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MPC Live has an internal battery
> Can you get a decent synth, sequencer, and sampler for the money? Well, not necessarily.
Not even close to true. Deluge, MPC Live, AKAI Force are all waaay more capable and cost about the same new as a used OP-1.
Nobody can answer that seriously without knowing your situation in life. Age, family, job, etc.
Can we stop hyping blog posts by tech people writing about epidemiology and medicine? I'm shocked how much baseless speculation and misinformation is being shared on HN.
The tech billionaires of this world will not fund anything based on a layman's explanation. They want to fund ideas based on reliable research. The Gates Foundation is staffed with tons of specialists for this reason.
A Saudi government owned Tesla will lose me as a customer. If you're eager to do business with the Saudi government your moral compass is seriously out of whack.
That makes more sense.
Maybe better to change the article because it states the opposite:
"I found myself at a point where I got so desperate that I was close to taking all of my stuff offline. But in the end I didn’t. I decided for the middle way: For some projects it’s worth the hustle and for others not. One project I ditched was datenschutzhelden.org."
That reads as: GDPR compliance was such a hassle you almost closed all your projects, in the end you only closed some of them and replaced them with WBM.
I've just about had it with these GDPR shitposts on HN.
The website the author talks about (datenschutzhelden.de meaning "data protection heroes") was apparently a platform to share tools and best practices for online privacy. Now it turns out the same guy running that website thinks it's too much hassle to remove Facebook integration and offer a cookie opt-out.
That's truly next level hypocrisy.
This is addressed in the article.
> the article suggests some of them wrote online
I think you read that wrong. Quote from the article:
"Many of them have written accounts of their decisions to leave the company, and their stories have been gathered and shared in an internal document, the contents of which multiple sources have described to Gizmodo."
It says in the article that the drop equals 5.15% of total visits. Please read the article before commenting.
The Berlin housing crisis is very much happening almost everywhere. City-wide average rents increased 45% between 2009-2015. Rents doubled in some districts in that timeframe and even in the least affected areas (Marzahn and Spandau) rents increased by more than 30%.
This seems to be a great balance between helping new banks get off the ground while keeping a tight oversight regime in place. For an interesting example of what happens when you deregulate your banking sector too much: I remember doing research on the Ukranian banking sector about 10 years ago, there were over 900 banks in operation. Many of them seemed to be oligarchs setting up banks and leveraging their capital to lend their own/their friend's corporation a ton of money. The borrower would then simply default on the loan and the bank would go bankrupt...
Really depends on your location. WeWork Berlin has absurd prices for the local market. The city already had plenty of great coworking spaces at half the price long before WeWork showed up.
The future of energy is mostly black hole farming.
After reading the actual underlying study the article headline seems bogus.
The study simply found an association between the amount/quality of time spent with a person and closeness of the friendship. There's nothing in the study design that allows us to distinguish whether spending time together creates friendships or if spending time together is only an indicator of a friendship. Could simply mean that feeling close to someone leads people to spend more time together.
"Times does not list which investigators they have spoken to directly."
"Times does not indicate which "investigators" believes that."
Not disclosing your sources is journalism 101. You will have to choose to trust or mistrust the professional integrity of NYT journalists and editors. Integrity is the NYT's main selling point, so make of that what you will.
You could still pay the military with any other currency, including crypto. You cannot buy drugs online or easily finance terrorism anonymously without cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency enables new illicit transactions and marketplaces.
"Probably the major cause of deaths in the world is the US Dollar"
How did you come to this conclusion? At least Bill Gates gave his reasoning for his statement.
Also: Whataboutism.
> Can't they just help more directly to eradicate polio instead of paying a corrupt government to do it?
That's not how any of this works. You don't just go to a foreign country with its established health care system (and national sovereignty) and start building seperate health care structures through your NGO without government approval and ownership.
What you do instead is build broad alliances between the government, international donors and implementing agencies (which may include foreign NGOs). Financial and programming oversight is performed jointly by all partners.
This particular Japanese loan was part of broader international funding for Nigeria's National Polio Eradication Programme. The money was channeled to UNICEF and WHO to procure Polio vaccine and to improve related health care services in the country. The involvement and leadership of the Nigerian government is crucial to make sure you have political legitimacy and to create sustainable policy change and improvements in the national health care system.
> in "stop being lazy" it is a verb
It isn't.
According to the video on the linked website, ZARM can do 3 drops a day with 4.7 seconds of microgravity per drop.
I've unintentionally sent emails by absent-mindedly hitting the wrong sequence of keys on my keyboard.
"They ran their business into the ground, but they did it with such great tech!"
The fine is 5% of daily Alphabet revenues, per day.
You can land safely above maximum landing weight, although it
might cause damage to the tires or in extreme cases to the landing gears. Overweight landings are performed frequently[1] in emergencies, especially when an emergency occurs on or right after take-off.
There may still have been other overriding reasons not to land at the closest airfield in this case. We just don't know enough yet.
[1] http://avherald.com/h?search_term=overweight+landing&opt=0&d...
It's too early to tell what factors went into the decision to divert to Perth. Aviation is incredibly complex and armchair speculation by people outside the industry is almost always going to get it wrong.
As per usual, more well-founded technical discussion on this incident is ongoing over at AV Herald: http://avherald.com/h?comment=4aac9f14&opt=0