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tanto··on Concerns about Bitcoin's energy use are overblown
The author sounds like a story teller with no idea what he is talking about. With the current transaction costs bitcoin doesn't even have a real world usage for the common man anymore.
tanto··on Call for the Resignation of FCC Chairman Ajit Varadaraj Pai
Who seriously believes it would make a difference? As the Chairman is just a puppet and will if resigned be replaced by another. The USA is not a functioning democracy anymore and you should aim at replacing your complete government and the rules how it's elected.
tanto··on Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos (2012)
What if the whole universe is full of life using Neutrino's for communiction and we just don't get it.
tanto··on [dead]
Although I would not rebuild current projects to get away from the current React Licence (as the cost would outweigh the risk of being sued) – I am definitely looking for alternatives. Right now I can't responsibly start a new project using React with the current Licence. If Facebook has really no ill intention it shouldn't be a big deal to really Open Source React. I hope they do.
tanto··on Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor?
To put it a bit colorful: Because in the Game of Nations many people want to be King. To have many Kings you need many Kingdoms. Also Unity makes you strong and usually your enemies will do whatever they can to divide and conquer.
tanto··on How Fact-Free Parenting Policies Rob Kids' Independence
Just checked your other comments. You really seem to HATE "leftism". You really should think about the fact that you are calling the political direction of many other people "cancer"
tanto··on If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it
Seriously vote with your money and just close it. I just did. More and more big companies think they can treat customers however they like. Paypal just seems to be a frontrunner. I just voted and closed Paypal. At least in Germany we got many other options.
tanto··on Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between violence and inequality
Actually: I did not ask for numbers.
tanto··on Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between violence and inequality
How about we take away everything down to 10^6$ from the 0.0001% richest and redistribute it to everyone. We repeat this with the 0.0001% of the richest every year from there on. Every time someone is chosen for this honour they get a medal.
tanto··on Microsoft mulls cutting UK datacentre investment amid Brexit concerns
The problem is that most people stopped conscious reading nowadays.
tanto··on Apple’s rotten appeal
If Apple moves to London they would need to move back to the EU in few years. London is soon not to be part of the EU.

Also the EU startup scene is most certainly not moribund. I guess you are misinformed.

And at last. The Commission doesn't want to drive out a US company. The European Union just has the expectation that companies doing business in Europe should pay taxes in Europe.

tanto··on German Leaders at Odds with Industry Over Electric Cars
I am pretty sure that would violate a lot of international trade agreements.
tanto··on Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back
It might be that Apple did that but do you think American employees will be as "flexible" and cheap as Chinese? If American factory workers are willing to work for less then Chinese your argument definitely holds.
tanto··on 15-Inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar Has Non-Removable SSD
So if the SSD breaks I can throw away my >2.5k$ Laptop? Wonderful.
tanto··on In Germany, Syrians find mosques too conservative
Thats not correct. Some are but the turkish government is paying a lot of the imams teaching there. See here: http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2016-04/moschee-deuts... Although its a germany article. As I also have some of religious friends which are working for donation financed mosques I know for sure that some mosques are financed by the turkish government.
tanto··on Most Germans don’t buy their homes, they rent
Agreed. Building a house also locks you money. In Berlin you can spent easily 300k to get a 3 BHK apartment.
tanto··on Panama: The Hidden Trillions
Why should the biggest villains get amnesty when small time crooks get sentenced for life? I would rather prefer if the ones doing the worst crimes resulting in millions of people dying because of poverty get also sentenced for life.
tanto··on Panama: The Hidden Trillions
I think most of them are actually robber barons themself. At least the ones with real influence.
tanto··on Obamacare Premiums Set to Rise, Even for Savvy Shoppers
And what if someday no one is left to be charitable?
tanto··on Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials Warn
Might be that the study says it's a myth but I know enough people including me which did nothing else then cutting down sugar and it worked. So for me the myth seems to be true. Also to be clear not eating less I mean full on stop! No sugar for month.

Also it's generally not useful to provide links like this. I can create hundreds of "sources" for you which say its myth. I can also do the opposite. If you want to link something please link a full blown study with hundreds or thousands of participants over at least half a year. Then we can talk.

tanto··on Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials Warn
It is really hard to stop eating sugar so drastically but it helped me a lot. After that eating even a small piece of chocolate was giving me a sugar high. High in the sense of you feel it in your whole buddy and get goosebumps. Nowadays I am more relaxed regarding sugar but I am nowhere close to "bad old times". I went from 2L-3L of high sugar soft drinks like Coke and high amounts of sweets every day to zero for a while and after that started slowly.
tanto··on Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials Warn
Ask your brother to stop the intake of sugar completely for 3 month (including all the hidden sugar in any processed food). I know this from myself and couple people which had acne that if you stop the intake of artificial sugar long enough the acne will mostly vanish. Even today whenever I eat high amounts of sugar I know for sure what will happen. I think this is a good example of misuse of antibiotics.
tanto··on Show HN: In-view.js – Get notified when DOM elements enter or exit the viewport
For example store img src tag in data-src and then set src when image comes into view. So to say lazy loading of images.
tanto··on Show HN: In-view.js – Get notified when DOM elements enter or exit the viewport
Depends on how you use it and on how much elements. I am not sure if this is even worth to be a library. Sometimes I am wondering why people want to use a lib for everything.
tanto··on ReactOS 0.4.1 Released – Activation Context, USB, UniATA, BTRFS
Looks amazing. Wouldn't "Oracle vs Google" if Oracle gets his way kill this project?
tanto··on JavaScript async/await implemented in V8
> (e.g. multiple concurrent calls via Q.all, multiple "returns" via callback arguments)

How about:

  async function main () {
    try {
      const responses = await Promise.all([
        fetch('https://api.github.com/orgs/facebook'),
        fetch('https://api.github.com/orgs/facebook')
      ]);
  
      const jsons = await Promise.all(responses.map(res => res.json()))
    } catch (err) {
      console.log(err)
    }
  }

I think this is pretty clear and not needing any library for this is quite nice.
tanto··on JavaScript async/await implemented in V8
actually .json() returns a Promise. The first fetch only returns HTTP status code and some other details. The content itself is streamed. You can also access the stream if you want too. In general you would rather just call .json() and get the parsed data.

The fetch function can for example also be used to get images. There you would use .blob() and assign that to an image.src with URL.createObjectURL(blob);

See here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/U...

tanto··on JavaScript async/await implemented in V8
The moment I started using async await (with babel) combined with the new fetch API so many libraries got obsolete.

Getting data is as easy as:

  async function main () {
    try {
      const res = await fetch('https://api.github.com/orgs/facebook');
      const json = await res.json();
      console.log(json);
    } catch (e) {
      // handle error
    }  
  }
So I am quite happy when this lands in modern browsers asap.
tanto··on Flywheel energy storage
Why are Flywheels not more common as an energy storage? Based on the Wikipedia article they seem pretty amazing if magnetic bearings are used.
tanto··on Berlin anti-TTIP trade deal protest attracts hundreds of thousands
IMO the "Der Spiegel" changed a lot since the death of Rudolf Augstein. Consider for example that for a while their assistant editor in chief was the former assistant editor in chief of "Bild". Which is very popular and very much on the "right" side of the political spectrum.
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