ahakki

1,055 karma · joined March 30, 2016

I remember being probably about four years old, coming down the stairs, and my parents were so tall, they were taller than I was.

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ahakki··on How WhatsApp Destroyed a Village

One word: Pizzagate

ahakki··on Beijing struggles to defuse anger over China's P2P lending crisis

That‘s the point. The US had growth in the past 20 years, Japan did not. So the Yen shoukdn‘t have been at a steady 110.

ahakki··on A material found to carry current in a way never before observed

No, that would be as if I said Water is less flammable than Hydrogen and you had replied: "But Water is just Oxygenated Hydrogen!!"

ahakki··on Amazon Dark Patterns

I must have misunderstood your comment. I was under the impression that 2FA was mandatory for all purchases, not just card transactions.

So I thought you had figured out a way around that.

ahakki··on Amazon Dark Patterns

> 2FA is mandatory in India

Well you did just show that it's not :)

ahakki··on Reversing cause and effect is no trouble for quantum computers

IIRC this is how you implement stuff, you always keep the inputs, so everything stays reversible.

ahakki··on Geosharded Recommendations with Hilbert Curve at Tinder

I’m pretty sure this was just upvoted because of the title.

ahakki··on AT&T’s Troubling Plan to Change HBO

Well Season 1 of Westworld had an interesting premise. Season 2 is just standard robot wars.

ahakki··on Latest Text of EU Copyright Directive Shows It's Even Worse Than Expected

IANAL, but usually if something is explicitly allowed by law you can rely on that even if other parts of the law forbid it.

ahakki··on Ask HN: How modern chips are made?

https://youtu.be/NGFhc8R_uO4

This talk on YouTube is the most in depth explanation of IC manufacuring I have seen. I highly recommend it to anyone, no matter their background. You really gain an appreciation of how insanely complex modern computers are.

It’s from 2012 but he talks extensivly about how (2012-)future chips will be made. And most of the information is still applicable.

ahakki··on ‘Gaming disorder’ is officially recognized by the World Health Organization

Halt execution

ahakki··on Blooming Password – A banned password check using a bloom filter

I bet the message got the point across.

ahakki··on Facebook Gave Some Companies Access to Additional Data About Users’ Friends

After Snowden E2E encryption turned from an implementation detail into a feature. see whatsapp et al.

ahakki··on Climate Change Can Be Stopped by Turning Air into Gasoline

Sounds cheaper than gas here in Switzerland.

ahakki··on Every Ruler in Europe Every Year Since 400 BC

7 Ministers with one holding a double mandate (Minister & President)

ahakki··on Tesla that crashed in Autopilot mode sped up before hitting truck: police

Wasn’t v1 made by mobileye (?) and teslas in house v2 has a much worse rep?

ahakki··on Tesla that crashed in Autopilot mode sped up before hitting truck: police

Tesla isn’t Apple. Tesla is more like Essential.

ahakki··on GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU

You‘ll still have access. Probably at a higher rate.

ahakki··on Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

“Sky” is not a name, it’s the blue thing up there. It's also "Microsoft SkyDrive" so it's hard to see an argument that someone would see this as a SkyTV offering.

Did I do it right?

ahakki··on Earth’s carbon dioxide levels reach highest point in 800,000 years

VW is currently working on this through the Audi eFuels programm. The goal is the synthesis of disel and gasolene from atmospheric CO2. iirc they have recently produced 60l of synthetic gasolene for testing purposes.

ahakki··on Credit card fraud warning signs

Magstrip cards can be cloned very easily. You might still have your card, but maybe someone copied the data off it last week. The chip is a different story.

ahakki··on Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin-based

> But it was almost a century ago

The USSR colapsed less than 30 years ago.

ahakki··on Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin-based

Learing to pronounce French words is rather easy. English is a huge mess.

ahakki··on United States v. Microsoft Corp. Dismissed [pdf]

You can read all (?) court submissions here: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/united-states-v-m...

ahakki··on Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?

it was on hn a while back. the link is dead now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14146776

it’s on wikipedia, with the same dead source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test?wprov=sfti1

EDIT: Working link to the paper (in some journal of science): https://www.udocz.com/read/are-ants-capable-of-self-recognit...

http://difusion.ulb.ac.be/vufind/Record/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot....

ahakki··on Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?

No source, but iirc the scientists applied a colored dot on the ants head. When they saw themselves in the mirror the started trying to remove it from their heads.

ahakki··on Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?

see Ancient Egypt

ahakki··on An Update on Last Week’s Accident

Who doesn’t wanna sit in an Audi A4 Quattro?

ahakki··on Canon's 120MP Camera Sensor

You can image non-flat things

ahakki··on Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine

This is not true. The old Facebook API gave access to all data the user had access to. This included information (posts, photos…) by “friends” which was not public.

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