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by BjoernKW 6y ago
Possibly being able to identify a voter and their vote after the fact certainly is another issue, one that admittedly is more pronounced with a digital system (albeit still solvable). However, verifying that a voter is the person they claim
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
Except when it doesn't. Take the current elections in the US as an example. Yes, the system's working and it has proven to be quite resilient but those shenanigans involving mail-in ballots and the uncertainty that came with that
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
Those statements apply to in-person voting, too, don't they? How do you verify the identity of a person at the polling station? I'm not sure how it's done in the US specifically but in general it boils down to the voter handi
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
There are several coronaviruses that cause what's commonly known as "the cold". If you catch one and recover you're likely to be immune against infections from the same viral strain for some time. For SARS-CoV2 and the C
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
This is good news because it suggests that immunity for SARS-CoV2 isn't worse than that for other coronaviruses (e.g. those causing the common cold), even for those individuals who didn't become so sick they had to be hospitalised
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“We conclude that neutralizing antibodies are stably produced for at least 5-7 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection,” the team of researchers, lead by Deepta Bhattacharya, an immunobiologist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, wr
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
The fastest reinfections known so far have occurred after about 6 months and those cases are still mostly anecdotal (also due to a lack of data).
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Unfortunately and with COVID-19 in particular, many aspects seem to have become a matter of all-or-nothing propositions: "The pandemic will only ever be over once the disease has been eliminated and there are no COVID19-related deaths
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There absolutely is evidence of this. It's just not "immunity for life", which is what people commonly seem to think of when they're talking about immunity. When you've had an infection with one of those rather harm
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
Well, the rest will become immune the natural way fairly quickly: By contracting the virus. Once a vaccine is available and a large share of the population either has been vaccinated or has the opportunity to be vaccinated maintaining the c
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If anything, GDPR has made this easier provided they have the users' consent. If the user agrees you're allowed to do pretty much anything with their data. It has also become a lot easier, unfortunately, to get that consent. Both
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
I'm ambivalent on the German tracing app and the prioritisation of privacy in this case. On one hand, the app, its supporting infrastructure, and the open source process by which those have been developed and documented has been exempl
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
> Working from home is a lot less efficient than an ideal office. Only if you try to reimplement the traditional office and its processes in a WFH setting. That's an endeavour that's bound to fail. In remote-first settings comm
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
Well, those might be dismissed as anecdotal examples but Automattic, Zapier, Basecamp and GitLab clearly show that remote-first or remote-only companies can be highly successful and efficient businesses with friendly, conducive work environ
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
It’s certainly more varied than that. The large industrial breweries and their products dominate the market and the majority of German beer drinkers probably don’t really care about (and likely couldn’t tell apart) the type or specific tast
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The concept exists but it’s not exactly transparent how those costs translate into actual energy prices because coal mining has been heavily subsidised. There are estimates, however, saying that those costs will exceed the overall benefits
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
The opposite could also be true: Our brand of intelligence - the combination of brains and dexterity and environment that let us quickly advance from sophisticated tool building to a global industrial economy - is precisely the rare Goldilo
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
Well, that indeed sounds a bit like something Vince McMahon might have said.
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Yes, but that's due to aerosols being much more volatile outside than inside.
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Ask HN: What brand of rechargeable AA batteries works in the Apple Magic Mouse?
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
As for iOS-only I’d assume lack of resources. Developing and maintaining an app on multiple platforms (and keeping the code bases in sync) is no small undertaking (hence the existence of write-once / hybrid app frameworks such as Ionic
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In Germany, unfortunately "something about privacy" seems to have become the default argument against anything that a party either can't or doesn't want to implement for one reason or another. Strangely enough, privacy c
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"The years don't come without the days."
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I haven't used any of those personally but these look like a good start, to say the least: https://vinepair.com/articles/homebrew-automation-systems/ The easiest and cheapest way to automate some of the proce
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
I'd say that precisely because Zoom is under a lot of scrutiny at the moment one should stay with it as long as there are no compelling alternatives (in general or for your use case specifically). Zoom has acknowledged and addressed ma
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These platforms commoditise development work. So, you get what you pay for. I'd look for places where React Native and Xamarin developers meet. There almost certainly are Slack communities for these technologies. Such communities often
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
I'm in Germany. Given the circumstances, I'd say the situation looks pretty good over here. Overall, up until now the pandemic has been managed quite well. So far, I personally don't know anyone who got COVID-19. I'm not
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
I haven't watched "The Witcher" but "The Bard" is a common, affectionate moniker for one of the English language's most quintessential and influential playwrights and poets. If anything I'd considered that
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
A pretty boring one: My first name with anglicised umlaut in addition to both middle and last initial of my full name. I'm not exactly sure where I first used it but I've been doing so consistently for several years now. It even i
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
Compounding outcomes. Someone who consistently gets just a little better every day is more likely to succeed than someone who works insanely hard for just a limited period of time. The years don't come without the days.

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