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by buran77 5y ago
> The aim was to effectively keep a gun aimed at everyone The aim was to make everyone believe there may be a gun pointed at them even if there wasn't. While that was relatively effective do you know what is even more effective?
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by buran77 5y ago
Scale makes a whole lot of difference. Even the Stasi, the KGB, or the FBI had to restrict such monitoring to the small fraction of the population they actually suspected. Now they don't only suspect everyone, they also have the tools
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by buran77 5y ago
For several comments you made the point that the idea of inertial scrolling (dragging something and letting it "slide") was not obvious: > I'm speaking of the inertial scrolling [...] That physics combination with drag a
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by buran77 5y ago
> That physics combination with drag and drop interaction was not obvious in the time Copying natural laws in our work is something that was obvious for humans for millennia. We've been imagining space ships 100 years before going t
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by buran77 5y ago
The "what" is obvious, it's similar to the way you'd use a real map (and not only): by folding or rolling it and sliding the region or tile you want to see with your hands until it comes into your view. So the concept of
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by buran77 5y ago
The owners still decide what to do with it. They just decided to stop listing their apartments because now it's very conspicuous that they are breaking the law by not paying taxes, having proper insurance, safety conditions, etc. for
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Is public opinion weight a matter of GDP? Should it?
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One thing which brought together a lot of people in varied European or international bodies, who otherwise didn't see eye to eye on much was the opinion that The City is probably the most corrupt place in the Western hemisphere, at lea
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by buran77 5y ago
> apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app This is a relatively straight forward request that maybe doesn't go as far as most people imagine here. Pressing
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> unlike their Chinese counterparts, they don't have any real long-term goals China's long term goal is to become the top superpower. USA's long term goal is to stay the top superpower. Everything else flows from this bu
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The risk is that someone will rent the place and spot an easy opportunity to copy the key and come back when other guests are staying at your Airbnb. Having a known number of official keys out there with a guest means you can keep tabs on t
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by buran77 5y ago
Blocking the app was probably just a dick move and revenge in response to the rejection. The two softwares aren't actually competing, one now comes with the OS whether you want it or not. If Apple now bans the use of an alternative key
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by buran77 5y ago
A common assumption is that when dealing with the Police in the US the problem isn't that they will operate within the law and apply it as intended to punish you but rather that they will not operate within the law which almost invar
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by buran77 5y ago
No, I'm arguing that if these "principles" are tied to profit or allegiance (the "who" rather than the "what") [0] then it kind of chips away at their value. All the way down to nothing. [0] https:/&
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by buran77 5y ago
If you need it one time for registration while staying anonymous using a burner SIM will work just fine. This way you anonimously create the account and then keep your location hidden using Tor. Authorities may even know who you are but wil
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by buran77 5y ago
Is the principle strictly "murdered journalists"? What about "Guantanamo"? Or "bombing schools and hospitals"? If you find a "but" in there you can already tell what "less principled" means.
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by buran77 5y ago
That's the oversimplification that wraps things up nicely and doesn't require digging any deeper. Like when people think Kim Jong Un is necessarily just a madman without realizing that playing the madman is the perfect defense aga
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by buran77 5y ago
The laws I mentioned are relatively new [0]. So for now it's hard to compete in numbers with a century of already built apartments. And eventually all "for rent" units do go on the market for sale. But it's also easy to
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by buran77 5y ago
This may be because of local laws or city council rules. In many cities the developer of a complex today is forced by law to have a certain percentage of the development dedicated for rental (Munich I think may be the leader here with a pro
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by buran77 5y ago
One option is not to contradict but lean into the argument the other is making and let them judge if even the premise that they're positioning themselves opposed to your "wrong" argument puts them in a good position. Let&#x27
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Microsoft has been using PhotoDNA [0] to scan OneDrive content for quite some time. The news is that a device manufacturer is doing it on your device with local data. There's some MS research to use machine learning on metadata to iden
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by buran77 5y ago
I don't think they factor in compression here. It's likely the 1.7MB they're talking about is raw data. Google's location history for example can be compressed down to very manageable single digit percentages even with f
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by buran77 5y ago
MS is between a rock and a hard place when it comes to security and legacy support but I still think they approached this the wrong way. Windows is both the most popular PC OS and a huge target because of that legacy baggage they're be
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They enforce Secure Boot on Windows 11 . It was always a requirement on Windows 8 and 10 but never actually enforced. There's nothing to stop you from using Windows 10 or Linux on your hardware unless MS goes all anti-competitive and
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Quid pro quo strongly tied to the balance of power. Tiny Co. will probably not only refuse to hire people coming from Huge Co. but may may go the extra step and give Huge Co. a heads up in an attempt to gain favors with them. Plenty or such
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Due to the 3 place podium, regardless of the type of competition second place looks like narrowly missing a total win, while third place looks like narrowly missing a total loss. People tend to look at the alternative to decide their relati
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Big battery installations always received lots of international attention, with few objections to this kind of positive exposure. HN alone had dozens of submissions on the topic [0]. Your objection now seems to be more towards the negative
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by buran77 5y ago
Interpersonal skills are like salt in your food. It makes the food better, and sometimes it may cover up some imperfections. Sure, some absolutely bland food will be better to eat than a pile of salt but thinking it has to be one or the o
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by buran77 5y ago
> Countries extradite because they think it's in their best interest Indeed and that was my point. Treaties are signed despite significant disagreements in the law, that's not the driving factor you made it out to be earlier. T

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