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by robben1234 6y ago
A lot of people aren't interested in discussing linked material and therefore reading it, they just want to have a discussion on the topic of the title.
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by robben1234 7y ago
>In a regular year, influenza in Italy kills 400-500 people Data is literally one query away. >We estimated excess deaths of 7,027, 20,259, 15,801 and 24,981 attributable to influenza epidemics in the 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015&
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by robben1234 7y ago
Our world is filled with viruses, and we have set measures to fight it. I'm afraid Covid2019 might became a reason for another Patriot act, seizing people's rights and freedoms even more.
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by robben1234 7y ago
Mostly it's not the clever code that is the problem, but the way people tend to use it. Instead of covering that clever piece code in a structure with an easy-to-understand interface and a lot of documentation explaining what things al
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by robben1234 7y ago
Other than the legal side that is only relevant to EU and NA countries, there's a practical side of "trespassing". When you enter an abandoned building you take a huge risk. It's called abandoned for a reason - it's
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by robben1234 7y ago
It doesn't matter if it's deliberate action or not, cars do not drive themselves into accidents. The same logic, the car not driver, used for subject of the ban. Ban reckless driving and dangerous behavior. SUV ban won't stop
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by robben1234 7y ago
What's stopping the title sponsor from cooperating with the Tarahumara and making the sandals of their preference just with the sponsor's logo? They could even sell it later in stores.
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by robben1234 7y ago
Taking a picture, of you, or just an `identical` is not why people travel. It's just the most easy way of documenting your visit and a way to have something from that place without actually taking something from that place. Literally t
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by robben1234 7y ago
If people didn't want to visit iconic places they wouldn't be iconic. If you ever went to China, in most cities, not just the most popular ones, if you go to city center where people are used to spend free time, you will find your
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by robben1234 7y ago
I'm a remote contractor. Usually, if my customer wants me to install some tracking software (recording you're present in front of PC, tracking mouse/keyboard activity, etc) I agree only on one term: they need to send me a mac
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by robben1234 7y ago
Long term rentals require much lower level of attention to tenants. If owners are okay with switching from long term to short term and servicing their property, I don't see a problem here. It just means they didn't have an opportu
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by robben1234 7y ago
Good ol' "Cristiano Ronaldo wants to return to Manchester United" every time he wanted a raise from Real Madrid.
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by robben1234 7y ago
Considering how many airlines have max in their fleet it's not a viable tactic
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by robben1234 7y ago
there's a lot of services to look up what aircraft is typically flying the route for the airline you're buying tickets for. Or even simpler route: look up the fleet page before booking.
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by robben1234 7y ago
Mexico and a lot of Latin America countries are packed with US manufacturers cars.
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by robben1234 8y ago
The difference though, Trips app doesn't really allow to manually handle linked stuff. In Inbox you could have moved an email with a PNR from one trip bundle to another and it automatically changed those bundles, as well as bundles in
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by robben1234 8y ago
and yet, having notifications from Keep visible not only on smartphone's push, but actually in mail list, was so useful. I like Keep and unless it's going to be killed like Inbox I'm not switching back to mailing myself, or o
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by robben1234 8y ago
>you had an employers laptop you promised not to unlock for anyone Government laws always will overturn any agreement you had with an employers or some other person or organization. Security theater or not, if a country is being an assho
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by robben1234 8y ago
As a consumer, and Reader and Inbox user, I'd never buy a Google product (Pixel, Home, Fi, etc) I need to rely on in everyday life or use their cloud for hosting anything important. At this point I see all of their products as mayflies
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by robben1234 8y ago
It was meant for to make already needed frequent communication easier between sales (editoral, etc) stuff. When open space is implemented in an office meant for engineers it's killing people. You need silence to be able efficiently foc
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by robben1234 8y ago
How to do data migrations this way? Let's say you have a field for statuses (int) and want to add a new option in the middle of array [(1,a),(2,b),(3,d)] => [(1,a),(2,b),(3,c),(4,d)]. Where do you do Model.objects(status=3).update(s
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by robben1234 8y ago
I can't trust Google. Every time they build something good (Reader, Inbox) eventually they will kill it even despite users clearly opposing the decision. And those are just web pages, here they're denying of ISP whole town which w
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Machine Learning for Everyone: In Simple Words. Yes, Again(vas3k.com)
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by robben1234 8y ago
Go to meetups. Language exchange meetups are the most diverse in terms of what people you meet do for living. Programming meetups let you befriend people from IT circles. On Friday I visited a Mundo Lingo meetup in Buenos Aires and met a lo
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by robben1234 8y ago
Yeah, majority of Hong Kong subway stations has malls on premise. Not sure it's owned by MTR too, but it's there.
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by robben1234 8y ago
Create a group chat with all contacts containing 'ex' in the name/comment. Send 'sup losers' to the chat, leave the chat.
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by robben1234 8y ago
The most annoying thing about TripAdvisor is that they annexed top search results positions for 'sights in city_name'. Their list is automatically generated, has no attractive photos or any description of the places. Usually I use
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by robben1234 8y ago
I'm a Python developer (web back) who occasionally does some fixes on legacy RoR project and I always ask myself why does Ruby needs so much sugar. Also it does not look very consistent to me, but it's probably because I get to pr
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by robben1234 8y ago
I've seen this in my hometown in Ukraine. It has ~20 outsource companies in different sectors and if you're good at doing what you're doing and kind of swapping jobs, there's still a ceiling they wouldn't want to br
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by robben1234 8y ago
As strong as I hate dealing with cash, it can't be dismissed in current society. In many places you don't want to use card as it's sketchy, in many places you don't want to have a log in your bank account (like going to

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