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hn23··on Last German kaiser's heirs fight for riches lost behind Iron Curtain
If it was, they should have cared about it earlier. Right after the borders opened...Now, after lots of stuff was reconstructed and supported with tax money, they come back....
hn23··on Last German kaiser's heirs fight for riches lost behind Iron Curtain
Interestingly they claim it right after lots of their former property was reconstructed...
hn23··on The World Has a Germany Problem: Debt Obsession Ate the Economy

  > Realistically, America has no ability to pressure Germany into changing its domestic policies.
This statement is so false. US is already pressing to spend idotic amounts of money for military budged.

Next time in NYT: Germany has too much debt. Us rating agency about to drop rating...

hn23··on Bringing Serverless to a Web Page Near You with Hugo and Kubernetes
Have not looked into it but I feel that the headline qualifies for tech bs bingo...
hn23··on TV networks vowed to cut back on commercials but stuffed in more
I am not watching TV nor do I have time/waste time for streaming services. But if something would convince me to watch it would be good content. The simple option would be fewer commercials and good content. They would not even have to produce it. Go to some archive and show stuff from 20-30years ago.
hn23··on A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches
Well, he was asking for pseudo code. So this could be at a high level where you do not really have to fear bugs, do you?
hn23··on Lockheed's Skunk Works Building Bigger Fusion Reactor
Thanks, knew this one already :)
hn23··on Lockheed's Skunk Works Building Bigger Fusion Reactor
Maybe also interesting in this context:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X

hn23··on Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. Microsoft
Malicious gossip has it that you have to perform these tests with Google/Amazon when the Mechanical Turk is not sleeping.
hn23··on Black soldier fly maggots: high in protein with a small carbon footprint
I would say it is not allowed to feed them trash when you want to sell their flesh:)
hn23··on Neural Network in Glass Requires No Power, Recognizes Numbers
Here is the paper: Nanophotonic media for artificial neural inference

https://www.osapublishing.org/DirectPDFAccess/41E7D08F-B350-...

hn23··on Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
To me this is a really cool marketing stunt to bring even more people to Amazon prime.
hn23··on EU opens Amazon antitrust investigation
So first you have to get rid of lobbyists. Your voice is heard every election; that of lobbyists every day.
hn23··on EU opens Amazon antitrust investigation
Something sponsored through Ads is not free. You pay for it when you buy products.
hn23··on EU opens Amazon antitrust investigation
On onw hand you are right. Pn the othrr hand it is pretty easy for a company with the size of Amazon to lobby against fixing tax laws.
hn23··on China's rising tech scene threatens US brain drain as ‘sea turtles’ return home
Fun fact: Chewing gums do not rot as they are rubber like car tires. And usually it is not allowed to throw car tires on the streets (learned that from a kids show recently!!)
hn23··on Boeing 737 Max Grounding Could Stretch into 2020
Ha, I thought the funding would be less obvious than in the US. Amateurs, everywhere! :)
hn23··on Sending 1.2M Tweets
Free yes but they come with an energy tag on it. (backup and redundant systems etc). I wonder how much energy it would take to store it like this compared a local hard drive and simple PC or Raspi.
hn23··on Boeing 737 Max Grounding Could Stretch into 2020
Do you realize that Airbus is not bound to a single government? There is France, Germany, Britain, Spain...
hn23··on A Navy veteran refused to accept a ‘no’ to his battery invention
It really reads like an inventor story in Europe. The German who invented Lithium Ion batteries also run across the country and nobody was interested until Sony came along and needed something for their walkman...so the story goes...
hn23··on A Navy veteran refused to accept a ‘no’ to his battery invention
Exactly my thought. To me this really sounds like a useful step of indirection. I guess one of the show stoppers was that all market players have to agree on a standard for batteries. It took years to standardize a charging point/ cable.
hn23··on First Moon landing was nearly a US–Soviet mission
Nevertheless it is technically pretty impressive if you take the computers of that time, esp those made in Russia, into consideration. The Russians where into unmanned space exploration pretty early.
hn23··on Sonic Devices Play High-Pitched Noises to Repel Teens
I am way over their age but can hear it. WTF.
hn23··on MEPs back EU ban on throwaway plastics by 2021
My point is: The idea of the law was to reduce the plastic output but quite the opposite happened. Every bigger company introduced their own version of plastic bottles you cannot bring somewhere else.

Also your number is also very specific: Are there non PET single use bottles as well? What counts as recycling anyway. Shipping to China? Burning?

hn23··on MEPs back EU ban on throwaway plastics by 2021
Austria. In Germany it is the same ir worse. They introduced a deposit fee on plastic bottles a few years ago because the percentage of glas bottles sold was too low. So all super markets started to create their own proprietary bottles (only to be returned to the originator; not any shop as a glas bottle) and now even more plastic bottles are sold and not returned. Markets like REWE or ALDI make some extra money.
hn23··on MEPs back EU ban on throwaway plastics by 2021
Meanwhile all my vegetables, fruits etc is double packed or I pay three times the price for unpacked stuff. In my home the amount of plastics I have to put into the yellow bin has quadrupled over the last 10years.
hn23··on Developers don't understand CORS
I have read $somewhere that it accumulates in testicles.

And why would I coat surgical instruments?

Edit: Just one article how healthy Teflon is:

https://fortune.com/longform/teflon-pollution-north-carolina...

hn23··on Developers don't understand CORS
From the title I expected a simple explanation how CORS works...my fault..
hn23··on Law of Demeter
I think that a good abstraction is not always obvious. For example, in our old code base from 2008, which is still in production and extended, the main idea was inheritance can solve DRY. Many developers still stick to abstract class just to save a few lines where they could go with a strategy or just split up.

I wouldn't call this over engineering. I call it laziness to learn and refactor.

hn23··on Renault's driver UX is a disaster waiting to happen
Try Peugeot as well:)
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