mokash

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by mokash 5mo ago
in the future no sign-up will be required for misguided adventurism in the middle east and beyond!
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by mokash 11mo ago
Yep. Tricky for those that have childcare costs that they now cannot meet. Some in similar positions are forced out of work.
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by mokash 1y ago
>True but generally speaking American companies usually have much better customer service and better refund policies than European ones. The issues usually stem when a company corners the market or has no viable alternatives. this does n
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by mokash 2y ago
I'm trying to be charitable but I really don't understand your line of reasoning. To me it seems like their hand is being forced by the UK Government. They don't want to introduce a backdoor for global users by complying so t
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by mokash 3y ago
paying up front when offered an interest free loan, especially in a high interest rate environment is not really rational though. i have excellent credit but klarna doesn't offer its services to me, i suspect because they expect i will
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by mokash 3y ago
i believe cppfront is more of a way to try out and demonstrate ideas in the hopes that they are adopted by the cpp standard
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by mokash 4y ago
i think to expect a multi-billion dollar organisation to make consequential decisions like this based on anything other than cold calculation is naive at best and enormously stupid at the very worst.
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by mokash 4y ago
indeed, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
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by mokash 4y ago
i'd recommend a rowing machine. targets a lot of muscles, allows high/low intensity cardio, and is low impact to help reduce the probability of injury
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by mokash 4y ago
suggest you read the article. The sea change in chicken production demonstrated it was possible to quickly scale down antibiotics in farming, but it didn’t do much to reduce overall use, as the chicken industry only used 6 percent of antib
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by mokash 4y ago
consider that the goal of facebook is not to build a 'good product for the world'. facebook exists to 1) keep your attention 2) extract as much data as it can 3) make inferences where necessary/possible 4) sell targeted ads.
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by mokash 4y ago
one piece of advice for anyone about to read war and peace: the number of chracters are vast and you'll find that the names used to refer to each can often change with no warning. different names can be used interchangeably, even in th
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by mokash 4y ago
> As a market, it's not worth the risk until it's worth the legal advice. i think that is a calculation only op can make. the european union covers over 400 million people. making some early design decisions in what data you co
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by mokash 4y ago
i'd like the answer to this too. let me know if you ever figure it out
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by mokash 5y ago
Hong Kong is done.
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by mokash 5y ago
I like the graphs on this page - I wonder how they were developed
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by mokash 6y ago
I will repost a comment I made about Apple and China in another post like 1.5 years ago: "Apple are beholden to China. Sure, China is a huge market for them but I think the bigger issue is manufacturing: if they piss China off they won
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by mokash 6y ago
I was hoping they'd include 16GB memory as the base
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by mokash 6y ago
It's down! Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20201001142018/https://wildbit.c... Edit: seems to be back up but slow
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by mokash 6y ago
Yeah, bye. Over the past few weeks, I've seen police officers indiscriminately spray pepper spray at peaceful protestors. I've seen them spray pepper spray at journalists. I've seen them point guns at unarmed children. I&#x27
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by mokash 6y ago
On a practical level, I agree, working from home is better in many ways. However, you can't forget to think about this on a human level. We are social animals after all. You may not agree but I feel that so much human interaction is no
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by mokash 6y ago
It also goes on to say: "An unprecedented collapse in passenger demand is prompting airlines to use their fleets to transport more cargo, including medicines" shouldn't this, if anything, bring down the cost of chatering a pl
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by mokash 6y ago
Indeed. It seems that Facebook's network effect is at play here. As a platform, it is playing a massive role in communication and information sharing in an epidemic. Perhaps when this is all over some sort of open-collaboration framewo
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Into the Unknown: Mawson's Antarctic Trek (2013)(nationalgeographic.com)
22 points by mokash 6y ago|9 comments
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by mokash 7y ago
Maybe you don't have the capabilities to make meaningful predictions that you can sell to marketing departments at the moment however, you still have all of the data that you collect and free reign to do with it as you wish. The proble
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by mokash 7y ago
Apple are beholden to China. Sure, China is a huge market for them but I think the bigger issue is manufacturing: if they piss China off they won’t have anything to sell, anywhere! I’m sure Apple execs know this and I hope they’re quickly p
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by mokash 8y ago
What kind of music? Please invite me :)
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by mokash 8y ago
No one cares who you are on the dancefloor when the techno is thumping. Close your eyes and dance!
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by mokash 8y ago
It doesn't sound like you've thought about this too well. This add serious friction to the experience Uber is trying to provide with their service.
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by mokash 9y ago
Would be interested in learning more about how you use JSON-LD with a graph database.

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