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by claudius 11y ago
But choosing a different default PDF viewer does not necessarily “disable” pdf.js, or does it? Does the exploit just show a malicious PDF file and then relies on Firefox using pdf.js to display that file, or does it somehow “request” pdf.js
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by claudius 11y ago
Would this stop the exploit from working? Or is the file still kept around and a malicious website could request it’s use for a different purpose?
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> It seems completely ridiculous to call those two different markets. Finding the most relevant X on the web is fundamentally part of the same market no matter what X is. Yet in one case (general search) Google has a very large market sh
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by claudius 11y ago
> That money doesn't go to the Greek people. It's used to preserve the international banking system. Stop lying. That money went to the Greek people. If the Greek people had not squandered their income for years on ridiculous l
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by claudius 11y ago
AndrewDucker’s comment above, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10002117 , does not look like “you’re not buying an extant product” to me. In fact, it looks like the exact opposite of that, more like “we’re finished and
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Refunds + appropriate interest rates for such a high-risk “investment” + penalty for not upholding their end of a promise + …. I don’t see how they could afford to satisfy any morally (if not legally) reasonable demands.
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> The problem is that we (me and other citizens) are caught between the hammer and the anvil, on one side we have Europeans who don't care and on the other a corrupted government who doesn't want to take on anyone, oligarchs (s
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by claudius 11y ago
Greek GDP was grossly overinflated in 2008 by overspending in the public sector. Compared to 1990, Greece still grew 80% points more than e.g. France until 2014, so they really don’t have much to complain about.
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by claudius 11y ago
@2: Taking sovereignty from a government is a coup. Offering money to a country is everything, but not a coup. If a coup did take place, it took place in northern europe, where governments ignored the will of the people and went ahead t
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> Can you tell me what is the largest number you can address with that type -- without getting into a long google/stackoverflow session or hitting the compiler manuals for each of those platforms? Why does this matter? size_t is int
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by claudius 11y ago
So junk bonds now just materialise out of nowhere in banks’ books and nobody got money from the bank in the first place? That seems slightly unusual…
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by claudius 11y ago
Hu? Of course Americans are responsible for the war in Iraq, where did I ever say something else?
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> Greece is a country, not a person. Did all Greeks benefit equally from that money? If they haven’t, that’s an issue internal to Greece to be sorted out by Greek people. You can’t continuously elect corrupt oligarchic governments for 40
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by claudius 11y ago
The money from the bailout programme went into the banks, sure. But that only happened because those banks had given out loans to Greece before. I agree that banks made some income from interest rates and also because they bought Greek bond
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> Finding efficiencies and austerity are not the same thing. Germany has free university tuition, Greece has a failing healthcare system that keeps running out of medicine. Germany failed to collect 2.3% of its tax receipts, Greece faile
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by claudius 11y ago
> Maybe all their debts will be forgiven tomorrow. Greece is not the only democracy in Europe and Merkel likes her job too much for that to happen. Sure, if the US/IMF think that the debt should be forgiven, they’re welcome to purch
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> Or hell, look at Germany. The biggest bully for austerity politics in the whole EU is also literally it's richest country. And you can damn sure bet they aren't playing the same game at home. Inform yourself which reforms whe
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by claudius 11y ago
Sorry, but in which way did Greece not get some 300 billion euros? Whether they first borrowed that money from private banks and then the rest of the eurozone paid back the banks for Greece or whether they received the money directly from t
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by claudius 11y ago
> The problem with "your money" (as well as Belgium's etc etc etc) is that it didn't "go to Greece": it went to private lenders, aka French and German banks which were holding Greek debt. The honest people o
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by claudius 11y ago
The Greek economy was and is primarily based on an oversized public sector, which was only made possible by a) devaluing the Drachma at every point possible and b), after joining the Euro, falsifying statistics to facilitate being lent more
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by claudius 11y ago
> Why should people respect a system that doesn't respect them? The people are the system, it is impossible for the system “democratic society” to disrespect “the people”. I also did not say that one must respect immoral laws, I s
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by claudius 11y ago
> That's the essence of democracy; the Constitution and country are now ours But isn’t that exactly the point? As I understand the various previous posters, the main argument is not whether the constitution should ensure a right t
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by claudius 11y ago
> There is no free lunch. If you introduce regulation to protect a group of people, another group of people loses out. And the correct way to change that in a modern democracy is to lobby for better laws in parliament and/or found y
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by claudius 11y ago
> Do you think computer games should never be allowed to contain historical symbols of forbidden groups? It depends on the context. The computer game should not facilitate identification with Nazism (e.g. by the player flying that flag i
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by claudius 11y ago
> Also, that's a pretty Europe centric view. Have you looked at eg China? Culturally damaging events can be restricted to (relatively) small areas of the world. Conversely, Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” was also a culturally very dama
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by claudius 11y ago
The list at the bottom regarding computational achievements is possibly slightly more relatable and also contains this nice gem: The most impressive feat of integer-factorisation using a quantum computer is that of 56,153=233 × 24
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by claudius 11y ago
If you sink ~7000 Euro into a Bahncard 100 first class, you can go mostly anywhere for free. So by the logic of only counting marginal costs, it’s 25.4 € more expensive to travel from Berlin to Frankfurt by car as opposed to railway. Berlin
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That could also happen in Germany. It’s not that the connecting train has any obligation to wait, rather, the operator of the late train has an incentive to bring its customers to their destination despite the delay. If both trains are run
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by claudius 11y ago
> But once "thank you" is said, most people awkwardly respond with "ah", because there's no phrase in the language for "you're welcome". This reminds me of my neighbour’s doormat (in Germany). As m
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by claudius 11y ago
No, which is why one should prefer not to have business relations with US companies.

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