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zaik
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About zaik
Interests: XMPP, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata.
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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...