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by z9znz 4y ago
> Thailand I disagree. Granted Thailand is big, and Bangkok itself is huge, so I've only seen small parts of a few cities in the country. But while I definitely saw poverty and ramshackle structures, litter was relatively minor.
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> you can just... visit the country Obviously. But it's considerably easier for anyone with an internet connection to now be able to take a virtual tour; thus, it is much more exposed. What the street views illustrate is how far be
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I doubt the excuse of "security concerns". I think it's more likely that the government didn't want it to be so easy for the rest of the world to see what life was like on the ground. Taking random clicks through Stree
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Uber
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This is basically the same equation if you replace "crypto" with "startup". The multiple investment rounds followed by eventual IPO is typically just a legal ponzi scheme.
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> I hope you're not thinking about forcing people into this Of course not. Forcing people to volunteer is... not effective long term. Anyway, I long since left that Texas city which gave me the idea. I know amateur and professiona
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If I were going to drink any politician's kool-aid, it would have been Bernie's. Hillary Clinton was part of the problem, just as most other sitting politicians are part of the problem.
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Well done! It was intially intimidating, but it quickly became clear that the limited options made it almost a no-brainer to solve.
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There are so many parallels and analogies to this idea, but there's a reoccuring pattern where some system becomes dominant and then seems to lose the characteristics which made it successful, ultimately becoming doomed. You see this i
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> But how far does that scale? Can we truly care about everybody in a village of 100? What about a territory with 1000 people? What about a small country of 100,000? What about a nation with 1,000,000 people or 1,000,000,000 people? We n
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by z9znz 4y ago
Interesting. Perhaps it's like most other things in life. In hindsight, we might have done it differently. In this case, there are probably better, more descriptive (and less confusing) adjectives than "fictitious" which wou
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The same guy who thinks NATO should have been abolished and who fawned over Putin? The guys like him and Putin are ignorant little boys who will thankfully die off soon. We must try to find a different path.
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I figured that was the case for a lot of things we have developed, but it must surely be more efficient to not also have the military goals as part of the effort. Actually, I think the best thing we can learn from the military would be how
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by z9znz 4y ago
Being a bit selfish here, I'm talking about _my food_. And given what we've seen in the last few years involving supply chain disruptions (even the local ones in NL when the angry farmers try to block the grocery store distributi
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Fair enough. Then it's really a matter of intended audience. It is a correct technical term for the color-domain educated audience. Could be that I'm one of the few outside that audience, but probably not :). The wikipedia arti
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Politely suggesting that false has some negative connotations, perhaps "artificial" would be a better word... or even illustrative or representational.
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This is another good example of how consistency, determination, and effort can really make big things happen. (It's also an example of why we should force ourselves to put some of our energy into long term efforts, the results of whic
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I like to imagine the possibilities if we stopped spending money on military and instead spent it on research and science. [edit - perhaps this is misunderstood as me suggesting money spent on the telecope is wasted; quite the contrary, I&
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I'm not quite sure I follow. In my case, the competitor's product is unseeable unless you get a demo or are a subscriber. So I don't even know what it does (from a UI perspective). I have ideas just based on my understandin
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> Scraping and selling is morally not ok What about hand copying? Is it ok to read a recipe on one site, and write it for your own? Or should the original site own that list of ingredients and instructions? If it's ok to hand copy
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by z9znz 4y ago
It's not just boobs, it's everything in life. We are now so much more exposed to content options that there's an increasing race for attention. Anywhere you look, you see these changes.
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Ask HN: Ethics of Requesting a Demo from a Competitor
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Not sure what part of the world you're in, but OP was describing Germany, and I'm in Netherlands. Both of these countries have pretty strict requirements for energy efficiency of new buildings. So at least here, it would be safe
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I don't think they're collecing this type of data... because it almost doesn't exist. It's not like you have a back and forth communication with customer service (because there is no customer service group). You just ha
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I live in a house in a village in the Netherlands. The house is from 20-150 years old, depending on which section you're in. It is cold as f in this place all winter. It's also hot as f in these new 37 degree summers. So the que
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> I would love to know a way this can be solved Step 1. Hire humans and pay them enough to think (and communicate with customers). Step 2. Keep an audit trail of events and communications related to these ban situations. Those can be
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I just don't believe that many of these large tech companies actually have a human as the first, second, or sometimes even third contact for these kinds of issues. But what I find especially offensive is how the execs of these companie
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Well let's put it this way - if you lose a wing at any altitude, you are screwed. But if you "only" have forward velocity as a problem, then you might just get lucky based on orientation or some other thing which absorbs som
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by z9znz 4y ago
You're still worse off as an airplane at an airport. Runway incursions are a big problem. One of the worst air disasters ever was when two large passenger jets collided on a runway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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If you have a critical failure (such as losing a wing or major control surface), you may have more time starting from high altitude, but you're still probably doomed. At least in this case your trajectory is already about parallel to t

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