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herogreen··on The Fight for the Right to Drive
But if you are not careful this will increase inequality between rich and poors.
herogreen··on Golden: Mapping human knowledge
Thanks for this answer. Good luck with the project!
herogreen··on Golden: Mapping human knowledge
I hope it will not be registration walled like Quora but more open like stackexchange websites or hn.

I refuse to participate to registration-ponzi-scheme.

What will the content licence be ?

herogreen··on Qt Creator 4.9.0 Released
I was sad not to see Qt Creator available in this year's stackoverflow survey. It is a very usable IDE for C++.
herogreen··on Cello: Higher Level Programming in C
Very impressive! Especially the fact that it only uses macros (if I parse the website correctly).
herogreen··on Linux-based 4G phones with Google Assistant sold for $7 in Indonesia
what is pwa ?
herogreen··on The moving sofa problem (2016)
I was expecting the new problem to be a turn with an varying angle (not 90°).
herogreen··on Men who lived in Spain 4500 years ago left almost no male genetic legacy today
Related: PBS Eons video named The Two People We're All Related To https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YNQPQkV3nhw about the biological "Adam" and "Eve"
herogreen··on 28,000-year-old mammoth cells have shown reactivity in mouse egg cells
Yes, see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19393869
herogreen··on 28,000-year-old mammoth cells have shown reactivity in mouse egg cells
If you understand French, watch this: https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/078777-000-A/siberie-les-avent... you'll be convinced.

If you don't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park

Basically we need them for an earth-scale experiment that will try to prevent the permafost from unfreezing, thanks to ruminant eating the grass through the snow, thus breaking the snow insulation that prevents the ground from re-freezing deep in winter. If the permafrost do unfreeze, I believe the climate is doomed.

edits: typos

herogreen··on What's the minimum number of words you'd need to define all other words? (2012)
I am looking for the same but in German from either English or French.
herogreen··on Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust
Can you build in some kind of "unsafe release" mode, so that every array bound check that were asked in the code are skipped ? If not, would it be an interesting feature ?
herogreen··on Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust
If you modify a single line and rebuild, how much time does it takes, on average ?
herogreen··on Falkirk Wheel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tBH9SE-Kw8 tells us that the Archimedes principle (objects move an amount of water that correspond to their weight) is useful to equilibrate the two arms of the wheel in order to have correct balance.

edit: and that the amount of energy to do one rotation is just 1.5kWh (@22.5kW) ... incredible!

herogreen··on 1TB microSD cards
I wonder what these are for ? Is it for devices with limited hardware (single 2.5" slot), or is it because it is sometimes the cheapest way to accelerate a system (hard to beleive) ?
herogreen··on Librem 5 Smartphone: Massive Progress, Exact CPU Selected, Shipping Adjustment
Well reboots are good sometimes. This phone is also uncompromising (in theory) on some aspects.
herogreen··on Librem 5 Smartphone: Massive Progress, Exact CPU Selected, Shipping Adjustment
What is the relation with the new Samsung phones ? Apart that both are smartphones ?
herogreen··on If You Fold a Paper in Half 103 Times It'll Get as Thick as the Universe
As thick as the visible Universe I guess. If I understood PBS Eons videos correctly the size of the universe is unknown.
herogreen··on Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold
Someone will build a lego technic testing device for sure.
herogreen··on This Cat Does Not Exist
The website owner could use the time between two refresh by a given user to assert the "weirdness" of a picture.
herogreen··on Return of wolves to Germany pits farmers against environmentalists
French TV channel Arte aired an interesting documentary in 2017 that looked at the cohabitation between wolfes returned from Italy and sheep farmers from south of France. The farmers presented in the documentary have small farms of 100s of sheep maximum, such that it is common that a farmer "know" most sheeps from its farm. These sheeps are outside except in winter or to sleep during the night.

In this documentary they say that the problems are that:

- sheeps that are attacked but not killed will run away and empty themselves of their blood and the farmer will have to finish them after seeing a lot of suffering

- farmers want to avoid this suffering and this is very stressful

- herds that have been attacked will remain terrified for days

- wolves are very smart and will wait for the right instant to attack

- wolves are "mean": they will kill more sheeps than they could eat

The documentary seems to suggest that the best solution is not drones nor more people around herds nor new ways to raise the sheeps nor locking herds inside buildings all day but to shot at any wolf that would get too close from the herd, because wolves are very intelligent and would soon realize that it is not in their interest to attack sheeps (they should be able to find food in the forest by hunting wild animals such as deers which would help control their population).

I could not find a link to the documentary (in French) but I watched it online recently.

So at least for small farms in south France, if I understood the documentary correctly, it is more a problem of legislation that ties the hand of farmers than it is a problem of money.

herogreen··on Tepco carries out examination in Fukushima by remote-controlled probe
Awesome comics, thanks!
herogreen··on Ebates requires full access to Gmail for SSO
Is it a feature that can be read E-bate(s) ?
herogreen··on Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com
Or: ask the user to use the same browser and check that cookies match / "sanitize" gmail adresses
herogreen··on What Happened to the 100,000-Hour LED Bulbs?
So by designing our own custom power conversion components we could reach 100 000 hours ?
herogreen··on Samsung to Replace Plastic Packaging with Sustainable Materials
Marketing speak. The real thing they should do is committing for repairable phones (easy) and more importantly update-able phones (hard). So that users do not have to replace a perfectly working phone because they fear for their security.
herogreen··on 600 days of postmarketOS
Very very nice project. Did you communicate with the lead developper of the Zero phone ? (https://www.crowdsupply.com/arsenijs/zerophone) These two projects could be a great match I think.

I hope to start hacking on my Motorola E 4G (surnia) for which works has started on the wiki but it is my main phone and I need to keep it working :(

herogreen··on Netflix to Raise Price from $11 to $13 a Month
When you say "had more quality content", do you mean that some content was removed ? Or that the rate over which great content is produced has decreased ?
herogreen··on More young men dropping out of job market to spend time in an alternate reality
[2017] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13890782 Still very interesting though.
herogreen··on Masayoshi Son wants Arm’s blueprints to power all tech
I asked about "thinking of relisting ARM". I should have bothered bypassing this paywall, and will next time. Sorry for your time!
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