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ollo··on On the subject of earwax and unsupported medical arguments
don't the ear plugs push the ear wax in?
ollo··on Barilla passive cooker
I don't understand the presoaking. In the source of the linked article, it says it takes 1.5 hours of presoaking compared to only 10 minutes when cooking in boiling water. So it seems that when you split heating and rehydrating, cooking time changes drastically.
ollo··on Typing, RSI, and what I do differently
Interesting setup, do you use the Wacom as a touchpad with your finger or with the pen? Do you have an external keyboard?
ollo··on Australia to introduce Google, Facebook legislation to parliament next week
Yes, this sounds even worse. Letting the government decide which company has to pay is definitely not fair. The government could target some companies it does not like and let other pro-government companies out of this law. Honestly it looks as if this law was written directly by mass media lobbyists. It is unfortunate that this kind of anti-democratic regulation is being passed all over the world nowadays, it is as if corporate lobbying is stronger than the common interest.
ollo··on Australia to introduce Google, Facebook legislation to parliament next week
I am not familiar with the proposed law, is this basically the same as the EU link tax? If so, it is terrible.
ollo··on Kenyan recycles plastic waste into bricks stronger than concrete
There is no proof that microplastic harms humans, so I would not call it "heavily polluting" until we have hard proof that it actually is.
ollo··on On the Use of a Life
It would be interesting if someone managed to find this PNAS (maybe?) article on the pyramid scheme of university research.
ollo··on What’s New in Thunderbird 78
Still no Windows 10 notifications? Disappointing. Alternative clients that support native Win 10 notifications?
ollo··on Real World Programming in SWI-Prolog
How would you compare your Prolog code to the Python one? Is it more maintainable, was it easier to code, etc.?
ollo··on Canada aims to ban single-use plastics by 2021
This. Thank you. Don't forget that there is no proof that plastic in oceans harms humans. On top of that, the infamous Great Pacific Garbage patch is actually made of fishing gear rather than of the despised plastic bottles.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/03/great-pacifi...

ollo··on What Does 1GB of Mobile Data Cost in Every Country?
prices have gone down significantly in Italy. you can get 70GB for 6€/month nowadays.
ollo··on Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs
The Events list in Visual Studio made everything extremely intuitive and painless.
ollo··on Oppose the Earn IT Act
Seems like another leftist movement...
ollo··on Oppose the Earn IT Act
there is no such thing as "regular people's interest". everyone's interest is a little bit different.
ollo··on Oppose the Earn IT Act
> As a european, I don't see any party that actually have american people's interest in mind.

As a european, I don't see any party that actually have european people's interest in mind.

ollo··on Oppose the Earn IT Act
The socialists voted in favour of Article 13.
ollo··on Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development
I would like to know this as well. If it is clear how to do so, I'd gladly join.
ollo··on Tons of microplastic rain onto western US
Producing cotton clothes also releases more CO2.
ollo··on Symbian Won
You could even program in Python!
ollo··on Why is AI so useless for business?
I am an AI researcher but and I would love to investigate useful systems for business, but I have no idea about the business processes that this article mentions.
ollo··on WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web
Why should I use this instead of Zotero?
ollo··on Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coronavirus
> And we still occasionally get bad weather. I predict that scooter and bike usage will drop extremely fast once it rains for a week or two, or, god forbid, we get a real winter once again, with snow and sub-zero temperatures

Live in the Netherlands for a week and you'd be amazed at the resilience of Dutch bikers in bad weather.

ollo··on Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coronavirus
Milan, for instance, will dramatically reduce the number of people that can access public transportation.
ollo··on Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coronavirus
Walking or biking does not always imply high density! On the other hand, public transportation can easily get crowded. That is one reason why European cities are moving away from public transportation in favour of bikes, scooters and so on. Finally, I agree that it would be better to encourage car usage during a pandemic. One reasonable reason not to do so is that parking spots are limited.
ollo··on Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coronavirus
Please note that European cities are moving away from traditional public transportation (buses, underground, etc.) in favour of personal transportation such as bikes and scooters.
ollo··on Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing
I've been using something similar but at the router level using DNS, so that it works on all devices and it is not easily circumvented. Reclaiming that wasted time is pretty nice.
ollo··on SecureDNS will shutdown on 30th of April 2020
I see a lot of comments mentioning NextDNS. How is it compared to OpenDNS?
ollo··on Show HN: Write.md – a shareable distraction-free Markdown editor
I've been using https://stackedit.io/. They look very similar.