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by c00lio 3y ago
Cryptography could still prevent the usage of copies of valid passports. I.e. where you have all valid names and numbers on the front, but cannot copy the passport's secret key and digital signature.
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by c00lio 3y ago
I'd add a few more: - "Lost in space": Give your new hire a tour of the relevant facilities. Toilets, kitchen, canteen, bicycle garage, important offices (boss, secretary/team assistance, IT helpdesk, ...), etc. Same for
93.
by c00lio 3y ago
No. Human sacrifice, in the definition I have given, has a clearly defined purpose (which I didn't state, because I thought this was implicit): Winning favour with the god(s). That only works in any religion I know of if you declare th
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by c00lio 3y ago
One needs to be very careful about which things to label human sacrifice. It is possible to be very "inclusive" there. One popular example is the expression "sacrificed on the altar of progress", and the works of philoso
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by c00lio 3y ago
Disgust against child sacrifice and most human sacrifice was a Roman sensibility, long before there was any church or christianity.
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by c00lio 3y ago
If they all were properly isolated there would be less of a problem, but proper isolation is hard. If they all were FLOSS, there would also be the hope of solving this problem, as long as you can prove that you are really running the right
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by c00lio 3y ago
VR "for the masses" has always been hobbled by the extreme prices, extreme hardware demands and incompatibility. Even very early tech like VRML died because of that. I suspect Apple VR will lead to a short and shallow VR boom, fol
98.
by c00lio 3y ago
Yes, of course you are right. My comment was meant more along the lines of "even if the software were ultimately trustworthy because of open source, thousand eyes, careful development and fairy dust, those hardware problems would still
99.
by c00lio 3y ago
Your IOMMU needs to be programmed, just like your MMU. Programming is provided by the OS and driver. Early IOMMU configuration is provided by the firmware. Check mate.
100.
by c00lio 3y ago
For certain things in signal you need to trust the server hardware and suspicious technologies like SGX. SGX is a prime target for a NSA backdoor. That some upper-layer software there is open source (with lots of caveats, e.g. you cannot ve
101.
by c00lio 3y ago
Doesn't matter at all. If your adversary is the CIA, you cannot trust your mobile phone OS, firmware and drivers not to read and report your memory contents.
102.
by c00lio 3y ago
Which one?
103.
by c00lio 3y ago
No? What would that have to do with anything?
104.
by c00lio 3y ago
To be fair, attaching a bell to a cow is animal cruelty and quite unnecessary nowadays. For the outrageous price of one cow bell you can also get RFID trackers for the whole herd. Or at least a handful of GPS trackers. And that also easily
105.
by c00lio 3y ago
Seems somewhat paradoxical, reading on the website of a closed source software vendor about open source hardware. Open source lives by participation, which doesn't happen if you have to pay for an Altium license as an entry fee. And ev
106.
by c00lio 3y ago
The OpenPGP stuff in Germany is not officially required to be accepted as a paper signature replacement anywhere. They are just doing this as an advertisement for the eID/ePA electronic RFID passport functionality that nobody wants.
107.
by c00lio 3y ago
There are no official uses. Government agencies are required to accept de-mail, which is a proprietary email-like service. However, rollout has been nonexistent even among government agencies such that you cannot practically use it anywhere
108.
by c00lio 3y ago
> I develop with Haskell professionally. That foldl example of yours is pretty rare and usually dealt with the QuickCheck [1], mother of all other quickchecks. Usually, the trace will be outside of the foldl application, but you can have
109.
by c00lio 3y ago
Not everything is tracing and debugging, sometimes you really need to output intermediate results for "normal", "production" purposes. One could still abuse Debug::Trace, but that would really be ugly. I also object to t
110.
by c00lio 3y ago
"Oh, you _also_ need to print something? Lets stack a few monad transformers..." "But remember that you need the TemplateExplicative and NullUnderstanding compiler extensions!"
111.
by c00lio 3y ago
Forget Berlin. The Ruhr area, biggest continuous settlement in Germany, with roughly 20 million inhabitants (of which maybe 5 million would be affected), is below its local water table because "the dwarves delved too greedily and too d
112.
by c00lio 3y ago
Ah. Thanks for the explanation. With that I agree completely.
113.
by c00lio 3y ago
But then you'd miss on crystal structure to distinguish your diamonds from your coal.
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by c00lio 3y ago
Yes, but what would be the alternative? Of course you can use artificial keys like a random UUID for each of your db objects. Which will work quite well if you only interact with your own system. But as soon as one of your db objects needs
115.
by c00lio 3y ago
> On the energy markets in Europe, at least the one Germany is connected to, the prices per kWh are calculated basedbon generation costs. Meaning investments and fox costs are not considered. Nope. Definitely not. Prices are based on a)
116.
by c00lio 3y ago
Electricity can be stored, mostly in pumped hydro storage, but also in e.g. battery storage, pressurized air or heated rock. But storage is scarce, expensive and doesn't look like it is going to be built anytime soon (for the usual rea
117.
by c00lio 3y ago
But with sufficient baseload nuclear, one could free up gas capacity because of the lower demand for gas peaker plants. Similarly, if electricity were as cheap as gas per kWh, many industrial applications could actually switch to electrical
118.
by c00lio 3y ago
Where Europe is protectionist about tech, the US did the same about steel, aluminium, aircraft and certain foods. I guess the tech sector is just more present in the minds of HN readers.
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by c00lio 3y ago
Nuclear is dirt cheap when you have your power plants already built. Most of the cost of nuclear is building cost and related capital cost for the loans you take to build one and teardown/disposal. All German reactors had already paid
120.
by c00lio 3y ago
Cheaper than immediately before the war. Far more expensive than the long-term average of the 2000s and 2010s. Edit: also, immediately before the war, Russia already seems to have started restricting supply, driving up prices.

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