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811.
by wott 10y ago
Also because of the amount of problems it has, and the er... "limited" quality of the result, people hope that it improves with the next versions.
812.
by wott 10y ago
I just read the first one. The guy is attacking this: > At the same time, herbicide use has increased in the United States,…in France, use of insecticides and fungicides has fallen by a far greater percentage — 65 percent — and herbicide
813.
by wott 10y ago
Why is it that when people cite a link to support their point, they can't even manage to read it properly? Your link says 21.8 millions for Delhi metro (as your quote specifies it). A figure that is dated from 2011. At that time, acc
814.
by wott 10y ago
You really think so?
815.
by wott 10y ago
> Why are we recycling numbers in our time system? Ever tried to read the clock on a sundial at night?
816.
by wott 10y ago
I have the feeling that it is fairly recent. When I was a kid, I think that nobody used it regularly, then it started to be used on the radio and TV, and then, when I came back home after having spent 8 years abroad, I was surprised to hear
817.
by wott 10y ago
> https://www.wired.com is excellent in how they use fonts to subtly indicate importance/recency/category. You call that "subtle"??? There are like 10 different fonts/boldnesses jumping at me at first
818.
by wott 10y ago
> Tell me [...] why you want to work here. This part always makes me laugh. The only possible true answer is usually "to get a job", and not much more. The applicant generally does not and cannot know about the company, nor abo
819.
by wott 10y ago
> For the former, I haven't seen a resume handling service that doesn't have a "Cover Letter" text field, so if we can stipulate that those are common enough, why would an applicant leave it blank? * Because it gene
820.
by wott 10y ago
I have a cover letter that I customise with great care for each application and it seems that its only use is to demonstrate that not a single recruiter ever reads it . Not even a little bit. Note that most of them do not even read the rés
821.
by wott 10y ago
> I know it's often cheaper to buy from them as a marketplace seller on Amazon, with postage, than direct from their site. I noticed that several times and never understood it.
822.
by wott 10y ago
Nonsense. It is much more demanding, involving and decisive to be CEO of a small company. In a large company, a CEO is merely a spokesperson for his advisors.
823.
by wott 10y ago
But most of those safety standards are meant to protect the device and its user during a normal use , not against malicious attempts to destroy it or pervert its usage.
824.
by wott 10y ago
In my place, animals die if they wander in places with seaweed (the sprawl of which is caused by industrial agriculture and breeding), because those produce toxic gases when they rot.
825.
by wott 10y ago
To sum up: harder to write, harder to compile, harder to make efficient. Hum... difficult to qualify it as 'better' after this.
826.
by wott 10y ago
> It made it easier to share the feeling of joyful discovery the author experienced. I gave up when the author's tweets, which were already a bit painful to follow, gave way to random comments by others or the author himself and dis
827.
by wott 10y ago
Okaaay... I find this map is a terrible design in several obvious ways (obvious as hurting my eyes in a matter of seconds). * Blue colour for lands. No comment... * Most space, and especially the main one: center, is occupied by boring
828.
by wott 10y ago
You do not spend 30 minutes, let alone 60, chopping, mixing, turning, cleaning. No way. You can do other things like browsing HN (or nothing if you wish) while the meal(s) cook. A fair part of the 'cooking' is just about waiting,
829.
by wott 10y ago
That's a Pablo Escobar quote?
830.
by wott 10y ago
> Every person living outside of the states has this problem. WTF are you saying?
831.
by wott 10y ago
Americans get excited about the most commonplace things like they were 12-year old virgins. You can also see it here when some idiotic startup comes up with an idiotic business model. I can never decide if they are serious or not. Same in s
832.
by wott 10y ago
That's the theory. Practically, almost all humans don't give a shit about the 5-year consequences of their actions even though they will most likely leave at least another 50 years.
833.
by wott 10y ago
> Win-win. That's not complete. It's win-win-lose. Win for you, win for GS, and lose for the society.
834.
by wott 10y ago
I don't think it is: we are on HN :-/
835.
by wott 10y ago
Indeed, that's why we rather partied every weekday.
836.
by wott 10y ago
I should request German citizenship :-)
837.
by wott 10y ago
We never use them as credit card in France. It took me a loooong while to understand, when I lived abroad, why the cashier would always ask me a question when I used my card to pay. In fact I understood later that they were asking if I wa
838.
by wott 10y ago
You talk about a Mars exploration mission , hence a relatively short time duration, not about settling and living one's whole life on Mars.
839.
by wott 10y ago
Uh? Straight fuel -> mechanical energy conversion is less efficient than a series of fuel -> heat -> mechanical energy -> electrical energy -> transportation -> storage -> mechanical energy conversions?
840.
by wott 10y ago
> IPFS appears here every 6 months, every 6 months the same questions get asked, the same problems get raised, the same collective sigh of bewilderment/disappointment appears to emanate from the comments, and it goes away again for

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