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4 miesiące temudiscuss

In Switzerland, when you pass by a building site that has opaque boards up around the perimeter, they often have a little hand-sized cutout at eye level so you can have a peek inside. It's strange, and I assume it is for the curious to have a look, not sure.

4 miesiące temudiscuss

I'm pretty sure they are. RAI have an office in Zurich, Switzerland. And I've seen these Just Eats wheeled robots driving around near their offices, delivering stuff. I would guess they are responsible for it.

9 miesięcy temudiscuss

I ctrl+f'ed to find Restfox to also give my recommendation. It's a great tool, thanks for maintaining it! :-)

10 miesięcy temudiscuss

This is very cool, the only thing I don't think is correct is Soul music branching off from R&B in the 80's. That's definitely not right, if then it's the other way around. Although the guide is electronic music, so who knows?

11 miesięcy temudiscuss

Yeah, I noticed this too when watching the keynote. It's interesting and must be deliberate, I wonder why they do this.

2 lata temudiscuss

This is what I was thinking reading TFA. Doesn't it become an AI arms race, where insurance companies use AI to deny claims, and customers use AI to fight the denial ad infinitum?

2 lata temudiscuss

Because most people would put a case on it, making it even thicker? I mean, I spent ~$1500 on my last phone, and while I treat it carefully, I'm not risking it getting smashed so I could never go without a cover.

2 lata temudiscuss

I would say the same thing for Australia. There is no local car industry there, so no protectionism from the govt. on importing foreign cars, one would assume.

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Very interesting! Dale is anachronistic in English by now I guess. I've only read it literarily as in "over hill and dale" and otherwise thought of Tal as valley in German.

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I recall around that time reading a story where if Steve Ballmer would catch you using an iPhone on the MSFT campus he would blow up. At the time, comments were "make a better phone" but I agree with your position. It's surprising though, eating your own dogfood is one of the golden rules of development. Such a pity Microsoft didn't stick with Windows Phone.

3 lata temudiscuss

It's a human check after you use the self-scanning checkout, they verify that what's on your receipt is what's in your bag.

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First time I went when I was in America, I ordered I think a medium with sugar. It was this gigantic 1 litre cup of very, very sweet "coffee". Had to throw it away, absolutely undrinkable. I'm very far from a coffee snob and that blew my mind.

5 lat temudiscuss

Eh, wouldn't the extra weight just degrade the battery performance and maybe the ride handling? If you're considering a new bike, it's like (note these are made up, I have no idea about Zero motorcycles):

- Premium/unlocked Zero: 30k -- range 200km -- handling: excellent

- locked Zero: 25k -- range 150k -- handling: average

These are one physical bike but with two prices and characteristics, and can be judged accordingly. If your budget is 25k you price the locked Zero against other bikes in the same budget.

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Maybe honesty would have been better, but at the beginning when nobody knew how bad the pandemic was going to be, I'm sure almost everybody would have stockpiled as many of the "better" masks as they could get their hands on.

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Magic Leap too?

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I saw the same comment on a different thread today, so I decided to have a sceptical look at the summary and analysis link. From that link:

> Here is the pro-vaccine argument: “It isn’t the absolute number of deaths that should be compared as there are 20 times MORE people vaccinated over age 50 (where most deaths occur) than unvaccinated. The UK has a 95% vaccination rate for people over 50. The rate of deaths is much, much lower in the vaccinated population. The rate of death is the number who have died in a population (vaccinated or unvaccinated) relative to the size of the population, usually expressed as number per 100,000 people. With 20,000,000 vaccinated people over 50, the death rate is 3.2 (per 100,000 people), but for the 1,000,000 UNvaccinated people, the death rate is 32 (per 100,000 people) — ten times higher. In other words, the vaccine is 90% effective against death, consistent with what was found in the original clinical trials.” Of course, the chart also shows that people who are UNvaccinated are twice as likely to need overnight hospitalization than vaccinated people (4,033 vs 2,204), and thus this is one of the strongest justifications/reasons to get vaccinated.

I'm glad what appears to be an anti-vax article was actually showing both sides.

5 lat temudiscuss

Don't car makers normally create 'platforms[1]' anyway, where a bunch of designs and production features are re-used across brands in the group?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_platform

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Almost every company in Switzerland that produces software has a bunch of eastern Europeans on the payroll, that either immigrated to the country or work remotely. But if the company started in Switzerland, or management and especially senior devs are based in Switzerland, I feel like that's good enough to apply the "Swiss quality" marketing because the Swiss _do_ have high standards and expected high quality of work produced.

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It is sometimes hard (or impossible) to completely remove sugar, as some items contain natural sugars e.g. even natural yogurt without added sugar contains sugar from sucrose. There was a diet that gained popularity in my country that was the "5% sugar" diet. Here on the labels of items there is always the per 100g reference, so if the sugar is <=5 on that column, you're good to go. So it's easy to stick to and it's interesting what gets filtered from eating in this way.

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The majority of the population was actually willing to do this, as it was a referendum that captured 50.3% of the vote. But it also had to capture a majority of the cantons in the country, which it did not do. And so the initiative failed.