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abricot··on Mystery surrounds lost German sea data station
They would probably just have taken the cable and left the station.
abricot··on Software made me loathe my car
No. Tax is 225% including vat.

VAT in Denmark is "only" 25%

abricot··on Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database
Wouldn't it make more sense to adopt the way Hollywood does crediting by then crediting everyone but with a note on how they contributed?
abricot··on Python Is Eating the World
Two things: 1. For people not used to do programming, braces in text are usually significant - having them everywhere, and even start and end on different lines, are confusing. 2. For people not using standard US keyboard braces are often an SHIFT or ALT command, that makes it wildly different to program uninterrupted.
abricot··on The “Myths List” is a communication antipattern
Numbers in title are a good indicator that the article is 1. Opinion based and that it 2. Lags detail.

At least it's enough for me to know to avoid it when I'm searching for a solution to a problem.

abricot··on LoRaWAN distance world record broken twice: 766km using 25mW power
Most probably don't want to have a say in the protocol specifications, they just want to use the protocol and spectrum.
abricot··on Ohio passes energy bill that bails out nuclear and coal plants, guts renewables
Well.. brexit means brexit
abricot··on Tulip tower: Mayor rejects plans for London skyscraper
The 'plug
abricot··on Why Didn’t Denmark Sell Greenland?
As far as i understand Denmark didn't really have a choice. Either it was sold or it would have been taken.

An important detail of the sale was that in the agreement for buying the islands, it was actually written down for the first time that Greenland was part of Danish territory.

So if the virgin Islands hadn't been sold Denmark's claim to Greenland probably wouldn't have held until today.

abricot··on A Gas Heist Gone Wrong
The article obviously doesn't provide everything we need to know to conclude that it was an act of crime, but that doesn't mean that it's impossible to know.

A small bit of information about what's growing on the field (alfalfa), the date it happened and what farm equipment are generally used at the time would make it pretty easy to conclude.

So just because you're not convinced doesn't mean they aren't right.

abricot··on Calgary student has been studying decibel levels in hand dryers since age nine
The transmission of bacteria is more likely to occur from wet skin than from dry skin[0]

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538484/

abricot··on Calgary student has been studying decibel levels in hand dryers since age nine
We have a set of kid sized ear-guards that my son prefer to wear when I vacuum with my Dyson vacuum cleaner. It's extremely loud and very srill (but it's also very effective).
abricot··on Report on forced organ harvesting in China
So, lets err on the side of genocide?
abricot··on Google refunded $200 because I missed 5 lines of Code
SAP has plenty of integration options.
abricot··on Ask HN: What’s the best way/source to learn Python (total noob)
My own personal breakthrough was going through the course "Complete Python Bootcamp"[0] on Udemy.

I've tried books, boring stuff, and many online tutorials. But taking an actual course was what helped me.

[0](https://www.udemy.com/complete-python-bootcamp/)

abricot··on Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64
Someone also created a filesystem using DNS caches of others to store the files: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16134041
abricot··on Darling – macOS Translation Layer for Linux
It's probably because it has a lot of features that are not unique, but you won't find all of them in a single terminal emulator on Linux.

Example, I don't know about a terminal on linux that both works as a drop down terminal (quake-like) & supports inline images.

Or split screen & password manager.

abricot··on The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times
Devil's Own
abricot··on Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
So it isn't Benchy?
abricot··on Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps
Link: https://www.businessinsider.in/leaked-memo-facebook-scrambli...
abricot··on CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google
From TFA:

"That does not mean that the GDPR is respected. Indeed, the user not only has to click on the button “More options” to access the configuration, but the display of the ads personalization is moreover pre-ticked. However, as provided by the GDPR, consent is “unambiguous” only with a clear affirmative action from the user (by ticking a non-pre-ticked box for instance)."

I don't think the "More options" issue would have been too much of an issue if all the options weren't preselected.

abricot··on Announcing unlimited free private repos
On the free plan gihub Pages still only works in public repos.
abricot··on Non-Euclidean Worlds Engine [video]
In the Duke Nukem 3D level editor you could also put two rooms in the same space, making the same effect.
abricot··on Google One
Are you arguing that Owncloud is better?
abricot··on Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver
EU seems to want to change the US Dollar hegemony[1] as of late.

[1]http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-6643_en.htm

abricot··on The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker
Unfortunately, like with clothes, paying 10ntimes as much would still not guarantee this.
abricot··on Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country
Lack of housing is one reason, but don't think it is the only one.

In Denmark there is no reason for anyone to be homeless by purely economic reasons, but we still have about 6500 out of a pop. of 5.77M

abricot··on Swedish ISP Protests ‘Site Blocking’ by Blocking Rightsholders Website Too
It's hardly a precedent.
abricot··on US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty
They could, they did[1], and it didn't work out. [1] "U.S. officials said the administration sought to revise the treaty in September and was rebuffed by other nations, prompting the decision to withdraw."
abricot··on Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
I miss ShareReactor.. and later SuprNova.

Nowadays I wouldn't have much use, but as a student they were godsent.

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