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by vages 5y ago
That’s very interesting! Taking this to the extreme, he should only browse the web on a small phone sized screen too, as most users are mobile. I don’t think I’ll ever take this to heart, but I do turn on CPU and network throttling from tim
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Where in the world is it easiest to get rich? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by vages 5y ago|0 comments
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by vages 5y ago
Has anyone else noticed the thin black bar across the top of the HN pages today? I think it may be because of this.
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by vages 5y ago
I get the technical justification for doing this: You own your player, so you should be able to control it in whatever way you want. But as consumers, how do we expect the uploader to get paid for their work if we use both Adblock and Spons
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by vages 5y ago
I see a lot of links to the Tom Scott video in this thread, but I found this one from Atomic Frontier more informative: https://youtu.be/-Kq1D6FS7LM
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by vages 5y ago
If you search for the word “encrypt” in this document, you’ll see that they are against Facebook end-to-end encrypting messenger: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/default/files/what-w... I don’t t
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by vages 5y ago
I’ve thought about this since last year, and I can’t understand how this proposal has been able to survive this long. First of all, the EU is very pro-business, which means it should be pro-encryption. Second, the structures of its governin
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by vages 6y ago
Greenland is an autonomous region within Denmark, a Nato and EU member: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland There hasn't been a political coup within the Nordic countries during the last 50 years, and I'm
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RFC 1: Host Software (1969)(tools.ietf.org)
72 points by vages 6y ago|11 comments
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by vages 6y ago
I think the lack of distractions on a dos computer may be another inadvertent advantage of using an old computer. Even more so than we non-authors may think. Cal Newport’s blog has many interesting stories about writers retreat’s. This seem
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by vages 6y ago
As I said, many people are pressed for time when they shop for groceries. If physical staff could help reduce the stress of shopping, I still see a market for physical stores the next 20 years (longer than that is anybody’s guess).
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by vages 6y ago
The crux of the article, summarised by its two final sentences: > That, however, is one of the reasons I spend so much time working on recommender systems. There is always an algorithm. The default one promotes rage, controversy and misi
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by vages 6y ago
There will be a market for both automated and manned grocery stores in the future. Until we have developed artificial general intelligence, I wouldn't trust a computer to recommend a cheese to with a certain kind of crackers. In stores
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by vages 6y ago
“Naysayers”? Technologies do not prove themselves in a court of opinion. They prove themselves in the field. Critics are essential to any emerging technology; their criticism gives us a chance to fix its weaknesses. That being said, The Par
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by vages 6y ago
I don't think that's true. In the areas in which "bring your own client" is the standard ("text editors / IDE, RSS readers, email clients, web browsers" to cite the article), there is a seemingly greater d
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by vages 6y ago
A lot of the comments on this page seem dismissive of Gates. While I'm sure he's not the the smartest guy in the room on every subject, I suspect his knowledge about energy, farming and medicine to be superior to almost anyone out
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by vages 6y ago
No. Translation is not easy. I speak Norwegian. There are about five million language users. The Norwegian median wage is perhaps the highest in the world, possibly the top fifth, so there is a lot of pull to have Norwegian users. But only
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by vages 6y ago
Good on you! That sounds surprisingly modern compared to what I've heard about for example online banking in France from people who were exchange students there. From what I've heard, you have to show up physically for most bank s
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by vages 6y ago
Same thing for me! "That's a third of my salary!"[1] But after getting a master's degree for free from the government and looking forward to free health care, kindergarten and cheap public transport for the rest of my li
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by vages 6y ago
Great! Do you have an example of a form from your home country (assuming you don't live in the US)?
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by vages 6y ago
Related fun (and sad) fact: In Norway, the tax submission forms are online and so user friendly that you don't need a tax filing program like this. Edit: Here is a link to an explanation for the form, in English, which was revamped in
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by vages 6y ago
You are thinking about the volume. As another replier said, two interfering frequencies produce an interference wave equal to their difference, so you can't have supersonic waves from something only capable of producing 20kHz sound
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by vages 6y ago
These "peaks" should all be within what you are able to hear, because there's no reason for having the headset produce cancelling waves with supersonic frequencies. If you want to worry about sudden sounds, there are probably
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by vages 6y ago
What is the hypothesis here? Do these earplugs have some hidden power compared to other Bluetooth headsets that gives people tinnitus?
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by vages 6y ago
He commented on this in the "What about `gap`?" info box. I want to add that gap does not work well when you want different gaps between different items; then you have to whip out margins again.
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by vages 6y ago
The all-plugins page works fine for me, and is no Shell script: https://asdf-vm.com/#/plugins-all
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by vages 6y ago
My team is using this, and I have no complaints about it.
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by vages 6y ago
I can't seem to stream this in my country, and the entire series is not available on physical media. Ten years ago, I would have been able to buy this show on physical media from abroad. Now, if no streaming provider purchased the tele
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by vages 6y ago
In Oslo, Norway, I prefer Foodora to Wolt. Foodora's workers unionized and went on strike about a year ago in order to have sick leave. Meanwhile, Wolt hires their cyclists as independent consultants, circumventing the Norwegian labor
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by vages 6y ago
This seems like the complete opposite of this post, which was on the front page yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25232989

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