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by rospaya 8y ago
No China locations, which is interesting. Are high speed trains dominating their domestic market?
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by rospaya 9y ago
> That's quite breathtaking. "Reducing human population" is a phrase that can only have so many meanings: controlling reproduction, removing access to healthcare, or killing people. There are no other options I'm awar
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by rospaya 9y ago
I see you're Spanish, but it was the same in Croatia. People built houses over a few weeks. In the 70s it was fairly normal to get some friends, call in some favors and build a summer house - illegally of course. The old generation of
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by rospaya 9y ago
> Sharp Zaurus SL5500 Just got flooded by nostalgia. My SL-C760 was a wonderful piece of hardware, and the level of software tweaking is still unmatched. I'm missing hardware keyboards on smartphones very much.
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by rospaya 9y ago
ESA isn't an EU agency, it's independent.
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by rospaya 9y ago
If you think about it, even that's expensive. You need a computer, server, software, installation, times 1200 Supercharger stations (dealerships aren't available in a lot of places). Tesla has only 200k cars on the road. 5 gigabyt
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by rospaya 9y ago
I hate that we've managed to fragment the tech markets again. Various websites I visit have exclusively Spotify or Apple Music playlists embeded, nothing modal that can be imported anywhere else. Those websites will be looked at one da
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by rospaya 9y ago
My point is that those sites don't need to be any more secure than they are. A hobbyist website written in HTML in Notepad with only text and images that can be run on IE 5.0 might not require HTTPS and Google and others might change t
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by rospaya 9y ago
My comment isn't against Let's Encrypt. It's against blacklisting text only sites that don't need HTTPS.
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by rospaya 9y ago
My favorite part of the internet were always the small hobyist websites. The guy that has an encyclopedic database about Grateful Dead trivia, the other guy that collects pictures of plants. Those people are independent, they're not te
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by rospaya 9y ago
Can anyone list any negatives of Let's Encrypt? I've been using it since the start and just can't find any practical downsides.
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by rospaya 9y ago
The Nazis in the article remind me of the political class in Croatia, where I live. Once socialist one party rule collapsed, the whole ruling class divided itself into political parties and participated in the whole political spectrum, like
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by rospaya 9y ago
Russia is in a geographical position where it will always have pretensions on Eastern Europe. Communism was a veneer for imperialism, and if it weren't for NATO and the EU, the same would happen today.
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by rospaya 9y ago
> Did it improve faster than it would have under democratic rule? That wasn't an option for Russia at any point, as it isn't even today.
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by rospaya 9y ago
> I agree that Slack has created an interruptible culture Slack isn't the first chat app used in a workspace, but it is the first one I've used that has tweakable mute settings and filters that can alert me only about things I
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by rospaya 9y ago
Rants like this are commonplace at my "devops" team as well. Docker is being pushed down everyone's throats and next up is Kubernetes.
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by rospaya 9y ago
I had a touchscreen phone that could hold hours of video or hundreds of songs, send instant messages, browse the web, get apps, use WiFi... In 2004. In 2005 you could alreday get GPS, more versatile hardware and better accessories. The much
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by rospaya 9y ago
That's very common in Eastern Europe, and it's mostly tied to nostalgia, not any rational argument. People liked it better because they were younger, you didn't have immigrants, pesky young people and their facebooks. It&#x27
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by rospaya 9y ago
I often read frugal tips and tricks on reddit, and it's phenomenal what you can get in the states for little money. That's not possible in a lot of places in Europe.
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by rospaya 9y ago
> First, because the use of proxy wars is a defining feature of 20th century combat; war in Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Syria is directly linked to great-power conflict. Great powers have interests in every war ever, but when Yugoslavia broke
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by rospaya 9y ago
A lot of people everywhere have a fascination with the US, I wouldn't attribute that to CIA money. Raggare in Sweden comes to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raggare
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by rospaya 9y ago
> I like Japan --I think for a mid-sized country they have done well for themselves Japan is the third or fourth largest economy and the 11th most populous country in the world. Nothing middle about it.
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by rospaya 9y ago
Thanks, but I'm really out of any diversity scope. My company simply doesn't provide enough educational budget, even though we use a lot of your tools at work. I'll try to show up to the next European event.
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by rospaya 9y ago
Love your organization. I was just recommending the Copenhagen conference to my colleagues yesterday, although it's a bit out of our budget. > The real reason to attend a conference is the hallway track. Exactly. Asking a question d
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by rospaya 9y ago
> DevOpsDays I love DevOpsDays. It's a great concept, it's community organized and the one I attended in Amsterdam has been better than any other similar event I attended. There were workshops, open spaces, round tables and tal
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by rospaya 9y ago
Reddit's founders have stated that Aaron's story about his history at reddit isn't truthful so it's no surprise they're snubbing him. Here's a 10 year old thread about various Aaron's claims regarding redd
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by rospaya 9y ago
> If Firefox had an option to open newsgroups, with proper filtering (not just on the overhead headers, but on the HEAD of each message), I would use it all the time, and I believe many thousands of other people would too. Newsgroups wer
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by rospaya 9y ago
Mother Jones did a big private prison story ( http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/08/whats-missing-from-... ). > Conservatively, our prison story cost roughly $350,000. The banner ads that appeared in it b
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by rospaya 9y ago
I would usually agree with you but I live in one of the most corrupted countries in Europe where public money is spent with complete disregard and some public services are crumbling as a result. Over here we pay a lot and don't get nea
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by rospaya 9y ago
Can someone point out what are the major issues for self-driving cars? What are the main things stopping GM/Volvo/Google from deploying a fleet of cars?

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