DocTomoe

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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Sure. But there are also plenty of very necessary jobs which are not permanently engaging. Airline pilots tend to do love aviating, but spend most of their flight standing by in case the autopilot goes awry. Most medical doctors don't
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Just a friendly interjection: "hacker" does not necessarily imply "software engineering" or even "engineering". Especially us old-school folks understand "hacking" more as "curious, out-of-the-bo
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> I would like to share my discoveries , but not sure how yet. Having gone down a similar path (but more oriented towards a weird mix of Shamanic, Daoist and Zen ideas, with some Hindu aspects mixed in), I think it is nice to exchange id
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
That exists, it's called Disneyland.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
lex iniusta non est lex. We've philosophically explored that idea for millenia. It's time to act on it.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
No, no more buying used cars from private citizens. Got you. Sure, you could do this by the bank, wait for a few days, then constantly wonder if it arrived, and/or if the car seller is scamming you, while the (honest) car seller wond
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
The "resurrection scene" from "Das Boot" does that for me: In the scene, a German submarine, against better knowledge, follows orders to pass from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and gets - to absolutely no-one's
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
After having read quite a few, security articles seem much like proposing Russel's teapot: as long as you as the authors don't demonstrate a viable exploit, it is unlikely that such an exploit exists.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
In all fairness, the situation OP described did not immediately strike the idea of a biking hotspot to me.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Sounds like the prudent way of handling your example T-intersection is to rebuild it so it is no longer a T-intersection, or to move it in a way that forces people to slow down (e.g. by turning it 30 degrees, with curves leading into it, or
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
In very broad strokes. 37500 in Metz is very different from 37500 in Paris.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Many European countries had their own version of this. Germany had Bildschirmtext (aka BTX), which failed mostly because the state controlled which terminal could be used, and it was metered in minutes, which in turn were expensive. The UK
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
You mistake the concept of money with the concept of wealth. Not the highscore-like number on your payslip is what matters - but what you can get with it. Just ask someone from Zimbabwe how they feel being a vingtiollaire [1]. So ... yes, t
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Yeah, you might update your view of other countries eventually. What you are describing are North-Korean-style mass "protests", often at gunpoint, in which it appears that a large mass of people cheer for the fall of the 'gre
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Helicopter pads are not available everywhere.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
It is a race against time, with a life at risk, in adverse traffic. Watch an actual organ being transported through London [1], back in the mid-1980s. Situation is worse today, if you talk to EMR drivers. [1] https://www.youtube.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Trying to legislate other countries? You are aware that sword cuts both ways, right?
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Not an American, but if I was: FAANG has a data sharing mandate with the US government. My own government spying on me is more dangerous than some foreign government spying on me, because it is unlikely I wake up looking into the barrel of
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
They can - if they follow Chinese laws. Which Facebook is unwilling to do.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
The more I read about the dangers of disinformation, the more I get the idea that 'disinformation' just means 'information my current government does not agree with'.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
... as will be an American company working against Chinese national security. Kettle. Pot.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> They ban them because they won’t censor factual information and won’t promote disinformation. Different censorship, different disinformation - but we have that in the west as well. The EU is several steps ahead in this race thanks to t
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
"What a strange game - the only winning move is not to play."
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
The problem is ... democracy. Why bother maybe solving a problem that's 20 years down the road if it costs you economic strength (and thus: votes in the election three years from now)?
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Between a green pasture and Biblis going online at that location, it took 6 years. Either we got a lot worse at building complicated stuff, or the real reason for building delays is NIMBYs protesting and lawmongering.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> Then pay them with state money if needed. Yeah, let's heat the fire of economic disaster by shovelling some more freshly-printed cash into it. What could possibly go wrong? Oh, right: [1] > we will choose supporting our industr
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
There is this weird idea in some circles that national budgets are endless debt pits which you just can create any amount of money from for just about any reason. This obviously is incorrect as a blanket statement - it only has some time-co
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> Germany is so poor it can't afford to pay 50% more for gas Germany isn't. Many Germans are. If missing gas leads to industry breaking down, more Germans will be. Germans being made poor, especially for no good reasons other t
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I would love to see a reference about this being actively used, in a meaningful capacity (as in: enough to prevent a countrywide blackout).
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> Germany doesn't really lack electricity. ... yet. There is an interesting report on the ARD Mediathek [1] right now in which - among other nuclear-involved people - the guy responsible the flow of electricity talks about power pro

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