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by ar0 9y ago
I think the author misses a key ingredient when he talks about the “lack of skills”: German companies are notoriously stingy (or frugal, however you want to call it) when paying their engineers. Combined with a hesitation to greatly differe
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by ar0 9y ago
Just in case anyone is reading here first and because this could really hurt the business: The infoteam.ch people have stated above[1] that the provider was not Metanet. (I do think, however, that it would be important to know.) [1]: htt
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by ar0 9y ago
I like the way it works in France: There, many coffee shops have set-up co-working rooms, which are separate rooms where you can rent a place by the hour. Yes, it is a bit more expensive (usually ~20$ for a day), but you get the same "
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by ar0 9y ago
Some points (probably not complete): a) You can ask your trading partners to trade with you in your own currency, which eliminates currency risk for your companies. E.g. an American company can just sell their stuff for a fixed USD price, a
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by ar0 9y ago
And what's worrysome for Amazon is that in this case it is just a small step to go a bit further: If you don't care too much whether the item is junk, you can just buy it on AliExpress. Most likely it will be cheaper than Amazon
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by ar0 9y ago
Can you elaborate on the laws you mention a bit? I understand that there are requirements for organizations (GebüV and VAT-related laws), but for people ? Which documents do you need to store physically as a private individual in Switzerl
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by ar0 9y ago
And the article doesn’t even mention the Cliqz controversy [1]. How can you try to promote your browser as the privacy-oriented, user-first alternative and at the same time run into shitstorms like this all the time? Shouldn’t there be some
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by ar0 9y ago
So, what is your suggestion here? Should they run with the most open interpretation (i.e. allow anything that is socially acceptable somewhere on earth) or most strict interpretation (i.e. limit stuff that might be offensive somewhere on ea
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by ar0 9y ago
OpenCollective is pretty expensive: 10% fees for them plus 2.9% plus 30 cents per transaction for Stripe. (See https://opencollective.com/faq ) Of course, they also provide a lot more services - in a way, they manage bookkee
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by ar0 9y ago
I believe one reason they do it this way is that they want to ensure that they stay firmly in the realm of donations and might not inadvertently move to selling stuff (by creators starting to provide benefits to people who donate). This is
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by ar0 9y ago
In fact, that’s how Google started out with AdSense as well: It was called “content targeting advertising”, because Google scanned your webpage and then served ads that related to the content of your webpage. I don’t know what happened alon
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by ar0 9y ago
Huh. Does this tool encrypt your files before sending them? If it is like “WeTransfer”, you would expect your files to be available only to people who know the private sharing link. However, my understanding is that IPFS will publish the fi
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PeerPad – A realtime P2P collaborative editing tool powered by IPFS(peerpad.net)
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by ar0 9y ago
Isn't the excitement a bit overblown here? What I understand from the rule change is that it would allow the DHS to search for you on Google and look at your Facebook and Instagram profile before granting you a greencard. Frankly, ever
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by ar0 9y ago
You hear this a lot, but I don't really get this... Everyone is using email and I have never heard anyone complain "email implements a very very confusing username system" because alice@gmail.com and alice@hotmail.com are not
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by ar0 9y ago
According to Wikipedia, MikePence.com was his official campaign website and other than that there is only his page on the whitehouse web page and on Indiana's state government ("former governor"). So I don't think this i
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by ar0 9y ago
Isn't "any [money] you receive [...] may later disappear" actually pretty common with credit card chargebacks?
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by ar0 9y ago
Although it's hard to make people believe in the value of money they think is worthless -- even with guns. Otherwise we wouldn't have had this many hyper-inflations throughout history. (Nevertheless many governments do not accept
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by ar0 9y ago
But of course they can only offer these prices because the wholesale prices for roaming are capped across the EU (this has been the case for a while now, they have now just reduced those rates further). If the UK operators wouldn't be
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by ar0 9y ago
Note that the article makes a crucial assumption: That all those unfounded future liabilities (most of which are pensions etc. I assume) of governments are fixed and cannot be changed. This isn't true, though: By changing the law, thos
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by ar0 9y ago
Targeted phishing. After all you know that all of these people are Bell customers and some of them will have used email addresses they haven't used anywhere else, so they will expect emails from Bell and might not expect phishing to th
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Several openSUSE services disabled due to a security breach(lists.opensuse.org)
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by ar0 9y ago
And, to be fair, how many fewer affected users would have learnt about this because they are not aware that their HP laptop is running a "Conexant audio driver"?
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by ar0 9y ago
Just to avoid any misunderstandings, from the article: "There's no indication the driver package uploads or otherwise distributes any of the logged information." The software writes all key presses to a debug logfile on your
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by ar0 9y ago
I also never said that "they made up a terror threat and lied about the contents of information in the raid". There are thousands of pieces of intelligence being gathered every day from various sources about potential new terror p
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by ar0 9y ago
Just to set the record straight: I never once in my comment talked about "evidence of conspiracy or fraud on the part of the government". You are putting words into my mouth here. All I am saying is that in my opinion the intel is
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by ar0 9y ago
While I agree that the prior comment was condescending and not very helpful, I think the key arguments (already put forward elsewhere in this discussion) against the "they have good intel" argument still stand and so far have not
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by ar0 9y ago
You're correct, I wasn't precise there. Good call! In fact, now that I think about it, there's also another potential and innocent explanation for this (pure speculation, though): Maybe the insurance companies for the transpo
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by ar0 9y ago
No, not really. The "nothing is amiss" argument goes like this: a) Until 1971, gold was regularly moved between central banks. The United States exchanged U.S. Dollars against gold and Germany made use of this. Obviously, it was
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by ar0 9y ago
> It's cheap but not quality. Do you care to elaborate on that? If I look at the Times Higher Education ranking for Teaching, I see e.g. Heidelberg University on world rank 43: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/wo

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