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by corty 6y ago
Thats completely beside the point, renewable is more expensive than wood. Also, while renewables might be cheaper in the long run, initial costs are very high. And power mix in central europe, which you feed into your heat pump, is largely
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by corty 6y ago
There actually was a short period where Windows 95 was new and had just introduced long filenames with long extensions to former DOS users. Then, for a short time, stuff like .SomeSoftwaresDocument was actually popular.
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by corty 6y ago
Additionally, electricity, district heating, coal, gas and oil are getting more and more expensive due to carbon and renewable taxes. Renewables like photovoltaics and photothermics, along with heat pumps, are also increasing in price, beca
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by corty 6y ago
Just pork. Commitment is irrelevant because no real results are expected. Also, election terms make any real commitment unlikely, because results will only come for your successor in office.
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by corty 6y ago
Precautions on that or higher levels of expense and complexity, like burner phones, dead drops, networks of couriers, cell and gang org structure are standard procedures in organized crime. Un"organized" single small criminals mig
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by corty 6y ago
I think those laws might already exist, imho anonymous mixing could be prosecuted under the relevant money laundering laws.
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by corty 6y ago
No, miners are far more powerful than all the other stakeholders. While acceptance by merchants is a relevant factor, miners also have to facilitate any transaction. Any fork without miners is instantly unable to transact, making the coins
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by corty 6y ago
> What, and what it replaced (arbitrary ug+w sockets in /var/run, speaking to custom one-off RPC-listener ABIs for each daemon) wasn't fragile? Sockets like initctl are far less fragile. You don't need a dbus-daemon t
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by corty 6y ago
I didn't say all criminal activity is done via bitcoin. But there are segments of crime like cryptotrojans and CP trading that seem to be almost exclusively bitcoin-based. Others, like internet drug ordering, are at least partially in
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by corty 6y ago
There is a dangerous animal on the loose, threatening people. The owner is failing. Public authorities are failing. Community pressure doesn't work. Killing the animal is a legal and possible option that remains. Care to point out anot
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by corty 6y ago
> What kind of things do you buy with it and where? Drugs, CP, cryptotrojan ransom, other crime related transactions. Bitcoin value is directly related to relevant criminal activity.
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by corty 6y ago
Not doing anything wrong is not correct. If prosecuted properly, this should be a criminal conspiracy and profits from that are subject to forfeiture.
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by corty 6y ago
Maybe that and the sense of duty of the city police.
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by corty 6y ago
shoot the unruly dog in defence of a child. problem solved. You should not be ashamed to get rid of an animal that threatenes people.
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by corty 6y ago
Well, actually, the zero-vector has no direction and every direction.
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by corty 6y ago
Systemd provides a lot of network functionality in systemd-networkd, journald, timesyncd, etc. that is remote attack surface. All the systemd "cloud of daemons" is tightly coupled by dbus interfaces that enable an attacker to move
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by corty 6y ago
Which doesn't always help you if you are actually using one of the make-firewalling-easier-daemons (which I personally would advise against). Those often only support very basic features, but are pushed heavily by the commercial distro
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by corty 6y ago
Not quite. First, this doesn't apply to any interfaces that are created by system services like VPN tunnels. Second, you would usually want and need network-online.target, because firewall config often is applied after network-pre only
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by corty 6y ago
You can't typically start the firewall before the eth link goes up, since rules that contain network interfaces might not work before those are created (e.g. in case of bridge or bonding interfaces). Systemd's "start everythi
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by corty 6y ago
Not really a high-seas problem, onboard a ship the regulations of the flag country apply. However, flag countries are picked to be very lax in both laws and their enforcement. E.g. you will not find any carribean cruise ship from the big li
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by corty 6y ago
Because politicians are idiots. They think doing some lockdown-light with 50% of the boxes ticked from scientists recommendations will get 50% of the promised effect. And if they pick the right 50% of boxes, it'll also not inconvenienc
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by corty 6y ago
Crystal clear water also means that there is a scarcity of nutrients, otherwise algae would grow. But this isn't necessarily a desaster, not all lakes are equal in their conditions for various species. This might just be what the lakes
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by corty 6y ago
Miele still produces in Germany, but quality has gone way down nonetheless. Repairability is also getting poorer, you no longer get parts you one used to get for 20 years after the sale.
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by corty 6y ago
Agreed. Shipping quality on Amazon has declined massively (before corona), and since marketplace and comingling, products have often become unreliable and even dangerous. On top, there was a forced price raise to sell me videos I didn'
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by corty 6y ago
I'm not versed in Chinese law, but in Germany there are states where you can be imprisoned indefinitely for being a (vaguely (un)defined) danger: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/terror-abwehr-bayern-will... Of
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by corty 6y ago
"Due process" did probably happen, at least the Chinese version of it. Even dictatorial regimes usually have to maintain some appearance of legitimacy for the things they do. That legitimacy might not be apparent or even visible f
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by corty 6y ago
Fairphone is also about being fair to its user, e.g. with available spare parts.
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by corty 6y ago
Truth hurts. Voting on HN does not judge the quality of a text, it often just point out whether people like it for various reasons.
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by corty 6y ago
There is e.g. Fairphone
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by corty 6y ago
That is quite untrue, especially for Germany. Germany does not only siphon off unskilled (mostly seasonal) laborers from eastern Europe. We also draw in a lot of their educated workforce, which is especially apparent and problematic in fiel

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