johannes1234321

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by johannes1234321 6d ago
In "I'm Danish" it's an adjective. With "I'm a Danish" it's a noun, stating you are a pastry.
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by johannes1234321 9d ago
> (although the German state is already well and truly in those woods) .. There is an issue. I see the bigger issue in Big Tech. What Google (or Apple or palantir or ...) knows about me, even if I manage to fully block them on my side. T
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by johannes1234321 9d ago
> joystick port that for some reason resided on sound cards. That reason was the limited amount of ISA ports. Early joystick ports were on their own ISA card. Which used a precious slot. For creative labs it was good advertising "se
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by johannes1234321 9d ago
Yes, if a crime is committed or such there is a reason. That over weighs other reason. But 99% of everyday situations aren't that. Then there is the other side: some I dividuals have very good reason for not being tracked. Be it key wi
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by johannes1234321 9d ago
> Just remind them, public photography is not a crime, and that there is no right to privacy in the public sphere, That maybe true in some places. But it's a lot more nuanced in Germany. The "easy" one is publishing a pic
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by johannes1234321 10d ago
There is always the debate around "Europe of two speeds" - where there is a deeply integrated core of nations, maybe even going towards "United States of Europe" and the others tightly associated, but not fully integrate
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by johannes1234321 12d ago
It's not 100% exact. There was the ORB - Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg. Which later (2003) merged with SFB - Sender Freies Berlin to RBB - Rundfunk Berlin Brandeburg. Thus the middle serves the middle. And while Saxonia (Part of MD
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by johannes1234321 12d ago
This became stricter with a big reform in 1999 and then further changes. Till then (West) Germany had quite inflspecific wordi g. The constitution says "German citizen is, who is German" and they kept the old Empire's citizen
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by johannes1234321 12d ago
There are places like government agencies, public transit org aisations, and similar organisations, which still use it as adhoc quick notification channel. If I want to see if a train route ist interrupted it's the best source. However
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by johannes1234321 12d ago
> For example, someone from east germany fleeing to west german already had the (west) germanship citizenship, no paperwork needed to get it. Mind that that didn't only matter for GDR, but also East Prussia etc. which was important
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by johannes1234321 12d ago
As fou der - yes. The question is if investors accept that gamble. Facebook, when, Meta took a bunch of bad decisions in recentyears. All that Metaverse is just a write off ... for now the stock market liked the "vision" but that
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by johannes1234321 17d ago
> I used to think "I should be nice to merchants" and pay everything in cash. That is only "nicer" as it allows to evade taxes. (Which some may consider nice) But cost for cash is comparable to card payment if looked
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by johannes1234321 17d ago
But it doesn't "understand" these words any better. When transforming into code it may reinterpret yet again.
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by johannes1234321 18d ago
LG for large parts of the product series use WebOS, which was the OS of the shortlived attempt by Palm to compete in the smartphone market with iPhone, which then changed hands a bit till landing there.
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by johannes1234321 19d ago
Which means somewhat popular, somewhat larger have backups. Important would be backups for things nobody else is interested in. The ones where one person in 10 years will ask for.
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by johannes1234321 19d ago
Twitter was in a great space for those kind of things. They had a big user base, a simple format and a working API, which was free for those kinds of things. Toolbuilders integrated it. No platform took over as clear successor. Of course su
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by johannes1234321 20d ago
They are - but in cooperation with others. Parts of the Orion capsule of the current Artemis mission program are based on the German ATV, which is a capsule which was developed to supply ISS. On ISS there are German modules like Galileo. Ge
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by johannes1234321 24d ago
> It is the fault of evolution that we don't have wheels but we don't have to repeat that mistake. With wheels you can't climb up a steep mountain. Hands and feet allow to hold tight. With wheels you can't hold as muc
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by johannes1234321 28d ago
The goal of the EU is to form a single economic area. Irish an I elandic fishers should be under same rules when fishing the same waters. EU often is a mechanism to find a compromise (which makes the regulations so convoluted and bureaucrat
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by johannes1234321 29d ago
Since banks want a product they can sell. The European Central Bank is working on regulation regarding the "Digital Euro" which is a bit in a marketing hype loop using block chain and other terms as a hype, while fundamentally try
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by johannes1234321 1mo ago
With MIT there isn't much to goan with business comptiable licensing. There the question turns to "you may sue me, if it breaks" as reasoning. In reality sueing will rarely work, but having a business contract satisfies the c
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by johannes1234321 1mo ago
And compared to Twitter or others discussed here no government agency or similar uses Hacker News as their primary channel for news updates. However Twitter, Instagram and auch are used for such official purpose from different agencies worl
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by johannes1234321 1mo ago
> When they're damaged beyond hope of repair from decades of wear. As for books that haven't fallen apart from being used as intended and merely are no longer desired, my local library generally sells them off at bargain prices
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by johannes1234321 1mo ago
It's a term often interpreted as derogatory for a group of people. (Disabled people)
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by johannes1234321 1mo ago
> because of a DMCA That law doesn't apply to many HN readers
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by johannes1234321 2mo ago
About 30 years ago we had the sitcom bubble. Tulip mania was in the 1630ies, about 400 years ago. There always have been attempts to exploit others for personal gain and people following that. The new thing is the speed in which this happen
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by johannes1234321 2mo ago
Or AI can be a threat: If AI can spit out good enough special purpose tools a lot of the SAP adaption business goes away. If AI then also assists in data migration the moat goes away.
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by johannes1234321 2mo ago
> I’m choosing not to encode > as >: neither HTML nor XML syntax requires it. TIL, I never questioned encoding >
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by johannes1234321 2mo ago
This thread was about omnipresent flag presence in factories and such. And the way it's done in America is different from many other countries.
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by johannes1234321 2mo ago
Also he dictatorship are (officially) pride of doing their work for the state as Americans work multiple jobs in fear of losing their paychecks, their health insurance.

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