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Strongerpass··on What is the revenue generation model for DuckDuckGo?
The "just" in having to analyze some results and come to the conclusion that I need to rerun the query with some prefix is not so convincing. I've already wasted time at that point.
Strongerpass··on Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants
Of course on a web site for nerds, commentators are going to claim that a massive loss of life due to what they consider to be some irrelevant factor is just a technical detail which can be ignored.
Strongerpass··on Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants
> A car traveling 30 mph is absolutely as lethal as a car traveling 10 mph faster than that.

What was this an analogy for? I missed it.

Strongerpass··on Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants
I understood the point well and I agreed with the poster. But in my view, if you are going to argue that we don't need more automated monitoring in traffic then claiming that speed has little impact on fatalities seems quite weird.
Strongerpass··on Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants
That's kind of moot, at least where I live. Less than 3% of deaths were caused by this so its not really significant. Pedestrians killed were many times higher for example.
Strongerpass··on Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants
I agree in general but I think "A car traveling 30 mph is absolutely as lethal as a car traveling 10 mph faster than that." is a bit weak.

The speed of cars matter, obviously. If you are hit by a car driving 50km/h you will die 8 out of 10 times. If the car is only driving in 30 km/h you will only die 1 out of the 10 times. In other words, it's not a linear scale and the idea that you can drive a bit faster without making yourself substantially more dangerous is incorrect.

Strongerpass··on Jepsen: MongoDB 3.6.4
.. but the post didn't say it was first. Not even the part you quoted.
Strongerpass··on Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition
dkhenry 3 hours ago [-]

> At the most basic level performance is way below what I have seen with AWS. It was taking about 20 times longer to load data into a database cluster in Azure then into AWS.

Eh okay. I have a VM running IN Azure which is much faster than one running in AWS.

Strongerpass··on Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition
What did he do?
Strongerpass··on Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition
How is AWS worlds ahead Microsoft in their commercial cloud offerings? I work with both and to me they seem very similar.
Strongerpass··on Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faster web
... as mentioned in the title of this submission.
Strongerpass··on Coders Automating Their Own Job
What do you base that on?
Strongerpass··on Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Google maps?
I tried to use it some time ago and visiting another city. I followed directions and after a bunch of left/right suddenly it instructed me to "drive west". This was on a pretty big street and as far as I can tell Apple Maps knew my location properly. Pretty fun.
Strongerpass··on Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users
I'm logged on on my phone and hane not seen any security notices in my feed. Have not been logged out.

Edit: Same on my PC. Still logged on.