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by nickserv 2y ago
Off topic, but would be interesting to compare the birthrates in both countries.
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by nickserv 2y ago
It's from a .kr domain, English may not be the author's native tongue. A little confusing I'll admit, had to re-read once, but nothing crazy either.
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by nickserv 3y ago
The Guardian writes $118 million from NASA plus $130 million in private funds. > Nasa contributed $118m to get it off the ground, with Intuitive Machines funding a further $130m
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by nickserv 3y ago
There might be a legal requirement for them to make sure you accept the "I'm 18" dialog before displaying anything.
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by nickserv 3y ago
The idea here is to do things in a sustainable way for the local population. What you're describing is the exact opposite.
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by nickserv 3y ago
Ironically, business rules are often much easier done in a monolith, since they tend to require access to basically the entire database, and have impact across your code base. Not saying it needs to be spaghetti all over the code mind you.
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by nickserv 3y ago
Not sure I understand your point. I do my work, doing development work and managing a small team. Still never work weekends (no phone, no email, no slack), spend time in my garden and just came back from a no-phone vacation. Salary is above
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by nickserv 3y ago
That's probably the real price if you add in the externalities like workplace and environmental regulations which don't apply to Chinese products.
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by nickserv 3y ago
At this point I'll pay a bit more to fly Airbus.
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by nickserv 3y ago
Ah yes, the panspermia making tentacle sex possible hypothesis.
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by nickserv 3y ago
It's not beneficial for working class people: they are more likely to have old, polluting vehicles, and can't afford an extra tax when already dealing with rising living costs. This is in a way very similar to the Gilets Jaunes pr
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by nickserv 3y ago
A flat tax is deeply unfair, it allows those that have the money to do what they want, while limiting those that don't. It's actually doubly unfair, since the rich pollute much more than the poor and even the middle class. Far bet
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by nickserv 3y ago
You cannot subtract 1 directly from 100, so you need to do 1000 + (100 - 10) + (10 - 1) = MXCIX
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by nickserv 3y ago
Yes, but how rigorous? Some chemicals are only toxic when combined with others. Some may require years or even decades of exposure to show signs of toxicity. Some only affect a percentage of the population. Etc etc. The reality is that it&#
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by nickserv 3y ago
More of an archaic pronunciation, although maybe emphasized for comedic effect. Orthography is typically more conservative than pronunciation, so when the language was written down, all letters were pronounced. Comparing cognates can be int
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by nickserv 3y ago
Hamsters breed like rodents, because they are.
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by nickserv 3y ago
Some older (pre 21st century ) motorcycles have a kick starter in addition to the electric one, and it does actually come in handy. On newer bikes if the starter fails or the battery dies you need to unceremoniously push the bike to speed,
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by nickserv 3y ago
If he's been groomed his whole life for running a multi national car company, there's reason to believe he would be better suited than just about anyone.
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by nickserv 3y ago
Flask (or fastAPI more recently) will give you a basic webserver... and that's about it. You'll have to do everything yourself basically. I would not go this route, unless you have no deadlines and want to learn a lot on the way.
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by nickserv 3y ago
There's Carrefour in many countries, but this campaign is only in France.
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by nickserv 3y ago
Depends on the port. It's not like there are two Venices in the world.
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by nickserv 3y ago
This is harder than it seems, there are international treaties that "regulate" (read: de-regulate) what companies can do regardless of the country. Also in many cases a particular city, say Barcelona or Venice, may want to regulat
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by nickserv 3y ago
Consolidation of power has been happening at least since the agricultural revolution 10000 years ago. Doesn't mean we shouldn't try to limit it, and there have been periods of relative equality. Just that it's always going to
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by nickserv 3y ago
Agree with most everything you've said. Just want to point out that IT stuff not working properly is only grudgingly accepted when users are captive. Could be a government service (as in your example), corporate monopoly, or a work man
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by nickserv 3y ago
We've tried GPS trackers, but I think you would need military level precision for it to be of any real use. 10 meters can easily be the difference between your yard and the neighbor's across the street.
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by nickserv 3y ago
https://news.stanford.edu/2016/03/29/pavillion-fracking-wate... https://www.consumerreports.org/water-contamination/how-frac... https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environ
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by nickserv 3y ago
There's a good chance Brexit would not have happened if the vote was done today, simply because of old people dying off (most over 65 voted for, most under 35 voted against). It does look like a lot of climate legislation is facing sim
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by nickserv 3y ago
Building high speed rail is complicated because of land rights, the US is not China where the government can just order people off large swathes of land as needed. Lithium mining is more like the shale oil boom, when the US went from an net
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by nickserv 3y ago
Not sure I understand your point, there will always be runtime checks in any non-trivial application. Typically these will be for things outside of the code, for example: network status, file access, user input, external input (think JSON p
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by nickserv 3y ago
The two are not incompatible. I'll type all class properties and functions, but still use try/except on dict access or function calls.

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