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by null_object 4y ago
My main problem with AI, is that all around me in this world I still see grinding poverty, war, starvation, suffering, diseases, deadly pollution, insanitary living conditions, underfunded schools and healthcare. What AI has ‘solved’ so far
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by null_object 4y ago
> It's unsurprising as film, especially the higher end film, uses quite a lot of… hazardous chemicals that are getting much more expensive every year to produce This was a very negative take (no pun intended). What citations do you
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by null_object 4y ago
If pictorial cartography is your thing, this guy is hand-drawing exquisite contemporary maps: https://www.antonthomasart.com/
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by null_object 4y ago
> Also, in Sweden, they wanted to protect the right to walk along a shoreline, so due to the other rule they stopped allowing houses to be built closer than 100m to the shoreline Naturally the rich and powerful have been claiming the sho
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by null_object 4y ago
> or if it is used in API requests, impersonate you You're suggesting it's an authorization token - which it obviously is not.
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The Underlying Technology Shibboleth(stephendiehl.com)
5 points by null_object 4y ago|0 comments
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by null_object 4y ago
> I guess cars really stick to the rules because they know they have to I’d love to know where you live, because it sounds like Arcadia. Where I live, at least, cars also ignore speed limits, don’t stop for pedestrians crossing, often cr
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by null_object 4y ago
I feel very ambivalent about scooters. On one hand I hope they do actually take some cars off the road, on the other, I think they’re mostly used by people who would otherwise take the bus, bike or even walk instead. And in the meantime the
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by null_object 4y ago
> DeepL was genuinely good for English/French. I can't speak to other language pairs. I use it whenever I need to write any long-form English->Swedish - it simply cuts out the labor of thinking about grammar and spelling, an
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by null_object 4y ago
> Imagine the person who cannot afford a book or paper on a particular topic. Should they not have access to the information? Imagine I want whatever you do for a living? Should you work for me for free?
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by null_object 4y ago
I know this won't be a popular take on HN, but while I can understand and to a certain extent sympathize with pirating movies (the intentional friction and arbitrary geographic limitations on access imposed by the multinational movie-i
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by null_object 4y ago
> To me it's very simple: nation states should have their own layer that uses the national registry for companies to verify a domain. I think this can just add layers of bureaucracy that don't address the problem anyway. In the
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Why Everything Looks the Same(medium.com)
2 points by null_object 4y ago|0 comments
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by null_object 4y ago
> Living in London, I cannot really remember when was the last time I talk to a stranger I lived in central London (Camden) for 15 years before moving to Stockholm, and almost every day was full of small encounters and discussions with s
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by null_object 4y ago
> Noone locked their bikes! Wow this is a surreal comment. More than 65,000 bikes are reported stolen each year in Sweden [0] - but this is just the tip of the iceberg, as a stolen bike is so common that hardly anyone even bothers repo
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by null_object 4y ago
> that was literally front page news and was an incredibly unusual event. My point wasn't about the specific case (obviously multiple horrific murders are not a common occurrence), I meant the general milieu of drug addiction, law-b
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by null_object 4y ago
> My grandmother never locked her door when she was at home This whole 'golden age' of Sweden is just such a bunch of bs. Take a look, for instance, at this article about a part of central Stockholm which is now extremely expen
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by null_object 4y ago
It can hardly be said to benefit 'ordinary people' that anyone can find out a person's home address, birthday, salary, workplace, the size of their home, their family, children, and so on. These databases are generally availa
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by null_object 4y ago
> So much money goes into solving non-problems like […] cryptocurrencies… More to the point: so much of this human suffering is dependent on the existence of this technology.
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by null_object 4y ago
In 2020 only 10% of plastic was recycled in Sweden. [0] The rest was burnt to produce heating and electricity - which releases an enormous amount of CO2 gases and other pollutants. Not just a US problem. [0] in Swedish: https:/&#x2F
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by null_object 4y ago
> If I remember right their mac-thing was around 5 years old? My 2015 MacBook still runs absolutely fine. For that matter, I'm considering (but probably not) buying a new iPad to replace my TEN YEAR OLD iPad that I'm still usin
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Revisiting the Playground(historyworkshop.org.uk)
14 points by null_object 4y ago|4 comments
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by null_object 4y ago
I think this is essentially the major theme of this book: https://www.amazon.com/Poorly-Made-China-Insiders-Production...
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by null_object 4y ago
I think a lot of people are being kept awake worrying about these types of articles.
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by null_object 4y ago
> It's quite normal in Europe and Scandinavia I live in central Stockholm and indeed walk to school with my youngest kid. But every single day I’m amazed and frankly enraged by the massive number of cars leaving kids right outside t
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by null_object 4y ago
> Except substitute “down the street” with “30 km away on the other side of a river”, and notice that everybody who got sick initially was next to the market, none of them anywhere near the lab. > So the lab-leak hypothesis is: this v
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by null_object 4y ago
> It's much easier to believe that someone you don't like created covid maliciously than that it evolved naturally Ah! and there you did that thing to make an accidental lab-leak a crazy nut job conspiracy theory.
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by null_object 4y ago
Pretty much everyone here knocking the iPad Pros for being consumption-only passive entertainment devices. But I guess the artists, musicians, video-editors and photographers using them professionally would disagree, if they ever came here.
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by null_object 4y ago
> I find that the best use of a tablet is reading and watching videos. I think HN forgets the 'pros' using the iPad Pros are video, photography, visual-arts and music professionals. I'm as disappointed as the next dev on H
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by null_object 4y ago
> Important underline: the lab database is not available to us Genuine question, as I'm not aware that it's been made externally available to anyone - do you mean it's available to researchers around the world but not th

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