princekolt

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by princekolt 8y ago
Why do people defend large corporations so intensively?
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by princekolt 8y ago
I think the only hope would be pushing more people to drop Chrome and start using different browsers. This would reduce the leverage Google has to bully other browsers to follow them. This might sound impossible today, but 10 years ago we&#
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by princekolt 8y ago
[citation needed]
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by princekolt 8y ago
At least the rail companies are starting to care for their websites nowadays, at least in Europe. In Spain I've heard the running insult-joke when some other fellow programmer will ask you about your experience only to get back to you
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by princekolt 8y ago
I took that diesel ICE in 2008. It blew my mind as well. Another thing I noticed about that train is that it seemed to have discrete gears. I don't know if that's true but my impression was that the train would accelerate and chan
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by princekolt 8y ago
He wanted to show how little product was actually applied to the skin.
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by princekolt 8y ago
What did you expect them to do? If the product really works the reporter can't just say "uh I can't really see it".
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by princekolt 8y ago
Oh we had plenty of those where I grew up in Brazil. Usually they were supposed to be hired only by neighborhood associations and to transport only those people that hired them, but effectively they were clandestine bus lines and would pick
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by princekolt 8y ago
> would be to figure out why cities with good public transit / shared transit infrastructure managed to build them Few NIMBYs and a less-car-focused mentality which is typical of the US.
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by princekolt 8y ago
I had never seen this video before, but as soon as I saw the presenter was Terry Jones I was 100% sure it was a joke. Edit: He seems to be particularly interested in making penguin jokes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k1c
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by princekolt 8y ago
That's effectively how tax brackets work in several countries that have a null tax rate for people in the lowest income bracket. So only after you reach the next bracket you start paying any income tax.
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by princekolt 8y ago
> My phone keeps trying to use wifi rather than connecting to my cellular network. This already exists and it's called "Wi-Fi Assist". It's disabled by default but you can enable it by scrolling all the way down in th
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Büsingen am Hochrhein(en.wikipedia.org)
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by princekolt 8y ago
Maybe the fact it was developed specifically for Macs has something to do with it.
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by princekolt 8y ago
> Having full-time software experts running the show turned out to be crucial. Previous incarnations of the project didn’t have a technical leader at the MTA—just old-school senior managers who would try to wrangle the contractors by for
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by princekolt 8y ago
Isn’t it the whole point of smartphone cameras that you don’t need to be a professional photographer to take good pictures?
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by princekolt 8y ago
The detection, maybe. The translation, on the other hand, is most likely done in a server.
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by princekolt 8y ago
Okay so after reading the article, and thinking about this for a while, I get the following out of this debacle: The issue here is that SaaS providers are building tools on top of MongoDB that effectively add functionality, instead of modif
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by princekolt 8y ago
There is nothing weird about that. It's just Kohnen Station. They even have a website[1]. [1]: https://www.awi.de/en/expedition/stations/kohnen-station.htm...
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by princekolt 8y ago
> It's difficult to tell exactly how big the iceberg is from the photo, but experts said it was probably more than 1.6km (1 mile) across. This is mind-blowing. I'm trying to picture the scale of that thing, and realized a small
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by princekolt 8y ago
As someone who has moved out of their home country, and that barely speaks their native language anymore, I can kind of picture this happening to me. I've literally forgotten things about the language I've spoken all my life after
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by princekolt 8y ago
To be fair the local people seem pretty close-minded about the origins of Gunung Padang. The local scientific community insists most of it is natural, and that because they found later evidence of less advanced technology, it is then imposs
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by princekolt 8y ago
For your benefit, tipping is not as big a thing in other countries as it is in the US. For example, in Brazil it is regulated by consumer protection laws and you can either tip 10% or nothing, and this tip can only be added in places with t
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by princekolt 8y ago
The closer you get to the bleeding edge of the technology industry, the more detached you get from "real life", generally.
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by princekolt 8y ago
No one knows for sure. However it's good to have alternative models to look into if the observational data you eventually get (in this case from the EHT) doesn't match precisely with the mainstream model.
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by princekolt 8y ago
I mean, you can always hack the hardware. As long as you don't short-circuit anything, disabling the microphone should be trivial.
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by princekolt 8y ago
> DoNotPay is the brainchild of Joshua Browder, who initially created it to dispute the dozens of parking tickets he was racking up when he was 18. Ah yes, let's make it even easier to flood the already overloaded legal system with
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by princekolt 8y ago
The telemetry does seem to get "stuck" during the explosion.
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by princekolt 8y ago
There seems to be justification though. If a "news" website is constantly publishing stories that are objectively false, or based on some factual event but distorted beyond any verifiable aspect, then Google has the right (and I&#
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by princekolt 8y ago
Because using a 3rd party design you have to ask or guess what each chip does, and they might not want to tell you everything for IP reasons. When you create your own board, you know what every little chip and trace does exactly, and it&#x2

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