superwayne

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Need a Consultant?(npr.org)
3 points by superwayne 3y ago|0 comments
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Austria's $3.50 go-anywhere Klimaticket aims to fight climate change(cnn.com)
3 points by superwayne 5y ago|1 comments
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by superwayne 6y ago
I can see that the car works by getting safely from A to B, thousands of times. If my vote counted or not is not observable.
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by superwayne 6y ago
Maybe change title to "Best Buy used a combination of corporate strategy and emotional intelligence to save itself from ruin" (from the subtitle).
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by superwayne 6y ago
Syndicated from https://www.ft.com/content/45d0a047-360f-4abf-86ee-108f43601...
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The lockdown death of a 20-year-old day trader(weekdaytimes.com)
1 points by superwayne 6y ago|1 comments
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Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the hacker who stopped the WannaCry attack(wired.com)
294 points by superwayne 6y ago|64 comments
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by superwayne 6y ago
http://archive.is/6WHB8
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by superwayne 7y ago
That is probably wrong in this generality because it is used by ING, at least.
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by superwayne 7y ago
I think this is actually from PyCon Israel 2016 and was uploaded in 2019.
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by superwayne 7y ago
Of course, there are very legitimate reasons/incentives to hire someone from your own jurisdiction. I'm just not a fan of cheap offshoring.
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by superwayne 7y ago
> I’ve been told over Skype that an applicant who lived in Downtown Vancouver couldn’t meet up for a coffee because they didn’t leave their house. They lived in Guangzhou. No wonder when people get paid based on their location and not ba
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by superwayne 7y ago
> He used specialized software to subvert the company’s revenue model and take its product for free. How is this different than using an ad blocker in the browser?
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by superwayne 7y ago
I think there are even faster JSON parsers out there nowadays. I have recently used orjson and found it to be extremely fast for our use case (serializing a dict with about 100 MB).
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by superwayne 7y ago
Oil is a fascinating project. I really hope it gains some traction once it is stable.
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by superwayne 7y ago
Aren't leases usually inflation adjusted?
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by superwayne 7y ago
IIRC unsealed media (DVDs, CDs,...) are only refunded by 50% so that people don't just make a copy.
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by superwayne 7y ago
The new title (EDIT: "Issue: find a new home for repos") seems pretty generic to me, though. If I didn't open the story while it had the old title I would have probably missed it. Edit note: At the time of writing, the articl
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What's Coming in Python 3.8(lwn.net)
638 points by superwayne 7y ago|536 comments
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by superwayne 7y ago
Just out of curiosity, why did you go with "lady" and not with "woman"?
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by superwayne 7y ago
Do you happen to have a link?
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by superwayne 7y ago
I also really don't like the taste of UHT milk (called "H-Milch" in German). For me it's undrinkable. I can also taste the difference in a cappuccino. Interestingly, like the_mitshuiko already said, UHT milk is not very
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by superwayne 7y ago
No, the hobby originated in the US but it seems to be more popular in Europe. I'm only familiar with the Finnish community, but I was able to find a German horse registry: http://www.moorwiesen.de/register/?&la
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by superwayne 7y ago
There is also a virtual equivalent to hobby horsing called "virtual stables". A virtual horse is just a webpage for a fictional horse. There are usually pictures of the horse that hobbyists find on the internet/buy on forums&
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by superwayne 7y ago
It's not yet clear (at least to the public) how the registration will actually work on a technical level. I think the idea is that there will be third party services who are responsible for validating the identity of a user (similar to
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by superwayne 7y ago
There is also an interview (unfortunately in German, but automatically translated subtitles are available) with the minister who is responsible for the bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sm7Q1bjW5o
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by superwayne 7y ago
Interestingly, the current draft of the bill says that the site owner has to delete accounts which were inactive for a year.
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Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties(derstandard.at)
508 points by superwayne 7y ago|276 comments
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by superwayne 7y ago
To use the "Ing" title you have to have a certain education and a few years of practice. To be honest, it doesn't mean much.
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by superwayne 7y ago
Austrian here. "Ing" (Ingenieur, so basically Engineer) is a protected title (not an academic one, though) but to be honest, it does not signal status or qualification to me. The actual academic titles are worth more.

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