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by rospaya 9y ago
It's completely true, but the article only considers trains. Some countries ignored their train infrastructure, somewhere it's hard or expensive to build it and Montenegro is both poor and mountainous, making it hard and expensive
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by rospaya 9y ago
This is beautiful. It does one thing and does it perfectly well.
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by rospaya 9y ago
Direct democracy has a lot of conditions that have to be met in order for it to work. Even in Switzerland, which is considered a good example of direct democracy, it produces undemocratic results and practices. In California voters banned c
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by rospaya 9y ago
Reddit and HN are very old school. I made the switch from Usenet to messaging boards and then reddit.
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by rospaya 9y ago
I'm not as old school as Braithwaite but I used to do the same types of reviews for more modern equipment. I remember being half blind after measuring the lightning levels for 8 hours on plasma TV's, losing my mind after finishing
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by rospaya 9y ago
> It's always fun to take a moment, act like a human, and talk to people. I find this very American behaviour. Talking to strangers (unless in a social event) is considered weird and not socially acceptable in large parts of Europe.
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by rospaya 9y ago
In 5 years we're gonna wonder how we got to the point where you can't easily turn off wifi, slowly dumbing down devices for all of us for the sake of your project manager and the like.
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by rospaya 9y ago
Well the first smartphone was prototyped around 1992 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon
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by rospaya 9y ago
Facebook is a huge ecosystem of apps, games, marketing, even direct productivity tools like their Workplace - https://www.facebook.com/workplace .
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by rospaya 9y ago
Ansible is clientless and the easiest orchestration system to setup, which is why I mentioned it, but I only use it in some scenarios like setting up a server for a specific task. Services like the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stac
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by rospaya 9y ago
Transcribe those notes into Ansible and you'll have a one click solution for any new server. Or a thousand of them at once.
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by rospaya 9y ago
Reminds me of something I read on HN the other day, I'm not sure if it's true but one commenter said he got a driver's license without ever actually demonstrating he can drive. If it's true then it's outrageous that
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by rospaya 9y ago
That's a false equivalence that's very popular with European right-wingers.
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by rospaya 9y ago
I come to HN to escape from the "poor Serbian" version of history, not read about it in English instead of Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian. Go back to 4chan.
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by rospaya 9y ago
Excellent page! I suggest adding a filter for continents (where > Europe doesn't work).
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by rospaya 9y ago
This goes hand in hand with the US assesment that the UK military is useful to the states only for its nuclear deterrent, intelligence and special forces. Bond being the latter.
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by rospaya 9y ago
It's almost as if you didn't notice that they guy has no idea about RFC's, postmasters or TCP. The provider is at fault here.
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by rospaya 9y ago
It's almost funny how much your comment is out of touch.
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by rospaya 9y ago
Great excerpt. Except, it ignores the fact that there were smartphones, touchscreens, app stores, MP3's on phones way before the iPhone. It's a very American point of view, since Nokia never made a lot of progress with their smart
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by rospaya 9y ago
> All the cell phone companies had their own proprietary OS. Symbian was used by dozens of manufacturers and came in different flavors. S60 for standard smartphones, S80/90 for communicators, UIQ for touchscreens. Windows Mobile was
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by rospaya 9y ago
Correct, you could swipe to scroll on Microsoft's tablets, or UMPC's as they used to call them.
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by rospaya 9y ago
> So how good are their defense? ~1 week will it take to invade Sweden according to them self... With the help of the militia. That will happen in any case, because the enemy is overwhelmingly stronger and larger. Does that mean they sho
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by rospaya 9y ago
There's no conclusive proof it wasn't spontaneous and in both cases it was legitimate.
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by rospaya 9y ago
> I walked in to a US Apple store Also, only about 20 countries have Apple stores, so that's also limited.
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by rospaya 9y ago
A throwback from the old Pocket PC days. This seems to be written by a nostalgic. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/2005/08/19/ra...
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by rospaya 9y ago
Even smaller bands still sell CD's or at least use Bandcamp.
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by rospaya 9y ago
> the plane is purposefully built around the EU to spread the jobs and buy in from member nations, why not include the US in that too? Four EU countries, soon to be only three. That's not purposefully spread, but the result of histo
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by rospaya 10y ago
Then you're on the wrong subreddits. The ones I like the most are small or medium, have in depth conversations, analysis and interesting content. Or just gifs of cats, which is also something that I need from time to time. You tailor y
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by rospaya 10y ago
I've been reading this thread and it's insane. In technology impaired Croatia since this tax season I don't even have to report any tax returns, everything is completely automatic. "Paying taxes" is a number on my p
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by rospaya 10y ago
Any idea why is the experience this bad? I'm in Europe and never used swipe cards (haven't seen a cheque since I was a kid, not sure they're even used anymore, but I digress) but the experience is really simple and the times

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