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askveron Cloud Functions: Go 1.11 is now a supported language

Nice!

askveron Frequent fliers who flew too much (2012)

Thanks!

However, this like the 7th time or so that I've tríed to read an latimes.com article linked from the HN front page and they have blocked everyone in Europe from reading it. Enough is enough.

askveron Frequent fliers who flew too much (2012)

That's actually a great suggestion!

Please, all Europeans: consider pressing the "flag" link on this and every other latimes articles you see until they are readable to us.

askveron Frequent fliers who flew too much (2012)

Can we block the latimes.com from HN until it's available in the EU again?

askveron Cloud Functions: Go 1.11 is now a supported language

Does this effort take you closer to the (supposed) goal of running arbitrary X86/ARM Linux binaries as cloud functions, or is that a completely different direction?

askveron Tidal Under Criminal Investigation in Norway Over 'Faked' Streams

If you and your buddies own the service, and you order the nerds over in Norway/Northpole to inflate the play counts of you and your buddies's music so that you don't have to pay other randos so much money: all of the other artists.

askveron The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End

Exactly. That's been one of the core problems with the 80s-style in-store "chewers".

askveron Tidal Under Criminal Investigation in Norway Over 'Faked' Streams

Yes. Insert half-serious joke about the the business ethics of a self-confessed former drug dealer (https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/11/jay-z-beyonce-b...) here.

askveron The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End

A new giant type of automated recycling station has been installed around Sweden during the past couple of years, called the "Pantamera Express". I like this thing. You dump your stuff, it processes all kinds of things at a quite decent rate (~100/minute) and in the end you get a value check that can be redeemed in a grocery store.

Here's a cheesy video demoing it (turn down the volume):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWtJdB3-bwg

It's pretty big:

https://pantamera.nu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/BFR_storpant...

askveron Saudi Women, Tired of Restraints, Find Ways to Flee

I feel that this story by the BBC, presumably filed by Jonathan Head (https://twitter.com/pakhead), was what spread wide awareness of Rahaf's realtime emergency situation:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-46773625

I was reading r/worldnews and came across this on page two. It was so strangely under-voted. I just entered the twitter URL in that screengrab and saw a scarily fresh video of her attempts of blocking the door to her hotel room (air-side @ BKK, "Miracle Hotel", where they had put her waiting for a flight to Kuwait). That made it so real. I posted that link and it got thousands of upvotes very, very quickly. I hope that spread some awareness, somehow.

Afterwards I feel quite a bit upset that media in Sweden under-reported this event. I'm pretty sure it's the confused feminism/Islam alliance that caused this.

The countries whose journalists really stepped up here were: The UK and Australia.