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by azag0 8y ago
The independence can only ever be relative. No one is truly independent. As a self-sufficient farmer, you depend on weather. As a millionaire, you depend on the continuing functioning of the financial system.
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by azag0 8y ago
They are direct “competitors”. I find Zotero more power-user-friendly. For instance, there is a powerful bibtex plugin for Zotero that can run a server on localhost, so I can fetch the up-to-date bibliography for any particular collection f
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by azag0 8y ago
I guess it only applies to traditional cultures, which the Nazis weren’t.
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by azag0 8y ago
Visa and MC don’t get almost anything, most of the fee goes to your bank.
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by azag0 8y ago
But why would a news website per se need to collect or process user's personal data? If you don't, you don't have to care about GDPR at all.
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by azag0 8y ago
Why would a news magazine website do this? Is it their ads that violate GDPR?
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by azag0 8y ago
I may be wrong, but that’s exactly what GDPR tries to achieve.
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by azag0 8y ago
I can somewhat see where you're going with this, but I cannot possibly see how it is a reaction to my comment.
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by azag0 8y ago
I’ll just copy-paste a comment (not mine) from a different subthread: “This all-or-nothing approach to morality is stupid. Just because not every decision in your life may be 100% morally justifiable, that does not mean “throw all ethics ov
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by azag0 8y ago
Thank you.
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by azag0 8y ago
There is some data for you: https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Pre-In... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient#/media/File:2...
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by azag0 9y ago
That wasn't my point. My point was that all those requests are feature requests, as opposed to lifting some artificial restrictions. Because iOS is not open source, they would need to be coded by Apple, so it's a perfectly valid b
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by azag0 9y ago
At this point, you are just complaining that iOS is not open source.
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by azag0 9y ago
Didn't know about that! But it seems they were able to break the system only while the Germans where sending the settings of the plugboard in the header of each message. Once that was changed in the early 1940, their decrypting techniq
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by azag0 9y ago
Enigma wasn't hard through obscurity. The Allies had the Enigma machine long before they were able to crack it. It was hard because with the equipment of the day, it was pretty much unbreakable in the same way that prime-number based c
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by azag0 9y ago
> deserve our information Deserve the responsibility.
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by azag0 9y ago
Anecdotal evidence: That is the case in my circle of friends. My news feed has been empty for quite some time, but we still use the messenger and facebook itself to organize our own private events.
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by azag0 9y ago
Certainly true. I'd just point out that exactly these kinds of mistakes happen to people too.
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by azag0 9y ago
I don't really see why those two should be compared? Pandas is a Python library for programmatic work with tabular data. Visidata gives you a live view of a file storing tabular data.
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by azag0 9y ago
Ok, that's financial liability. What about criminal liability? What if the car breaks rules and kills someone. Will the programmers be responsible? The CEO? Can companies be criminally convicted in the US? Or will it be on par with oth
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by azag0 9y ago
In the Eurozone, SEPA transfers are free. Outside Eurozone, but within EU, there are typically small fees.
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by azag0 9y ago
In the same way that there is no formal theory for the exact shapes of proteins? I think it’s possible. But as with proteins, there are probably some general aspects of the problem that can be explained in simpler terms.
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by azag0 9y ago
In this regard, it is similar to how natural sciences are done. The hyperparameter space of possible experiments is immense, they are expensive, so one has to go with intuition and luck. Reporting this is difficult. [edit:] In this analogy,
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by azag0 9y ago
In the Czech Republic, it's pay slips/bank statements, or a work contract for mortgage (you cannot fire someone without a reason). There is a central government database of people who didn't pay a debt on time. In Germany, al
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by azag0 9y ago
I don't really remember where have I heard about this. It definitely wasn't an article online. It might have been the museum at Bernauer Str.
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by azag0 9y ago
Is this around Bernauer Str or also somewhere else? I've only ever seen it there.
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by azag0 9y ago
> though sometimes there was a thin strip of East Berlin strictly speaking There were also secret doors in the wall, and on several occasion people from the western part who ended up on this thin strip adjacent to the wall were "kid
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by azag0 9y ago
Came to say the same. I’ve always assumed the target audience of these machines is just video editing? What are the requirements on running, say, TensorFlow? Isn’t it just the GPU there?
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by azag0 9y ago
Macbook Pro, 13-inch, 2015, Intel graphics 6100. So I guess not. The 4K display is connected via displayport, and runs downscaled at 2560x1440.
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by azag0 9y ago
I guess it's not really that surprising, but recording a 4K display eats about one and a half core on Core i5, 2.7 GHz.

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