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by born2discover 5y ago
They made him a "martyr" in a way, and martyrs have a tendency to have a long shelf-life. Plus, it brought a lot of questionable US practices into light and on public mind. At this point, I do not think we saw the end of it all ye
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by born2discover 7y ago
This is disturbing on so many levels. I can't even begin to understand how disturbed one must be to be willing to do something like that. A fair warning to those who haven't read the article yet but are planning to: Be warned that
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by born2discover 7y ago
Be careful about generalization though. In Switzerland the "ecclesiastic tax" is not a federal matter but a cantonal one and in some cantons even a communal one. In some cantons it is mandatory, in others it isn't and a mere
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by born2discover 7y ago
While the article is a bit informative, it is hard to take it seriously. It claims to bring "serverless" to a webpage near you, yet one of its prerequisites is: "You need to have a Kubernetes cluster up & running.",
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by born2discover 7y ago
The author seems to be making use of: fpscanner[1] and fp-collect[2] libraries for achieving his task though he doesn't seem to explain how exactly the detection is done. [1]: https://github.com/antoinevastel/fpsca
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by born2discover 7y ago
This is sad to read. I understand the will to protect the privacy of the people calling in, but wouldn't the public interest prevail in some cases? What I mean by that is, when weighing between keeping 911 records sealed for the sake o
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by born2discover 7y ago
Welcome to the United States, where your own government is making money on from your sensitive information... As a European, this bothers me on so many levels. Government should not for one, sell your personal data and furthermore should ma
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by born2discover 7y ago
Interesting. But what a potential use case for this? I mean what makes it stand out when put side by side with SQLAlchemy? Does it do anything differently? From what I've been able to gather from that website, PugSQL is a wrapper aroun
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by born2discover 7y ago
"Big Brother is Watching You."
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by born2discover 7y ago
Unfortunately it was from the top of my head, and I should have checked beforehand. Thanks for correcting me!
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by born2discover 7y ago
I see! Then I do understand why you'd be in favor of dropping French as it seems to me that Quebec might be doing a bit of a protectionism dance there. Where I live (Switzerland) the minimum to have is the information text translated (
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by born2discover 7y ago
Yes, we have 4 national languages: French, German, Italian and Romansh. However only three of them bear the title of official language, that is, language used in official communications. Romansh is spoken only in one of our "provinces&
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by born2discover 7y ago
I would argue that there are smaller countries where packaging has to be in more than one language and companies that seek to enter that market are fine with it. If your only argument against doing business in a country because of the langu
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by born2discover 7y ago
I live in Switzerland where everything you've mentioned has to be done thrice (3 official languages: French, German, Italian), yet I am firm in my belief that it should be maintained. It's not about whether anybody cares about a s
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by born2discover 7y ago
This! Diversity of thought is what separates us from mere robots. It what makes us non-linear and should be preserved!
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by born2discover 7y ago
While English might be the language of "our time", I wonder for how long? With China's expansion and their almost 2.5 billion of people speaking Mandarin, I am wondering whether in the next 20 years we'd see a shift towa
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by born2discover 7y ago
and having several languages in equal status would just be not practical - Sorry but I have to disagree here. Look at UN, they have Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish as official languages. Why is there an absolute must
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by born2discover 8y ago
How this compares to Isso [1]? [1]( https://posativ.org/isso/ )
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by born2discover 8y ago
The case is strong with this one!
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by born2discover 8y ago
My bad, didn't see that one!
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by born2discover 8y ago
It took them no less than 3 years to actually notice... Holy moly! I wonder what package that is... Just out of curiosity...
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by born2discover 8y ago
Awesome! This opens the door to so many possibilities!
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by born2discover 8y ago
Oh, that is great to know, thank you!
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by born2discover 8y ago
What it means is that they only have a budget of 150k CHF for all of the compensations they have to pay out. So if there are 4 bugs that would amount to 50k per bug, then only first 3 would get compensated and the rest would not. Source: [1
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by born2discover 8y ago
Thank you for the links. I have to admit it was an eye opening experience. We take our access to judicial proceedings (as well as laws, but that's beyond the point) as essentially a civic right, that seeing others nations embracing a d
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by born2discover 8y ago
As somebody who lives outside of US, this is rather shocking. In Switzerland all judicial proceedings are free and open for access and that is anchored in Law. Everything is accessible on the internet with no fees, registrations or any kind
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by born2discover 8y ago
This actually gave me an idea of doing the same in the neighbouring Switzerland, thanks!
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by born2discover 8y ago
How is it different from [Minix3][1]? It seems to accomplish the exactly same goal. [1]( https://www.minix3.org/ )