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Gmail also ignores the dot. If you choose a 17-character mailbox name, you can use any one of 2^16 different patterns of placing dots between them.

Capitalisation could also be used for such a purpose, but may be more likeely to accidentally get stripped.

Yes, but when the electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels, that process is only 40% or so efficient, whereas using the heat directly is lossless.

Aehm, no! Afghanistan was a reaction to 9/11, since the ruling Taliban had been accomodating and supporting Al Quaeda. The first (or second, depending on how you're counting) Gulf War started with Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.

"Have to emulate most software", WTF? I just checked activity monitor, and of the 575 processes it shows, exactly zero are not native.

...but I can see how you may have trouble interfacing with things, like reason or society.

Also: the corners are rounded, not cut.

I was waiting for the paragraph "revealing" that it's George Soros or the Rothschilds pulling all the strings... The topic is ripe with (sometimes actively harmful) conspiracy theories already, it's neither funny nor enlightening to inject more of it.

I vehemently disagree with the (second) invasion of Iraq, but pretending it's the same to step in when some dictator has torture as a favorite hobby as it is to invade a peaceful and happy democracy is taking the cynicism a bit too far. Afghanistan & the 1990 Iraqi war were entirely legitimate for obvious reasons.

Money doesn't create natural gas. If you shut down a pipeline bringing in some amount <x>, and you cannot find a new source to get that amount, somthing has to give, somewhere, you have to use less of the stuff.

Nobody is denying anything, except people claiming these are easy decisions to make and some approach a totally obvious choice. Finland & Germany have changed more drastically than either one has ever before, and more than anyone else in this situation. The Baltic states can also take a 20 % hit to GDP and they'll be fine, because they make up a small fraction of EU GDP and it would be easy (and right) to help them. The same happening in France, Germany, or Italy will not only hurt citizen in those countries, which would be uncomfortable but not disastrous. It would likely shut down every manufacturing on the continent that's more complicated than fish & chips.

The problems havve absolutely nothing to do with technology in the streaming-video sense of the word. It's about trust, versioning, truth, reality, and similar concepts.

Maybe Linux development is a good example, with some centralisation but other power centers of varying size connected, such as distributions or non-kernel software projects.

But then again Wikipedia already is federated into hundreds of local communities and horizontal projects like commons or wikidata, and it works not quite as terrible as one would think.

"Luckily" they know that! Porous paywalls are price discrimination. Someone willing to restart their browser/wiggle their VPN/watch an ad etc. is just not at the point in their life where they are likely to pay, so it's intended to allow you to read without making the paying customers feel like they paid for nothing.

The next step ip is to replace some (but not all) of the agony with some (but not all) of the price: coupons, year-end sales, bundles etc.

Yeah, according to HN, the invasion was mostly the NYT's fault...

Realistically, there is zero chance the invasion would have happened without exaclty that trio of President, Sec-State & VP, plus or minus a Wolfowitz.

But the Republicans successfully goaded some Democrats into voting for it by threatening to taunt them. The US public needed some more important foreign blood to be spilled than Afghani. And that's the way the cookie crumbled...

A "silent war" is to a war as a silent rock opera is to Bohemian Rapsody: something entirely different, even if you try to change the definition of words.

War crimes need a war, and crimes. Albright didn't commit any crimes, and you can't even name a war.

It's a regurgitation of "common sense home-truths", none of which are true by some person that should just stay out of other people's business.

Didn't watch the video because video explainers are a waste of time unless you're illiterate. But from the description, the title should be "this guy can't upgrade the SSD".

That comment is awkwardly phrased. That comment is off-topic. That commentator is advised to get out more.

Oh, look! It’s the same „flaw“ people have been explaining each other for a decade. We’ve all seen it dozens of times, yet Google apparently remains in the dark.

Wikipedia: Tivadar [his father] saved not only his immediate family but also many other Hungarian Jews, and Soros later wrote that 1944 had been "the happiest [year] of his life," for it had given him the opportunity to witness his father's heroism.[

Stop lying.

As the article notes, the policy has been used, including against Facebook's partner Cambridge Analytica. So I cannot say that it will be "happening soon", but it is certain to "have happened already".

A trained model is a set of rules to go from, for example, an image to a tag identifying the object it shows.

That's an algorithm. It is not "statistical regression", even if that is the method that was used in its creation.

The whole its-just-statistics-shtick is what's getting out of hand. People are just mindlessly repeating the point because it seemed smart when it was first made. Hint: it no longer does, especially if you use it wrong.

A trained model, which is obviously the subject here, is an algorithm.

Can you come up with an example for hate speech, in the medium of photography, without including written works or photos-of-photos(-of-text)?

Besides, the benefit of requiring pro accounts is that it includes identification of uploaders. They can delegate their content policy to the respective jurisdictions and authorities.

It still is leagues better than any large alternative. Just asking people to decide on a license, and suggesting CC-licenses, made it into a vast repository of Free content. Compare and contrast to, say, instagram, where i guess everyone is hustlin' all the time, anyway, and giving things away for free would get you laughed out of the room.

Flickr at least allows NSFW work, which is an essential part of culture. That invites all sorts off problems, obviously, and restricting it to pro accounts sounds like a fair compromise. It's better than the Facebook empire, again, with its Disneyland vision of human life.

Flickr has, to this day, an API that lets you do almost everything at scale. I've used it quite a bit and my free account never ran into any usage limits. Compare to twitter, where you can barely start without a credit card on file. Or Instagram, where API is a four-letter word.

Do camera phones have mechanical shutters? I'm almost certain they don't.

Elementary's "attractiveness" always felt skin-deep to me, triggering some uncanny valley effects more than enjoyment.

Even the basic premise that what people like about Apple is adequately described by "attractive to look at" shows the error in thinking.

That must be my mistake... I only ever advise companies on the parking level.

I've configured VSCode for this purpose. You can set a proportional font, at which point you are already halfway there. The default syntax highlighting already assigns scopes for headlines, bold/underline/italics, lists, code blocks and links, and it is either easy or default to style the text accordingly.

I can't give you those specific numbers but since around 20% of power production is covered by onshore wind right now, it's fair to say that costs aren't prohibitive. Costs for new installations have been dropping over the last years almost as much as for solar cells, which I found somewhat surprising (I thought generators were 'old technology').

The limiting factor is primarily land or, alternatively, legal: there is a lot of NIMBYism and more or less any new constructions now needs to overcome legal challenges. In some German states, the law has also become increasingly draconian, famously requiring three kilometers to the nearest dwelling in a densely-populated state where not a single spot actually fulfills that requirement.

That problem has led to a move of new production to the north of the country, which is less dense (in more than one sense) and where offshore wind is also starting to matter. This creates issues with the grid, which is increasingly required to transport the power south to where it's actually needed. Plans for new long-distance DC lines have been mired in local fights, which this package is also designed to address.

It should be noted that it could be said that both death counts are "official". They are just assembled via different means. The undercount in the Covid-specific statistics is both well-known and officially acknowledged. It is the result of limitations in the process, such as an inability to infer causality for specific cases, limits in the availability and accuracy of tests and so on.

It's only/mostly small-town newspapers that do this. It's an ideological statement that's cheap for them to make because The Buttherd Dispatch doesn't have enough readers in the EU for it to matter financially.

It means nothing for you. There is no legal risk whatsoever. Not in the US, and neither in Europe or Austria if you were to travel there.

For GDPR to apply, your website needs some connection to an EU country beyond just being on the internet. What constitutes such a connection isn't an exact science, obviously, which leads and/or allows people to make rather strange claims, the worst of which is probably that such ambiguity makes it entirely impossible to make laws on the subject.

The "official example" is explicitly making accommodations to sell to customers in the EU. The marginal example on the non-GDPR side of the dividing line is a US website, in English, that does sell to EU customers, but only if they sneak their country into the generic second line of the address form.

What gets you to the other side of the line is, for example, a drop-down that lets you chose an EU country for delivery, a switch that allows users to chose to read your website in German (but not Portuguese b/c Brasil), etc.

While there are plenty of cases, as always in life, that straddle the border, one thing is and always was clear: your English-language blog does not fall under GDPR.