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by alphager 2y ago
The amount. The western diet includes tons of snacks and additional sources of calories like soda.
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by alphager 2y ago
The Notar does much more than just read the contract; he is liable for the correct administration of the transfer of ownership (done by a three phase process which guarantees that the seller cannot get the money without transferring the pro
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by alphager 3y ago
That's not sovereign citizen stuff; it's ancap stuff.
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by alphager 3y ago
Most software is internal software used by a handful of people in a certain department of a company. Even in large multinational conglomerates the applications used by every single country subsidiary can be counted using your fingers.
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by alphager 3y ago
The "money agent" acts as a cut-out and delay tactic. Usually it's combined with a parcel re-shipping scam. It works like this: "Sell" high-priced items on eBay, use the local bank account of the mule to collect the
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by alphager 3y ago
And in those areas, they use standard parts of established manufacturers.
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by alphager 3y ago
You wrote three long paragraphs without mentioning a single point where the big post was wrong or an explanation for one of the shortcomings. Impressive!
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by alphager 3y ago
That's not how routers or routes work.
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by alphager 3y ago
The CAs have automated signing and have zero labor in that part. Revoking is a manual process, infinitely more labor intensive.
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by alphager 3y ago
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixcon-2023-sponsorship-situat... TL/DR: they accepted sponsorship by Anduril, a weapons manufacturer and publicized that fact 3 days before the conference. The German scene is quite
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by alphager 3y ago
Vmware is dead. They don't plan to acquire new customers (or invest a cent in research& development). The purpose of this whole thing is to milk those fortune 500 companies that are too entrenched to migrate away.
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by alphager 3y ago
That's the whole plan. They basically only want to retain the fortune 500 customers and wing them dry. Anybody that can migrate away will do so, but the rest will be taken to the cleaners.
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by alphager 3y ago
It depends on what you want. Amazon in Germany has two problems in my eyes: It's not possible to filter out the marketplace. The marketplace is full of dropshippers with highly inconsistent delivery times. There are some things I just
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by alphager 3y ago
Sure, but they are there for the /big/ problems. The myriad of small real-life problems that sometimes are solved by an intern with Excel and VBA are way too small to get handed to the professionals. Those things that would cost j
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by alphager 3y ago
Nobody is claiming that rust wins the day. Memory-safe languages, of which rust is one of them, will get a boost. That's it.
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by alphager 3y ago
The part of the player base that cares deeply about the lore of MtG was skeptical of having My little Pony, Warhammer 40k, Lord of the Rings, Fallout and Street Fighter cards (all real btw!). The other thing is that there's a certain p
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by alphager 3y ago
I, too, hover around 40 years of age.
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by alphager 3y ago
Google doesn't acknowledge that the customer exists or has wishes. Microsoft will allow you access to the PM of the product if you are big enough, but his answer will be a not-exactly-committing "in 3 years" because their roa
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by alphager 3y ago
Working in security on the operating side (albeit not in Poland): No, pretty much just the manufacturer loses. Short term the operator loses, but I'm sure that the courts will award damages. For me, this incident is a welcome argument
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by alphager 3y ago
What's the name of the company?
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by alphager 3y ago
The analog gauges have been digital for a long time; there's a signal processor that decides how far the gauge should move and a motor that actually moves it.
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by alphager 3y ago
Because there are always more profitable projects than money. If you can liberate some money by cutting budgets elsewhere, you can run more of them. Having money left over at the end of the budget year is a failure, as that money could have
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by alphager 3y ago
Lightning is not a solution, as it requires buying into a channel and not getting your coins until the channel closes.
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by alphager 3y ago
Ransomware groups have changed their approach and now routinely steal the data before encrypting it. They then offer two tiers of payment: pay X and they won't leak the data or opt for the premium plan and get the key to decrypt the da
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by alphager 3y ago
Because the thing I use to make a living is my brain and COVID had a significant chance to impact it long term.
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by alphager 3y ago
The usefulness of said application. The fun of being part of it. Getting rid of the feeling of sadness expressed by many of the comments here. If the only human motivation factor you know is monetary, I deeply pity you.
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by alphager 3y ago
Strongly disagree. The smaller the company is, the more political it is. Because now there's no layer to appeal to or to inject sanity; it's the way of the owner or the highway. Being on the right side of the owner is the most imp
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by alphager 3y ago
Laws are not created by the commission. Laws can be proposed by the commission, but must pass an unanimous vote by the council (made up of a representative of the government of every country) and pass a qualified majority vote in the EU par
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by alphager 3y ago
It may seem absurd to you, but it's highly effective. Both general crime rates as well as recidivism are lower.
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by alphager 3y ago
I think there's a very obvious error in the calculation: The author jumps from 30mS increases the risk of cancer by 1/660 to 1 in 660 get cancer after the procedure.

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