad headline, I agree. But to say it has no chance to work against Face ID is just saying YOU don't know how to make it work. It is short sighted, to say it delicately
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by lmilcin 5y ago
It should really say "overcomplicated system tend to break more frequently". It is not simplicity that makes for less downtime, it is unnecessary complication that does the opposite. I spend time to complicate my applications a li
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Far from it. Chargers are actually very complex and demanding design tasks with a lot of interesting* fault modes. (* assuming you like small fires and exploding devices) Just because you can make it work doesn't mean it is safe. Good
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> also, digital cameras could just compensate slower f-stop with higher ISO if necessary Actually you can do the same with film. You just push it in processing. Whether film or digital it results in grainy image, that's why I actual
830.
by lmilcin 5y ago
This just proves my point. PLONK
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Is concept of union perfect? No it is not. But the point is that in a sufficiently large corporation people mean shit and the company has disproportionate power over individual employees. For example, in a small town with one large company
832.
by lmilcin 5y ago
Can you point to the law or are you making the law as you go? I remind you, your parent comment says "Your comment is a broad generalization, yet provides no examples of evidence." So if you point out people not putting evidence,
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by lmilcin 5y ago
The article described one incident, true. But the comment was aimed at the fact there are other incidents regularly posted on HN. If you can't use Google, try to learn it. It is really fun and useful. Certainly something I would do if
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> (...) roughly 4mm of distance is required between the two circuits. (As I discuss in Tiny, cheap, dangerous: Inside a (fake) iPhone charger, cheap chargers totally ignore these safety rules. Which is why I immediately destroy any charg
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Actually, I am a skipper and because of that I had to go through quite thorough training of which large part is focused on saving people in Man Over Board situation. I estimate full 1/3rd of entire training was devoted exclusively to g
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by lmilcin 5y ago
The best they can do is not allow you to bring certain items onto premises, but it doesn't mean they can just confiscate it. Not allow means they can tell you you can't enter with the item on your or that you have to leave the ite
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> I think it's clear that the union wants a do-over and is looking for any technicality that might give them another chance. Well, what do you expect? If Amazon was innocent here they could just let people vote whenever they want an
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by lmilcin 5y ago
You are being downvoted for obvious and blatant disregard of frequent and abundant "examples of evidence" already available on HN. There is so many submissions on HN regarding Amazon that I pretty much expect it to get its own ded
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by lmilcin 5y ago
With f/8 on a cloudy day you might get problem getting sharp image of the arms or have to settle on grainy image, regardless of the lens. I would use fastest aperture I can that is still sharp and just shot a bunch of frames very quick
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by lmilcin 5y ago
To be fair, it said he was "distributing" it. Though I have never heard a company to confiscate chocolates being distributed by employees for being distracting. I also don't think there is any legal way a company can confisca

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