justJanne · HackerTrans

10 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

No?

http://www.kn-online.de/News/Aktuelle-Politik-Nachrichten/Na...

This is not happening?

The EU is suing Germany in front of the ECJ because Germany is far above the levels.

The EU Commission is literally suing Germany because our drinking water is exceeding the limits, and you say it’s not happening?

This http://www.dw.com/en/eu-sues-germany-over-water-tainted-by-n... isn’t happening?

> EU sues Germany over water tainted by nitrate fertilizer

> The European Commission has lost patience with Germany over the high concentration of nitrate fertilizer in its ground water. Taxpayers could now end up paying hundreds of millions of euros in fines.

This? https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-ta...

This? https://www.thelocal.de/20161107/eu-sues-germany-over-water-...

This? http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1453_en.htm

Every news outlet is reporting on this, and you’re saying it isn’t happening? We truly live in postfactual times.

justJanne

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Or you could have people use busses or other transit methods.

Yet a common criticism when that is suggested is that only the poor use public transit, and that everyone in public transit smells bad.

Which is what I’m questioning here: Self-Driving cars provide no real technological advantage over existing transit methods, and the real issues are social problems.

And we can’t solve social problems with technological solutions.

justJanne

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> Maybe self driving cars can be the "last/first mile" in transit so that more people actually will use public transit.

So the Park+Ride concept. That’s already possible today, yet completely underutilized. A criticism often brought against transit is "I’d have to switch trains at some point", do you think these people would start using that now?

> They will be driving around and not be parked..

All the time? That’d be quite wasteful, considering most cars are only used for about 2h a day, during the rush hours, for the commute.

> I think you have to think bigger. Why would you want to own a car if you could call one at any moment with your phone with an app?

Why would you want to own a car if you could call a taxi at any moment with your phone with an app?

Why would you want to own a car if busses and trains come every 2-5 minutes at every stop, and you’re never more than 400m from a stop?

Reality is, as European cities show, all these "advantages" can already be gotten with public transit today. I’m not sure what self-driving cars actually improve compared to existing public transit methods. And especially because they’re using space more inefficient than existing transit methods, these advantages would have to be huge to make any tradeoff worth it.

Otherwise you could just invest in better transit, not self-driving cars.

justJanne

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I edited the gist, but sadly can’t edit the post anymore. Thanks, btw. I completely missed those.

justJanne

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Well, I’m just extending the previous’ posters list.

But Amazon will lower your CPU quota as well, if you use it for too long, so it’s not like the numbers of Amazon themselves even really mean anything.

The same story with storage performance – Amazon’s is horrible, but it’s network-attached.

justJanne

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Could you link the offer? I couldn’t find any in their VPS or Dedicated offers better than the 16$ VPS (which I then used for the 40$ and 80$ tier, too)

justJanne

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Simple: Seperate documents, interactivity, and programs.

If I browse the web, I usually want documents.

Sometimes I also want interactivity, like in comment forms, which could be a seperated widget which could only interact in limited ways, and only with the page and the server it connects to.

And then there would be programs, which could access even local files – but would have an installation process like browser extensions.

Giving documents access that normally just programs do is stupid, as we have seen in Word Macro-based malware, PDF-based malware, Browser-based malware (the pdf.js exploit, for example), and so on.

justJanne

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In theory, yes, in practice, Google can terminate the contract whenever they want – so they just would terminate the contract with the first company, regardless if the second company is actually the same legal entity.

justJanne

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It’s not in the article – but in the actual complaint from the European Commission.

An example where this happened is http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/09/google-blocked-acers-...

justJanne

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Yes, they aren't for-profit entities.

But they still require history, easy to use chat systems, easy integration into Dev systems, etc.

That's what was better about IRC: you can self-host and get all of slacks features for very cheap.

justJanne

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> in what real business is $7/user/mo too expensive for anything?

The whole Open Source community? Volunteer driven, donation funded projects? Non-Profit charities, mostly composed out of volunteers?

justJanne

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There are subreddits with a CSS that fixes that issue.

Take https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/4a46s0/china_h... – the indent markers at the left actually allow to collapse that comment

justJanne

11 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

By the way, your statistics are for English.

For German, where we have 14.3 characters per word on average[1], we get:

10'000/14.8 = 676 words.

676 words @ 250 wpm is 2 Minutes 42 Seconds.

A 2½ Minute article is very short, like a short comment in a newspaper, and would fit very well into a microblogging site.

[1] http://www.duden.de/sprachwissen/sprachratgeber/durchschnitt...

justJanne

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Regarding trains: In German long-distance rail, we separate between Ruhewagen (silent cars) and normal ones – if you want to have a quiet ride, go into one of the silent cars.

justJanne

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Well, the idea was to do stuff like

    @media(max-size: 200px) { #container { background: url(tiny_mobile.png); } }

    @media(max-size: 400px) { #container { background: url(small_mobile.png); } }

    @media(max-size: 800px) { #container { background: url(medium_tablet.png); } }

    @media(max-size: 2000px) { #container { background: url(large_desktop.png); } }

    @media(min-size: 2000px) { #container { background: url(retina.png); } }

Not always loading the same image is a good idea on mobile.