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by vages 5y ago
Me too! Thanks for posting the URL. Surprised that this complaint isn't voted higher up (currently). One of the things that make HN discussions better than in most places is the unofficial requirement to read more than just the headlin
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by vages 5y ago
“People’s World, Continuing The Daily Worker”. I never thought I would see a Marxist newspaper at the top of Hacker News: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_World At least Marxists by definition have been at it
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by vages 5y ago
Dying before you grow old enough to get cancer does the trick. Remember to reproduce before that.
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by vages 5y ago
The article mentions Moj. It does not present it as a very popular alternative, though, if that’s why you still mentioned it.
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by vages 5y ago
I don't think that it's very likely, simply because that would be too much of a breaking change: React's strength lies in its huge ecosystem, and they'd throw that away by changing the framework's fundamental buildi
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by vages 5y ago
Any well run company will reduce its emissions if it’s cost effective, independent of whether the cost of pollution has been neutralised by a tax break.
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by vages 5y ago
I agree with you, but the reality of Norwegian politics is that people react better to all-out bans than taxes, because bans are perceived as affecting all people equally, no matter their income. Taxes are perceived as affecting people with
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by vages 5y ago
Of course; should have been obvious. Perhaps there is a greater reliance on scripts in the new version, but this makes it seem more likely that they've abandoned the Tor version.
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by vages 5y ago
I tested this, and you're right: Their Tor service runs the (in my opinion nearly as usable) older version. It's plausible that Proton does not care about their Tor service, but there may be another reason: The new version relies
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by vages 5y ago
I got nine of them right. SPOILERS BELOW I got most of them by looking at either landscapes or color palettes. In some cases, certain characters were actually visible in the collage. Wizard of Oz, Ghost Busters, Fear and Loathing in Las Veg
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by vages 5y ago
The HN policy is to repeat the headline without any changes. You will have to contact Apple about it, as the original headline omits US as well.
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by vages 5y ago
When I bought my jeans from H&M, I would sometimes find blue dust on things I kept in my pocket. After switching to a brand that uses higher quality cotton (Nudie Jeans), I have never experienced this. Durable cotton has longer fibres s
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by vages 5y ago
All the features you mention are already addressed in the original post as planned future developments. Knowing that they are planned makes me put my trust more in Ente than in Mega (which I use as an alternative to Dropbox and am very sati
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by vages 5y ago
The TVs track the content you’re watching by sampling a subset of the pixels. So yes.
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by vages 5y ago
If you are more interested in what this actually is rather than how to configure it, drop the “/getting-started”, just https://www.facebook.com/facebook-wifi
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by vages 5y ago
Reader mode did not work on Firefox mobile, because each character appeared on a new line. Probably something to do with the programming.
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by vages 5y ago
Australia has a lower vaccination rate than most other western countries, having ordered fewer vaccines early. Australia is experiencing a surge of cases, yes.
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by vages 5y ago
According to Norwegian consumer research, people who save those ten dollars usually spend them on something else (like a travel or another product), so the environmental gain from buying used stuff is not a lot. Unless people are willing to
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by vages 5y ago
I don't agree with his/her outlook, but I don't think "don't buy it" is a valid counterargument Alice: "Don't work for Foo vineyard. Foo vineyard puts poison in the wine that people buy without them k
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by vages 5y ago
Perhaps it’s just a side effect of some other system in the plant, like an electrical pulse to communicate “the way this branch is growing has little/much sunlight”.
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by vages 5y ago
I can’t answer for Europe as a whole, because European police is not federalised or centralised in any way. There is a multilateral Europol. My guess is that in countries with a recent history of war but now a more stable state (some Easter
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by vages 5y ago
I think that’s to avoid the Streisand effect: Trying to have information removed often brings more attention to the information you want removed.
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by vages 5y ago
> “Signal has not complied with the guidelines. Services like iMessage do not fall under the traceability clause since the significant social media intermediaries in the nature of messaging services have to comply,” said an official, req
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by vages 5y ago
It's got very pretty pictures, so that's very understandable! Have you been able to find out if he understands any of the abstract concepts that are explained, or is he mostly interested in the character interactions?
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by vages 5y ago
Most of the books have been low-key attempts from programmer parents, probably to get their own children into programming. They were posted on different forums, and I have a hard time finding my way back to them. The example that I think il
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by vages 5y ago
I've seen a lot of these children's books about technical topics. Is there any record of an actual child reading any of them? And, as children do with good books: reading them more than once? (Excluding children in the author&#x27
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by vages 5y ago
After reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and its many examples of how optimistic psychological studies have been misused by the ad industry to make better ads, I can’t help but think about how this may fall into the same category. T
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by vages 5y ago
In the Wikipedia article on "Lunch atop a skyscraper", there is a section about the process they went through to attribute the photo to Charles Ebbets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper#Aut
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by vages 5y ago
It’s a Long Now Foundation thing: in order for us to have a longer perspective on time, we should prefix years with 0
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by vages 5y ago
Works worse when the store closes because you don’t buy stuff there.

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