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by sgift 7y ago
That only holds true if electric vehicles are (very) different to non-electric vehicles. The jury is still out if that's the case.
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by sgift 7y ago
> Wanna bundle a JVM with your app so your users don't have to worry about the Java runtime? Why would that be the case? > Wanna use JavaFX? You have to jump to Java 11 and hope your dependencies don't fail with module packa
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by sgift 7y ago
That's a rather weak argument, since medicine development is speculative.
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by sgift 7y ago
Nothing funny about it. One makes it clear it's a personal anecdote, the other states that "scientific studies show" - should be easy to show these studies then
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by sgift 7y ago
Even things we think we know very well may be wrong, so having a certain budget for "fringe" subjects which may yield unexpected results is not a bad idea. At the same time it's probably a good idea to assume everything they
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by sgift 7y ago
How do people justify working for any controversial company or authority? If there's one thing humans are good at it's rationalizing bad behavior as good or at least acceptable behavior.
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by sgift 7y ago
ra-di-cal equality. not ra-ci-al equality.
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by sgift 7y ago
If you were not part of the governing minority you got brutally suppressed. If you dared to voice a different opinion you got send into prison for a nice round of torture. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. The invasion of Iraq wa
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by sgift 7y ago
In this case probably that the author removed all files from the repository. But if someone finds a copy: Nothing. It was (as far as I can gather) under an open-source license and people continue to have all the rights associated with that.
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by sgift 7y ago
"Chef is a company and the name of a configuration management tool written in Ruby and Erlang."[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_(software)
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Have you tried it or do you follow the proof by assumption paradigm?
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by sgift 7y ago
> and are forbidden. That's correct - Article 27,4 of the "Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations": The packages constituting the diplomatic bag must bear visible external marks of their character and may contain only d
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Cartridge Printed Circuit Boards(byuu.net)
187 points by sgift 7y ago|42 comments
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by sgift 7y ago
> Do people have a choice to opt out of those services and therefore their corresponding payments? Yes. Move yourself out of the country somewhere else (and in the case of the US give up your citizenship). My go to recommendation here is
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by sgift 7y ago
Probably GDPR related - I always get a decision page when I open NPR which has a link to the text version and one to the normal version (+the "and you accept all our tracking" disclaimer).
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by sgift 7y ago
https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=758989641
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by sgift 7y ago
> they were politely asked to do so and declined for reasons the author is unaware of. So, they refused. That's what that word means.
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by sgift 7y ago
There are libraries abstracting the SIMD calls if that's what you want, e.g. faster ( https://github.com/AdamNiederer/faster ) or simdeez ( https://github.com/jackmott/simdeez ), but these have t
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by sgift 7y ago
> instead, the two posts come off as unsolicited whining which I believe is what is rubbing people the wrong way. They are sound business advice from someone who knows what he talks about (because he has had a successful business for a l
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by sgift 7y ago
> in the past decade have been really successful He makes indie games for 25 years. They feed him and his family. That sounds very successful to me.
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by sgift 7y ago
There's a reason business owners fear unions: They understand fully well that the wide majority of people have a different interest than them and if that majority are allowed to come together and realize that they will ask for things b
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by sgift 7y ago
The important thing is: Picasso knew what to study. Over time art had established a canon of things which helped people to get better at classical arts. Only after he studied that canon in depth and for a long time he could then break int
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by sgift 7y ago
I don't work for DB, thanks for asking ;-) I just did a quick vote with my coworkers who travel by S-Bahn/train every day: Out of all their trips they take one got cancelled or was late this and last week. That's for ten peop
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by sgift 7y ago
I've used the S-Bahn for 20 years (nowadays I can use the U-Bahn) and sure, it has its problems, but you are very, very hyperbolic. Most of the time it works just fine, whether the weather is good or bad. Sometimes the central tunnel i
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by sgift 7y ago
> and they're so wide that they take up the whole lane, preventing you from overtaking them. This is a problem with lanes that are too small. An effect of giving most space to cars and sharing the left-overs between bikes and people
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by sgift 7y ago
Delivering something fast, accurate and under wildly changing conditions in the human body is far more complicated than most people assume. I still remember when I had to be hooked up to an infusion pump for many hours at a time. In theory
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by sgift 7y ago
If the US cancels Chinas bonds the US looses any trust, i.e. everyone has to assume that their bonds are worthless. No sane person/company would lend the US money in that scenario.
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by sgift 7y ago
ABPI - Association of the British pharmaceutical industry. That's not a source, that's propaganda, so we're back to the default: What has been brought up without proof can be dismissed without proof. One reason pharma R&D
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by sgift 7y ago
> Number of Cores on CPUs have also increased. Correct, though number of cores is far harder to use in software than the higher Mhz/Ghz we enjoyed before. Same for GPUs. If you can use them you still enjoy a noticable increase in pe
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by sgift 7y ago
> Moore's law is about the number of transistors on a chip, not about performance. People talking about Moore's law talk about the "more transistors means more performance" aspect. That part hasn't held for a whi

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