DominikR

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by DominikR 11y ago
> I'd much rather be an anonymous technologist than an anonymous luddite. Luddite? Do you even know what this word means? There is currently no anonymous payment technology on this planet that works universally and everywhere. In fa
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by DominikR 11y ago
A few reasons why banning cash is a bad idea: 1) When you get into financial trouble and are unemployable for some reason, there is no way for you to earn something on the side so you can feed your family and pay the bills. You can only sub
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by DominikR 11y ago
Phones are used too to conduct shady business, so is encryption and generally all kinds of things related to privacy.
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by DominikR 11y ago
And which one is the cause here? I don't see why anyone wouldn't WANT to marry up. I'm pretty sure that there are much fewer women in the high status category than men, so these men make the only rational decision (if they do
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by DominikR 11y ago
> My sister and her friends are all pretty educated women. Unfortunately, their standards have really gone up since receiving said education. Once you reach a certain level in earnings you will have a very hard time finding someone that
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by DominikR 11y ago
I'm pretty sure you edited the /s in there after my comment, but your comment makes even less sense with the added sarcasm. What's the case you are making here? Before I understood it as you defending the young males all flee
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by DominikR 11y ago
> Yeah, same as the people being persecuted by the Nazis in WW2. Actually the Nazis could only be defeated because not everyone ran away like a traitor. Millions died fighting the Nazi regime. You should show more respect towards them in
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by DominikR 11y ago
It sounds plausible, but none of us can know for sure as we don't have the source code and internal access at Apple. (maybe they can't just deactivate TouchID on its own, maybe they can but they want to protect the already existin
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by DominikR 11y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I understand this is done to protect the customers from tampered with Touch ID sensors. It may be overly paranoid but I can at least understand the motivation behind this. Changing the display als
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by DominikR 11y ago
Well, regarding hardware and UI styles you actually have a lot of choices on the Android side. And it is really hard to argue that Google intentionally slows down old Android phones. The source is available for everyone to study and you can
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by DominikR 11y ago
> there is an invisible group of people behind the president, pushing them to act and say things that they want. It is absolutely normal to have an establishment and an elite that influences the governments and the presidents decisions.
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by DominikR 11y ago
This is simply not true. I know many students that don't have a PC, only a laptop at most that is almost never used. (only to write papers) Those students are not studying anything tech related. (Psychology and stuff like that) And doi
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by DominikR 11y ago
This is truly horrible, but I have to say that I'd rather have the government use proportionate force on bad players instead of using it on business owners to have them enforce some reactionary laws and in the process limiting the free
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by DominikR 11y ago
I fully agree, but I also doubt that Sony or LG are able to create a good enough OS for the consumer market. (I cringe when I think about the Smart TV OS they use on their TVs) Apple can build, own and control every part of their hardware&#
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by DominikR 11y ago
Well, when I look at younger people (18-24) I often see a pattern of users that don't own a PC and most of the time don't even own a laptop. They use smartphones and sometimes tablets for most tasks. That might change once they ge
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by DominikR 11y ago
> Not objecting is the same as saying no effectively. You need active positive consent to be safe. Very few countries have such laws. In most Western countries sexual intercourse without objection between two adults that are capable of c
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by DominikR 11y ago
If it was just for the alleged rape in Sweden then it wouldn't make any sense to hide in the embassy for almost 4 years now, since it is very likely that he would have spent less time in prison in Sweden for this crime. It's the S
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by DominikR 11y ago
I really doubt that the Russians would kill CIA operatives. At least as long as the CIA operatives are not crazy enough to run an armed operation in Moscow.
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by DominikR 11y ago
Objectively no one has to fear starving to death as in our societies we collectively make sure that this is not possible. It doesn't matter how exactly this is organised, but it is a fact that we do. This can also be proven by the fact
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by DominikR 11y ago
In the early sixties there was a great famine in China where an estimated 15-45 million civilians starved to death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine I oppose any form of Socialism, but even I have to
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by DominikR 11y ago
I would write him a mail, might just be that it wasn't a conscious choice but he really didn't think about this. I must admit that I also sometimes fail to remember making the software I create accessible to deaf or blind persons.
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by DominikR 11y ago
The basic income that woman would receive is government revenue from taxes. If too many do what you propose then the governments revenue is reduced. How should the government then fund the next years basic income?
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by DominikR 11y ago
Yes I agree, but it is an interesting choice to ask the user to send a picture even though he didn't yet have the chance to see who else from his contacts is using Snapchat.
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by DominikR 11y ago
10.000$ per person in the US would cost 3.19 trillion dollars per year. 36.000$ would cost the taxpayer 11.484 trillion dollars per year. The US governments actual revenue for 2015 has been 3.249 trillion dollars.
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by DominikR 11y ago
> 50 years from now, I think it will seem ridiculous that we used fear of not being able to eat as a way to motivate people. Is this really a problem in Western societies? I haven't heard of famines or people starving to death here.
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by DominikR 11y ago
You are not the only one, I'm building mobile chat applications for a living (6 years now) and to this day I don't "get" the Snapchat UI. I believe the UI has been tweaked for users that are more impulsive. I know it sou
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by DominikR 11y ago
This kind of unintuitive UI was once also frequently used in Android apps. The long press. But over the time more and more high profile apps removed these features simply because so many users never knew that they could long press on someth
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by DominikR 11y ago
Well, they probably wont switch and I didn't say that this will happen. I also don't care if company X or Z wins or loses. My point is that the parent just declares what he hopes will happen as if it was a fact without giving any
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by DominikR 11y ago
You state all these things as if they were facts, even though you just hope they will happen. Microsofts market share in mobile/tablets is abysmal, at this point it is more likely that users will shift from Android/Windows to iOS
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by DominikR 11y ago
Actually it looks to me as if you are the one that took the parents response personally. The parent gave a few arguments why he/she dislikes the article (if they are valid or not is another question), that's something you did not

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