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by corty 6y ago
How does that work, I don't suppose residents are dying away? Does unemployment force them to move out?
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by corty 6y ago
Actually what they are doing and asking for is illegal. Asking for credit scores, proof of employment and sensitive stuff like that is only legal when an offer to rent is actually being made to that candidate. Just having everybody send in
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by corty 6y ago
Yes, that might be the case. I'm just comparing to the average German construction site.
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by corty 6y ago
NIMBYism, environmental regulations, building codes and lack of money and interest by the state. Berlin had the nice example of a few square kilometers of the Tempelhof airport field being available. Public demanded to make it a park instea
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by corty 6y ago
In Berlin, rent control isn't a fringe topic. Half of Berlin was formerly communist (the east) with the non-conformists being sent out to the sticks. And the other half has a higher proportion of (partly radical) leftists due to the fe
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by corty 6y ago
Depends. Public construction is very different from private and industrial construction. As the industry pays well, on time and demands results, their construction sites are staffed to the fullest amount possible and complete astonishingly
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by corty 6y ago
The Gigafactory near Berlin is still on a temporary permit, meaning that they might have to tear it down again (at least in large parts) if the bureaucracy finds a nit to pick. There is still the possibility of more problems due to environm
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by corty 6y ago
Messaging around masks is a perfect example of politics ignoring science and public health officials just trying to justify political decisions by cherry-picking studies or plainly stating falsehoods "for the greater good".
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by corty 6y ago
It should also be noted that public health officials are usually the lowest rungs of the ladder when it comes to ability in medicine. Running your own practice, running a research institute or chair or even just working in a hospital is far
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by corty 6y ago
We do not need humans to "fix" anything on earth, the ecosystem will find a new balance on its own. Absent a few chaotic effects that might happen, without human disturbance, this balance will be reached faster than with humans me
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by corty 6y ago
Look at Japan, there things got more stable with the aging of the population. China isn't really an example for most of the world because CCP experiments screwed up more than just their age pyramid. Also, taxes and pensions are very sm
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by corty 6y ago
We don't know, we suspect that in the most optimistic scenarios. Without knowing the underlying mechanism. Without knowing the consequences of cultural change and industrialisation of the third world countries. This is the finest kind
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by corty 6y ago
The current apocalyptic scenarios are the same as in the past. If anything, we do have more science and technology to deal with them and to predict them. And the grim prediction is rather than climate change, the real problem is population
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by corty 6y ago
Easy, as with any other thing that is imported: import duties collected by the banks and exchanges. And if you convert it into currency or goods overseas, there is also going to be a duty on that (if there isn't already).
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by corty 6y ago
There are some countries with an upside down population pyramid and it isn't the end of the world. Certainly less apocalyptic than most climate change scenarios.
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by corty 6y ago
Back in the days of transition from writing with bird feathers to writing with steel tips that one didn't have to sharpen, such claims were made as well.
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by corty 6y ago
There are math input methods that are on par with handwriting, e.g. texmacs or mathcad
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by corty 6y ago
No. First, you usually need both, Want= and After=. Second, that After= isn't really "after" in the traditional sense, because systemd will start A, not wait for A to be up and running and immediately after the "A has be
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by corty 6y ago
Yes, there are things like credit scores, e.g. "schufa" in germany. Also, collecting via court order ("gerichtliches Mahnverfahren") costs around 20 Euros in fees and isn't that complex, you hand in 1 form in tripli
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by corty 6y ago
"Hold" is a package state that may be set to not change that package in any way. If it is currently installed, keep it installed and at that version, if it is currently not installed, do not install it under any circumstances. &qu
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by corty 6y ago
No, systemd doesn't really interpret much, unit files are mostly not a full replacement for what init-scripts were capable of. Which leads to lots of Exec=/some/shell/script.sh in unit files which is worse than before be
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by corty 6y ago
The fix is to buy US keyboards and configure a compose key for non-a-z characters.
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by corty 6y ago
It is quite common in some fields. Operator application is written without parentheses, and functions are a kind of operator. Therefore: f(x) = f(f(x)) = f f x = f^2 x = f x And leaving out the x, because it is just a placeholder anyways: f
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by corty 6y ago
It isn't advanced difficult traffic analysis if it is all your servers. Or all your logs landing in one logstash.
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by corty 6y ago
They are using Byzantine Fault Tolerant Quorums. That is just a class of majority election algorithms that is tolerant to the presence of evil participants. But in short, it is just the majority of servers allowed to vote, so either proof o
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by corty 6y ago
> Your messages would still be safe Only the message contents. Everything else, like time, identities, communication networks is still at risk. What you are saying is very misleading since you completely neglect to mention the importanc
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by corty 6y ago
In a strict sense, you are completely right. But nonetheless people are recommending Signal because the client implementation looks good and is somewhat verifiable (absent appstore evilness and ignoring the lag between update and verificat
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by corty 6y ago
For security software like Signal it does. When there is a lag in publishing server source code, the running version isn't what the public can inspect, but an old one that is no longer valid. And it produces the appearance that they ha
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by corty 6y ago
Yes, that "drone strike" thing is actually a stupid saying. I'm sorry to have used it because it is somewhat distracting from the actual points.
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by corty 6y ago
Signal still uses and verifies phone numbers, so at some point they will pass through their infrastructure. They could still save them, knowing the source code they use gives at least at hint that they don't. Sealed sender also is base

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