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sploukon McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu

You've clearly never eaten pizza in Italy :P

sploukon Uber vehicle reportedly saw but ignored woman it struck

Or jaywalking will become more strictly enforced with policing or physical barriers.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/4/2/automated-vehic...

sploukon Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin

But he talked about that too...

sploukon Analysts See Oil Demand Peaking by 2030 as Electric Vehicles Boom

Why would it?

sploukon Beorg – an Emacs org-mode companion for iOS

Do you have a recommendation for the best way to synch files which may be all over my computer?

sploukon Beorg – an Emacs org-mode companion for iOS

Would you consider adding support for checkboxes?

I like to make grocery lists with org mode checkboxes, and this app doesn't seem to allow editing them.

sploukon Workers at Amazon's main Italian hub, German warehouses strike on Black Friday

Could you elaborate?

sploukon Tesla Semi

Does anyone with some technical knowledge of batteries and solar panels know whether it would be possible to put solar panels on top of the trailer and charge the battery that way?

sploukon Burn the Programmer

Would we not find archaeological evidence of these technologies? Plastic tends to stick around for a long time.

sploukon Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens

If I ask Facebook to delete my data, it should be deleted. Why does caching or reliability have anything to do with that?

sploukon Automattic is closing its San Francisco office as most employees work remotely

Maybe people will go back to Church!

sploukon Vim for Humans

Atom is the same.

sploukon University of Chicago: ‘We Do Not Support So-Called Trigger Warnings’

Well put.

sploukon Praise for Intelligence Can Undermine Children's Motivation (1998) [pdf]

Interesting quote and I think it rings true. Though I think it's not uncommon for someone to posses two of those three qualities, certainly having all three is rare.

sploukon U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad

Could you link me that thread?

sploukon Introducing Instagram Stories

This is so blatant that it is almost satirical.

sploukon Solving the Dating Problem with the SENPAI Protocol [pdf]

I called it a 'good start' for a reason. Obviously there is a lot more to social success than charm and flattery, but they are important regardless.

sploukon Solving the Dating Problem with the SENPAI Protocol [pdf]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...

A good start.

sploukon Mormon Tycoon Wants to Build Mega-Utopia in Vermont

What do you think of the American Revolution?

sploukon Trust in Government Is Collapsing Around the World

> Immigration is only unrestrained within the EU; EU free movement doesn't apply to either refugees from Syria or non-EU immigrants.

I think people are definitely frustrated with how the refugee crisis was dealt. There is a perception -- whether true or not -- that Merkel opened the floodgates for unfettered extra-EU immigration. You are right in that there seems to be no serious solutions to these perceived problems, just a build-up of anger.

sploukon Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction

Which opinion piece are you referring to? I thought that they outed him as gay?

sploukon Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction

This wouldn't happen to a good journalist because a good journalist wouldn't publish a stolen sex tape.

sploukon Apple R&D Reveals a Pivot Is Coming

Except Apple would already have reputation/brand value as well. Perhaps even more than, say Ford, since they are known as a technology company, and the cars of the future are electric and self-driving.

sploukon Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

Is there any reason I should switch to this from AdBlock Plus?

Edit: I see the chart comparing the two on your github page. Are you planning a firefox version?

sploukon This Is Not a Day Care. It’s a University

I like it.

sploukon The Triumph of Stupidity (1933)

Wouldn't any successful political movement need the support of the "stupid masses"?

sploukon Did we reached webdesign's coolness boundaries?

I just realized something.

At some point in the future, there will be a resurgence of 90s style shitty web design as a retro movement.

sploukon Turkey Shoots Down Russian Warplane Near Syrian Border

> I agree with some of the other comments, it's far too early, and even alarmist, to assume that much worse will come up this. A larger conflict is in no one's interests and is in no one's intent.

Putin is not known for his soft heart and willingness to let bygones be bygones.

sploukon We know the city where HIV first emerged

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium

If anyone else is curious like I was.

sploukon Japan's economy falls back into recession

To add to this discussion, the pyramid scheme of constant population growth to pay for the elderly is not going to be sustainable forever in first world countries.

Maybe Japan is intelligently embracing these 'growing pains' (by which I mean the pain resulting from a shrinking population, which the west will have to face at some point) now, by investing in robots and automation. I think they are getting a head start in a race against ageing that we will all (all of us with birthrates below 2.1, that is) have to compete in at some point.