fraa-orolo

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by fraa-orolo 4y ago
The rate is based on Euribor [1], fixed for 6 months in my case (and commonly most everyone) but anything between 3 to 24 months was possible. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euribor
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by fraa-orolo 4y ago
I just bought an apartment with 15% down. It's in the EU; 15% down is about the standard here with no special exceptions. With government assistance programmes it can be even 5% down but you'd have to qualify for some protected ca
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by fraa-orolo 4y ago
> The direct profit motive leads to "forfeiture corridors". This is where typically drugs will go in one direction and the resulting cash will go in the other. The police will set up to seize only the cash going in one directio
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by fraa-orolo 5y ago
Get your bloodwork done, see if there aren't any obvious deficiencies. One very notable would be iron deficiency which is quite common. Low iron leads to low hemoglobin, which leads to you being tired, low energy, so it's harder t
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by fraa-orolo 5y ago
> I personally don't having sex on a foam mattress I'm sorry but you personally don't what on a foam mattress? You left out like the most important word of all of your comment. Don't mind, don't like, don't
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by fraa-orolo 5y ago
> I'd say when the data is observed is when it becomes surveillance. If I recall correctly, that was exactly the US government's defense after the 2013 Snowden leaks revealed it was tapping every internet connection possible an
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by fraa-orolo 5y ago
Have you seen users? I have to convince users not to install random crap.
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by fraa-orolo 5y ago
> FYI I'd wager they're fully aware of the differences between tungsten carbide and pure tungsten, having done a doctorate about it.
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by fraa-orolo 5y ago
We can't and they probably will, everyone else seems to already be doing so. There's that Swiss federal police report that only about 10% of NCMEC reports are actually relevant ( https://fedpol.report/en/fedpol
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by fraa-orolo 5y ago
Indeed, I touched on that in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28227141
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by fraa-orolo 5y ago
Because it's not a cryptographic hash where a one bit difference results in a completely different hash. It's a perceptual hash that operates on a smaller bitmap derived from the image so it's plausible that some innocuous im
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by fraa-orolo 5y ago
The thing is that this is a better and more privacy preserving technique. Their hubris is in not seeing or thinking that they will be able to stand up to all kinds of abuses of this system that its mere existence will invite; their hubris
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by fraa-orolo 5y ago
A false positive in matching faces results in a click to fix it or a wrongly categorized photo. A false positive in this new thing may land you in jail or have your life destroyed. Even an allegation of something so heinous is enough to rui
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by fraa-orolo 5y ago
Since we're talking anecdata anyway, it could be from decreased sleep quality instead of direct causation.
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by fraa-orolo 8y ago
I've got a bone to pick with the article - it makes it sound like the Scottish only invented whisky in the beginning of 19th century: > So it was only a matter of time before the Scots started storing their local moonshine, a clear
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by fraa-orolo 9y ago
To recap: the problems are that data is accessed without independent permission, and data is collected for reasons other than serious crime. So the solution is to create a government body to rubberstamp access requests, and reclassify more