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zaik

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About zaik

In love with Internet Standards, free software and open data.

Interests: XMPP, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49238131

    But what about relative power? US GDP / #votes in last presidential election = 208608 USD You must indeed have a big wallet if you perceive it to be more powerful than your vote. O…

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    Comment #49237936

    > easy to use without a google account I'm doing that and I had to get a second phone with a Google account just for banking and government apps. Not exactly easy I would say.

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    Comment #49232716

    The EU shows that regular voting is also an option.

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    Comment #49212525

    I never heard of this. Do we know somebody who was killed this way?

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    Comment #49154500

    OSM is interested in pictures, even of bookcases: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:image The only difficulty is data than can not be easily represented in key=value pairs, s…

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    Comment #49154182

    Have you considered making OSM itself the submission mechanism? This could be as simple as having a static guide on how to add bookcases to OSM. Your app could also act as an OSM e…

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    Comment #49149883

    How many deaths because of anti-vaccine sentiment? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_measles_outbreak_in_the_P...

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    Comment #49131374

    It's an effect of walled gardens that the communication method is conflated with the app. But people understand well that Outlook and Thunderbird is both just email. I think this a…

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    Comment #49131277

    > Developers who insert bugs I knew it was the developers!

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    Comment #49063030

    I have achieved nothing this year, and yet I have had a lot more success than Mr. Musk in the "human lives saved" category by not gutting USAID. With reasonable estimates on the we…

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    Comment #49048869

    > unknown to most Europeans Good opportunity to learn!

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    Comment #49029760

    Is clicking and double clicking some kind of voting system?

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    Comment #49003727

    Why exactly should someone acknowledge their unhappiness but then do nothing about it?

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    Comment #48975236

    Would this counterexample not be included in their search space?

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    Comment #48911791

    > it starts collecting samples from the photodiode (every ~24 µs). They also have repeated measurements which improves the precision.

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    Comment #48911099

    Most sensible Tesla valuation.

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    Comment #48901933

    Can this be replaced with the original NHK World article?

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    Comment #48892436

    > I think the era of the blog is simply dead now and that’s mostly ok. Blogspam and corporate blogs had killed quality bogs ages ago I simply instruct my RSS Reader to fetch articl…

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    Comment #48890543

    If the factory is in China but the product is consumed in the US who should the CO2 emissions be attributed to?

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    Comment #48890525

    The red line is not a prediction, it is a measurement.

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    Comment #48887241

    It is explained in the article: Any of those changes require massive or incompatible changes.

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    Comment #48887087

    That seems like a very physics focused of mathematics. What about statistics or optimization?

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    Comment #48880391

    $40k compensation for 55 years of service...