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flatfilefan··on Dell’s Upcoming XPS 13 Linux Laptop Includes a Highly Requested New Feature
I can imagine password management and recovery may be the largest burden left in a well automated it support org. It’s incidents are inherently user driven so it couldn’t be fully automated away until now.
flatfilefan··on I Was Google’s Head of International Relations
Fango is “mud” in Spanish. I guess that’s the same reason behind the BRIC acronym. Easy to remember and thus viral.
flatfilefan··on One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swine fever in China
They say the low protein content of recent US soybeans was what affected their sales even earlier. I wonder in which relation these events stay to each other if at all.
flatfilefan··on Barcelona to open southern Europe's biggest low-emissions zone
I had the same thought. Also interesting to know that Barcelona is surrounded by toll roads Catalonia was supposed to make free after they paid for themselves but it decided not to. So I’ve heard.
flatfilefan··on Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
Try out Le Monde Diplomatique if you like Foreign Affairs
flatfilefan··on Americans take fish antibiotics because it's cheaper than a visit to the doctor
Not an antibiotic but an antiseptic costs $6 per box of blisters. It helps me with the yearly colds by killing bacteria. The active substance is used for both horses and humans. Now the cheap human packaging is not available anymore. Only a three times more expensive water solution that I can’t take onboard of a plain. :-( I’m sure bought in bulk for horses it’s exactly the same powder but even cheaper than $6.
flatfilefan··on Lost Passport in Dubai – Cruise Leaves Soon. Help
I know from friends that Germans can get a travel pass issued in one hour at the German Int’l. airports. Maybe the same can be done in German consulates?
flatfilefan··on California is about to allow former felons to serve on juries
I guess the question was whether he was finally found to be guilty by the jury.
flatfilefan··on Man arrested in Russia for building a fake border and charging $11K to cross it
A bogus border wall, migrants, fraud... Will he be sanctioned for the interference in the US election?
flatfilefan··on Ask HN: How do people verify time put in by contractors?
Contractors may maintain and submit detailed Timesheets.
flatfilefan··on In Praise of Plain Text
>>Try naming one GUI based application that has been around for longer than grep, sed or awk with so few changes. Spoiler: you can’t, no matter how small that application is.

A watch dial.

flatfilefan··on Ask HN: How big is your database?
I can imagine most companies customer facing data will fit in 10TB.
flatfilefan··on What It’s Like to Get Attacked by a Horde of YA Authors
So if by a coincidence you inadvertently make yourself a name being sucked into a whirlpool of SJW, is there a sure way of profiting from it? Or can you only loose if PR is not your profession?
flatfilefan··on UpHabit, Dex, and the Stilted Rise of the Personal CRM
Do they offer data enrichment? I wonder what effect will knowing things you didn’t learn directly from your friends have on the relationships.
flatfilefan··on Ask HN: Favourite books on anthropology you'd recommend?
When cultures collide
flatfilefan··on Show HN: I categorized 13000 books and built a recommendation engine for them
It’s confusing or doesn’t work at all. You need to add a demo. Maybe a short video.
flatfilefan··on Fluid oscillations in human sleep
It would be interesting to have them study brain functions during the so called “transcendental” meditation. The school claims that it were a third state of brain activity, somewhere inbetween of sleeping and being conscious. In my experience it also may have the cleaning effect.
flatfilefan··on Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency
There is the time dimension to the adoption. So Facebook already having billions of users is in a position to monetize that relationship. In fact that’s the proclaimed goal of serving underbanked (India and Pakistan e.g.) that use Facebook but can’t be targeted with ads because they can’t buy online. Whether these people start using the new currency is probably less about algorithms and more about trust in the sense of ubiquity of acceptance.
flatfilefan··on Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
Is this based on real accident statistics? If you ride motorcycle without gloves and jacket and crash you will have much more severe injuries to care about much more certainly. So I would doubt wearing a watch is a significant risk factor.
flatfilefan··on Help, I can’t learn/do something because it is boring
Don’t do boring stuff. Find and do exciting stuff. But make serious effort searching for it.
flatfilefan··on Miniscript
Miniscript language for Bitcoin is unveiled. "It's a language for writing (a subset of) Bitcoin Scripts in a structured way, enabling analysis, composition, generic signing and more."

Also here: "Pieter Wuille Unveils ‘Miniscript,’ A New Smart Contract Language for Bitcoin" https://www.coindesk.com/pieter-wuille-unveils-miniscript-a-...

flatfilefan··on People with unusually high IQ, why are you still unsuccessful?
If at first you don’t succeed, maybe failure your is your style? (C)
flatfilefan··on Yield Curves Invert in U.S., U.K
I see at least three things: it was his election promise, he preempts the imminent cyclic recession, he gains leverage on federal reserve and transnational corps. Agriculture problem seems to be preceding the trade war. For instance the soybeans sales to China are down because the protein content is down in the US soybeans.
flatfilefan··on Show HN: Translingual – Multilingual Transliteration – Phonetic Translation
ru->en "веселые картинки" -> "Vgiesgieligie Kartinki" what is every "g" supposed to do in that first word?
flatfilefan··on Websites using Facebook 'Like' button liable for data, Europe court decides
Either don’t collect and store users data or do it responsibly.
flatfilefan··on Websites using Facebook 'Like' button liable for data, Europe court decides
On the contrary, the requirements force companies to get clarity on what information they collect on users and what they do with it. It’s a good thing because the current state of affairs clearly shows that market forces failed to motivate companies here and they routinely damage their users’ rights. Willingly or unwillingly.
flatfilefan··on What senior engineers do: fix knowledge holes
What you wrote is almost a half of the "meander WTF-manifesto"!
flatfilefan··on What senior engineers do: fix knowledge holes
You can call it anti-dailyWTF.
flatfilefan··on Criminals are using deepfakes to impersonate CEOs
I wonder when this gets so bad that the only thing you can trust (apart from face to face interaction) is a digital signature. BTW, last I have heard, Microsoft is building a digital identity based off bitcoin blockchain. They may become invaluable for businesses again. I start having respect for their strategic planing. Hopefully it won't get to a criminal abuse of their dominant market position again.
flatfilefan··on Being multilingual alters your experience of time (2018)
Maybe if someone grew up at least bilingual they have different concepts built into their “brains” as children. I can only attest that learning Spanish or English as a foreign language in school doesn’t change your own perception of time. So the last statement of the article is non sequitor.
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