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zakk··on Show HN: Compare benefits of second passport based on the one you have
Thanks for pointing this out!

I should have said that Jugoslavia had different friends that most other European countries, and Serbia inherited some of those agreements.

zakk··on Show HN: Compare benefits of second passport based on the one you have
With a Serbian passport you can travel visa-free for instance to Russia, Cuba, China.

That’s due to agreements between non-aligned counties signed by Jugoslavia that Serbia inherited.

You cannot still enter those countries without a visa with an EU passport, thus making a Serbian passport quite advantageous if you are a EU citizen.

zakk··on The tasting of surströmming
> Overexaggertion

Overexaggeration is not a word, you are overexaggerating... oops... exaggerating.

zakk··on Farewell, Google Maps
Would it be possible to use a local copy of OpenStreetMap database, not paying for API calls?
zakk··on Rav1e: An experimental AV1 video encoder, designed to be fast and safe
Many thanks!
zakk··on Rav1e: An experimental AV1 video encoder, designed to be fast and safe
> ~5 fps encoding @ 480p

How does this compare with the reference encoder?

zakk··on Ask HN: How do you send email in your early stage startup?
I didn't know this, thanks for pointing it out.
zakk··on Ask HN: How do you send email in your early stage startup?
> The "handoff" for when I email him back out of the blue from my foodotcom@gmail.com

As far as I remember GMail can send emails on behalf of another address you own:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en

This way VC Mike will have a seamless experience writing you to your @foo.com address.

zakk··on Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
I also prefer Apple Maps over Google Maps.

Google Maps are slightly more detailed, probably since Google is generating the maps automatically from satellite imagery, but for going to one point of the city to another I feel that the two apps are essentially equivalent!

zakk··on A Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve
Regarding (a), the approximation can be made as good as you want. However you are right on (b) it gets exponentially slow.
zakk··on Weird neutrino excess won’t go away, hints at new physics
Do you mean a new generation of matter, with two new leptons and two new quarks?

Cosmological data show that there should be only three generations of matter.

zakk··on Why We Disagree with The New York Times
It seems to me that the NYT allegations are not exactly fake news...
zakk··on Why We Disagree with The New York Times
> mbasic.facebook.com

Thanks!

zakk··on Leaked screenshots of Xcode 10 on macOS 10.14
That’s very different. For instance a Dark Mode does not replace blue with orange, whereas Invert does.
zakk··on Partisanship at Eurovision is becoming more blatant
http://archive.is/ojbuw
zakk··on Partisanship at Eurovision is becoming more blatant
Non-paywalled link: http://archive.is/ojbuw
zakk··on A blockchain is a specific set of choices suitable for a narrow set of use-cases
The financial crisis didn’t start in the banking sector, it started in the finance sector.

And I cannot really see how a blockchain could have prevented it... I would be interested in hearing ideas about this!

zakk··on A blockchain is a specific set of choices suitable for a narrow set of use-cases
In most situations trust between two parties can be obtained by means of a third party they both trust.

That’s how the banking system has worked for centuries.

The use case for a blockchain is narrower: it can be used to establish trust between two parties in absence of a trustable third party.

zakk··on Iceland Takes Hard Look at Tech Boom Sparked by Its Cheap, Bountiful Power
Why do I keep on hearing this fallacious argument? The existence, or even the inevitability of something, does not only this something should be legalized.

Following you argument, whether you like it or not, people will commit homicide. Let’s regulate it!

zakk··on FFmpeg 4.0 released
That’s why AV1 is a terrible name, they should come up with something else while it’s still possible changing it.
zakk··on Is sorted using SIMD instructions
It would be interesting to see how the SIMD versions work for small arrays. I suspect in this case the naive version better, and this could be the reading why compilers do not convert the code to SIMD instructions...
zakk··on Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
I didn't know this! I would gladly pay 10x its price, if Doppler supported Apple Music through MusicKit...
zakk··on Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
I don't know if it is technically possible, but a polished, fast app for Apple Music is badly needed!
zakk··on Ratings inflation on Uber and elsewhere
It’s not perfect, but it’s much more meaningful than GPA.
zakk··on Ratings inflation on Uber and elsewhere
The solution is simple: ratings are inflated since they are an endless resource. Let’s make them a scarse resource.

It’s what works in the academia, where anyone can get aribitrarily close to a 4.0/4.0 GPA, if the grades are inflated enough, but clearly only 10% of students can fit in the top 10% of the class, making this latter rating much more significant.

Simple example (I am sure there are better ways of doing so) after ten Uber rides you are given five stars, and you can distribute that to the drivers you liked the most.

zakk··on The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
> The tag feature is not always available because app developers frequently don’t allow the plus characte

Should we stop using a feature because some buggy apps don’t support it?

zakk··on Is libreoffice online a viable alternative to gdocs?
Your comment implies that there are other editors, besides Emacs, supporting Org mode...

Could you please elaborate on this?

zakk··on A letter from Drew and Arash
What does this mean, besides the corporate garbage?
zakk··on Relibc: C Library in Rust for Redox and Linux
How many security-critical bugs have been found in libc in the last ten years?

I know that in principle Rust is safer, but I am wondering it makes sense to re-implement code so heavily audited as libc.

Wouldn’t it be better to redirect the effort to some other less audited code?

zakk··on Lost Causes of Theoretical Physics (2003)
> Rigorous Feynman Path Integrals

It depends on how rigorous you want the treatment to be.

The whole machinery of Feynman diagrams is derived from Path Integrals and Wick's Theorem, so they are rigorous, at least as rigorous as standard perturbation theory using operatorial quantum mechanics.

A mathematical physicist won't be amused, though, that's correct. But I wouldn't say that Path Integrals are less rigorous than the average technique used in Theoretical Physics, and particularly in many-body theory.

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