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by kbart 9y ago
"Gas pumps are going to be among the last places to use mag stripes because they might not have network connectivity." Again, that's US-centric thing. Here in Europe, there's >99% cellular coverage (the remaining 1
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by kbart 9y ago
"The reason payment cards the world over still have a mag stripe is because, until a few years ago, chip cards were simply not a thing in the U.S. " So let them have it, why should I care and endure security risk? I've ne
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by kbart 9y ago
I still don't get why all credit cards have magstripe when we have chip&pin for decades. Yes, I know it's required by a standard, but I see no justification for that. I have never used magstripe , but it's right there o
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by kbart 9y ago
"Russia and China were already democracies before the authoritarian parties took over. " Russia was not[0]. One of the key reasons that laid foundations for revolution there was wide discontent of nobles and their arrogance towar
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by kbart 9y ago
This sounds more like a scene from Agent007 movie than real world events. I'm interested what techniques are used today, as we have so many advanced technological means..
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by kbart 9y ago
Downvote me to hell again, but if person is capable of beating 4 year old defenseless child severely and leave him to die slowly in agony and hunger over days , it's not a human -- it's a dangerous animal that must be kept lock
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by kbart 9y ago
It's illegal in EU to get a broad consent (aka "we will track you anytime, collect any data we like and do with it as we please"). EULA must state exactly what data is collected and how it will be used, also it must be retr
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by kbart 9y ago
If fine <= of profit from illegal activities, it just encourages to act, because in the worst case scenario you still won't lose anything. I'd say 400k Eur is just about right in this case.
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by kbart 9y ago
That's just a warning shot. Next time they get caught for the same thing it won't end so well, so it's just like saying: "stop what you are doing or there will be consequences, here's some little fine so you take us
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by kbart 9y ago
I don't think it's a technological problem. There are surely talents in Europe that are capable of creating wondrous things (let alone social networks), see Skype for example (before Microsoft has ruined it). I think it's cul
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by kbart 9y ago
"to a world where gay people have significantly more rights is a wonderful development" You are being too optimistic. Gays have more rights in some (mostly western) countries, it's not even close to the whole world. Meanwhi
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by kbart 9y ago
Agreed. Also, murdering a 4 year old child should lead to lifelong sentence in any case imho, so sorry, no sympathies here.
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by kbart 9y ago
Strange that you name Finland in a "basket cases of mismanagement". It is in world top20 by GDP/capita and often cited as having the best school system in whole world[0]. 0. http://www.businessinsider.com/wef-
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by kbart 9y ago
Please, make your facts straight. It's not the first time in this thread you blame countries for their colonial past that have never had any colonies : Switzerland, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia -- none of them had coloni
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by kbart 9y ago
Neither Finland nor Poland had any colonies nor they had "enslaved its industrious inhabitants". So your example itself counters your point that colonization and enslavement are necessary for prosperity of countries.
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by kbart 9y ago
It already happens for quite some time. China and Russia has their own copy cat versions of most western software/services. It's even moving to hardware level as both of these countries are working on their own CPU and infrastruct
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by kbart 9y ago
As far as I know, USA is the only country that uses such terrible credit system. In most other countries credit rating is controlled by the government itself or is at least heavily regulated. I haven't encountered any problems with m
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by kbart 9y ago
Can't talk about the whole Europe, but in my country there aren't many banking services provided via phone and banks keep decreasing their count insisting on their clients to use mobile app, online banking or ATM. I believe you ca
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by kbart 9y ago
"What metric do you use?" The key difference between good and bad engineers is that good ones deliver the product/finishes the projects (add bonus points if on time) and bad ones don't. Quality makes much less business
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by kbart 9y ago
"But how come that bread is not much more expensive in Germany compared to, say France, where electricity is much cheaper?" Because it's not the only factor. Many other factors might balance the price: labor cost, taxes, lo
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by kbart 9y ago
Wind turbines, solar panels, dams don't come for free and their capital cost ends up in consumers' bills anyway. Sure, on the long run we might achieve cheap or even free energy, but current tendency is rising of electricity price
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by kbart 9y ago
It's not only what you pay directly, it affects virtually all prices. Let's take a bread for example: most modern bakeries use electric ovens, and as far as I know, it's one of the biggest part of total running cost. Moving t
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by kbart 9y ago
My Nokia from 2009 can handle it just fine. I still use it whenever i break yet another smartphone (written from Nokia 6303i).
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by kbart 9y ago
4-5 hours of sleep is definitely not enough. 6 hours is a recommended minimum in nearly every related study I've ever seen. Even though it might not look like a problem immediately, but it's a serious burden on your body (heart, e
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by kbart 9y ago
What I find strange and what keeps getting repeated in this thread is that if you don't agree on certain points of currently popular liberal trends, you are automatically being called "conservative" or even worse (bigot, raci
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by kbart 9y ago
"1. help a non-profit for a lower pay or even for free 2. contribute to open source projects 3. create a project of your own where you can show what you can do" What's wrong with projects from previous full-time jobs? My mo
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by kbart 9y ago
What happens to these kite power stations when there's no wind to keep them flying?
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by kbart 9y ago
I agree with that (though things are slowly getting better in Europe), but then why average Joe from USA is OK with government subsidizing Europe with his tax money, but freaks out on the idea of paying for his own healthcare from the same
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by kbart 9y ago
"Even more insane, Americans ALREADY pay for all the uninsured through their insurance fees" Exactly. But while it's called "insurance fee" not "tax", it's somehow OK, even though tax extra would am
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by kbart 9y ago
What I don't get about USA mentality is that Americans collectively pay >600B/year to fund military[0], trillions worth of pointless wars[1] via taxes and are happy about that, but when it comes to paying some extra to fund the

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