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touweron Ask HN: What country would you like to relocate to and why?

Proof any of that

touweron Chaplin: Local visual speech recognition (VSR) in real-time

I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal

touweron Rivian's chief software officer says in-car buttons are 'an anomaly'

“It’s a bug. It’s not a feature”

Typical Silicon Valley blah blah. The button is an evolution. A solution to a problem from before computers and voice assistants were a thing.

touweron Re-fixing Servo's event-loop

Imgur is not much better ;)

touweron Playground bullies do prosper – and go on to earn more in middle age

Limited scope. As if income is the only thing that matters when you grow up

touweron High coffee consumption, brain volume and risk of dementia and stroke

A cup of coffee can be something very different from person to person and situation to situation.

Espresso? Weak americano? Strong? And then even: there is often more caffeine in a cup of filter coffee than in an espresso. Weird but true. So it differs quite a lot what you drink.

I know someone who drinks 15 cups a day, but they are very very weak. And another drank 20 stong ones a day. Myself I used to drink 10 easily, not anymore

touweron Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs

Sure, keep on dreaming

touweron Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs

Fake news. This is the real one https://www.paris.fr/pages/plus-ou-moins-de-suv-les-parisien...

touweron NY Senate introduces bill to mandate open API access for social media platforms

Unlimited API access maybe

touweron Europe’s CEOs Eye Shift in Spending Plans Toward North America

GDP shouldn't be the only measure to look at https://www.wired.com/story/happiness-measurement/

touweron Europe’s CEOs Eye Shift in Spending Plans Toward North America

Well, it's Bloomberg reporting on Europe, so take it with a big grain of salt.

No news either: CEO's wan even less taxes for their already rich companies and more freedom to make people work for a lower wage so their already rich shareholders get even richer. In short, the American Dream

touweron Firefox lost ~16M users since last year

outrageaus