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by ar0 10y ago
The SBB Ticket machines already sell pre-paid phone top-ups and Paysafecards (cards that can be used for payment in some online shops). So this is really just adding another vendor (SweePay) to this platform.
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by ar0 10y ago
DKB Bank (dkb.de) offers German bank accounts for people living outside of Germany (and they're even free). You'll get a Visa card and an EC card with it. However, I am not sure if this also applies to Australia or only to other E
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by ar0 10y ago
To be honest, I am often wondering: wouldn't it maybe be better to have a provider that has clear data limits in place (and reasonable charges for exceeding them) but otherwise provides full, unrestricted, unmonitored high-speed connec
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by ar0 10y ago
Yes, you need an encrypted (or local) channel to share the Cryptpad URL but this can be achieved by using e.g. PGP or Signal or any other of the encrypted messengers out there. However, being able to send an encrypted message to someone is
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by ar0 10y ago
Scaleway (scaleway.com) offers similar pricing to OVH but with more storage. They only have a datacenter in France, though, so if you use the OVH data center in Québec it will not be of much use. I personally haven't tried them, but th
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by ar0 10y ago
Your point would be valid if the author hadn't pointed out that the same issue was resolved properly by Apple within three days (by renaming to "Cleaner - for Facebook"). My understanding is that Apple is bound by the same la
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by ar0 10y ago
I don't buy the sports analogy with which he argues that it is "self-serving nonsense" if people state that mathematics education trains your general problem solving skills. His argument that soccer players should only play s
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Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?
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Sweden’s Greta wants to disrupt the multi-billion dollar CDN market(techcrunch.com)
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by ar0 10y ago
I don't really get what Apple is trying to achieve with this letter. Looking at my (continental) European colleagues, it comes across as aggressive bullying by a U.S. company and clearly harms public opinion of Apple, which cannot be a
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by ar0 10y ago
I would suggest, however, that this is not an argument for less police but instead an argument for fewer laws that are only infrequently and inconsistently enforced. It is these laws that give police the opportunity to "issue fines so
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by ar0 10y ago
Yes, the FTSE is a unitless figure. It is divided by a divisor which is denominated in GBP, which cancels the GBP in the numerator. However, the divisor was set at the beginning of the index (t = 0, with updates being made when there are sp
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by ar0 10y ago
Where do you find this in the linked document? I could not find any such statement and it would be news to me, but maybe I am mistaken? Just to add a bit of detail on the OP's note on the FTSE 100 and the pound depreciation: The point
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by ar0 10y ago
I know this question comes up time and time again, but as it seems a good fit here: What are the best password managers out there that do not force you to use their "cloud" for syncing between devices and are available on all ma
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by ar0 10y ago
While this is true for a high availability data center whose customers expect their website to be up 100% of the time, this article talks about storage infrastructure for their archiving service (C14). Restoring data from C14 will take mult
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by ar0 10y ago
Well, according to the README it allows to forward one http(s) port to multiple different local servers depending on requested host name. Yes, this is also possible using multiple ssh -R in combination with nginx or similar, but I guess the
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by ar0 10y ago
I do not think the title corresponds particularly well to the article, as it focuses on at least something being done: The article details how the new MasterCard specification for contactless payments requires that payment terminals time th
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by ar0 10y ago
In fact, sandboxing the browser in a VM (which I think the author suggests, although he wants to go a more light-weight approach) with only limited file system access is what is done by many security-conscious enterprises such as banking. T
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by ar0 10y ago
Since the original article is about an EU investigation, I would believe the relevant Wikipedia article is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_competition_law... In fact, it is not about being a &quo
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Peer-To-peer Agent for Reciprocated Search(pearsearch.org)
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by ar0 10y ago
In Germany (where seafile is located), there is for example Paymill [1] for accepting credit cards and SEPA direct debit. It is pretty expensive (2.95% + 28 cents per transaction) but it seems to have a good API and if it is more reliable t
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by ar0 10y ago
I don't think the quote from the article is such a fair representation of what is probably meant by "right wing" (a quite ill-defined term, in my opinion) here: I do not think it is part of any "right wing" ideology
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by ar0 10y ago
Agreed. If this soft and hard fork idea really goes through, it seems that now you are in fact getting the worst of both worlds: For your contract, you have to write code that apparently is very hard to get right and bug-free[1], while at t
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by ar0 10y ago
> paying gets you less, rarely more. I think you are generalizing "paying" to "subscribing to a streaming service" here, which I don't think is entirely fair. You can still pay for your music the old-fashioned wa
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by ar0 10y ago
Yes, that is absolutely possible. In fact, it is the default option, you explicitly need to enable both "iCloud Photo Library" (which activates your photos being stored on iCloud) and "Optimize Mac Storage" (which delete
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by ar0 10y ago
I think services are using such models because honestly they don't care very much. As the original article states itself, in a first iteration it's not Amazon who suffers but the legitimate author (same with Spotify, it's the
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by ar0 10y ago
What a strange comparison. I have had my fair share of less than stellar bosses, but just by virtue of being male none of them tried to touch me, invite me to a date or told me to wear sexier clothing in order for the client meeting to be m
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by ar0 10y ago
My first reaction: Oh boy, apparently far too many people take the dating advice of phyiscs "god" Richard Feynman far too seriously and don't seem to be able to accept if this doesn't produce the stellar results he predi
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by ar0 11y ago
Of course things such as mismatched account balances (i.e. the account balance does not equal all credits - debits) or erroneous postings due to bugs happen in the banking IT world. It's just that they are not that visible because only
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by ar0 11y ago
According to their API documentation[1] this is what they are doing: There is an "accuracy_radius" element being returned right next to latitude and longitude. And according to the Internet Archive, this element existed already in

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