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by vages 6y ago
I thought the article never really stated in cleartext (sic) what Omnisec's actual misdeed was. Have I gotten it right?: - Omnisec sold devices it claimed would encrypt stuff. - The company was really just the CIA. - Omnisec's dev
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by vages 6y ago
Oslo has been actively limiting the expansion of the city into its surrounding green areas since 1934: https://oslobyleksikon.no/index.php/Markagrensen (link in Norwegian, translated: https://translate.googl
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by vages 6y ago
While this is great, my analysis of the problem, as a European, is that you can't remove water from a sinking ship with a teaspoon: the main problem with the US political "spectrum" is that it contains only two colors. In Nor
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by vages 6y ago
I have to respectfully disagree. It is common for leaders to re-state their entity's reason for being as they bring bad news. See Churchill's speeches during the battle of France, for instance. I think this opening was well-writte
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by vages 6y ago
I would say that the ability to recognize true novelty is hard to train without experiencing a fair amount of repetition.
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by vages 6y ago
Why isn't there a mechanism for hiding spoilers in your comments? I came to the comments to check whether my guess was right (it wasn't), and I'm very glad for the spoiler.
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by vages 6y ago
Yes, it's not exponential. The sound level is inversely proportional to the square of the distance.
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by vages 6y ago
The essay "The political aspects of full employment" by Michal Kalicki https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/05/political-aspects-of-full...
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by vages 6y ago
Assuming that continued economic growth takes place (a safe assumption; the so-called third world countries are growing at a fast pace), the net economic result could still be positive. Here's a quote from Nick Bostrom from the Wikiped
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by vages 6y ago
The link does not work.
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by vages 6y ago
That, or a prettier-ignore comment above the JSX tag. I find your solution more elegant, though. My two cents: Write the comment's purpose inside it. "// Comment inserted to force prettier line break until more attribute
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by vages 6y ago
For those who haven't seen Aldrin punching a conspiracy theorist in the face: https://youtu.be/jc7gsdonMHw
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by vages 6y ago
But Google has millions of unpaid workers that could do part of the job: Recaptcha users. I'm only half joking. If parts of the process can be outsourced in a responsible manner, I can't see why Google wouldn't.
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by vages 7y ago
Laughed out loud here. But I still think there's more to the original argument: If someone takes this argument at face value, they may conclude that Roman society was a modern capitalistic one, with sponsorships for athletes, celebriti
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by vages 7y ago
You shouldn't use Show HN in the title of it's not something you've made. But a cool find!
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by vages 7y ago
Norway, where I live, has enacted laws banning inaccessible websites (with the exception of websites made by individuals). https://medium.com/confrere/its-illegal-to-have-an-inaccessi... The law has been well-received
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by vages 7y ago
Depends on how you count: https://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq-how-many-english-wo... Also, there are several everyday situations in which the English language has fewer nuances than the Scandinavian. "Flere&
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by vages 7y ago
Perhaps it's special because it's a mobile app, and the only way to get the functionality is to have it included? I don't use Android, but there's no add-ons on the IOS version.
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by vages 7y ago
Sounds like a clever marketing scheme from Opta.
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by vages 7y ago
I would guess that depends on whether the change affects the HTML. If it's only a CSS change, you could probably get away with redeploying the CSS file.
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by vages 7y ago
By alien (as in the article’s headline, do the authors limit their claim to “from another star”, or do they actually mean that some other intelligence constructed it?
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by vages 7y ago
Made the same observation! And the rolling patterns are better if they go from in the pinkie-to-index direction than the other way around. An example of how Halmak does not take this into account is how the h and t keys are placed. It immed
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by vages 7y ago
Was also surprised by the machine learning twist. A good read, with a promising ending for new research.
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by vages 7y ago
Europe got a really bad wrap in this picture. My guess is that it's the result of a bad automatic vectorization of a raster picture. But I think that a missing NZ would stick out like a sore thumb to New Zealanders. Just like the Fenno
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by vages 7y ago
Cool! That looked like an extensive program. I studied at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and my partially self-chosen courses covered most of it too. I think we may differ on what we mean by "should". I don&#x
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by vages 7y ago
Could you point me to the website of a school which makes you check all the boxes just by attending?
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by vages 7y ago
Is there anyone who ever knew all of this when they graduated? I think maybe the top student through my five years at university might have known all of this. I sure as hell did not check all the boxes when I graduated two years ago. If you
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by vages 7y ago
CHANGE MY MIND: I find no moral justification for using this, even if you can't afford Spotify's paid alternative.
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by vages 7y ago
Given infinite time and computing power, yes.

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