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721.
by rmc 10y ago
OSM doesn't need terrain data, since it would be very messy to store. And you can just combine OSM data with SRTM/ASTER/etc data if you want "ground heights"
722.
by rmc 10y ago
There's also the continent/country/state level extracts on Geofabrik: http://download.geofabrik.de/ Or you can use osmosis to cut a file down to any arbitrary area: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org&#
723.
by rmc 10y ago
> How do they figure out the building heights at all then? I don't know how this software does it, but people are tagging "number of floors" for buildings, and you can get a decent estimate of building heights from that
724.
by rmc 10y ago
I presume you mean "Derived Database", which has a share alike (and attribution) requirement in the OSM licence. The other possibility is a "Produced Work" which only has an attribution requirement. Notably a map image g
725.
by rmc 10y ago
In theory the UK is fully metric. In practice isn't not.
726.
by rmc 10y ago
AFAIK US pints for aren't 568ml. Whoever said everything is bigger in America didn't include the beer.
727.
by rmc 10y ago
Counter-example: In the 1980s, Irish workers in a large supermarket refused to handle South African goods because of apartheid https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/africa/how-11-striking...
728.
by rmc 10y ago
In the 1980s, Irish workers in a large supermarket refused to handle South African goods because of apartheid https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/africa/how-11-striking...
729.
by rmc 10y ago
Real Soon Now
730.
by rmc 10y ago
And Threads was based on an optimistic Soviet nuclear attack, i.e. fewer weapons.
731.
by rmc 10y ago
"No right is limitless" I agree. But some want no limits on speech, they want to be able to say any homophobic thing they want, on any forum. And when/if that is banned/removed they complain about free speech.
732.
by rmc 10y ago
> Could you explain what you mean by this? The HN FAQ[1] has the rules/guidelines. e.g.: " Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.". It says guid
733.
by rmc 10y ago
> This more or less means removing all challenging opinions and basically focus on being an echo chamber even more so than reddit. Basically thought-crime policing If you think left groups never disagree with each other, you're sa
734.
by rmc 10y ago
Please suggest how I can hide (say) homophobia.
735.
by rmc 10y ago
HN was delibrately set up to be "what reddit was at the start"
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by rmc 10y ago
That might work if someone is overweight. Now, what if someone posts a message saying "kill urself faggot"
737.
by rmc 10y ago
> I am staggered by the amount of people here who object to Imzy's "Be Nice"-policy on the basis that it limits free speech. It's especially curious, because HN does try to have a free speech uber alles approach. If
738.
by rmc 10y ago
Emoji have been part of Unicode since 1993 (e.g. ️)
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by rmc 10y ago
But surely you want some kind of filter bubble? Otherwise half (?) your webpages/content would be in Chinese, right? So surely you want an "English-language" filter bubble?
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by rmc 10y ago
> What if my parents disapprove of him, cause he's from a "bad part of town"? Or what if your parents disapprove of him because you're male too.
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by rmc 10y ago
> the idea that any of us would want to hide our locations from each other is simply not even a thing. There are plenty of gay kids who need to hide their location from their homophobic parents. Some parents are intensely homo/t
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by rmc 10y ago
What a great way for homophobic parents to keep track of their gay kids and make sure they aren't hanging out at that LGBT centre, or with any LGBT-friendly people!
743.
by rmc 10y ago
Well the Labour party in the UK brought in the National Health System in the late 1940s.
744.
by rmc 10y ago
Has there been an independent third party audit of Uber's internal data security? Or do we just have to take Uber's word on it?
745.
by rmc 10y ago
> but costumers can't take their data back. For a US company, yes. For EU companies, the EU privacy law says you can only use the data for the original purposes, and based on what the person consented to. You can't grab all d
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by rmc 10y ago
Remember: If you're not in the USA, then US law doesn't protect your privacy! And US privacy law is nothing like EU privacy law. Has Uber considered reforming as a European company, under EU data protection law? That would a nice
747.
by rmc 10y ago
Because sometimes people feel free to talk if they are anonymous. By calling the account "throwaway*" it tells people that this person is a regular and delibrately using a pseudonym
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by rmc 10y ago
If they can tell you what to do, and you can't tell them what to do, then yes, you work under a boss.
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by rmc 10y ago
Nothing stopping you doing that.
750.
by rmc 10y ago
That already exists. Just try posting a photo of a female nipple.

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