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by vasco 3mo ago
This makes little sense but I guess they get little traffic so pretty much any database will work for them. If traffic grows they will find problems, then limitations, then move to postgres. And if not it's fine. Story old as time.
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by vasco 3mo ago
I'm sorry but anyone that sees a multi million or billion dollar bill on an account that does nowhere near that should not be scared. It's obviously a mistake. Stories like this have happened with banks in my country. Check your a
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by vasco 3mo ago
> other times it's AWS regions going dark for hours. They have the best uptime of all major cloud providers.
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by vasco 3mo ago
You are misremembering, what it you're referring to is the Target pregnancy prediction score which was advertised a lot in the early 2010s as the way "big data" was going to change the world because they figured pregnant wome
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by vasco 3mo ago
Indeed this is mostly performative by the police because the user would switch apps, turn off the phone screen, or any other easier way as you describe.
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by vasco 3mo ago
So how do you agree? You're saying the opposite they said.
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by vasco 3mo ago
Everyone is always thinking, just many of us not about what we're doing! Sorry
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by vasco 3mo ago
Take battery box, hack it with katana, stuff from inside goes into bucket (and some splashes on you), repeat. Look up videos there's plenty.
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by vasco 3mo ago
Mercurial had by far the best UX, never had to read anything to learn it. I just pretend that I'm using mercurial when using git and nuke local repo if I mess up. Been doing it for my whole career.
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by vasco 3mo ago
If you've ever seen a video of Nigerians "recycling" lead batteries you'd be hard pressed to call it that. Katana in one hand, bucket on the floor, no shoes, let's go.
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by vasco 3mo ago
Great gotcha
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by vasco 3mo ago
I've used that for about 15 years because I live abroad, it's called Google translate.
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by vasco 3mo ago
The need for memes knows no bounds. In short order the majority of power usage worldwide will be for compute and newer generations will wonder how it took so long.
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by vasco 3mo ago
It's not circular! And if it is, it's not a problem! And if it's a problem, it doesn't affect me!
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by vasco 3mo ago
Just because you picked 2 guys it doesn't mean nobody else had any different ideas. What a weird position to have, unless you literally read everything. There's so many theories. You didn't even include religions
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by vasco 3mo ago
> and still nobody has gone beyond Aristotle and Kant in giving anything close to a rigorous definition of life as such You stopped reading after the 1800's? Schrödinger told us life is what feeds on negative entropy and that is pre
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by vasco 3mo ago
Losing is a state of mind
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by vasco 3mo ago
For people that stay inside all day on the computer I can see why
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by vasco 3mo ago
You know those big fields of panels in China? Where do you think they all will end up at the end of 25 years? To talk about nuclear waste is to be intentionally lying, nuclear waste amount generated is TINY.
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by vasco 3mo ago
Maybe on this site but what about all the other ones? ;)
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by vasco 3mo ago
Solar and wind take up a bunch of space and generate a bunch of waste after the panels are decommissioned, plus the wind generators are ruining every single landscape we have. With 5 nuclear stations per country you could cleanup so much of
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by vasco 3mo ago
To a common denominator yes but if you aim for too much breath then you miss out on a lot of good things if you ban until almost everyone is satisfied. And some fads that get popular to ban things I disagree with like when people said viole
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by vasco 3mo ago
Just a few days ago HN assured me nobody ever got injured from fireworks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711981
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by vasco 3mo ago
And nothing happened and zero people got in trouble over it. - Narrator
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by vasco 3mo ago
Similar to this a closed motorcycle helmet without air circulation increases CO2 extremely rapidly, within 60s it's already at really high levels. Open your visor when you stop!
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by vasco 3mo ago
This subthread isn't about what is most valuable to the world. It is about what makes someone take risks. One guy's superficial need for adrenaline might still represent a much bigger internal feeling of "I have to do it&quot
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by vasco 3mo ago
I mean you do firefighting because you like something about it, maybe the feeling of doing something good. So it should be understandable doing something dangerous for some good internal feeling. Your driving feel good feeling is just diffe
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by vasco 3mo ago
A better campaign would be Duty of Local Intelligence. About needing and remembering to use your brain, not demanding to have an AI.
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by vasco 3mo ago
Products need to be sold Ads needed to sell products Social media sells lots of ads around content Content is expensive because you need to revenue share with the people that make it AI makes content for free Ad sales margin goes up Tech co
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by vasco 3mo ago
> Note that this has nothing to do with open source; it's perfectly fine to release the source code for the relevant software. You can even allow for reproducible builds and full auditability if that's what you want The release

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