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by polytely 6y ago
>Wait... This doesn't scare anybody? Not particularly, the UK has just concluded their approval of this vaccine and the EU and US are also reviewing it, so if there is something wrong they will most likely find it. There are enough
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by polytely 6y ago
It is of vital importance that the majority of people feel safe taking the vaccine, because you need herd immunity. If people have doubts that it has been correctly vetted they will be reluctant to get vaccinated which makes the whole inves
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by polytely 6y ago
From what I remember from the news yesterday the EMA will be done with the evaluation (if they don't find anything that causes concern) by the end of the month, so they aren't that far off
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by polytely 6y ago
Oh I didn't know he had a twitch, thanks for sharing!
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by polytely 6y ago
I always like to do some puzzles but it takes me quite long to solve them, so far I've burned out after a couple of days every year I've tried it. This year I'm going to try to use Elixir, a language I've started learnin
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by polytely 6y ago
>the state is throwing money at it like crazy. which state? this article is about europe as a whole? >No taxes on EVs. Subsidies to the tune of 10000€. Per private purchase. There are certain types of lower end EV (like Renault Zoe) t
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by polytely 6y ago
Or topple the trees and cover them with something that blocks air but which the next layer can be planted atop of? Seems like an extremely difficult problem.
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by polytely 6y ago
Call of Duty is even more egregious because they took something which has been called a US war crime (Highway of Death) and used a fictionalized version of it in the game but made the Russians do it instead of the Americans. https:/&#
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by polytely 6y ago
If you have cancer, like the author has, you might not be around to receive the money once the lengthy process finally ends. And there is the fact that Disney has for all intents and purposes infinite money to spend on a case, while I suspe
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by polytely 6y ago
Yeah I haven't had any big troubles with git since reading that text, it's very good.
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by polytely 6y ago
I think the best thing you can do for yourself as a git user is to learn what things are easily to reverse, what things are hard to reverse and what things are irreversible. In general as long as you have a clean remote you can fuck around
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by polytely 6y ago
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but I think things that are required for the functioning of the program/device/service are exempt
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by polytely 6y ago
Then you should probably refrain from posting here as it is a core value of hackernews culture.
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by polytely 6y ago
Just for peoples information, Able Gamers is a wonderful charity that advocates for accessible games. It is led by https://twitter.com/stevenspohn and is really doing amazing in this area. Literally 4 hours ago they hosted
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by polytely 6y ago
I'm not American, so I don't really care about missing half the country.
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by polytely 6y ago
They're more diverse than my IRL friends. It feels pretty diverse to me, I follow multiple types of communist and anarchists, some climate and privacy advocates, general progressives and even some more centrist EU people and a ton of p
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by polytely 6y ago
I'm getting a lot of value out of Mastodon. I found a medium sized instance who's moderator I trust, and whose culture matches matches what I want out of a social media website. Not having posts algorithmically shoved into your fa
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by polytely 6y ago
At least in the skeuo era you could tell where the buttons were.
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by polytely 6y ago
I think the term is signifiers, I think coined by Don Norman (The Design of Everyday things), basically every object has affordances (the things you can do with it) and signifiers are the thing that communicate these affordances to the user
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by polytely 6y ago
But I thought that was the whole point of Uber, to replace their workers with AI right? I'm guessing they now are just going to attempt to partner with one of the winners of the self-driven-horse-race, but I'm thinking that if you
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by polytely 6y ago
This is such a good episode, would highly recommend this to any hackernews reader.
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by polytely 6y ago
Exactly, or like Philip K Dick's UBIK, where the protagonist has to pay his door before it lets him trough. “The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorr
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by polytely 6y ago
Just download Podcast Addict, and subscribe to your favourite podcasts.
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by polytely 6y ago
Well that seems to be more of a problem of current gen hardware not being able to keep up with the requirements of the game. I hope that the ps5 and xbox series x(?)(microsofts naming scheme keeps confusing me) faster memory will make it so
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by polytely 6y ago
Not an expert at all but this contradicts everything else I've seen on the subject, could you support your claims? I thought there recently were advances in superconductors that would enable way smaller reactor designs?[0] [0]: Dr. Den
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by polytely 6y ago
Why is this completely free? What is the catch?
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by polytely 6y ago
See IggleSniggle's comment above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24944816 I would recommend Outer Wilds (2019) for a game that displays a real advance in gameplay mechanics. There is alot of exciting stuff happeni
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by polytely 6y ago
For a really cool explainer about the human-wolf relationship in North America I highly recommend this video from The Brain Scoop, the YouTube channel of The Field Museum in Chicago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA-QINoEE
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by polytely 6y ago
I wonder if this is something that is going wrong in my brain lol. I have a hard time remembering when exactly things happened (to figure out in what year I started school I basically have to walk backwards through my memories keeping track
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It took a huge flood to mobilize the political will to spend a fuckton of money on flood prevention.* I feel like the problem with climate change is that by the time the effects get so bad that everyone will be on board to actually put a si

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