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by lodovic 5y ago
But I don't want to be censored like a kid. I'm an adult.
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by lodovic 5y ago
Yes it does - Bitcoin is mainly used for speculation. Paying for groceries with Bitcoin is too expensive (transaction fees) and you typically cannot use your Bitcoin savings as a collateral for another investment due to the price volatility
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by lodovic 5y ago
Exactly my experience as well
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by lodovic 5y ago
The narrative that "the native population will be happy, and they are suppressed by Nazis" is propaganda aimed at the Russian people and the army. Putin knows very well what's happening, he has been planning this war for a ve
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by lodovic 5y ago
This process works, but in my experience it also leads to the naive implementation. Which isn't always bad.
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by lodovic 5y ago
On the other hand, there were reports that the Russian navy has damaged parts of the internet cable between Norway and the Arctic. Norway is a NATO member, too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29903777
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by lodovic 5y ago
You keep repeating the Economist is rightwing in this thread, but it seems most here disagree with you. I mean, Fox, Breitbart or the NY Post are pretty much rightwing, and the Economist does not even compare, both in tone and in content. W
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by lodovic 5y ago
You can block port 53 (DNS) at the firewall and allow only traffic from and to the PiHole.
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by lodovic 5y ago
That page layout is extremely annoying
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by lodovic 5y ago
Email has basically been taken over by Microsoft and Google. They set the rules and decides who can is blacklisted. Although to me, email has become increasingly less relevant, to a point where I only check it once a week or so.
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by lodovic 5y ago
Indeed, that's not proper science, too many moving parts. If it cannot be easily replicated by anyone at any time, it is just an experiment which would need more refinement to get published. No experiment should be accepted if it requi
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by lodovic 5y ago
I guess there isn't such a thing as Moore's Law for Quantum Computing
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by lodovic 5y ago
Depends on the goods; in normal retail, surely, but if you walk into a used car store, a pawn shop, or try to get insurance, YMMV.
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by lodovic 5y ago
Such a good write up, well done!
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by lodovic 5y ago
He's a "Microsoft Regional Director and MVP" so Microsoft pays the bill one way or another. I expect that he has reduced Azure rates as well.
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by lodovic 5y ago
You could argue that the majority of telemetry is produced by the most compliant subset of the users. Critical or privacy-savvy users will probably reject telemetry when asked. These users will accept all the bad UX ideas.
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by lodovic 5y ago
> the Edge title bar having no empty space on top so if your window hung off the right side and you opened too many tabs you could not move it This was extremely annoying, thank you for standing up for this.
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by lodovic 5y ago
I treat my phone like I do Google. Every day I try to be a bit less dependent on it. I usually don't know where my phone is, physically, and only use it for banking and car navigation. I use WhatsApp through the web interface. I dream
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by lodovic 5y ago
I don't assume that companies track how many people reject their TOS, since they are not users of their product.
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by lodovic 5y ago
You could see it as a modern FizzBuzz. Many candidates will fail at such a triviality.
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by lodovic 5y ago
But is it fair to compare the Spanish Flu to Covid-19?
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by lodovic 5y ago
To me this is more like writing your SSN on a whiteboard in your living room, with the curtains open so everyone can see it.
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by lodovic 5y ago
This makes sense as it has a 25 km/h top speed
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by lodovic 5y ago
I don't think "solutioning" is a real verb though, it would have been clearer and easier to read if "inventing potential solutions" was used.
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by lodovic 5y ago
But regardless, the wages still keep slipping against inflation.
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by lodovic 5y ago
"Removing cynics from your life" sounds a lot like living in a bubble. Like exclusively watching Disney movies and thinking that is the general mindset. Instead try to accept reality for what it is.
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by lodovic 5y ago
They should just leave the simulator as-is and accept that it cannot be restored together with all the mission control infrastructure. Keep it as a museum artefact. And then build a new simulator from scratch with modern flat panels and a b
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by lodovic 5y ago
And WebKit is based on KHTML, so in the end it all comes from KDE
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by lodovic 5y ago
>Hardly anyone needs 600 miles and no one seems concerned that it takes an hour to add 300 km because most people charge overnight. I could do with a 200km range for my daily commute, but I also have a camping trailer that I'd like
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by lodovic 5y ago
There are monitors built specifically for digital signage, these have the same specs as large TVs but no tuner or adware.

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