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bdjsiqoocwk··on Europe's Banks Launch Wero Payments to Dislodge Visa, Mastercard
What's the difference between UnionPay and Zelle?
bdjsiqoocwk··on Europe's Banks Launch Wero Payments to Dislodge Visa, Mastercard
This is where most things in the EU start, including the EU itself.
bdjsiqoocwk··on Europe's Banks Launch Wero Payments to Dislodge Visa, Mastercard
I like the high contrast actually, that aspect reminds me of gov.uk
bdjsiqoocwk··on X (Twitter) blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier
And the tenth time they miss.
bdjsiqoocwk··on Tesla Full Self Driving requires human intervention every 13 miles
"requires human intervention every 13 miles" is a horrible metric, because it makes it sound it's not so bad until you remember that the moments for intervention are unpredictable and are also when you're just about to die.
bdjsiqoocwk··on OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company
What you're showing me is you don't know very many different people.
bdjsiqoocwk··on OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company
Only hard if you're that kind of person. Not everyone is like that. And those kind of people have difficulty believing this.
bdjsiqoocwk··on Reading texts on paper versus computer screen: Effects on reading comprehension [pdf]
Anyone here know how it is in the UK? My kid will be starting school soon, and this terrifies me.
bdjsiqoocwk··on ExxonMobil deceived the public with plastic recycling, lawsuit claims
Yes. Because everyone is just repeating someone else's claims. This is what you get with a bunch of authority figures pretending to be scientists.
bdjsiqoocwk··on Swiss police make arrests over suspected death in 'suicide capsule'
> He said he thought she had lost consciousness “within two minutes” and had died after five minutes. “We saw jerky, small twitches of the muscles in her arms, but she was probably already unconscious by then. It looked exactly how we expected it to look,”

It always leaves me feeling uneasy when I hear professionals use language like "it's probably alright".

bdjsiqoocwk··on Previously Unknown Mozart Composition Turns Up in a German Library
It's the handwriting of the person who transcribed it, who was likely a professional.
bdjsiqoocwk··on Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting
> I call this begware

So disrespectful and so ignorant. You rely on free software without even knowing it but are happy to not dig around much and benefit from it. But heres a new project and you call it begware.

If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all.

bdjsiqoocwk··on Ask HN: Sci-fi recommendations by non-western authors?
I think in this context western isn't meant as the geographical term but as the cultural term. In that sense Poland is a very western country.
bdjsiqoocwk··on How Often Do Men Think About Rome?
43% of men thought about Rome in the past 24 hours, there as to be something wrong with this, right? I'm very into Rome and I don't think about it 43% of the days, not even close. I'm guessing there's some selection bias going on in the way these people were sampled.
bdjsiqoocwk··on Why is F# code so robust and reliable?
I love Julia, but what is your example trying to illustrate?
bdjsiqoocwk··on Telegram will now hand over phone number and IP for criminal suspects
Well, the fact that Telegram wants to cooperate to me suggests that they previously could have been cooperating but weren't, which makes a charge of complicity make a lot more sense now. Thanks France!
bdjsiqoocwk··on Telegram will now hand over phone number and IP for criminal suspects
> User data is a liability, not an asset.

Yeah Google and Facebook are all losing money in those liabilities.

No theyre not, they're printing money because user data is an asset. Stop repeating silly sound bytes.

bdjsiqoocwk··on London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids
Fines are discrimination against poor people, got it. They don't have those in wherever you're from?
bdjsiqoocwk··on London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids
The point is to stop them using highly polluting cars OR stop driving altogether OR something in the middle. So the person you're responding to is right. The "older people" were saying in a roundabout away that they'd rather stop driving than playing along by getting less polluting car. And the correct answer to that is indeed: "you've made your choice, that was the entire point".
bdjsiqoocwk··on Goodbye, Atomic Habits. The overlooked problems with building healthy habits
The author is a committed amateur.
bdjsiqoocwk··on Love of cargo bikes is changing how we deliver goods in our cities
Dont these things have high labor per kilogram-kilometer costs? How would they ever be competitive? What am I missing?

Edit:

> Another study in Brussels looking at the operational advantages of cargo bikes over vans found that when you factor in insurance, maintenance, depreciation, and energy costs, vans have five to 10 times higher expenses per parcel.

I'm skeptical. I would imagine that the driver cost is the largest driver.

bdjsiqoocwk··on Home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut
It's "tenet", not "tenant".
bdjsiqoocwk··on The unknowns surrounding the mysterious rise of cancer in young adults
What's the mechanism behind that? Being "more fit" is not exactly one single thing.
bdjsiqoocwk··on Richard Stallman, "Is Free Software Anarchist?" [video]
Stallman is always right, if you're willing to wait long enough.
bdjsiqoocwk··on Elon Musk's X Backs Down in Brazil
> Musk/X is for free speech

Can you say "cisgender" on Twitter now, or is it still banned?

bdjsiqoocwk··on Elon Musk's X Backs Down in Brazil
It's not "critical". If Whatsapp vanished tomorrow it would get replaced by the next one so fast it would make your head spin. Not saying I can guess which one it would be, but one would win and people would carrying on with their lives just fine.
bdjsiqoocwk··on Remains of Egyptian army barracks and a bronze sword unearthed by archaeologists
Random trivia about Ramses 2 (from memory, might be wrong): died at the age of 90, his 14th or something son inherited at the age of 70.
bdjsiqoocwk··on Elon Musk's X Backs Down in Brazil
Concerning!
bdjsiqoocwk··on Doctor who sounded alarm on ultra-processed food urges tougher action
I'm just gonna leave a thought here...

Young people forget how contentious the idea that "tobacco causes cancer" was back in the day. The "circunstancial evidence" was overwhelming[1], so naturally the industry did all it could to muddle the water, in the shape of making money flow towards people who were already predisposed against targeting tobacco. So the thought is: since theres an industry profiting from UPFs, the same will happen around the debate on whether UPFs cause problems.

[1] because the evidence was almost always observational from which you cannot conclude causation, unlike with randomized controlled trials, like with UPFs. They mention to this in the article.

bdjsiqoocwk··on The crypto bros crowdfunding a new country
Well I'm just happy that people like you have no power.
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