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by netrus 4y ago
Right or wrong, it is fair to assume many will cast their vote without doing the reading in such a system. Speaking from a German perspective, I sometimes think how inefficient it is to count 60M votes - just counting 1M votes will give you
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by netrus 4y ago
More importantly: Gas-to-power. This summer, for some time we were using more gas than in previous years, because there was not enough wind blowing for power generation. Blackouts must be prevented, so we will use it for power generation if
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by netrus 4y ago
They give it to a third party - other chrome users. I was once in a train, and location services located me in a suburb hundreds of km away - clearly I was traveling with someone living there, using a portable/mobile hotspot. These kin
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by netrus 4y ago
The Street View cars log information about wifi access points, and use wifi data from your device to guess your location.
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by netrus 4y ago
For example, they now know that the CC number they purchased in bulk is authentic.
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by netrus 4y ago
The portraits are usually based on the first nice looking picture in the Google Image search. In Morten's case they appear to have mirrored it :)
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by netrus 4y ago
Let's assume there were 150 "cancer treatment breakthrough" stories in that time (about "every other month"). Then it is a reasonable guess that any "cancer treatment breakthrough" improves survival rate b
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by netrus 4y ago
Yes, but it is an unfortunate selection of data, as excess death due to Covid in the EU mostly happened in two waves, non of which extended to July. But I don't want to downplay the impact of heat waves, they death spike associated wit
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by netrus 4y ago
The Agent-based modelling community has some accessible, fun overlap of biology and CS.
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by netrus 4y ago
This picture put it into perspective for me [0]. We use most of the Earth's dry surface to feed ... What ever that picture shows. Disclaimer: I did not check their math, but it is in the right ball park. [0] https://www.redd
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by netrus 4y ago
To save everyone one Google search: [1]. It is/was apparently not clear if the guy was masturbating or being assaulted - that's the point of the story. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90or%C4%91e_Martino
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by netrus 4y ago
Sure, but the rule not to print naked adults might be useful and necessary to enforce a rule of "don't bring your amateur porn to this shop, please". Which I think is a reasonable request. Some might not be bothered, but the
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by netrus 4y ago
A very nice idea to use named colors to choose where the cube is transparent - much more interesting than just displaying a grid of dots or similar. Thanks for sharing!
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by netrus 4y ago
A bit off-topic, but I feel like Wiktionary is a hidden champion on the internet. Some time ago I noticed that I use Wiktionary more often than Wikipedia these days. I am not an expert in the space, but I get the impression that it's c
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by netrus 4y ago
From my quick reading, it's a penalty, so it's not necessarily supposed to be a compensation, but a deterrent. So I guess the answer is that the money goes to "everyone", which is fine in my book (otherwise you have all
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by netrus 4y ago
It's not a good headline. Not the emoji cost the texter money, but acting in bad faith [according to the ruling]. If you mislead the counterparty during a negotiation by using emojis --- you are still misleading the counterparty.
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by netrus 4y ago
Yes! > This is also why secondhand goods in general are so cheap, and things like furniture may even have negative net value because they cost more to move than they are worth. On the German equivalent to Craigs' List - Ebay Kleinan
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by netrus 5y ago
The "How" is removed automatically on HN, if I remember correctly. I never understood how that is helpful. Maybe it is to "disarm" Buzzfeed-like "How to ..." headlines, but more often than not it just creates (
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by netrus 5y ago
I have no insights in how they use that money, but I sure hope they have not spent it already on 300 SF developer years, but rather treat it as an endowment. In the long run - spending 1-5 million every year, investing the rest - it shouldn
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by netrus 5y ago
Gell-Mann amnesia.
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by netrus 5y ago
Do you think most people who post publicly on the internet would agree if asked? I think most people would like to have a choice to make old stuff disappear. If most people think so, THAT should be the rule. You might not like that and argu
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by netrus 5y ago
In addition to that, usually for animation movies they do the voices first and make the animation to match. For comedy headliners, one might be able to recognize the actor from animated facial expressions, timing etc. I am in no position to
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by netrus 5y ago
The technically interesting thing is the automatic generation of the "bones", something the Disney solution does not do - they make you draw your character within a predefined grid.
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by netrus 5y ago
What I never understand: Why do they not put a sticker with an unique ID on the items (or require the seller to do so, with occasional compliance checks)? That way they could match customer complaints to the company that delivered the item,
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by netrus 5y ago
If you cannot sell the leather, the meat will have to become more expensive (same cost to raise the animal, additional cost for discarding the skin, less income). If meat is more expensive, less will be bought, shrinking the meat market.
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by netrus 5y ago
If there is traffic, that means that your spot behind the cyclist will immediately be replaced by another car. If everyone acts like that, the biker caries a bubble of faster-than-average cars with them. Hardly ideal. I propose a different
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by netrus 5y ago
Is it this one? https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1983/07/their-will-be-d... (Asides: My first impulse to find the article was archive.org, but after that failed, Google delivered on the first try!)
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by netrus 5y ago
I think some European countries are on the right path: the tax money is not gone, just distribute it equally (as the externalities of emissions hurt everyone in the same way), and the poor will be fine. If only we could roll out such a sche
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by netrus 5y ago
> (when climate change was arguably worse since there was no dent in emissions by lockdowns) I am not an expert on any of this, but my understanding is that climate change is dependent on the TOTAL level of CO2 in the atmosphere, not the
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by netrus 5y ago
On the other hand, why shouldn't NSA and CIA be invested 100% in pushing back on these attacks already? The potential harm from this vector is obviously gigantic, so why wait for a really significant attack to happen?

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