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by corty 6y ago
Fines going to the state in Germany is actually a problem imho. The damages you can expect for this are laughable, 40k is a typical payment to the family for wrongful death (cost of burial plus anguish). For video surveilance at the workpla
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by corty 6y ago
They were a communist single-party system, with properly rigged elections, leaders handpicked by Moscow from the finest Moscow communism schools and a watchful oversight from Moscow. Not just the citizens were kept in line with the rest of
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by corty 6y ago
BND is not a private organisation but a part of the federal government. They are a secret service. That's why they can get away with it, they cannot be fined, sued or even investigated properly in such matters. And while one of the les
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by corty 6y ago
That is full of broken assumptions and excuses. Bitcoin mining drives up the cost of those "waste" energy forms. Excess hydro capacity can be used for electrolysis to hydrogen, hydrogen can also be produced from flared gas. Which
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by corty 6y ago
No. Bitcoin and other proof-of-work cryptocurrencies are really just a waste of electricity. Even if you put your miners next to a hydro plant it is wasteful. You could just use proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies and do something productive wi
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by corty 6y ago
Coal was burnt to get to our current level of industrialisation. A lot of steel for wind turbines was smelted with coke. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to find better ways and get rid of the old polluting methods. And no, I&#x
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by corty 6y ago
Old news. The far more interesting question is what to do about it. The OP has some suggestions, but I have some more radical ones: - put carbon taxes on BTC/fiat exchanges - outlaw mining - outlaw BTC transactions - put economic press
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by corty 6y ago
In GCP you can configure budgets for projects (groups of resources). Budgets can issue alerts when reaching certain percentages and reconfigure or shutdown resources when exceeded. The budget howto docs have an example to stop everything th
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by corty 6y ago
Actually, asking for the credibility of a journal is the wrong question. The real one is about whether an article is credible. But the answer to that is disappointingly complicated. Articles are peer-reviewed for their readability (for peer
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by corty 6y ago
Depends. Some have a bunch of magic numbers you can use as alternative "second factor", basically another password for the special purpose of bypassing a real 2nd factor. That's of course stupid and dangerous. Then there are
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by corty 6y ago
Not really, my language skills are not sufficient beyond German and English.
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by corty 6y ago
Yes, my cultural sensitivity training and experience says Germans (let's call him Heinz) are abrasive to Brits and Americans (John). Germans are very direct and mean what they say far more literally than John. Indirect questions and su
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by corty 6y ago
The hypocrisy of the political class is even deeper, at least in Germany. Just recently, laws were passed to make platforms like Facebook filter, censor and rapidly delete content that might be against some law. Not after a court decision o
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by corty 6y ago
Well, by a sufficiently lax definition, any gardening club is a political pressure group, because they are of course interested in their members not getting shot, gardens not being outlawed and fair prices for seeds... The one thing that ma
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by corty 6y ago
I don't know about the rest of the world, but the power to strike in Germany is tied strictly to workplace-related issues. You can strike for more pay, better workplace conditions, more or less equality in the workplace. The legality o
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by corty 6y ago
Sounds more like a political pressure group than a union. No collective bargaining, no workplace issues, only political problems quite removed from the average worker at Google. Do they call themselves a union to get legal protection, or is
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by corty 6y ago
It would have become more accurate, had they inverted the results...
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by corty 6y ago
I guess it is mostly a problem for RedHat: The RH kernel is nominally an old stable version, but with fixes and hardware support frankensteined on from the later to latest kernel versions. If new kernel versions now start to expect features
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by corty 6y ago
Not so simple. Many manufacturers advertise a long warranty and then, when things break, drag their feet, blame improper use or wear and tear, offer workarounds instead of repairs, etc. A long warranty is only good if the manufacturer is tr
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by corty 6y ago
Not sure, theoretically the cost should just have shifted from the garbage can fees to the increase in product prices. But of course the garbage can fees are steadily rising...
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by corty 6y ago
The abstract problem is that the market is imperfect due to insufficient customer knowledge. I know my last washing machine lasted X years, but how that will compare to the new one from the same manufacturer, I don't know. The manufact
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by corty 6y ago
Yes. The "make producers pay" trope is also a fallacy imho. Packaging cost is just passed through the price to the consumer. Packaging and recycling are quite cheap for most products, so unpackaged goods are barely cheaper (often
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by corty 6y ago
Germany has had this for years. Producers have to pay a recycling fee covering the disposal of the packaging they use. The yellow garbage can for recyclables is paid for by that fee. Also, merchants have to take back and dispose of any pack
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by corty 6y ago
In Germany, producers or importers of electric and electronic devices are already paying for collection and recycling or disposal. https://www.stiftung-ear.de/de/startseite Didn't reduce the volume of the respecti
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by corty 6y ago
The unknowns of ageing wind power are becoming visible here in Germany. There are stacks of wind turbine blades in some regions, waiting on a field for years to maybe be properly disposed of some day. Replacing old wind turbines is also a f
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by corty 6y ago
Code that specifies types instead of using auto is, barring compiler bugs, usually less correct. The compiler knows better than you what the type really is.
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by corty 6y ago
Annoyance about C++ errors isn't only about the error occuring. With me, it is predominantly about the utter unusability of the error messages. C++ has postprocessors you can use to get your 20 page STL errors down to a few lines just
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by corty 6y ago
There are design decisions that are wrong. Invisible emergency exit signs are a wrong design decision. Making the emergency off button the same color and shape as the light switch is also a wrong design decision. And yes, I think the origin
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by corty 6y ago
So they say. But I could never get that to work, with KDE/Plasma the dialog just never shows up.
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by corty 6y ago
No concern, I just wanted to provide an example for what is currently happening in Whatsapp and Telegram (private groups where illegal content got posted, became known and caused the state to try to get rid of those groups and punish member

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