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Scientists deeply concerned with upcoming EU digital identity regulations(nce.mpi-sp.org)
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A lot of people fall for fake news, as long as the source seems authorative, at least that is what recent history teached me. Do we still remember the weapons of mass destruction from Iraq [0]? Assad being accused of the Douma gas attack [1
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Herbert Geddes’ “Life in Japan” Collection: Hand-Coloured Glass Transparencies of the Meiji-Era: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/herbert-geddes-lif... Kusakabe Kimbei’s Photographs of Late 19th-Century Japan:
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Offtopic: browsing the site you can find some nice photos of early 1900 Japan.
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I actually got multiple computers. Some are a bit old, but still usable. Got a MacBook Air for the rare times that I travel. Using an 27” iMac when I am working from home in village. Using a Intel NUC when I am working in the city.
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As a developer I prefer desktops over laptops. Only using laptops when e.g. travelling.
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Not real innovation (when comparing with Windows world) but having support for hardware raytracing now is definitely nice for games. However, then on the information page they show Myst. Doesn't look spectacular to be honest, probably
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Targeting an adult male audience and sex sells. Why does Victoria's Secret revert course [0] from transgender and plus sized models back to models that society generally regards as sexy? Same reason (and Victoria's Secret mainly t
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I know in The Netherlands this happened in the city I grew up, Hoogeveen [0]. > In the second half of the 1960s, Hoogeveen was the fastest growing town in the Netherlands. Until that period, the town contained a number of canals, which
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Hypocrisy can be found in many groups. For example I've seen many leftists that claim to be pro-immigration, protest against asylum centra opening in their wealthy neighbourhoods. Or people that claim to be worried about climate change
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> Hardly a renowned professor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_(YouTuber) I’m not talking about Campbell, but his guest in the video. If you had looked even 5 minutes in the video, you would have known
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Only the people in the medical establishment that are allowed to voice their opinion. For example this renowned professor with hundreds of publications has been silenced. While he believes boosters are a very likely cause of recurring cases
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Techniques for dealing with lack of motivation, malaise, depression [video](youtube.com)
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Storing data like Reddit for game dev with SQLite [video](youtube.com)
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If you look at statistics of many countries that are heavily vaccinated, you will see the excess deaths have risen a lot. While countries that were not heavily vaccinated, don't seem to have risen (greatly) in excess deaths. Here'
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Just providing a link to a YouTube gameplay video, so people can check out the music or gameplay. Music is pretty cool indeed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8rZUEiiL0g
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> I think the moment you say this you kind of lose the ability to say that you have a balanced view of the conflict. This Ukraine / Russia conflict could have been avoided. NATO could have respected Russia’s views towards expandin
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> ... you invaded and are currently genociding citizens of a sovereign country. FYI: I am not Russian, don’t have any Russian family ties or ancestry or whatever. Born in The Netherlands and perhaps the earliest ancestors I know of wer
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> Only on HN is an invader morally comparable to the invaded. You seem to have a very myopic view on the conflict, there’s a whole history leading up to the events in which the West carries a big part of the blame. That said, I know wh
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> Do you have evidence? At least I read a study (that I'm not citing, admittedly). Sure, but it’s cited in a Dutch newspaper article. You can copy and paste in Google Translate: https://archive.ph/HvG8u
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> The economic cost I'm pretty sure of: Research has shown (but I won't pretend I can cite it) that immigrants are net contributors. That very much depends on immigration policies and the way a welfare state is setup. I am su
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I think that’s also Jonathan Blow’s approach in a way. Figure out a fun mechanic and build a game around it. He even had a talk where he discussed several game prototypes that had mechanics he initially thought could be fun, but after imple
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I once saw the video of “a day in the life of a Twitter employee” [0] and I thought: “wow she has a relaxed lifestyle, never had it like this in The Netherlands”. Is it the same for all big tech companies in SF? (I understand since Elon too
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In Thailand (and I believe in Japan as well, maybe also other SEA countries like Malaysia) LINE [0] is number one. And it’s quite nifty as an “everything” app (kinda what Elon wants to do with Twitter/X). ——— [0]: https://li
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I think I’d prefer JSON over both XML and YAML when dealing with config files. XML is just to verbose, making it harder to parse in my brain. YAML is whitespace sensitive which I hate in general.
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I do agree Europe is on a decline and in my opinion it is irreversible. It’s one of the reasons why I am happy to have been migrated to South-East Asia from The Netherlands. The reason why I believe it’s irreversible is because of the power
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It’s been said that the Turkish government has videos of a former secretary if justice of The Netherlands (Joris Demmink) engaging in sexual acts with young boys in Turkey and that Turkey has used this at times as leverage against the Dutch
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Link without paywall: https://archive.ph/9Z9oD
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There was also a German ex-journalist (dr. Udo Ulfkotte) who wrote a book about how journalists (in Germany and EU I suppose) are “bought” by intelligence agencies like the CIA: https://www.amazon.in/Journalists-Hire-How-Buy
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I feel the same and Snowden kinda said as much regarding phones. To assume each phone is compromised by state level actors.

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