gourou

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by gourou 3y ago
What an excellent puzzle game! First of all, it's very beautiful and simple. The style makes it look like a child's game but it gets hard. The first time I played I lost patience and gave up on the game because I couldn't fi
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by gourou 7y ago
People jaywalk often, I feel like this issue should have appeared before. Would it be possible Uber was using some of Otto's technology (self-driving trucks) then decided to replace it abruptly (because of the lawsuit with Google) and
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by gourou 7y ago
In "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order", Kai-Fu Lee (former president of Google China) says many US companies don't give enough resources to their Chinese branch and that's why they fail. The
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by gourou 7y ago
A few weeks before launch, Steve Jobs replaced screens on the iPhone because they would get scratched too easily. You don't see this level of care anymore. > For weeks, he had been carrying a prototype of the device in his pocket.
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by gourou 7y ago
Is there currently a way to get the elevation of a point? I know Google Earth has one but it's very imprecise
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by gourou 7y ago
> AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have pledged to stop selling location data to brokers who may sell the information on the black market. Most of them stopped according to the article.
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by gourou 7y ago
> giving the right to sue to customers who have had their location data shared without their explicit permission. Are Terms of Service considered explicit?
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Tencent and Pokemon maker team up for new games(asia.nikkei.com)
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by gourou 7y ago
If you're interested in the effects of conspiracy theories on society, it is a fascinating watch. You see how people get pulled into the theory, get marginalized by society and how their family ends up becoming the flat earth community
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by gourou 7y ago
What if an automated voice asks you to spell out your username/ID?
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by gourou 7y ago
In order to get people to care about their online privacy, use what they're most private about. Last Week Tonight used the same trick on their segment with Snowden. https://www.wired.com/2015/04/john-oliver-ed
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by gourou 7y ago
> The deal is for new installations of the Amazon Assistant, a comparison-shopping tool that customers can add to their web browsers. It fetches Amazon’s price for products that users see on Walmart.com, Target.com and elsewhere. Shoptim
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by gourou 7y ago
If Pearson is down, does the exam get cancelled?
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by gourou 7y ago
> Photos have emerged of a repainted 737 Max in Ryanair colours outside Boeing’s manufacturing hub, with the name 737 Max replaced by 737-8200 on the nose. Now I'm worried about boarding any 737
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by gourou 7y ago
It might have been for free, it's unclear they bought it https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18137369/duckduckgo-duck...
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by gourou 7y ago
If you want Google search without tracking, you should try StartPage https://www.startpage.com/
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by gourou 7y ago
spinlock seems mutex
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by gourou 7y ago
I guess they're learning for OpenAI's mistakes on Dota2 (people were exchanging strategies online) https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/6t8qvs/openai_bots_w...
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by gourou 7y ago
France is an ecosystem where smaller (tech) companies get acquired by massive conglomerates (Vivendi, LVMH...). Or more recently like Zenly's acquisition by Snapchat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivendi https:&
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by gourou 7y ago
A possible alternative would be to tax carbon emissions
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by gourou 7y ago
It seems most people share your sentiment http://plus.lefigaro.fr/note/the-most-hated-airport-in-the-w...
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by gourou 7y ago
Is there any way this could impact plane manufacturers? Lighter planes would mean less pollution.
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by gourou 7y ago
It's surprising the government didn't start with that instead of abruptly raising gas prices. Both are eco-friendly moves, but this one targets the rich more than the poor. Maybe it would have prevented months-long Yellow Vest pro
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by gourou 7y ago
Can't tell if you're trolling. The A320 weights 42,600 kg. A passenger weights 100kg, let's say 150kg with luggages. That's 0.3% if the overall mass of the plane. Wouldn't make much of a difference if you have an ex
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by gourou 7y ago
Google's fine was 50M€ https://www.cnil.fr/en/cnils-restricted-committee-imposes-fi...
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by gourou 7y ago
> The sanction was imposed following an intimation addressed to the National Supervisory Authority Can anybody just shoot them an e-mail to start an investigation?
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by gourou 7y ago
More like gently pushed out, he's still consulting for them. I hope they revert other changes: bring back magsafe and USB ports
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by gourou 7y ago
Marie Kondo's folding method is not the common way of doing it, the 3-way folding is not easy to master at first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpc5_1896ro But yeah, 8 million views already.
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by gourou 7y ago
This would probably have a huge impact if Uber had already done its IPO.
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by gourou 7y ago
> “Ways of Hearing.” It’s a podcast — recently transposed into a book > I’ve been pushing “Ways of Hearing” on my loved ones All podcasts are bad, but a book about a podcast is okay because I can sell it.

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