pintxo

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   by pintxo 5y ago

   Take your next vacation at the sea, watch ships approaching the Harbour not just growing in size but also appearing to rise up from the water. Voilà
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   by pintxo 5y ago

   Bringing the ideas of packet based networking to the world of train based container freight seems really promising. Question is will the gain in time and cost efficiency (by having each container move individually more or less fully automat
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   by pintxo 5y ago

   Have you every see postident used by any Government service? I'd say the German government's solution is to just not offer any digital services in the first place. /s In reality, they have some things moving, but too little,
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   by pintxo 5y ago

   Care to elaborate?
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   by pintxo 5y ago

   While the mainframe is arguably still a success (after all, they still run an amazing number of core services in our society: banks, air-traffic, governmental stuff, ... [1]), it's hard to find any evidence for a successful Watson proj
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   by pintxo 5y ago

   funny enough, you just described paper money. a) they have a serial number making each unique b) they are purposefully designed to make it easy to identify forgeries
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   by pintxo 5y ago

   Could someone try to explain to me what "keep our digital identities sealed" even means?
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   by pintxo 5y ago

   whats preventing you today to be anonymous on the internet?
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   by pintxo 5y ago

   your "slightly" is a 30% difference ...
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    Is it hate thou? Or some variant of FOMO? - Politicians are regularly lining their pockets - (Big) business is stretching the law beyond reasonable doubt - those influencers get a bigger house|car|pool|party just from looking I am not sure
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    You mean [1]? [1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2950/compiz-alike-win...
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    > “What use would a carpenter have for biology?” asked Krill Well, he might be able to understand why vaccination may be useful for him. Shouldn't we at least aspire to provide everyone with the basic knowledge needed to make inform
13. 433.▲
    by pintxo 5y ago

    Lots of phone numbers start with a zero, converting string to numbers will most likely change the phone number by removing the information of the leading zero. Doing this in js will store it as base 8. Neither will make anyone happy.
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    It probably did, 25 years ago
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    I would replace "comfort" with "perception" but otherwise I agree.
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    Bad companies can sell good products and vice-versa.
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    Would be interesting to know if Tesla counts lane departure prevention caused by driver-distracted-by-touchscreen across the fleet to showcase the safety of its car, while in reality it's the lack of safety introduced by the touchscree
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    If you want to add another level of complexity, add (non-overlapping) labels to your boxes and arrows ...
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    More targeted towards the patient herself, but pretty much what you described: https://ada.com/
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    Looks like their home base is nearby. So maybe not too surprising? https://www.google.com/maps?ll=38.730306,-93.547864&z=12&t=h...
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    Get-there-itis is a real problem.
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    Not to under-report German atrocities during the war, but Katyn was a Soviet atrocity [1]. As a side note, at the 70th anniversary in 2010, large parts of the polish political establishment died on their way to the ceremony at the site of t
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    Absolutely, the point of L3 systems is to move the legal liability from the driver to the car maker. Else there would be no benefit, would it? As long as I have full responsibility and have to be fully aware of the situation I might as well
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    That's head on. People adjust their behaviour to the one they see in their peers, including public figures. This is quite likely a slow moving change going on unnoticed for decades, until it crosses a threshold were it starts to become
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    Thanks for writing down what I lacked the time to do.
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    I understood this as hydrogen from methane is todays method of choice to generate hydrogen for industrial use. Not as proposal for the future.
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    > that our DNA can tell us about the environments our genetic ancestors lived in. It‘s afaik not the DNA transporting the information, but epigenetics. Eg everything around the DNA deciding what parts to read/ignore.
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    We need a browser plugin for this.
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    Not sure about the drapes. After all, there are lots of them in Europe.
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    by pintxo 5y ago

    These windows work wonderfully with screens. Every window in my EU home has a screen. Why would they not? There are even fancy versions with screens that can be rolled up if needed. Edit: Here's an example [1] -- [1] https:/&#x2F