ErsatzVerkehr

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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
Thus it is all the more surprising that in present-day Germany one must register one's residential address and religion with the local government.
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
> Where the actual door to your apartment is remains unknown to the mailman, post office, and person sending you mail. This is true, but, given that the building itself is identified, I think this provides a negligible amount of privacy.
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
> Never seen this in Germany. Not that I remember, but most places, no, this doesn't happen. What are you talking about? Every apartment building has a set of labeled doorbells at the ground floor.
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
> Even when registering with the government they have what floor number you live, but not the apartment number. The local (German) government knows exactly where I live. My apartment doesn't have apartment numbers - as far as I can
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
...assuming a completely random outcome.
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
Do you really want to associate yourself with Klout?
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
> Using these data, scientists will choose a landing site for the mission’s 100 kg Philae probe. The landing is currently scheduled for 11 November and will be the first time that a landing on a comet has ever been attempted. In fact, gi
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
Does Yelp have any duty to "protect" them?
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
> As people mentioned this site is an exception to how to do things, in that PG actively does not care about search engine results. Is pleasing Google now the only reason to obey the HTTP spec?
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
> This seems like something that should be self-evident to pretty much every high-school educated adult on the planet. You, sir, are an optimist.
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
I'd say he was an engineer AND a philosopher.
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
He was a bit crazy in some ways - I tried to read his books, but they are full of too many self-invented words to be readily made sense of. He was a visionary who saw much earlier than most that our planet has finite resources that should b
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
Here's an example of process migration implemented in Linux: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSIX
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
that's a nonsense phrase.
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
For example, solids are "solid" largely because of the Pauli exclusion principle, which says that two fermions (such as electronics) can't occupy the same state at the same time. These effects are so familiar, and we explain
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
Does anyone even know who the German president is? (Hint: it's not Angela Merkel.) I live in Germany and I wouldn't have been able to name him.
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
This American Life recently featured an episode on (false) confessions. I found one of the stories in particular quite painful: the suspect who confessed just in order to get the interrogation over with, the cop who didn't realize t
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
In which Linus is calm, friendly, and helpful!
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
> I was thinking about picking up an intro to CS book to begin learning CS. Would this book be good for this? No, absolutely not.
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
It's the halting problem, not the parsing problem.
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
For the case of normal income, usually income tax is paid to the country where you are working. The U.S. also claims the ability to tax the income of U.S. citizens working in other countries, but for incomes below $97k/year the Foreig
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
But who will guard the guards who are guarding the guards?
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
"You're one of today's lucky 10,000!" http://xkcd.com/1053/
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
Cooperative multitasking and a lack of protected memory does not really lead to a robust system.
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
Why should OS vendors also supply cloud storage? Who would provide this cloud storage for Linux distributions?
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
Where can I find a code example?
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
Here's the USGS report: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000kn4n#... M7.3 , offshore
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
These alternatives would all have their own pitfalls.
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
Agreed, but, do most of the users of SnapChat care?
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by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
> I'm not finding much sympathy for users of a system built on the premise that they should not have access to data on their own device One of the more out-of-touch HN comments I've seen in a while. And that's saying a lot

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