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by lorenzhs 9y ago
That ( "They are listening, filming and tracking every single thing you do near that device" ) is a claim you're going to have to substantiate. Don't spread such rumours unless you can back them up.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Don't know about the US but here in Germany Ikea has an online store, too. Shipping for non-giant non-superheavy things is 3.90€ so pretty okay. They're not as fast as Amazon, though.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Yeah of course. I'm just trying to salvage the idea (door-to-door in a car, high speed). Seems like a train for cars would be the solution. Not that it would be particularly efficient, but not as terrible as 200mph cars.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Switzerland has a few car shuttle trains ("Autoverlad") to avoid mountain passes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_shuttle_train#Switzerland - no advance booking required. The Eurotunnel shuttle between Fran
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
This "200+ mph self-driving cars" thing gets repeated a lot on HN but I've never seen anything to suggest that it would be remotely fuel-efficient. There is a reason why today's high-speed rail rarely exceeds 200mph &#x2
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
It's against the guidelines. They are very explicit about such things: Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument i
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Please don't use such stark language on HN. There's a much friendlier way of saying that, something along the lines of "I think you misunderstood the author's concerns".
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
That's not an automatism nor inevitable, though. I don't have either of these apps on my phone. And both iOS and now Android have these dynamic permission dialogs where you can refuse access to your contacts. It may be inconvenien
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Why would anyone get your contacts if you sync them via your own CarDav server? You don't need to sync them to iCloud / Siri on iOS, and you can use non-Google Android phones.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I concur, el-get is quite nice and can install/manage packages from a wide variety of sources, sort of like Arch's AUR. It's at https://github.com/dimitri/el-get .
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Lots of people buy used phones. If you install a bunch of apps and set a photo of your dog (or a random internet dog) or kid as the background, it probably wouldn't be all that suspicious.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
There was substantial uncertainty about the cost of TerraBella's acquisition, see https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/25/google-satellite-planet/ which says " We’ve not heard a firm price. Aside fro
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Where I live the KABS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Mosquito_Control_Associ... ) is very effective at reducing mosquito populations: "At a cost of 400k€ annually the result is a reduction of the mosquito
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Well at least vaccines exist against that one... It's recommended to get it in the South of Germany if you're at risk of having ticks. There are a few hundred cases every year.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
As a German citizen, that's a feature, not a bug.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
How exactly is moving the mining operation thousands of kilometres out to sea and thousands of metres below the surface going to increase transparency? I don't follow.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
How do I do that with GitHub pages? In my case (glowing-bear.org), I'd like to tell Cloudflare to accept valid certificates for glowing-bear.github.io (or * .github.io) because that's the origin certificate. But I haven't fou
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
We have the same issue with Glowing Bear ( https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear ). It's a web frontend for an IRC client (WeeChat) that connects directly to WeeChat via WebSockets. Sort of like self-hosted i
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
"RAII is associated most prominently with C++ where it originated" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAII )
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
You're allowed to go as fast as you safely can on some of our roads, but even on those the flow of traffic is maybe at 130-140 km/h (80-90 mph). Sustaining 200km/h in a car is very hard (extreme focus is required) and quite
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
No you don't. As someone who lives in a country with functioning high speed rail and who uses it regularly, let me tell you how it works here: You go to the train station, which is in the city centre. You use a subway, tram or bicycle
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
There's a vast amount of results for shortest-path search on graphs that look like road networks. This was of course motivated by the application to route planning. If you're looking for a starting point, the literature list at h
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Don't count out sample-sort just yet, it lends itself to parallelisation very well and is blazingly fast. See https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.02257 (to be presented at ESA in September) for an in-place parallel impleme
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
To illustrate the point about branch misprediction, I implemented quicksort with intentionally skewed pivot selection. You can see the results here: https://github.com/lorenzhs/quicksort-pivot-imbalance For this demo I
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Well they're not going to ask "Is the seat between Mr and Mrs Jones all right?", there's no need to expose the name to you when you ask to be placed between people with the same last name.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
That doesn't match up with the tagline " An improved version of HyperLogLog for the count-distinct problem, approximating the number of distinct elements in a multiset using 20-50% less space than other usual HyperLogLog implement
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Then wouldn't it be useful to add two columns for space used?
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
He wasn't just a member of the NSDAP, he also joined the SS. He's on the record suggesting the use of forced labour of concentration camp prisoners to build his rockets. That's at least an 8/10 on the Nazi scale. Don&#x2
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I don't understand what the result table measures. What are the numbers and what is the " Exact " column?

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