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by pluma 9y ago
tl;dr: stainless steel reacts with the stuff that makes onions, garlic and fish smell, thereby neutralising that particular odor. So scrubbing yourself with stainless steel can replace soap but not deodorant. Unless you're literally ru
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by pluma 9y ago
This is obviously a consequence of the clever tax avoidance schemes companies like Facebook have used to minimise local revenue. Fining an international corporation based on the local revenue is pointless when the corporation can shift numb
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by pluma 9y ago
Google is religiously avoiding doing things that don't scale. Just like hiring people to do customer support for their products, paying content providers doesn't scale. Why bother paying Getty if it means you'll have to pay o
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by pluma 9y ago
TBH even when I see a chatbox that isn't a bot (aside the automated greeting) I assume it's a minimum wage tech support drone in some low cost country. Especially when they have a cliché American name ("Dave", "John
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by pluma 9y ago
If memory serves well, this wasn't ever possible on mobile devices in the first place. Countless times I've googled an image of something I want to show someone, found a result, clicked on it to zoom in (because the image search r
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by pluma 9y ago
It doesn't seem like dgraph has an official Node driver, I think?
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Performance Benchmark 2018 – MongoDB, PostgreSQL, OrientDB, Neo4j and ArangoDB(arangodb.com)
155 points by pluma 9y ago|114 comments
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by pluma 9y ago
In the US? Probably.
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by pluma 9y ago
That's an argument for more timezones, not less.
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by pluma 9y ago
Mfw you act surprised because your airline is selling pictures of your dirty laundry because you clearly consented by giving them your luggage.
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by pluma 9y ago
The difference is that under German law merely having access to the data doesn't mean you can use that data. This isn't really a novel concept to anyone that's ever heard of an NDA.
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by pluma 9y ago
I ran into this problem as well and in the end added a separate field for the normalized (lowercase) form with a uniqueness check on that. Users would still be presented the original case and it would be preserved when sending e-mails but f
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by pluma 9y ago
None. Why should it?
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by pluma 9y ago
https://qntm.org/abolish Mandatory read every time this comes up.
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by pluma 9y ago
That's why I mentioned idols. Japanese girl bands especially, but there are also "models" who are real woman with entirely constructed personas. It's superficially similar to the regular "casting" celebrities i
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by pluma 9y ago
He's portrayed as an autistic savant, so I don't find it entirely implausible. There are documented cases of autists showing extremely impressive performances in arithemetic and memorisation, so why not subitizing too?
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by pluma 9y ago
I remember having learned that the maximum is somewhere around 7 for the average person. So most people will easily recognise 1-5 apples, find it slightly harder to recognise 6 and beyond 7 they most likely have to count or split them into
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by pluma 9y ago
I'm not sure whether it's a language/culture thing but Poppy's voice seems really unpleasant to me. It reminds me of Japanese anime characters, more age-play than feminine. The jarringly meditative background music aside
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by pluma 9y ago
I pointed that out (Facebook even took them to court later on). But I remember running into at least two German equivalents that couldn't be based more on Facebook than merely fitting the description of "MySpace but for coeds&quot
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by pluma 9y ago
I can't speak for Finland but to me Uber seems similar to Facebook in many ways (though it currently doesn't seem like Uber is as successful internationally): Taxi apps started out in 2007/2008 according to Wikipedia, most ap
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by pluma 9y ago
Hug of death?
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by pluma 9y ago
That explains a lot. Thank you.
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by pluma 9y ago
Surely "slaves built the pyramids" implies that at least the majority of people involved were slaves. The article inverses that simplified statement, implying the same caveat: at least the majority of people involved weren't
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by pluma 9y ago
While software patents impact every company's long-term survivability, short-term survivability for startups strongly hinges on investors. European investors are more risk averse and investments in Europe tend to be smaller than in the
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by pluma 9y ago
The claim isn't that slaves weren't involved, the claim is that the common knowledge that it was all slaves is wrong. It was widely believed the pyramids were a massive slave operation because obviously people had to be forced to
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by pluma 9y ago
Not sure where you're from but in Germany there are industry standards professionals have to adhere to. Sure, there are sloppy professionals like in any other job too but if they adhere to the industry standards, the result will be pre
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by pluma 9y ago
My personal favourite is "I bought this three years ago and don't have it anymore. I don't remember."
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by pluma 9y ago
Same here: no noticeable lag in Firefox on Ubuntu. I'm guessing Safari on macOS?
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by pluma 9y ago
Sorry if this came across as hyperbolic. I was referencing one of the original comments made by a German far-right politician on Facebook that started the debate about the responsibility of platforms like Facebook in moderating hate speech
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by pluma 9y ago
> I thought we'd settled this decades ago. I must have missed the part in WW2 where the Axis surrendered because Hitler lost a debate with Churchill and all the concentration camps were shut down because the guards realised they wer

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