Tharkun

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by Tharkun 7y ago
Smartphone voting sounds like a recipe for disaster. The fact that votes are cast in private in an otherwise public place is part of what makes the system work. If you let a large number of people vote remotely, you have zero certainty that
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Grandparent is talking about religious fasting, not a diet. It's likely not about calories.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
"Sex tourism" is usually implied to mean sex with people who are either underage or somehow unwilling. Travelling abroad as a tourist for sex, with willing and legal participants, is obviously fine.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
If you can disable all my addons by having a certificate expire, you can effectively remotely disable all my addons. And that's exactly what happened. The fact that this was (presumably?) not intentional is irrelevant. The switch may n
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I had never heard of this Normandy nonsense. I have certainly never willingly enabled it. Yet according to my preferences, it's enabled. And apparently it's a feature that lets Mozilla remotely mess with my preferences. What the a
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I have a bunch of privacy-enhancing addons installed, which have now all been disabled. If I hadn't read HN this morning, I wouldn't even have known why. Until now, I had no idea that it was even possible to remotely disable my ad
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Several EU countries have been blocking/DNS-blackholing certain websites for decades. Ostensibly in the name of "protecting children" or "copyright protection", but AFAIK there is no real oversight or democratic pro
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I've really grown to dislike ZooKeeper. While incredibly useful, it's pretty awful. It's nearly impossible to secure in any non-trivial setup. And it's inane requirement to reserve a physical disk [1] for its transacti
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Not too long ago, we used S3 to serve large amounts of publicly available data in webapps. We had hundreds of buckets with URL style names. Then the TLS fairy came along. Google began punishing websites without HTTPS and browsers prevented
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Not to mention that spam is frequently sent by pwnd boxen or botnets. Why would the attacker care that it racks up someone else's electricity bill?
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I'm sure this could have applications in porn as well. Want to cater to someone's specific kink? Just generate it.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Public WiFi networks really should use client isolation. Sadly, many don't.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Sounds like all those HR tech startups would violate GDPR in Europe and they should be fined out of existence. If you want to hire people, look at their CV and talk to them. Don't go behind their back making judgements based on website
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I've had Google blackhole me several times. Each time without any apparent reason. It's impossible to talk to a human being at Google who is able or willing to help. I've had similar problems with MS, but at least I was able
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I'm sure I remember reading an article on HN linking gum disease to alzheimer's...
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by Tharkun 7y ago
It's curious that the article doesn't mention allergies. AFAIK those have been on the up for decades, with more and more people being allergic to trivially common things (pollen, dust mites,...). Allergic reactions can be a cause
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Is this becoming a serious problem? Or is this just getting more press attention suddenly? We've had outbreaks and near-hysteria of various sorts (HIV, SARS, swine flu etc). But those seem orders of magnitude easier to manage than this
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by Tharkun 8y ago
If they can print a structurally complete heart -- even one without a working SA node -- they would probably be able to print working replacement valves. That would be huge news. Animal replacement valves don't last forever. Nor do art
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I thought that whole printer dot thing was just a hoax? Is it real? How does it work? Is there a central registry of who owns which printer?
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by Tharkun 8y ago
It's a matter of delegating responsibility. The stack is too deep and too complex for any one person to understand. I have a good understanding of the Java language and the JVM. At some point I have to trust the JVM engineers to get th
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Why not? My local mexican place does interesting things with cacti, very tasty. If you've ever had sushi you've probably had seaweed..which is part of the algae family.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
What's your basis for this rather contrary opinion?
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Belgian here. Growing up, most of the stuff I watched on TV was either French or English (Belgian TV had little to offer at the time). There were no subtitles. I mamaged to pick up a good deal of French and a great deal of English in this w
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I think you misunderstand PassivHaus. Ventilation and air quality are a big part of it. If there are smells or high CO2 levels, it's not up to the standard.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Depending on where you are and what your house is like, it could be feasible and financially viable to retrofit your house. In other places (Japan comes to mind), houses have a relatively short shelf-life. Making passive the default could h
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by Tharkun 8y ago
For me it's not a matter of bandwidth, just the cost of the number of SIMs needed. I have hundreds of devices in the field, many in locations with no wifi or wired internet available. They all have sim slots, but the cost (in Belgium)
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by Tharkun 8y ago
This is the usual marketing nonsense. But unless mobile carriers start offering very cheap plans for IOT devices (which is in itself unlikely), I don't see this happening any time soon. WiFi is pretty much here to stay, and is much mor
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by Tharkun 8y ago
The books I've bought through Kobo are DRM-encumbered. They work on my PocketBook, but only after I set up some Adobe DRM thingamabob. Not sure whether it's easy to break.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
A house insulated to PassivHaus standards will drastically reduce the carbon footprint of space heating. Reducing your energy needs by 90% makes the origin of said energy largely irrelevant.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Electric heat pumps + insulating to PassivHaus standards is very much competitive with carbon based fuels in colder climates. The operating cost is very low. But the up front investment can be steep.

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