BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 2y ago
I don't know about Switzerland, but this very famously was known to be the case in Germany: https://www.dw.com/en/german-health-care-tackling-covid-with...
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> On the other hand, a fax machine is usually located in an office that's only physically accessible to people with badge access. Well, again during the pandemic, the documentation of individual vaccinations in vaccination centres i
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
In Germany, long-established and entrenched processes and technologies are often confused with being reliable and safe. Fax machines are still widely used, particularly in public administration and larger organizations in general. The prepo
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
Quite to the contrary, regular use of amphetamines impairs the immune response, which isn't all that surprising since chronic amphetamine consumption leads to increased stress levels.
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
Prometheus Rising, for certainly being rather radical and refreshing.
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> Funny how with Germany's extensive paperwork bureaucracy where every little detail must be recorded and tracked, the healthcare workers couldn't catch this guy earlier. It's precisely because of this extensive paper-base
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
> Durchgriffshaftung The English / common law term for this is "piercing the corporate veil".
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
The thing is - other than by revolution - it's those exact politicians, who have the power to change constitutions.
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
In case of a good story, I suppose Spielberg couldn't care less if that story is entirely based on facts or mere fiction (and a good story it is).
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
> There is a pretty good explanation of this in the documentary movie 'They Live'. Featuring renowned journalist Roddy Piper, no less.
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
To this day, I still remember my ICQ number from back in the nineties. However, unfortunately the same doesn't apply to the password and I can't seem to be able to reset it.
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
I suppose that'd be my Amazon account (mid to end nineties). Other than that, my Microsoft account, which used to be my Skype account from 2003 (IIRC).
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
N95 / FFP2 masks are sufficiently effective (if worn correctly) to reduce the likelihood of getting infected to the extent they effectively prevent infection on a personal level. There's of course still a small chance of contracti
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
> It is practically impossible to avoid catching covid in modern society. For the average human going about an ordinary and active life that statement is quite true. However, the person in question didn't lead an ordinary life. He w
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
We used the Markdown plugin that comes bundled with IntelliJ IDEA alongside this Mermaid plugin for diagrams: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/20146-mermaid As for the code samples we simply used Markdown's ba
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
For "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS" ( https://stratospheric.dev/ ) we used IntelliJ IDEA. For a technical ebook with lots of code samples using our trusted IDE just was the natural
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
The Catalina one always used to remind me of a certain island somewhere deep in the Caribbean. Seems like I'm not the only one: https://www.reddit.com/r/MonkeyIsland/comments/dgwm03/the_ne...
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
We make about $1300/month (shared among three co-authors) from the ebook "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS" and a companion online course: https://stratospheric.dev/
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
MicroDot, a ZConnect point client for the Amiga
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
We make about $1300/month (shared among three co-authors) from the ebook "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS" and a companion online course: https://stratospheric.dev/
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
> And totally insecure --- as in anyone can make a copy and share it. Which is totally fine for the use case at hand and not a security issue at all, in this case. For other use cases, such as advertising, sharing would even be desired b
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
Java and Spring (Boot).
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
These days, password managers such as 1Password are easy enough to use even for non-tech-savvy people. Other than that, although the process can become tedious when applied manually to a multitude of passwords, diceware helps with generatin
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
Sexual dysfunction, for one. Additional potential long-term side effects include, but are not limited to, weight gain, feeling emotionally numb, and increased suicide risk. Furthermore, there's the SSRI discontinuation syndrome.
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
We don’t really know how SSRIs work - or if at all (at least not as intended) - yet they’re handed out indiscriminately for “treating” anything that isn’t “normal”, accepted, or desired behaviour. These drugs have life-altering - and often
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
Sexual dysfunction, for one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake_i... Additional potential long-term side effects include, but are not limited to, weight gain, feeling emotionally numb, and an in
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
I'd be very careful with SSRIs. This might very well turn out to be a case of the cure being worse than the disease. > If this turns out to be as interesting as it sounds, well buy SSRI maker stocks Unfortunately, that suggestion on
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
> [...] is a viral reservoir, possibly in the gut In that case, a gastrointestinal lavage (as applied before a colonoscopy) could be a potential remedy. It's a long shot, but since the process doesn't have any side effects (oth
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Those properties are not what people commonly think of when they attribute value to gold, though. In particular, the idea that gold is a crisis-proof currency has nothing to do with these properties, but rather the notion that because its s
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
> economic value comes from government dictate Quite to the contrary. Economic value originates from the benefit a product or service provides, nothing else. Currency (particularly if of the fiat money variety) on the other hand, has no

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