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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> > Note that IQ tests correlate with SAT scores! IQ tests (of which there are a ton) are regularly calibrated, internationally comparable (there are some reasonably culturally neutral test protocols) and stable while SAT is a US-only
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Computer Therapist
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
In larger corporations it may not be 100% finalized where you would end up. Knowing that yes, you master compilers (that's usually quickly determined, potentially fast enough for you not to notice it since you live and breath compilers
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> the highest electricity prices in EU The renewable parts of that is bound to go down: As part of the push to renewables, when spinning up capacity, you get prices guaranteed for 20 years. The different to market rates is spread across
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Having worked in the odd megacorp (and those tend to run the show), "efficient use of resources" isn't the first thing that comes to my mind when it comes to the private sector.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
The difference is that the subsidies for renewables had the purpose of propping up reshaping the power supply system, are time limited (20 years of life time, rates are locked in when the system is brought up, rates were falling over time)
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Not part of any "X eyes" arrangement, but at least some parties within Switzerland are strongly engaged in partnering with foreign secret services, apparently without any consequences by the Swiss state: https://en.wiki
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Announcing coreboot 4.9(blogs.coreboot.org)
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
"Fun" fact.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Google should help develop WebAssembly vs just creating a Chrome only solution The people who can do Google Earth Flybys might not be the same that could implement WebAssembly Threading, even though they work at the same company.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Germany just "just": "In the past, [Merkel] and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas have both called for individual EU countries’ seats on the UNSC to be “europeanized.”" > requested "proposed" > that France
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/propo...
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> youtube will be the only one able to comply with the laws A properly decentralized system can comply with the laws as well: you know what you put up, so there is a filter - it's just in meat space.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
The Go community was rather forthcoming to what AlphaGo brought, because it provided new insights to a field that some of them study quasi-religiously. Let's see how pharmaceutical companies are dealing with that, or the next fields De
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Google is almost certainly using canvas fingerprinting Since that's a client side mechanism it should be rather simple to find out, no? (eg. an addon that injects tracking into the DOM accessors necessary to get at the canvas)
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Just compare the fines for VW in Europe and the US. The fines for VW were at the country level, and besides the usual protectionism going on (one of the German states holds a blocking minority in VW by law, go figure) Germany also has
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
The search engine investigations seem to be an American tech proxy war, too: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/02/28/google-sti... indicates that one of the bigger complainants is the Fairsearc
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
The construction is also optimized for amateur builders. You can get wonderfully built artisan furniture, but it won't be as robust against abuse as IKEA stuff generally is.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
The European Economic Community was founded in 1957, following in the ECSC's footsteps (ECSC was later merged into the EEC). In 1993, the EEC was renamed to European Community and merged into the EU. So there's direct lineage back
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
playing tricks as in not routing the extra lines
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> regarding the health effects of diesel vs petrol There's a known solution to sort out the SO2 emission, but it would cost a bit more. The problem isn't pushing diesel over petrol, the problem is letting the car vendors cheat
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
"can't connect to database"
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> especially with changing networks like mobile In particular QUIC contains everything necessary to continue connections after the client's IP address (any one side really, but the other side has to find it) changes, which is helpfu
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> because they're not spending their wealth and time raising the next generation Adoption (providing care for children that are already there), education (providing a better future for children that are not your own), foreign aid (p
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
The consent emails are evidence that people in charge were mindlessly following some rules given by some consultants. Not all of them were necessary, and some of them might be harmful to those sending them down the road: if they had a valid
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
If all 7.5 billion people want to live in the prosperity of upper-middle class US or North-Western Europe, that may be a problem: either because they get it (and the planet becomes inhospitable for mankind) or because there will be conflict
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Is it that the consumers don't know they're illegal Apparently it's a hard problem to solve. Prostitution is legal in Germany, but still far from "accepted" as regular work. There are attempts at having the wor
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Back then, if you wanted to develop a program for a Commodore 64, you bought a Commodore 64. For testing, yes. To protect their sanity, developers of big projects developed their code using rented CPU minutes on a mainframe. Maybe appl
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Establishing hubs elsewhere would be good for the rest of the country, too. For example in the coal mining regions that fear getting the short end of the stick in the transition to renewable energy. Compared to the situation in the US (&quo
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Come to think of it, why no campuses in Italy or Spain? already done: https://www.campus.co/madrid/en The space in Berlin would have been part of the same setup, not a regular Google office - there's already

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