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by piokoch 5y ago
Exactly, burning biomass (there are huge corn fields in Poland that end up as biomass in Germany, economy of this is crazy and has zero positive effect on the environment). The most ridiculous part is that Germany is questioning "green
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by piokoch 5y ago
I am very curios about this laptop thickness topic. I understand that going from 3 cm laptop to 2 cm is a noticeable difference and might have some practical effects. I can believe that 3cm laptop does not fit the bag well, but 2cm does. Bu
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by piokoch 5y ago
Yes, Cristal looks like a very clean and well designed language... The problem is that being an impressive language is not enough these days. First, tooling is needed, especially good IDE. Nobody is going to memorize names of all the method
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by piokoch 5y ago
Looks like writing of someone who does not "get" the game. It is a bit like people who are asking why offside is needed in soccer. If you play with your friends on a beach, surely, does not make much sense, but in a real game on a
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by piokoch 5y ago
"completely useless war", this is true for people living in Afghanistan. From the military perspective ability to test equipment, tactics, soldier's skills in a very difficult territory, without risking too many casulties is
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by piokoch 5y ago
Yes, clearly everyone is preparing for the inevitable - one way or the other China will finally get some control over Taiwan. Military-wise China is almost ready to be able to take over Taiwan by force (don't get fooled by the numbers
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by piokoch 5y ago
Really clicks are so important these days? This article proves nothing except that dangerous catastrophe can happen. People don't even realize how potentially dangerous is gasoline station a few blocks away or fertilizers magazine just
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by piokoch 5y ago
Welcome to the reality. People don't want to freeze in their houses. People will gladly listen to the talks how renewable energy sources are good for our planet, they will even go on "climate strike" marches... until temperat
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by piokoch 5y ago
Not a big surprise. Transition to CO2 emission-free economy will be very, very costly. This is just the beginning. People don't realize this yet, one day they will connect the dots and will be angry - they were promised a better World,
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by piokoch 5y ago
Maybe same method could be applied to solving leetcode puzzles for job interview...
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by piokoch 5y ago
Huh, information in https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html are, delicately speaking, disturbing. One thing surprised me as well: "Firefox barely exists on phones, with a market share of less than half a percent. This is
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by piokoch 5y ago
"Burning a gallon of gasoline releases almost 10 kgs of CO2 into the atmosphere" I am not sure I understand the math here. 1 gallon of gasoline weights about 5kg, so how is that 10 kg of CO2 are released? Looks like mass will not
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by piokoch 5y ago
Yup, this ruling looks strange. Why Tesla has to pay because some morons were telling racist jokes? I think this guy should sue those who were offending him, not the company. I guess many people think that the law has been stretched here to
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by piokoch 5y ago
For me this is the most shocking: " the case was only able to move forward because Diaz had not signed one of Tesla’s mandatory arbitration agreements which the company uses to force employees to resolve disputes without a public trial
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by piokoch 5y ago
How could you cut off City of London Corp from international financial circuits. Or the Netherlands, which is one big tax paradise even though it may seem it is not. Luxembourg? Don't think that tax heavens are some remote, distant isl
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by piokoch 5y ago
Someone who works as a delivery guy needs to drive a car a lot, such person would have to pay big climate dividend. Is that ok? Probably not. Taxation is a road to nowhere as rich people will always either find the way to avoid taxes or fin
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by piokoch 5y ago
Phew, this at least spot some real issue (in some cases System.out.println can make multi-threaded program to get "synchronized" on console acces). At some point I came across a tool (I think it was white source) that was going th
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by piokoch 5y ago
Looking at the comments people try to solve a problem that has a simple solution. We don't need to discuss if a given person post, comment should be reported or if FB should follow the report, etc. We have a simple solution, let FB&#x2
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by piokoch 5y ago
That's not only Apple, other companies (like Microsoft) were eating their customers, who were providing service that followed their business line. On the one hand, this is not pretty, on the other hand, this was happening, happens and
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by piokoch 5y ago
I have to say I am impressed by Amazon spokesperson Rachael Lighty that she is able to produce the comment like this: "We’re committed to giving our employees the resources they need to be successful, creating time for regular breaks a
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by piokoch 5y ago
Yup, this is exactly the issue here. Lower CO2 emission, etc. is lower in developed countries because they have off-shored their production. Less developed country (like post-communistic Eastern and Central Europe countries) cannot do that,
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by piokoch 5y ago
World with basic income might create a class of people, who will demand to increase it (because why not, people who are not working and will be given some money for this will have a lot of time to organize themselves in some kind of strange
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by piokoch 5y ago
Good luck posting your doubts about Covid vaccination results on Twitter, FB or YT. You will not even notice how fast your wrongthinking will be detected and removed.
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by piokoch 5y ago
Maybe they are just not interested what their users are writing about unless they don't break the law. Sounds like the shocker these days, but as I understand this is Gab business model. "Spreading misinformation" about the e
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by piokoch 5y ago
"shifting of images" So much truth, not once I was trying to click on some image that had link underneath, and it suddenly moved to some other place and I ended clicking something different.
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by piokoch 5y ago
First it will be to catch those pesky pedophiles. And terrorists, they fell out of fashion recently, but let's not forget about them. Then, obviously, we need to cut hate speech, homophobia, transgenderphobia, antifeminism, racism and
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by piokoch 5y ago
QuiteRSS is such a great example of the software from the past. Not an Electron app, it runs blazing fast, does the right thing in an expected way and does not try to be anything more (like some AI that is "curating" feeds or trie
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by piokoch 5y ago
When I have encountered for the first time ML term I decided to learn what is that new great stuff. To my great surprise this was a typical old new thing called "statistical inference" in the days when I was working as a statistic
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by piokoch 5y ago
"just getting a working PHP environment up and running was complicated enough" Hah, that was one of the biggest strength of PHP stack - it was not complicated; on you MS Windows machine it was enough to install some wammp/xam
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by piokoch 5y ago
The second quote resonates well with the old Joel Spolsky blog post "Fire and Motion" [1]. Chasing new technologies is something your huge competitors want, you keep adopting XML databases, Corba (in the olden days), NoSQL just a

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