MinorTom

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by MinorTom 5y ago
> Registering a business is something you can do rather easily, Not in Germany, doing so will cost you at least ~€1000.
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by MinorTom 5y ago
It's a pull from your bank account. You give the merchant your account details and sign* an authorization and they "pull" the money from your account. Afterward you can cancel the charge without giving a reason for a few week
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by MinorTom 5y ago
> The second baffling thing is how HN's react to USB-C and HDMI so differently. With USB-C / USB 4, more than half of HN expect the consumers to know which cables and port offer which features. It is the consumers's fault
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by MinorTom 5y ago
That isn't consent under Art. 5 (1) Sentence 1 a GDPR, only acknowledgement of a new Privacy Policy. There needn't be an option to deny it.
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by MinorTom 5y ago
> - that denying is easier than accept > - that there has to be a single "no" button, but individual "yes" buttons for every single choice GDPR requires neither of those explicitly , this is just the interpretatio
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by MinorTom 5y ago
On my smartphone uBlock Origin adds ~10 seconds in startup delay, which is fairly annoying. Having the Adblock be asynchronous but the browser start a lot faster would be an reasonable trade-off for me.
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by MinorTom 5y ago
To expand on everybody elses arguments re:"EU law supersedes local law.." The German Constitution supersedes EU law, especially considering that some parts of it cannot be changed, but the German Constitutional Court has decided t
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by MinorTom 5y ago
The US libel laws are much more publisher-friendly - I cannot legally claim that Oury Jalloh [0] was murdered in Germany (even though he almost definitely was), whereas in the US the accused police has a higher burden in proving he wasn&#x2
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by MinorTom 5y ago
> "Proof of Capability of Work" I'm not an expert on this, but: Practicality aside this is either still really wasteful (lot's of unused compute sitting around in some datacenter) or really susceptible to attacks (e.g
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by MinorTom 5y ago
If you don't agree to the EULA you don't have a license to use MacOS at all, which means you downloading it is (in many countries) a crime. The question whether or not a EULA is enforcable is only relevant for products you bought
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by MinorTom 5y ago
Eh, as a kid maybe, but my time is too valuable to waste it going through pages upon pages of scam google results (note: google is the search engine most publishers send takedown requests to, use any other search engine for piracy). Now, a
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by MinorTom 5y ago
Note: I'm not the person to vote for more taxes, and I agree with you in principle. It's just that your arguments aren't ones. > Can i create a holding company, co-owned between me and next-of-kin and "invest" my
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by MinorTom 5y ago
That's up to the developer to implement, but totally possible.
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by MinorTom 5y ago
> > The France 10Y Government Bond has a -0.082% yield. > (Germany is -0.433% and the US is 1.289% for 10Y) To put this into context: The Euro/ECB's interest rate is -0.50% and the USD/FED's interest rate is 0.2
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by MinorTom 5y ago
They're using them, just not very efficiently. There are already rules forcing you to give up unused blocks (although they do not apply to some very old ones).
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by MinorTom 5y ago
I have to disagree, in todays internet-connected world cyber attacks are not insignificant. It is not inconceivable for an large-scale attack to e.g. turn off an entire countries' electricity distribution, and that's more than mos
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by MinorTom 5y ago
That doesn't work well with CGNAT or VPNs/Tor. That's why the latter is captcha'd more often.
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License issue fixed, thank you. [video](youtube.com)
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by MinorTom 5y ago
rclone with anything that's paid per tb, e.g. Amazon S3/Glacier or Backblaze B2. Data storage (and retrieval!) isn't cheap, however, and the pricing isn't simple.
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by MinorTom 5y ago
Interacting between the crypto space and the U.S. financial system is hard. USDC does it by being a well-regulated in the U.S. and internationally financial institution, but that's certainly not easy. Just one example (from [1]): >
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by MinorTom 5y ago
Even if you don't care about advertising to EU visitors implementing GDPR costs money. (But since a consent-management-system is useful for compliance with California's privacy law it'd make sense to allow EU visitors as well
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by MinorTom 5y ago
Do note that this isn't just a short link like with, say, bit.ly, but a vanity link like https://www.gov.uk/brexit-eucitizens , which means you actually need to check them for validity before assigning them.
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by MinorTom 5y ago
That's true if you define Google as a link search engine, but what if you were to define it as a "solution finder"? This way it just fits into the definition.
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by MinorTom 5y ago
Who pays for Windows? I certainly didn't.
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by MinorTom 5y ago
The Switches USB-C implementation is genuinely broken, so this isn't the fault of the connector. A spec-compliant charger, cable and connector will never brick anything (or catch on fire, for that matter)
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by MinorTom 5y ago
+ 25ct is pretty bad for EU cards and stripe does not support any other payment methods (important for the European market). I recommend you consider other PSPs like Adyen (a stripe clone; ~1% + 10ct) or Mollie, though I have tried neither.
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by MinorTom 5y ago
You do realize any potential Facebook alternative will face the same problems, further entrenching Facebooks market position. This even applies to federated social networks like matrix - a EU server can't easily send messages contain
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by MinorTom 5y ago
I agree that that's kind of an double standard, but copyright rules including those similar to DMCA are very widely accepted in almost all countries outside the US, too, even though not all enforce them. [1] In a simial vein I can see
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by MinorTom 5y ago
The dump needs to contain the data that is associated with your user and unless they store "user has rated Minions (2015) with 5 " they don't need to tell you that. (Quite the opposite - it would be illegal for them to do so
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by MinorTom 5y ago
It collects much less information than American credit bureaus, but the SCHUFA does save what banks you have accounts with and for how long - the longer the better.

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