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by piokoch 7y ago
It is not that WHO is lying, it can be misinformed or just do not know something. Previous global epidemic happened over 100 years ago, so I don't blame them for lack of knowledge. We all have to learn and try new things, so if WHO say
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Prototype of an Open Source Ventilator made using 3D Printer(ventilaid.org)
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by piokoch 7y ago
Strange, I always thought that welfare state enabler were natural resources (like iron ore), the fact they had made through the II World War untouched and hard work of the post-war generation. The association between the flu and that what h
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by piokoch 7y ago
Fun fact. My friend works in a bank. In this bank its account has a factory that produces curtains. Now, curtain in Polish is "firana", and any time those guys are doing a bank transfer it is thrown into some kind of lengthy manua
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by piokoch 7y ago
Note that in Germany registered cause of death is a "first disease", so if someone had a cancer, tuberculosis, heart problems, they are set as a cause of death, even though such person was diagnosed coronavirus and died. This appr
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by piokoch 7y ago
There is a difference between discovery and theory. Discovery of Americas or Mars cannot be "falsified", they are scientific, objective, observable facts. Theory makes always some assumptions that can be invalid under some conditi
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by piokoch 7y ago
Stockpile how? This is typical niche product, nobody assumes this will be needed in huge quantities. There was a post on HN about how difficult is to produce those masks ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22613061 ) and t
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by piokoch 7y ago
That's pretty obvious. Germany has superior industry, yet thanks to Euro they are able to keep prices reasonably low. If Mark was still used, it would have cost 2 USD and others could compete at least in prices. This hurt even more Ita
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by piokoch 7y ago
"quality of life" what's that, that's a question. Does buying new car every 3 years is a condition for a good life quality? New iPhone every 2 years? Pair of shoes/trousers or fashionable t-shirt every month? Maybe
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by piokoch 7y ago
Why? The price of the stocks does not affect company in any way. If the company sales are going down or clients stop coming this is an issue, stock value is important only for those who hold/speculate using them. You company has alread
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by piokoch 7y ago
In Italy more than 300 people die every day, the overall mortality rate is between 3% and 8% this is 10 times more than 0.4%. Even if 50%-75% are asymptomatic, there is still large percentage of critical cases that need ICU treatment and cu
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by piokoch 7y ago
That's not Trump-only propensity. German government has confiscated all 3M masks from 3M European distribution center (obviously they didn't literally confiscated them, they just said that they are the only one who can buy them),
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by piokoch 7y ago
Yeah, unless discounting turns itself into auto-parody, check Udemy - all courses cost $200, but, hey, for new users for only 60 hours there is 95% discount. It doesn't take much time to realize that this discount is always there. What
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by piokoch 7y ago
Why Techcrunch can get away with such obvious GDPR violation. First, by default I am opt-in to being tracked, secondly I don't even have a way to opt-out. I can only say ok or "manage" my permissions, and managing throws me i
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by piokoch 7y ago
No, in "Abrahamic" religions we don't have a "spirit". According to those religions people have immortal soul, which is definitely not a "spirit". The "spirit" thing inside people that might &quo
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by piokoch 7y ago
Maybe it just means that there is a small and vocal community around Clojure - being on HN means that something is interesting for HN community, but it does not translate to wider adoption necessarily. When Clojure was started it didn'
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by piokoch 7y ago
Nowadays (almost) no one will give you post-interview feedback. The risk of being sued for "discrimination" because of whatever made-up reason is just too high. In the World when more and more people belong to unknown 3 months ear
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by piokoch 7y ago
I am wondering how people deal with complicated domain models, I have many objects that have a lot of properties (from 10 to 30), in Clojure I should represent them somehow, probably with maps, the problem is I would have to memorize all th
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by piokoch 7y ago
I think the problem is your "ect.", in recent years number of various minority groups that might feel discriminated has grown and keep growing. You never know what will be next discriminated minority that you might offend and that
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by piokoch 7y ago
Frankly, I don't get that outrage. In Germany democracy is in a strange state, for many years, since 2005, two biggest parties formed "grand coalition", so, in practice, in Germany there was no opposition. Imagine Democrats a
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by piokoch 7y ago
No it is not rejected. This is only about EU parliament building. In fact, I would like facial recognition to be used over there, so we know which EU MP is meeting which lobbyists, for me this is would be a legitimate usecase of such techno
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by piokoch 7y ago
Per GDPR it is not, you can't be banned from something if you does not give you consent. But nobody cares, if you have smart lawyers they can argue that those consents are essential for a given page to work and everything is compliant.
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by piokoch 7y ago
Not really, communists didn't get that right. That was not something they intentionally planned or wanted, this was an accidentally positive byproduct of a "shortage economy". The economy wasn't producing sufficient amou
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by piokoch 7y ago
I don't get this kind way of thinking. We have a proven and tested way of producing electricity without any emission - nuclear power plants. This article even mention it, obviously on the last place in a strange way "and to advanc
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by piokoch 7y ago
Yes and no... For some reason he didn't take reforged Anduril when he started his travel with Frodo. He must have doubts about his abilities, as a wise and practical man he might have been afraid to believe in legends. To believe that
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by piokoch 7y ago
Chinese government might not care too much about this kind of corporate details. Elon & Tesla will simply be kicked off China if he tries to mess with communists censorship rules.
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by piokoch 7y ago
Frankly I don't understand this kind of "calls to action" directed to company X employeese. First of all, it is not like FB employees are pushing people into gas chambers in Dachau, FB usage is not obligatory, what I keep tel
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by piokoch 7y ago
Hmm, no reason to refer to Nazism here, this is Communism in its purest form. On the other hand Communism is just a Nazism twin with a better PR (all those Che t-shirts, etc.).
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by piokoch 7y ago
"Nobody has a hobby of learning by heart the bones in the human body or the law texts on intellectual property;" I don't know anyone who likes learning about bones, but I have actually met a guy, who was really passionate abo
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by piokoch 7y ago
Why not? According to GDPR someone can show up and request (1) fixing personal data (PII) like nickname - this is data accuracy requirement, in fact, according to GDPR Yahoo should do the data accuracy check (for instance send a reminder to

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