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Fairphone 3+(fairphone.com)
6 points by vincvinc 6y ago|0 comments
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by vincvinc 6y ago
Hey, I see you've struck a nerve with some people - even talking about the idea of an independent Hong Kong will send your comment to the absolute bottom. Have my upvote.
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The implications of silent transmission for the control of Covid-19 outbreaks(pnas.org)
1 points by vincvinc 6y ago|0 comments
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by vincvinc 6y ago
I see my post going up and down, it's a true roller coaster, haha.
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by vincvinc 6y ago
I know this is not on many people's radar right now, but I strongly believe the rise of Xi's authoritarian nationalism is the biggest story of this century (after global warming). And this is our generation's "Berlin wa
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by vincvinc 6y ago
Curious if the FT fails to mention this one very important fact that the Guardian mentions, or if you left it out: > OneWeb filed for bankruptcy in March in the US, where most of its operations are located, after failing to secure new fu
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by vincvinc 6y ago
At first I was rolling my eyes at your comment, but then I realized that I believe there generally should be more pushback from consumers in open societies against these kind of lies that companies are forced to repeat. Let's make it m
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by vincvinc 6y ago
> There was an experiment back in 1890 where someone wore glasses made with mirrors in them to flip their vision. After about 8 days, they could see just fine with them on. Schience youtuber Kurtis Baute did this as well: his video &quot
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by vincvinc 6y ago
I put my markdown files in a Dropbox folder, so I can use apps like 1writer on iOS. Syncs well and works like a charm! Whenever I have an interesting thought, I get my phone, open 1writer, it creates a new [timestamp].md file, and I just jo
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What we've been buying during lockdown(ft.com)
2 points by vincvinc 6y ago|1 comments
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by vincvinc 6y ago
1) How come this one app in particular seems to permeate all the media I consume (even though there is no way to try the app out right now)? In the same week, several podcasts and friends recommended it to me, and now HN. Kudos to whoever o
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by vincvinc 6y ago
Soft deletion violates the GDPR. Read article 17: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/ And previous HN discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16366050
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by vincvinc 7y ago
I do most of my thinking and planning on Trello boards. It almost feels like a part of my brain. Ever since Trello was acquired by Atlassian, I've been planning to replace it - in the long term - waiting for signals that Atlassian is d
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by vincvinc 7y ago
You're talking about Huginn, right? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21772610
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by vincvinc 7y ago
This is a big hit for journalism about China. A lot of very good quality reporting on (among others) Xinjiang came from these people. We will all be much less informed about China in the future. The subtle shift in confidence that this acti
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by vincvinc 7y ago
Good idea! I've worked before on trying to come up with a good intermediate representation for these kind of purposes... Linguistic theories are only partially helpful here. Want to have a chat? I really think there is a future in this
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by vincvinc 7y ago
I was totally expecting this to be a "antidote for the upcoming US elections that I want nothing to do with" list, like I have: elections trump warren clinton republican democrat bernie biden gender male fe
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by vincvinc 7y ago
Little known fact: this project is used widely by journalists who can't code (at The New York Times, among others) to do a variety of tasks, like eg. monitoring web pages like Trump's policy position, scraping press releases or f
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Negative Emissions: The chronic complexity of carbon capture(economist.com)
4 points by vincvinc 7y ago|1 comments
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Takeaways from the Leaked Files on China’s Mass Detention of Muslims(nytimes.com)
18 points by vincvinc 7y ago|2 comments
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by vincvinc 7y ago
Why was this comment was marked dead? I am "vouch"ing it for now because I have read Wang Enlin's story a long time ago, and though a cool story, I have doubts about this version of the story by the Independent to be a good r
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by vincvinc 7y ago
Which host country? People on HN might be inclined to help.
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Families of missing Uighurs use Tiktok video app to publicise China detentions(theguardian.com)
2 points by vincvinc 7y ago|0 comments
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The Post-Truth Publication Where Chinese Students in America Get Their News(newyorker.com)
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Chinese troops must stay off the streets of Hong Kong(economist.com)
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The simple reason America is the only rich country with frequent mass shootings(economist.com)
6 points by vincvinc 7y ago|4 comments
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Brazil has the power to save the Amazon rainforest, or destroy it(economist.com)
165 points by vincvinc 7y ago|137 comments
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Brian Leung, the Only Face of Protest in Hong Kong(popula.com)
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by vincvinc 7y ago
Not to be glib, but... that uncomfortable feeling you get when reading about this kind of stuff? This is exactly why the GDPR was written into law in the EU.
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by vincvinc 7y ago
The real nugget in here is their solution for dealing with fake news spreading on private social networks: it needs a centralized list just like with email’s spam problem! > Back in the early 2000s we, the Internet community, convinced e

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