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China to scrap Covid quarantine rule for inbound travellers(reuters.com)
1 points by petodo 4y ago|1 comments
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by petodo 4y ago
I'm still waiting for Matrix client with local SMS support, but seems Matrix client devs are not interested in people who liked Signal for SMS support. I don't care about RCS, MMS or whatever, all I need are simple text messages (
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by petodo 4y ago
Consume less energy than you burn. Works for me for decades, my BMI is around 20.0. If it starts going up I just limit the intake (obviously I use for reference my weight in kg from my scale, instead calculating BMI each time). Other than t
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by petodo 4y ago
You can create new account without email or any other verification, so it's not really that big deal if your account was completely banned (worst case you will lose your favorites and upvotes history). You will just lose downvoting fea
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Death in the clouds: The problem with Everest’s 200 bodies (2015)(bbc.com)
1 points by petodo 4y ago|0 comments
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by petodo 4y ago
https://archive.vn/oSfA4
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China Downgraded Covid from 'Devil' Virus to a Common Cold(bloomberg.com)
9 points by petodo 4y ago|1 comments
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by petodo 4y ago
I don't really understand why did you expect different result? The vast majority of startups fail, the odds are against you. I could understand trying once, but try two more times and be surprised by result? But maybe there is somethin
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by petodo 4y ago
The most common color would be color of family car since school buses are rarely used in most of the world and even in some of those countries in linked article like China seeing yellow school bus is rarity and in rural areas is much more c
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by petodo 4y ago
that's hour or two longer than it takes to adjust saturation to 0 on display device, even just setting up encoding software takes longer, so it's waste of time what's the benefit of doing this? you waste your time and you los
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by petodo 4y ago
Why even use Handbrake and not just turn saturation on your TV/display to zero? Seems much faster solution and you can decide whether you wanna color or B&W option with same video file.
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by petodo 4y ago
What are general rules about front yards over there? Is it illegal to put up 2-3m high wall right at the sidewalk? Additionally you could add roof to extend rainproof area. I wonder about this since I come from European country where front
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by petodo 4y ago
It neither really is in Europe, you have right to quiet between 22-06, but that's pretty much it. The poster defending blanket bans is German. Germany is one of those countries with excessive regulations and would be one of my last opt
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by petodo 4y ago
> No, because working from home doesn't cause negative externalities imposed upon the neighbors - quite the other way around, the fact you're working from home reduces the impact of commuting. You didn't say anything about
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by petodo 4y ago
So you essentially say work from home should be banned, because that's also "running a commercial operation in a residential zone". If you have problem with noise or chemicals I can understand your concerns, but certainly not
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by petodo 4y ago
For context - bride "kidnapping" on wedding day is also wedding tradition in many European countries, though it's just pretend of course. And the "real" kidnapping is not just Kyrgyzstan thing, but plenty other coun
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by petodo 4y ago
not 8 dollars, SIM cards are basically for free in countries with botnets, heck even in relatively developed Czechia I can get sim card for free
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by petodo 4y ago
What does it offer over Neocities? How is it monetized?
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by petodo 4y ago
If I reject additional cookies I will get Stop sign Do not enter and cookie bar won't disappear (seems it disappears after next answer). So this is basically vocabulary game what word you can make up from 3 shown letters and it's
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by petodo 4y ago
Yeah I used hckrnews before Serializer, but top10/20 has too little content and top 50% or all too much, I find chronological Serializer very mild filtering better plus Serialized allows syncing across devices (smartphone/desktop)
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by petodo 4y ago
I think that's regular limit for everyone and has nothing to do with server overload, I'd appreciate if HN was clear about these comments time limits (and whether they are also related to your karma/score), by my years long e
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by petodo 4y ago
That's quite clickbaity headline without saying WHY, article doesn't really provide some statistical explanation, closest (non-anecdotal) explanation I could find is: > “The language barrier and the lack of consecutive holidays
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by petodo 4y ago
not really surprising regarding travel considering both these countries are infamous for lack of paid vacation, meanwhile in many (most?) European countries you have 4-5 weeks paid vacation per year by law, in China you will be lucky to hav
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by petodo 4y ago
nice work, I wouldn't mind if this was HN redesign (especially like uncensored comments section), though it still doesn't fix obvious issue with useless HN homepage which is brigaded/manipulated, so one has to resort to alter
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by petodo 4y ago
Zenfone looks good only on paper - horrible shutter speed (main disadvantage of Samsung), unreliable hardware compared to other brands, unoptimized software and no long updates guaranteed plus they ask more for it than Samsung with trade in
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by petodo 4y ago
I'm on Android since 2011, but reasons I'd go for iphone would be phone dimensions, consistent photo quality and long updates Android seems to fixed only one of them (updates) while becoming more and more locked as iOS, quality ph
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Apk.sh is a Bash script that makes reverse engineering Android apps easier(github.com)
401 points by petodo 4y ago|88 comments
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by petodo 4y ago
Same experience here, back in 90s my decent leather branded sneakers (Adidas/Nike) could cost easily in my country like 1/4th of minimum wage, now you can buy same brands similar quality models for like 1/12th of minimum wage
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by petodo 4y ago
I have Lidl model of police station, roughly 1000 pieces and they fit perfectly exactly same as original Lego for like 1/5th of price in discount so some insane tolerance at Lego sounds to me only like someone trying to justify their p
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by petodo 4y ago
I didn't even know Hot wheels existed up until few years ago, while I played with Matchbox in late 80s or early 90s as European kid, they seem to have better marketing/distribution here in Europe, you can find them displayed promi

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