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simongray
·позавчера·discuss
They don't act the way humans would.

It's normal to start a sentence after the other person in the conversation pauses, especially if you're eager to say something (like the chat agent is), but a real human is socially aware and would in most cases immediately cease talking if the other person starts another sentence at the same time. Humans do this so much in their conversations that the other person doesn't really register the interruption at all.
simongray
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
> Or are there other reasons why this lib was moved to TS?

I'm pretty sure reach was the motivation. The author basically wrote his own TypeScript libraries duplicating a bunch of Clojure stuff, so the code is quite Clojure-like still.
simongray
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
I don't think you can conclude much from a sample size of 1.

My country at least (and probably yours too) is producing more organic products than ever before. People are also consuming organic products more than before.
simongray
·3 месяца назад·discuss
I am pretty sure Dustin Getz is American.
simongray
·4 месяца назад·discuss
NemID, the previous national 2-factor solution, used a small card with rows of pre-printed single-use codes. When you logged in to a bank or a public sector website, it would ask for a random code at a specific row and column number. Once the system registered that you had just a handful of codes left, a new card would be sent to you via snailmail. It worked fine for the time.

The current system, MitID, depends on smartphones, though you can get an an external key generator as a backup too.
simongray
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
Maybe the momentum of Stoxx600 will last the next 4 years? Or maybe the S&P500 will come crashing down soon? Who knows.

The Shiller PE ratio is insanely high. At least the European market isn't completely overinvested in just 7 companies who are spending a lot of their money on the exact same thing, so it has that going for it.
simongray
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
> And what's the actual result? Just look at the market capitalization of European companies compared to US companies..

Europe is actually doing quite well at the moment. The European stock markets have over-performed quite decently vs. the US ever since Trump became president, despite the various curveballs thrown at Europe in recent years. Market capitalisation in the US is held up primarily by the Magnificent 7 who are great outliers in the American stock market.
simongray
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
It's a crucial step on the way. Definitely nothing to scoff at.
simongray
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
Eu Inc. will become a reality soon, so it isn't like the Commission is standing still: eu.inc/what-is-eu-inc
simongray
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
> What's the saying? Time in the market vs timing the market.

Seems like he managed both.
simongray
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
I am talking about the purpose of the law and the way it is written. It's not hard to create a law that only targets the bigger services, just make it apply to entities with a daily user count above N. A law isn't a headline on Hacker News, it's a carefully written document.
simongray
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
Why do you think it's going to be arbitrary?

The law will obviously be framed in such a way as to hit the targets it is supposed to hit, avoid collateral damage. It's not like complete amateurs are writing our laws.
simongray
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
> everyone but the biggest players throwing out a lot of bathwater with very little baby by simply not accepting Danish users (if required).

The biggest players in social media are precisely the ones that this law is targeting.

No one in charge of implementing this law is going to care whether some Mastodon server implements a special auth solution for Danish users or not, they are going to care that Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, etc. do so.
simongray
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
> in exchange for a promise to use the revenues "for good purposes".

They still do an enormous amount of charity, though activities of the foundation are probably highly localised to Denmark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novo_Nordisk_Foundation