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by furyg3 8y ago
I was a HAM in the US, mostly just to get internet access via packet radio (and play with higher power wifi) back in early 2000's. I participated in a few field day's which were really awesome. The community was pretty cool. I d
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by furyg3 8y ago
Here in the Netherlands (at Albert Heijn stores) one small change from the US system makes all the difference: they don't weigh the product after you scan it. No 'unexpected item in bagging area' etc. It goes extremely quic
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by furyg3 8y ago
As someone who lives in a country where the regulatory burdens are higher and healthcare is cheaper, you are very wrong.
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by furyg3 8y ago
I don't find this line of argumentation ("But the military builds great stuff, too!"), not to be very convincing. They also build a lot of really, really horrible stuff, and most of the good stuff was actually built to suppo
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by furyg3 8y ago
> Basically, locking people up prevents them from committing crimes for that duration. [...] that's going to reduce crime by removing whatever crimes they'd commit. You're making a lot of assumptions here. 1) There is no
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by furyg3 8y ago
Can you give an example?
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by furyg3 8y ago
Got a link, I'd (genuinely) like to see this research!
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by furyg3 8y ago
That only means that Google did (or should have done) a risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis on getting fined by the EU on this topic.
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by furyg3 8y ago
Something similar is happening in Holland, where it's possible to see where the historical fields were within current field divisions. https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/nederland-zo-droog-dat-zelfs-hi...
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by furyg3 8y ago
To be fair, my Signal list of contacts keeps growing here in NL. I do some light proselytizing, but it seems to be moving along on it's own. Hopefully Arjan Lubach (Holland's Jon Oliver) will do a hit-peice on WhatsApp like he d
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by furyg3 8y ago
This is a weird statement. You're saying California would be a red state if you removed a lot of Democrats. About 50% of registered voters in the state are Democrats, and 30% Republican: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by furyg3 8y ago
Tesla has a market cap of 58 billion dollars. That's higher than, GMC (55), who I remember selling 10+ million cars last year (or was it 2016?). Tesla produced ~100k cars last year. I'm a gigantic Tesla fan. I hope they dominat
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by furyg3 8y ago
Especially in cases when it doesn't need to be thinner. I just tried out a Apple Magic Keyboard, which is a razor blade for some reason, and had wrist pain within a few hours of using it. Everybody's different, but this keyboa
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by furyg3 8y ago
I'm no geologist, but 180C doesn't sound hot enough to make rock behave like plastic. Ninja-edit: It looks like the temperature / pressure isn't so problematic because of rock moving around, but instead to do with coolin
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by furyg3 9y ago
Yeah my question is not does facebook know your location (they do), but what criteria are used to determine if you are under the legal regime of the GDPR. If it's just the location you set, I would advise my non-EU friends to set thei
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by furyg3 9y ago
How does Facebook determine if a user resides in the EU? Based on the location that they give Facebook? Based on their IP address? Phone number?
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by furyg3 9y ago
It also just makes sliding easier.
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by furyg3 9y ago
Yep, I remember some people in my org having problems emailing a large company. Whois, call number, get tech, get mail guy, gets fixed.
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by furyg3 9y ago
If the TLD authority on the Island is offering a good/service to an EU person, even if they are outside the EU, they will need to protect that data in the way that the GDPR specifies. So they can either decide to not publicize that in
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by furyg3 9y ago
This, too, was my problem. I don't want to give out real answers to my security question for two (slightly contradictory) reasons. The first is: what if this site is hacked? Now my security question answers are floating around for us
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by furyg3 9y ago
I don't understand how this can be implemented so badly. It's like someone looked at a European system, said "that Chip+PIN system sure looks great. What if we copied it, but then removed the security and increased the hassl
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Withdrawal of the UK and EU rules on .eu domain names [pdf](ec.europa.eu)
10 points by furyg3 9y ago|2 comments
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by furyg3 9y ago
> To me, all this rain-making news out of China seems like either propaganda It's easier to organize a very public and sophisticated rain dance than it is to properly manage water resources at scale.
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by furyg3 9y ago
To some degree you're right, but as an American who is (now) fluent in Dutch, it is not all up to translations. The Dutch will tell each other if they don't like someone's shoes, if they should have prepared better for a meet
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by furyg3 9y ago
I don't know if I'd play that game. They can waste your time much more effectively and get paid while doing it.
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by furyg3 9y ago
I just sent €3 to a friend at another bank (we're both in the Netherlands). It was there within the hour. It was also free. If I send €3 worth of bitcoin it would have taken anywhere from 1-6 hours and would have cost me around €20 t
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by furyg3 9y ago
Wow, I forgot how bad it was. I have unlimited data, unlimited calling/sms, and (as of recently) free roaming in all EU countries for €30/month ($36), with T-Mobile in NL. So that's $432/year. A $1k iPhone on it's
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by furyg3 9y ago
I'm not sure what the general point is you're trying to make. Mine was to answer, in my experience, whether or not wait times and general 'hassle' is higher in places with more socialized health care than the US. My (l
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by furyg3 9y ago
Anecdata: Can be at least 15x faster in Europe (NL) than US. I moved from the US to NL. I've had a (similar) knee operation in both places, on the same knee. Both times involved an ER visit, referral to specialist, planning an MRI, g
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by furyg3 9y ago
My understanding is that for historical reasons the newer ISPs (mostly cable providers) were running out of IPv4 addresses. They then switched their own networks over to IPv6, meaning that if you live in Belgium, there's a very high c

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