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kvgr

577 karma · joined October 21, 2010

I like mango. I write Android apps.
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kvgr··on Take the pedals off the bike
Training wheels are horrible thing. When i was a little kid i didn't want to let go of them. One day my mother removed them, hold me by my shirt collar and told me to pedal. At the end of the day I was riding like a boss.

As the author said, training wheels are learning backwards. You learn to pedal, but not to ride. You need to ride, then learn to pedal. And the motivation is also positive: removing training wheels is bad, cause you will fall. Adding pedals is good, because it allows you to go faster.

kvgr··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
Dude is burned out, he needs to relax a bit and stop drinking coffee if he does, cause it is probably giving him overdrive to the tired mind. Stop and smell the roses for a bit is true in this case.
kvgr··on Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest
Yes, and then somene comes and says, we produce too much beef... well yeah, somebody else will have to do it.
kvgr··on Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest
The food needs to be produced somewhere. If denmark exports, then the food will be missing somewhere. So you do not fix "climate change". You only fix local effects of agriculture. I am not saying it is good or bad. But it def makes denmark poorer.
kvgr··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
I don't understand how it is possible to be used on public roads...
kvgr··on Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel
We could just trash it between two tectonic plates, so it gets eaten up by earth. It will take some time, but it would be perfectly safe. Somewhere very deep in the ocean.
kvgr··on The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Strategy
People would be mich happier if the taxes were 50% less, the waste and corruption would be gone. And services were at similar level. Right now, US health care is redistributing money from poor people to rich.
kvgr··on The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Strategy
And most important questions: why is the government so expensive, do we really need all of this, is it efficient? How is the efficiency evaluated?
kvgr··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
I am professional android developer for more than 10 years. And even i dont care about the features anymore. Outside my work i just want good battery life and big screen. I have iphone 12 and dont plan to upgrade until it stops working. Probably professional exhaustion. But i honestly care about the newest buzz.
kvgr··on The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection
What kind of sorcery, i tried this and yawned within second.
kvgr··on The semantic web is now widely adopted
I was doing bachelor thesis 10 years ago on some semantic file conversions, we had a lot of projects at school. And looks like there is not much progress for end user…
kvgr··on You've got to hide your myopia away: John Lennon's contact lenses
Its not symetrical, one part is heavier and turns in the eye. What optometrist told me.
kvgr··on Every company should be owned by its employees
Good luck producing and not selling.
kvgr··on Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
Something similar, u just switched to private clinic where i pay 500euros/year for general doctor(even when they work for insurance) and I pay like 100E for specialist. Never happier, fast and good communication.
kvgr··on CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times", gets more complex from there
Crowdstrike will not exist after this is over.
kvgr··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
There will be no Crowdstrike left after this. I am just upset I cant short it…
kvgr··on The only tourist in Moldova
Slivovitza and other fruit spirits go from 50 to 60 % usually. Depending how much you dilute it. Pure is higher, but it not nice to drink.
kvgr··on The only tourist in Moldova
In russia everything is vodka. Sometimes this overflow to english. In europe it is kore distinguished.
kvgr··on Oncologists on simple, doable, everyday things they do to try to prevent cancer
He says that the reporting of nutritional data about cancer can be very confusing, and references the work of the statistician David Spiegelhalter from the University of Cambridge, who has shown that even if everyone ate an extra 50g of bacon every day, that would only increase the incidence of colon cancer from 6% to 7%. “I think it is about having a healthy, balanced diet,” says Sivakumar, “and occasionally having a sweet treat or a steak.”

Def not on par with smoking.

kvgr··on Parkinson's Link to Gut Bacteria Suggests Unexpected, Simple Treatment
Dangerous in a sense: costs money right now, we would have to deal with it. My friend once said: “no one is healthy, your doctor just does not have the testing resolution to find the issues” and in 3 years you get parkinsons…
kvgr··on Conway's Game of Life, in checkboxes for some reason
Can you make it bigger? it is too small for glider gun :)
kvgr··on EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
I understand that. But the migrants also need housing and food while they wait. I am absolutely for some kind of immigration. But not for "everybody that comes here will stay". And absolutely for trying to engage people into european society. Fundamental islam is a real thing. Second generation of immigrants is getting radicalizes and european union needs to do something with it. And if somebody accuses me on hating islam, i dont like all religions the same.
kvgr··on EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
Norway has huge oil reservers, Swiss healthcare is basically private. We could go deeper. NHS in UK is in the shambles for example.

Switzerland has universal health care, regulated by the Swiss Federal Law on Health Insurance. There are no free state-provided health services, but private health insurance is compulsory for all persons residing in Switzerland (within three months of taking up residence or being born in the country). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland#:~:t...).

kvgr··on EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
Welcoming all migrants can work in countries with no social net like US in their biggest boom. Come and work. EU countries are stretched and more and more people with low to no skills are gonna be really hard on the budgets. They cant even guarantee to pay people born there nice retirement in 30 years.
kvgr··on EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
Depends on the definition of socialism. For me the flow through retirement is socialist. The healthcare that forces people to pay money to non functioning system based on their income is socialist.
kvgr··on EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
Tell me more how all the money transfers are neoliberal? How the “creating of european idea” is neoliberal? How “we must have minimal taxes in europe” is neoliberal. Industrial subsidies for car and aeroplane companies. Compulsary social and retirement policies. In EU socialism is the norm, everything outside is branded almost extreme right. And right is a bad word in EU. If you take right and cut out russian support, keep taxes and less money distribution, promote personal tesponsibility you are still extreme right.
kvgr··on Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)
Of course politicians will have exceptions and government made secure phones.
kvgr··on Germany gets informal EU go-ahead to support gas-fired power, sources say
How much money is in nuclear fuel vs gas? And how much power can russia enforce over countries addicted to its gas?
kvgr··on Decade of the Battery
I was looking at car camping. And i found out that I can get power pack for cooking/boiling water, that is very multipurpose for other things just camping. Def not usable for hiking, but car can take it, solar panel can charge it. No need to fumble with gas stoves.
kvgr··on Germany gets informal EU go-ahead to support gas-fired power, sources say
But not their industrial complex, what is you reasoning? France is forcing Slovakia to build nuclear to support military industrial complex? A little bit of conspiracy here. The first was a soviet "gift".
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