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by ascar 8y ago
Yea, a double video of you and what you are watching. Select the most degenerate stuff you ever watched. This would be a nightmare for basically anyone.
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by ascar 8y ago
There is a pretty cool keepass plugin [1] that generates randomly generated readable passwords based on a dictionary with definitions of nouns, verbs and adjectives and multiple patterns to create short sentences. Even if the dictionary and
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by ascar 8y ago
Adding a bit of security on the identification side (usernames/emails) isn't completely useless, but the focus should be on securing authentication. I.e. never use a password twice and add 2FA to everything even vaguely important
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by ascar 8y ago
The email contains: > You will make the payment by Bi‌tco‌in (if you do not know this, search 'how to buy b‌itcoi‌n' in Google). The top result is from coinbase [1]. I would say everyone capable of online banking is capable o
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by ascar 8y ago
Since a few weeks ago I receive spam emails threatening me with an old password I no longer use. I wonder if it's related to this collection. It starts with: > I am well aware [old password I think I swapped out everywhere, but def
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by ascar 8y ago
The thing is there are already multiple services offering endless virtual CC numbers. This doesn't work at all as an unique identifier. It just adds drag.
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by ascar 8y ago
Even if we cut out that the first 2 digits represent the network (i.e. Mastercard/visa) and cut another checksum digit at the end, it leaves us with 1 trillion numbers. That's about 150 for every living human on the planet. Then f
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by ascar 8y ago
Forrest Gump is one of my favorite movies. I'm from Germany, not the US and the first time I watched it as a teen I only got the obvious references. Each time I rewatched it, I found more and more references to US history, which just m
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by ascar 8y ago
I don't think maximizing hourly rate is the general overall trend. Sure it describes the small ambitious part of society, but I would argue the majority of workers (not society, because less than 50% of the society works), just strive
730.
by ascar 8y ago
> The auto modes on the phone are better but they have a lot less to work with. That's probably the basis for my impression. I basically only use auto and am not educated enough in photography to use manual mode in most cases.
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by ascar 8y ago
1889: “Fooling around with alternating current (AC) is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.” — Thomas Edison.
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by ascar 8y ago
I'm not a professional and not even an enthusiast, so my subjective impression might contradict objective measures. But who is actually making big prints? I've never done a singe one and likely won't do anything bigger than a
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by ascar 8y ago
> Camera is infinitesimally better. The camera difference is actually huge compared to 2-3 year older top models, if you experience it first hand. I posted my experience in another comment here [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinato
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by ascar 8y ago
Slightly tangential: I use my phone for the exact same things as you and I usually upgrade every 2-3 years to a high end model for a top camera. Me and my girlfriend both own the Sony Xperia Z3, which had a cutting edge camera when it was n
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by ascar 8y ago
At my university there are several ironic and funny posters with quotes about mispredictions on display at the walls of the big lecture hall of the mechanical engineering building. My favorite one is from Gottlieb Daimler 1901: "The g
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by ascar 8y ago
The prices GP cited were from 2003.
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by ascar 8y ago
My aunt got laid off after ~40 years of employment, which meant a welcomed bit early retirement for her and a multiple year salary severance pay. My mom got laid off after a bit over 15 years of employment and got about 2 years salary as se
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by ascar 8y ago
So what? That doesn't justify reactions like rejecting an applicant based on having an account alone. First and foremost political opinions have no place in most professional settings and no influence on someones work. If I recall corr
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by ascar 8y ago
Released 31 March 2008 :) Did he happen to show it to you on April 1st? xD
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by ascar 8y ago
In my experience the reviews are most useless for small items, where fake reviews can easily manipulate the reviews or are even the only reviews available.
741.
by ascar 8y ago
No, it's not. This analogy would only apply for shorter wait times in emergency cases. And that's not true and I explicitly said that. Everyone gets the same wait time in emergencies and urgent cases. But a significant amount of c
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by ascar 8y ago
Why do you think line-jumping is more immoral than getting worse treatment? In one case you just have to wait in non life-threatening and non-urgent cases (you only have to wait if you actually can wait). In the other case you are actually
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by ascar 8y ago
Germany has a split system between mandatory government healthcare and voluntary private healthcare, once you pass a certain income threshold (about 80% above average income) or are self-employed. There are differences. The voluntary insura
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by ascar 8y ago
I'm no expert on the issue, but the decades lasting and still ongoing discussions about a atomic waste location in Germany seem to contradict your statement. Burring something for a few years is easy, but what about hundreds, thousands
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by ascar 8y ago
It's also a culture thing. In Japan every supermarket and convenience store sells a lot of high quality fresh food (sushi, onigiri, a lot of different bento) that is meant for same day consumption. This only works because a large part
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by ascar 8y ago
I'm not sure that there is enough demand for remote work. Many people enjoy and even require the social interactions provided at a workplace and don't want solitary remote work.
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by ascar 8y ago
Outdated comments that explain the business use case or purpose are still better than no comments. It gives you background information how the code evolved or what it was supposed to do. It's probably because reading comments only is w
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by ascar 8y ago
The graph is already adjusted for PPP, so this difference in income should be largely mitigated, shouldn't it? Thus the US still spends about double of other countries.
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by ascar 8y ago
We are spoiled by the abundance of job opportunities.
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by ascar 8y ago
I wasn't aware of non-ascii variables. I was thinking about UTF support for Japanese characters, when I read the change. There is no concept of lowercase/uppercase. 日本語 is this a constant or variable?

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