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When I worked for a german research institute we had this policy for all US travels. They did not see a necessity to do this for any other country.

No, for entering the US.

Yes. More specifically, the Communist Party of China is very proud of its ideological roots going back to Marx, Lenin and Mao. They call their economic system socialism with chines…

HN should make a rule against articles behind paywalls.

No one forces you to run windows on this machine.

No. Or it depends on what you mean by inspired. There is no need to build airplanes with flapping wings, but you could still say that human flight is inspired by bird flight. When …

I don't quite reach that number. According to Landauer's principle the minimum energy required to flip a bit is 0.0172 eV. Times 2^128 is ~10^18 J. The first google result for boil…

And it's still higher than one year ago.

No, the tradeoff is actually the other way around. Encoding with a neural network can potentially be faster than the exhaustive tree searches that are done in current compression m…

Yes and it's not even close.

This kills the S9 for me. I was hoping that they ditch the bixby button. I would rather deal with bluetooth headphones than having a useless button.

I prefer the Huawei approach. There you just need a usb-c to dp or hdmi cable and you can choose between mirroring the phone screen or desktop mode. you can also use the phone as t…

There is no historic evidence for the jews ever being in egypt.