teractiveodular

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by teractiveodular 2y ago
It's basically impossible for Google to open-source anything built in house, because it all relies heavily on Borg and various other proprietary tools and libraries that don't exist outside the Googleplex. Pebble, on the other han
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
In developed countries it's not quite that straightforward, but "his" plane will be owned by Totally Not Musk LLC, not Musk himself, so any putative drugs on it are not his problem. In developing countries, anything goes. I&#
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
The degree of ideological doublethink here is bizarre. As far as I can tell: - Crypto is good - Fiat currency is bad - Except the US dollar, which is good - So US-dollar backed stablecoins are also good - But we can't have the Fed oper
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
CBDC = Central Bank Digital Currency. Can we edit the title accordingly?
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Shanghai mulls plan to bypass Great Firewall to woo more foreign investment(scmp.com)
1 points by teractiveodular 2y ago|0 comments
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
I've spoken on the phone with humans in Google support. (You, too, can do this, just pay them enough.) However, they called me after I filed a support case and specifically requested a call, and they started off by mentioning the n
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Previously on HN: "Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid" 475 points, 845 comments, 42 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41996156
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Black kitchen utensil health risk revisited after scientists discover error(abc.net.au)
3 points by teractiveodular 2y ago|2 comments
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Fiber was not killed in the cities where it had already launched. What's new is that they're expanding again.
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Any examples you'd care to point out? All the high-profile Google shutdowns I can think of either failed in the marketplace (Stadia, Plus) or were successful but not making money (Reader, Hangouts).
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
> Stay within the cloud provider's ecosystem as much as possible, including for domain registration and DNS Alas, if you follow this advice to mitigate this particular risk, you're completely hosed if your cloud account get
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
North Korea was the rich, industrialized half of the country, South Korea was poorer and extensively damaged by the Korean War. The fact that the South is now 10x richer and way better on any measurable metric tells you all you need to know
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Vaclav Havel has a few things to say about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless
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Russia Slashes Engine Production as Domestic Airliner Production Flounders(simpleflying.com)
5 points by teractiveodular 2y ago|1 comments
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Then plug in another AI that maps the cartoons back to deepfakes of the original players, and the circle of life is complete.
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Or, you know, stop building in places that are pretty much guaranteed to be destroyed.
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
The Rolling Stone article claims that insurance companies are currently not required to disclose their math, and are fighting tooth and nail against being required to share it.
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
This article presents a very interesting contrast to the article and discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42732728 , which basically asserts that insurance companies are not to blame and some places are actuall
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
As the 173 million strong population of Bangladesh can attest, they can and do live in such places. "Each year, on average, 31,000 square kilometres (12,000 sq mi) (around 21% of the country) is flooded. During severe floods the affec
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
The last one is stage separation, not an explosion. You can clearly see the "exploded" rocket continuing to fly afterwards.
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Google has been extremely clear that Workspace/Cloud customer data is firewalled off and never fed back into the machine. If you're claiming this has changed, can you point me to the source?
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
That would absolutely happen if China invaded Taiwan and the US stood by twiddling its fingers. Remember, Sweden and Finland were staunchly against NATO membership until Russia invaded Ukraine.
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Yes? North Korea's own nuclear capability is very limited, and China doesn't care enough about North Korea to use its own arsenal and risk nuclear annihilation. I still wouldn't want to be in Seoul or Tokyo if that happens th
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
There's one important factor this experiment is not controlling for: inventory. If user A gets deep enough into the purchase flow, the hotel will place a hold on their room for 10 or so minutes, and that room will not be available when
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Fun fact: there was a cafe at the Parkes visitor centre, inevitably called "The Dish". https://maps.app.goo.gl/xe5Udu4HPkrt7hqL6
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Interestingly enough, the Fukushima exclusion zone has roads that pretty much fit the bill. They're the pink lines on this map (PDF), with the exclusion zone in gray: https://www.meti.go.jp/english/earthquake/
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Would you have a source for this?
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Good luck getting commie blocks pushed through planning approvals today. NIMBYs in general are violently against any kind of public housing.
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Sleeping rough has always been rare in Finland for the simple reason that it gets down to -20 quite often in winter. Freezing to death is not an uncommon fate for alcoholics.
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Nuclear fuel is needed only in comparatively tiny quantities and can be sourced from friendly suppliers like Australia.

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