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by w-m 6y ago
There were limits like this already in place in Germany. Rent could only be increased every 12 months, and for Berlin, I believe, no more than 15% total in 3 years. It didn’t help much. Landlords could circumvent it in many ways: by offerin
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by w-m 6y ago
Not to get too greedy, but maybe do the 21 year old “Use native context menus on Mac OS” next? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34572
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by w-m 6y ago
It's not unique to Pixar. Many stories and so many films follow the Hero's journey: a common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transform
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by w-m 6y ago
Voting with your wallet is not the way to go when there are actual lives involved. As a consumer, I should absolutely not have to keep up to date with what airline buys which airplane models, and which airplane models are considered safe. T
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by w-m 6y ago
The comment is too old, I can no longer edit it. I’m sorry that you were disturbed. I did not feel it needed a warning label when posting, as the video shows neither cruelty, nor did I consider it particularly gory. But I guess I could have
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by w-m 6y ago
https://youtu.be/sAMotY8CJkQ (6 views at time of posting it here)
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by w-m 6y ago
And you don’t even need to build a network! Same results can be achieved by using multi threading on a single instance.. https://youtu.be/AnQdP03iYIo
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Being bilingual makes swearing easier(theguardian.com)
49 points by w-m 6y ago|49 comments
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by w-m 6y ago
And we know from the bible that π = 3, so in effect π = ∞. This should simplify many things that people have agonized over!
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by w-m 6y ago
I mean it's clearly a joke, but... Why not? A new standard, great idea! Just a reminder to everyone, try this out in production!
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by w-m 6y ago
In this case there was plenty time to consider how to apply for compensation: in the 2 hours flying back the way we came, in the hour waiting for the luggage, in the three hours in the line with the other passengers to be booked on another
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by w-m 6y ago
A couple of years ago I was on a flight from Paris to Newark. Having had left Ireland behind us already (after maybe 2 hours of flight time), the pilot told us that the air condition in the crew rest wasn't working, so the crew was una
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by w-m 6y ago
Wow, the M1 MBP is on par with the 12-core Mac Pro from 2019 for the WebKit compilation. And even more impressive: "After a single build of WebKit, the M1 MacBook Pro had a massive 91% of its battery left. I tried multiple tests here a
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by w-m 6y ago
Some games (not sure if all) on the Oculus Quest use fixed foveated rendering, no gaze tracking. If you look to the side of the display, you can notice the rendering getting blocky. If you search for it, you can make out a border from sharp
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by w-m 6y ago
Solid-state batteries have officially left the lab, "Mercedes-Benz’s newest electric city bus uses solid-state batteries": https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/09/mercedes-benzs-newest-e...
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by w-m 6y ago
But this starting price can be had only if you book way in advance. If you hop on the train from Berlin to Munich today, it will set you back between 93€ and 135€.
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VW introduces ID.4 electric SUV with 250 miles of range and a $40k price tag(theverge.com)
12 points by w-m 6y ago|8 comments
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by w-m 6y ago
The issue of notability of different categories of articles will always be a point of contention for online encyclopaedias. That you argue so passionately for the reduction of one category of content (fictional Harry Potter characters), but
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by w-m 6y ago
I don't think it should bother you. It makes perfect sense for Wikipedia to focus on collecting established knowledge. I want my Wikipedia articles to contain the known facts, with citations and proven sources. I do not want theories o
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by w-m 6y ago
You could encode the service_identifier in a pattern of dots around the letters of firstlast for cases where the '+' is not allowed. But that's probably hard to do in a way that's easy to encode on the fly, unless you al
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by w-m 6y ago
I was referring to this argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs Again, I don't think that UBI is feasible as something dropped in this year or the next. But a concept we have to think about for trans
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by w-m 6y ago
I personally would find this much more straightforward: val - (sign(val - max) + 1) / 2 * (val - max) + (sign(min - val) + 1) / 2 * (min - val)
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by w-m 6y ago
I wouldn't see that as rewarding someone, but rather meeting their basic needs. Like Germany already does with health care and unemployment benefits, but doing away with the bureaucratic hassles and penalties, and increasing the money
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by w-m 6y ago
And where exactly is the problem with that?
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by w-m 6y ago
It implies that more puzzle pieces is better, so somebody might sue if they were to get fewer pieces than indicated on the box. But how about suing because you get more pieces than advertised? Having more pieces than what's written on
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by w-m 6y ago
There's some listing of the expenses being done at https://youtu.be/nP2vtDLTAgM?t=412 Listing $1 Taxes $400 Deposit $5,600 Renovations $60,000 Flights $10,000 Earlier they talk about taxes + fees totalli
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by w-m 6y ago
Looking at this plan reminded me of how these plans never convey a sense of scale, and how you have to learn that when exploring the city. The Paris Metro has a similarly looking density of lines and stations: https://upload.wiki
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by w-m 6y ago
I'm not too familiar with day-to-day payments in the US (I'm in Germany), so please enlighten me if I have something wrong here. Is there an actual option I have as a consumer to avoid the fee when buying something? My understandi
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by w-m 6y ago
Interchange fees on personal credit cards have been capped to 0.3% in the EU (in a law from 2015). As a result, there are no 1-2% cash back options for cards to keep track of or any other silliness, you can just use your credit card as a me
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by w-m 6y ago
As far as I understand, you would need to send everybody who might have been in contact with someone who's positive into quarantine, right away. You can also test them, but you need to quarantine them immediately, as the virus is trans

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