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Why WHO skipped 2 Greek letters to name new variant ‘Omicron’(globalnews.ca)
55 points by woranl 5y ago|94 comments
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by woranl 5y ago
People often say how battery cars are more efficient than fuel cell cars, and we should focus our resources to the former. Some even called fuel cell cars dumb. This is short sighted in my opinion. If fuel cell cars are more popular, it enc
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by woranl 5y ago
I use it to solve differential equations.
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by woranl 5y ago
*unnecessary
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by woranl 5y ago
Companies that required employees to work in the office, who otherwise can work from home should be heavily taxed. Taxed for generating necessary emissions.
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PayPal to add $20 inactivity fee in Canada(mobilesyrup.com)
9 points by woranl 5y ago|9 comments
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by woranl 5y ago
Client side document rendering has a lot of potential. There is currently no open source library that can render docx file as nice as mammoth. There are some commercial libraries that rely on WASM, but they are generally bloated and you can
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Why in the world is Amazon opening a hair salon?(qz.com)
2 points by woranl 5y ago|0 comments
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by woranl 6y ago
Refining biofuel or renewable fuel involves GHG emissions.
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New Docker Desktop Preview for Apple M1 Released(docker.com)
3 points by woranl 6y ago|0 comments
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Elon Musk has become the world’s richest person, as Tesla’s stock rallies(nytimes.com)
2 points by woranl 6y ago|0 comments
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Yara plans to make green ammonia in Norway(cen.acs.org)
1 points by woranl 6y ago|0 comments
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Why MasterCard Doesn't Use OAuth 2.0 (2018)(developer.mastercard.com)
3 points by woranl 6y ago|0 comments
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by woranl 6y ago
In many jurisdictions, professional engineer has a well established definition. Here is one for Ontario: https://www.peo.on.ca/about-peo/what-peo/learn-more-about-pe... For those who don’t care about the engineeri
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U.S. bans WeChat, TikTok, citing national security reasons(cbc.ca)
2 points by woranl 6y ago|0 comments
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by woranl 6y ago
This is inevitable. Mozilla should focus on their browser tech and monetization, instead of creating competing services to other consumer focused startups. Listen to the developers and implement API. Firefox web API implementation is so far
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ISPs applaud court’s dismissal of incumbents’ appeals over CRTC wholesale rates(mobilesyrup.com)
1 points by woranl 6y ago|0 comments
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Disney hit by backlash after thanking Xinjiang authorities in 'Mulan' credits(ctvnews.ca)
7 points by woranl 6y ago|0 comments
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by woranl 6y ago
Canadian government caved to pressure from the large carriers, who threatened to hold back investments in rural Canada unless the government plays along with their price increase scheme. Canada, your internet is already too expensive! Talk
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Canadian government sides with telecoms in appeal of CRTC’s lower wholesale rate(mobilesyrup.com)
7 points by woranl 6y ago|2 comments
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How to Use Encryption in Browser Apps(infoq.com)
2 points by woranl 6y ago|0 comments
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by woranl 6y ago
Just as relevant as ever.
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by woranl 6y ago
Back in 1997, Michael Dell famously said that if he were put in charge of Apple, "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." Good that Apple didn’t hire you then. Where is Dell now?
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by woranl 6y ago
This reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24119024
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Mozilla suspends Firefox Send(zdnet.com)
28 points by woranl 6y ago|4 comments
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by woranl 6y ago
Academic journals are not news articles or Facebook posts begging for eye balls. If only a few of them that are important enough to help push humanity forward, then that is good enough.
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by woranl 6y ago
No. The login flow is too tedious for the user. Too many clicks.
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TechLead Got Banned from Facebook(youtu.be)
12 points by woranl 6y ago|0 comments
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by woranl 6y ago
iTunes and iPod integration killed Winamp.
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by woranl 6y ago
This kind of change does more harm than good to the society. It’s a distraction to what really matters. Big corp just wants more brownie points. It’s just gimmicks and it’s rather pointless.

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