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by hnbad 3y ago
To allow remote control. Of course this is silly and the real answer is to make you dependent on their app which shows you ads. Also many smaller smart home device manufacturers with an app seem to be heading in the direction of wanting to
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by hnbad 3y ago
If you look at the shape of those tracks it's more surprising that this only turned into a "minor" derailing, although of course the initial video is sped up quite a bit. John Oliver had a segment on train derailments a while
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by hnbad 3y ago
The (now deleted) comment poking fun at the German minimum wage is especially funny if you consider how anti-union Tesla is and that the German industrial union IG Metall only last month managed to get into Tesla, despite the management&#x2
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by hnbad 3y ago
FWIW the clear difference here is that if someone is banned over one thing, their ban might later be reversed if that thing is no longer considered bannable or if opinions on the incident change. If they did 170 different things, each one w
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by hnbad 3y ago
In my experience, usually when you read in an article how people marvel at something someone does and you think "doesn't everyone do that?" the answer is no, they don't. No, I've never thought of a year as having a
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by hnbad 3y ago
Not necessarily but some financial products based on stocks can be and meme stocks usually function much like ponzi schemes (i.e. buying a stock, telling everyone else to buy the stock because it'll go to the moon, then selling the sto
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by hnbad 3y ago
To be frank, the value proposition of those investments was never what the companies claimed they did but how much money they could bring in before going bust. And of course some of those companies were also useful by fostering acceptance o
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by hnbad 3y ago
I don't think "filter out texts that look like they might be blatant sexual puns or inappropriate for a jumbotron" is on the same level as "filter out images in a promotion of militarist culture that depict people whom t
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by hnbad 3y ago
I think this is an example of a cargo cult in the original sense: people who didn't understand how and why cargo planes came and went recreating what they saw the people with the cargo planes do in order to make them appear again after
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by hnbad 3y ago
> Fielding's own examples from his blog, how'd you turn a lamp on and off via REST? Would you be like `POST /lamp`? No. It's unclear WTF is happening. No, of course you'd be like `PATCH {"light": "
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by hnbad 3y ago
I don't know how to say this but have you ever visited a site called 4chan? And that's not even the worst offender. Ever since Twitter fired most of its content moderation team, it's also pretty easy to find that kind of talk
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by hnbad 3y ago
Sure, if you look at the narrativized version of European human history the way we first conceived of it in the early Renaissance period, there's no other way to see it. It's called living at "the imperial core" for a re
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by hnbad 3y ago
IDK how representative I am but as a German "Suisse" is clearly referring to Switzerland (maybe because it's in some Swiss brand names, e.g. Credit Suisse?) and my two associations with "ing" are ING direct banking
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by hnbad 3y ago
I didn't say all Muslims are Islamists. I said Islamists (i.e. political Islam) pose a threat to Chinese unity and the unquestioned authority of the state, which the CCP tries to project at all costs. Consider the political influence o
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by hnbad 3y ago
As a European, the closest you can usually get to this is when an American company decides to take your local custom or tradition and commercialize it without any understanding of its context. As a German the closest approximation is "
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by hnbad 3y ago
That's a very deliberate misrepresentation and oversimplification. China is very much anti-Muslim because Islamists pose a threat to its absolute power and its projected illusion of unity. China is also anti-Israel because Israel is a
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by hnbad 3y ago
I remember that this was trying to be a thing in the mid-2000s (via COPPA) in order to help better age restrict adult content. Sites would use metadata to signal the apropriate age limit for their content and web filters could use this to d
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by hnbad 3y ago
Last I checked the GDPR applies to EU residents, not EU citizens. In other words: it applies to anyone in Europe, not anyone from Europe. The legal problem with geo-blocking to work around the GDPR is that the error page is usually not
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by hnbad 3y ago
There's no such thing as "consenting to legitimate interest" in the GDPR. Those are two different mechanisms. Legitimate interest does not require consent. If it requires consent or can simply be opted out to, it's not l
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by hnbad 3y ago
Yes true. If the service can be provided without collecting and processing certain data you can not coerce the user to "consent" to you doing so in order to access your service. E.g. the good old growth hack of collecting newslett
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by hnbad 3y ago
I'd imagine as stealth goes, driving up to someone's house is a much more subtle way to deliver a grenade than launching a drone that goes EEEEEEEEEEEE all the way as it is hastily steered to its destination while the operator att
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by hnbad 3y ago
The problem is that if the bomb is intended to kill a specific target, it's much harder to do so anonymously. If it is intended to "send a message", anonymity is usually the opposite of what the bomber wants. A lot of so-call
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by hnbad 3y ago
You know what Hamas primarily used to disable the fence? Construction vehicles. There are literally videos of Hamas militants using a loader to tear down a fence to create an opening. They also infamously used motorized paragliders to cross
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by hnbad 3y ago
> It used to be a safe assumption that "the military is always 30 years ahead". IDK if that isn't still true about the US military. The most high-tech equipment sent to Ukraine is still decades old. Israel receives more up
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by hnbad 3y ago
> it can also blind people unintentionally Soldiers can be equipped with safety goggles. Injured civilians are reclassified as casualties of the hostile force.
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by hnbad 3y ago
Which parts of Austria and Germany are that? In Germany the air raid sirens are part of the emergency broadcast system and outside natural disasters only heard during tests. These tests happen on a schedule and when done at a federal level
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by hnbad 3y ago
Some people suck. Some people need kidneys. Some people who need kidneys are people that suck. I guess the answer to your question lies in whether you believe that humans are predisposed towards good or evil. Evolutionarily the argument goe
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by hnbad 3y ago
Literally everything you say in defense of Tesla and against the striking workers can be inversed without becoming any less true. As others have pointed out, you seem to misunderstand what laws are and what they are for. They're not sp
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Sweden does not have a minimum wage because unions are more efficient at ensuring livable wages than legislation and setting a legal minimum wage in this scenario would only benefit the bargaining position of employers by giving them a low-
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by hnbad 3y ago
They're kinda illegal in Germany, actually. Based on a legal change in 2017, employers are prohibited from hiring temp workers[0] to take over work from striking employees. There are probably loopholes by having excess temp workers o

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