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931.
by bildung 7y ago
Only if the companies get forced by regulations to actually target that metric. The participants are in it for the profit, not for saving lives. The US health care misery is a prime example of what happens when you try to solve a situation
932.
by bildung 7y ago
And one of the authors of said book is also quite a prominent member of the ReactOS team.
933.
by bildung 7y ago
Isn't social control exactly the intended goal? IMO this is the whole point of the article: If the public knows about Amazons tax returns, the expected result is public (=social) pressure against Amazon.
934.
by bildung 7y ago
Imagine everone would follow this conservative view on optimal resource allocation - we wouldn't have none of the BSDs, no Linux, nothing open source/ free software at all. Windows wouldn't have been forced to modernize, inst
935.
by bildung 7y ago
With liability law? If a company sells a broken car or lawnmower, liability is expected. Just software seems exempt from this. This has to change.
936.
by bildung 7y ago
We are talking about hundreds of millions of Euros here. The resources are there, just used for propping up prices in the black market instead of securing the software. The EU could pay a bunch of security researchers to review open source
937.
by bildung 7y ago
As a fellow European I think this fight back rhetoric is pretty stupid. Instead of amassing 0days by the military and the secret services while gaining us, the population, zero benefits for the millions spent (because we will still get hack
938.
by bildung 7y ago
I wouldn't trust N26 (or any of these other move fast and break things banking apps), they have shown that they have zero clues about securing their infrastructure: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7969-shut_up_and_take
939.
by bildung 7y ago
> In other words, you agree with the parent on the facts. People lost their money, but presumably "it serves them right" cause they were rich and tried to dodge taxes - which is totally besides the point. People willfully ris
940.
by bildung 7y ago
Births in hospitals have, on average, more complications than births at home. But not because births at home are inherently better, but rather because protentially complicated births are done at hospitals do be able to better care for mothe
941.
by bildung 7y ago
Absolutely correct to note his, but e.g. Germany is above the USA in that PPP list, but for €8 I get 3GB of data and unlimited phone calls and sms.
942.
by bildung 7y ago
Actually they avoid humans as much as possible. Wolves have been reintroduced where I live about a decade ago. Zero problems with humans.
943.
by bildung 7y ago
What happened in Cyprus in 2013? Private banks in a tax haven had rich people from other countries speculating on foreign markets (US housing, among others), hoping to gain above-market returns by doing so. That speculation went sour, resul
944.
by bildung 7y ago
Because no one uses it, or not? Transaction prices are determined by supply and demand on Bitcoin Cash, too, AFAIK.
945.
by bildung 7y ago
Why? In contrast to Google they are not in the advertising business.
946.
by bildung 7y ago
The latter. I really liked the series as a teenager, but recently rewatched the first episode out of interest and found it awful...
947.
by bildung 7y ago
> Dumb people are not happier. We have to differentiate between unintelligent and uneducated. For the latter, there are several studies showing that lack of education can mean lack of imagination of alternative. For example in The Ide
948.
by bildung 7y ago
Yet here we are, talking to each other over the state-sponsored internet.
949.
by bildung 7y ago
My personal reason is the much higher environmental cost of that option.
950.
by bildung 7y ago
No, I've said "Same effort, but now attackers would have to have both services compromised to plant a malicious download"
951.
by bildung 7y ago
You have the download at github and the checksum at you webserver. Same effort, but now attackers would have to have both services compromised to plant a malicious download.
952.
by bildung 7y ago
While the actual analog sounds may indeed have a higher signal to noise ratio than 96db, most ADCs haven't, i.e. for most digital recordings 16bit should be more than enough.
953.
by bildung 7y ago
> The US blacklisted Huawei because it's closely tied to the Chinese government. Has that actually been proven?
954.
by bildung 7y ago
And they completed it successfully. They literally had a new backdoor every month for years now. No company is that incompetent unless ordered to be so.
955.
by bildung 7y ago
Because the anti Huawei talk is obviously not in people's interest. Just look how zero politicians worldwide lament that Cisco should be banned from anything related to internet infrastructure despite showing again and again that the
956.
by bildung 7y ago
Renewables are way cheaper without subsidies. Just compare how nuclear got financed in the 1950s compared to what flows into renewables in recent decades, it's an order of magnitude smaller. And those subsidies don't include nucle
957.
by bildung 7y ago
> France's power is cheap by European standard [0]. Because France heavily subsidized its nuclear infrastructure. They also have a big problem right now because most plants are old and have to be decomissioned, and building new p
958.
by bildung 7y ago
The European (I assume, I only know the ones from Germany) debit cards are distinctly different from credit cards or the debit cards you described in that they * don't have the credit card like information like card number, verificatio
959.
by bildung 7y ago
> You secure the rights of minorities through universal human rights. No, you just declare them that way. You secure them through actual instiutional measures. > In a democracy people are the sovereign. End of story and definit
960.
by bildung 7y ago
> The focus on minorities seems always a bit strange to me and a bad start to argue for more civil liberties. Everyone should be equal under the law and I talk about civil liberties that are enshrined in law. People belabor the minorit

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