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anonymou2··on Is the world becoming uninsurable?
don't worry, pretty soon you're gonna be great...
anonymou2··on LineageOS is the perfect minimal smartphone for non-tech savvy folk
resistance is futile... you have been assimilated.
anonymou2··on Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip
security, yep! they will run Microsoft Windows, Google proprietary javascript, and Whatsapp for "secure" communication on these chips!!
anonymou2··on Reminiscences from the end of the horse era in New York City (1952)
cycle lanes protected from what?
anonymou2··on Commercially available chairs in Star Trek
Why would they ever need chairs in zero g !!!
anonymou2··on Ask HN: What other news feeds do you read besides Hacker News?
peakoilbarrel.com
anonymou2··on Meta plans to lay off 10k employees
you mean like github?
anonymou2··on Meta plans to lay off 10k employees
the cancer of Facebook
anonymou2··on Get Uncomfortable
I think the point is not to become like the people in wall-e (or Idiocracy I might add).
anonymou2··on Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
It is interesting that capitalism is getting rid of the idea of private property. I guess it is only private property for capitalists themselves and not the serfs?
anonymou2··on Are we going back to the cable days?
I liked Pirates of the Caribean I, II and III !
anonymou2··on Open Food Facts – a food products database made by everyone, for everyone
wow, that's food? I only see packages with pictures.
anonymou2··on 'Dutch reach' rule change to Highway Code welcomed
What you are describing shows that segregated bike lanes are really the cyclists ghetto. Built to kick us cyclists off the roads that the motorists believe are theirs. Look at China, they are building them now, what has changed? Remember the images of the Chinese going to work by bike? Of course, they need to make room for the car. Something like that happened in the Netherlands in the 1940's. We see it happening now in China and other places in Europe.
anonymou2··on 'Dutch reach' rule change to Highway Code welcomed
Care to explain why not being surrounded by a metal cage has anything to do with the rules of the road? What rules should cyclists follow then?
anonymou2··on 'Dutch reach' rule change to Highway Code welcomed
Then the problem really is the car drivers that expect you to keep off what they think is their road, even if that puts you in danger (that expectation is given official support by the segregated bike path). If I am riding in a narrow lane I ride in the center of the lane. If they don't like it they can suck it up. I don't like their smelly fumes either or their horn blowing for that matter. The problem is a society that gives all the privileges to car drivers.
anonymou2··on 'Dutch reach' rule change to Highway Code welcomed
I must be mad, riding my bicycle daily, on the same roads as cars for more than 15 years. 0 accidents. By the way, the simplest way to avoid a dooring accident is not to ride on the door zone. When I see a bike-only lane next to parked cars I take it as an indication of where not to ride. They make bike-only infrastructure to kick us off the roads anyway, not for safety.
anonymou2··on Librem Tunnel Is Leaving iOS
What I find amazing is that in this capitalist world, these companies are really against private property (yours, not theirs) I am not sure if private property is in the definition of capitalism, probably not, so there may be no contradiction. But still it is really amazing.
anonymou2··on Librem Tunnel Is Leaving iOS
I suppose it is not so bad to be a serf. Your master feeds you and you don't have to worry about getting food.
anonymou2··on Ask HN: What companies are you excited about?
thanks! I didn't know about them.
anonymou2··on Ask HN: What companies are you excited about?
purism. In fact I just got a computer from them. They make modern computers with Coreboot instead of proprietary bios. They need all our support!
anonymou2··on Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
A computer programmer is found dead in the shower. Next to him there is a bottle of shampoo, with the instructions: Apply, rinse, repeat.
anonymou2··on Slack is down
Everyone back to IRC!
anonymou2··on The web is 30 years old today
Tor is very easy to use, just download the bundle and there you go.
anonymou2··on Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage
wow... Haven't you heard about the Big Bang?
anonymou2··on Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)
Not if you accept that the earth is a sphere (and hence finite).
anonymou2··on Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)
There are some books like that already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melcher_Media#DuraBooks
anonymou2··on Why do I care the open web is dying?
Originally all software was free, it just wasn't called that because there was no closed software. It was shared like cooking recipes.
anonymou2··on SymPy 1.7
SymPy is great! I use it at work in an in-house web application where the user designs a graph (using d3.js). The graph nodes are electric energy meters, and so there are certain flows thru them. A system of equations is generated and then solved using SymPy, so one can find out what the flow is in a certain node in terms of the flows in the others.
anonymou2··on James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winners announced
I used Google as an example of what it normally means to send stuff to the cloud. Sorry If it bothered you. Insert X powerful monopoly private company instead.
anonymou2··on James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winners announced
So you send your urine test results to the "cloud". Now the Google engineers will know whether you are going to die even before your doctor does. That's just great.
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