tchalla

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by tchalla 4d ago
People like you who equate signal and WhatsApp are also responsible for not making any progress due to ideological stubbornness it’s something that I absolutely despise from a part of HN crowd here.
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by tchalla 5d ago
It’s not about being in your lane. It’s about approaching things with an open mind plus the desire to solve the problem instead or proving yourself right.
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by tchalla 8d ago
Hmm, the Wired link is not behind a paywall.
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by tchalla 8d ago
> RIP Lee Holloway Did I miss something about Lee Holloway?
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by tchalla 8d ago
That was the day of Facebook trying to copy WeChat "One chat to rule them all!" Sure!
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by tchalla 10d ago
This is something that is always fundamentally misunderstood. Of course, judges can extend courtesy but most modern systems are designed on pretty much the accuser arguing their case against the defender with the judge deciding based on law
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How AI is breaking the British state(economist.com)
34 points by tchalla 11d ago|64 comments
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by tchalla 11d ago
Yes but we Germans are too stuck up with our language barriers.
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by tchalla 16d ago
I think Zuse is underrated because he worked pretty much alone. The other names and particularly Von Nuemann were prolific collaborators apart from being very good at what they do. There’s probably a takeaway from how this turned out.
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by tchalla 20d ago
> Sharing revenue data is a good way to get attention on Twitter, but for this business the Twitter attention doesn’t really translate into sales. I stopped sharing revenue data because a lot of people started using AI to build their own
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Three UK airports hit by cyber-attack with data of 8.7M customers accessed(theguardian.com)
11 points by tchalla 20d ago|1 comments
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by tchalla 20d ago
I did. I am adding on to your argument. In general, a reply to you never needs to be a counter. It can be a build up too.
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by tchalla 20d ago
Software engineering was never about writing "just" code. Simply writing code was not enough in most business environments.
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by tchalla 21d ago
Germany is planning for 2035. Everything is now pushed to 2035 - rail infrastructure , digitisation, removal of fax as an official method etc.
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Subscriptions: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [video](youtube.com)
4 points by tchalla 22d ago|0 comments
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by tchalla 23d ago
It’s actually what put me off.
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Shein aims for almost $27B valuation in stock market debut(bbc.com)
3 points by tchalla 23d ago|0 comments
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by tchalla 23d ago
I’m preferring to the spelling; not pronunciation.
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by tchalla 23d ago
Switzerland is also a representative democracy
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by tchalla 23d ago
It seems you have an issue with representative democracy.
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by tchalla 23d ago
I know what you are referring to but it doesn't. Read carefully again, it's carefully word smithed. The case is between 2018-2022. Uber says they have human review now that doesn't mean they did have human review in that time
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Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers(bbc.com)
91 points by tchalla 23d ago|84 comments
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by tchalla 24d ago
Do you have a source for that?
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by tchalla 24d ago
A couple of days ago it was Ghandi instead of Gandhi. I understand it's not a big deal. But it's also not a big deal to get the spelling right.
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by tchalla 24d ago
> The EU now makes more in fines from American companies than it does in taxes from its own tech industry. That's because American tech doesn't pay its fair share of taxes to the EU compared to its revenue.
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by tchalla 24d ago
> GDPR rules ban decisions made solely by computer algorithms when they have a significant impact on people’s lives, such as on employment, saying such decisions require meaningful human review and a way to challenge a decision. The law
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by tchalla 24d ago
And it’s also incredibly tiring to force legal paradigms of one country over another. Don’t like it? Don’t operate. Please don’t operate and whine how the country is not bending over backwards to your demands.
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by tchalla 24d ago
Are you saying that we should allow a Uber to do whatever they want because of scale they are operating? It’s Uber choice to operate at scale. No one forced them to.
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Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?(slate.com)
306 points by tchalla 24d ago|157 comments
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Limnic Eruption(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by tchalla 26d ago|0 comments

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