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by ketzu 5y ago
> just for "alleged" copyright infringement is the problem. Yes, that is a problem, but not the one I thought people complain about. Maybe the comments doing so stuck with me the most and I overestimate how many there were, but
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by ketzu 5y ago
After reading the comments I feel I will go against a strong current here: I think DNS blocks are the right approach and the judges do understand DNS sufficiently. When it comes to laws and their enforcement, I often wonder what HN users th
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by ketzu 5y ago
Wow, I really completely missed that. Thank you for the hint and sorry for my mistake. (I personally don't see how abolishing copyright goes well with the concept of game/movie stores, though, it would make it easier to set them u
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by ketzu 5y ago
> I really hate that right now the main obstacle to making a good movie/game/etc I do not believe that is the main obstacle even by a far margin. It is at best the main obstacle to do that in an established universe. The main o
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by ketzu 5y ago
> it's the opposite of how sanitation tends to be handled in large JS frameworks such as Angular. But they still do server side input validation, right? Otherwise, that would be a security concern.
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by ketzu 5y ago
I think facts have gotten a bad reputation nowadays. Many functions only work as composition of facts.
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And the ones that do propose alternatives do so from a very narrow point of view. Oral exams are much more time consuming and simply not practical in many situations. Projects and seminar papers have similar problems, especially in early se
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by ketzu 5y ago
In my opinion, scientific publishing sells prestige. Every "you could simply..." distruption that assumes it is only about getting people to have access to the paper won't work.
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by ketzu 5y ago
> Because, again, these folks don't care if anyone can read their research outside of colleagues who might cite them. Many researchers do care, hence they publish on their own website, arxiv etc., too. But they do care about future
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by ketzu 5y ago
I didn't get the same impression as you about the author. Especially later points sound like they played games with good writing and most points are just "many games" points. Personally, I have seen and played games with 100
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by ketzu 5y ago
Would this really change page sizes significantly? Take amazon landing as an example: * HTML/CSS: 80 KB and 88 KB * Images: 3.2 MB * Font: 180 KB * JavaScript: 260 KB Reducing HTML/CSS to 1 Byte each, would make nearly no differen
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by ketzu 5y ago
Trying to get a bit closer: [1] says median household income is apparently 4.8k€/month, so around 58k€/year (before tax). Average housing prices seem to be between 250k and 400k (couldn't find a good source). That would be 4.
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> random small city "Tübingen" Tübingen is an infamously expensive outlier. Most average costs for houses I saw online are around 250-400k€. My own hometown, Ulm (not too far from Tübingen, and a bit larger) has Houses around 5
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by ketzu 5y ago
> ??? Is it common that people think he is Asian for some reason? What a strange paragraph to include... Not just that, but for some time you could observe subthreads accusing him of being a chinese subversion of HN in china related disc
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by ketzu 5y ago
It seems like not as strong. A more jokish version might be: > Having no kids is a financial advantage > You have to claim kids on your tax form to save more on taxes The two may not be as exclusive as they seem.
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Aren't those basic high school topics?
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by ketzu 5y ago
I just wish there was proper support and UX for dates on file systems, so I can actually properly search for date ranges instead of having "iso8601 sorts lexicographically!" as a crutch used within filenames.
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by ketzu 5y ago
Thank you for your effort, unfortunately it turns out I am too sick currently to actually engage in it an demonstrate my point correctly. It is a bad combination of being more inclined to actually respond because of boredom and being less c
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by ketzu 5y ago
What I personally dislike about the rephrasing is the ambiguity around the states "what happens when Monty selects the prize". I think that's the more important question.
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by ketzu 5y ago
> It's also the reason why VW had to pay a huge fine in the US but not in Germany. VW had to pay 1 billion euro in germany. Maybe that's not enough, but it definately is not the case that companies are not persecuted in any way
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by ketzu 5y ago
I remember this being a very popular take on reddit back when the story broke out (and calls to try VW execs for murder). I remember the number 120 (but seems they or my memory is not that correct [1]) edit: Another find was 5k/year in
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by ketzu 5y ago
Shouldn't, ideally, a mistake you learn from not require a new persona? Seems like the old system created part of the problem: Removing people that make mistakes, until the community consists of only participants that have always been
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by ketzu 5y ago
I thought for a long time that the north korean government acts so "crazy" is to hide this fact. If they were acting "sane", they wouldn't be taken seriously because of the massive power imbalance and the extreme re
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by ketzu 5y ago
> It was a PR post written to rile a user base without knowledge of the financial system or securities law. After reading the reddit thread: It seems to work in that case at least.
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by ketzu 5y ago
Germany reduced its VAT last year in july by 3% and reinstated it this year. This masks inflation quite a bit. Inflation last august was 0% (rest of the year was negative). So inflation compared to 2019 is also 4% for august. source: https
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You'll still have to fulfil minimal required deposits with the central bank (but my understanding was that they are free of charge). After that, what will you do if you can't make enough money from loans for your employees (includ
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Or it might lead to the conclusion that there are conflicting freedoms and reducing freedom may be unavoidable due to their conflicting nature instead of being inherently wrong. Making these kinds of decisions a balancing act based on which
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by ketzu 5y ago
+/- Infinity seems to be correct according to IEEE754. IEEE754 section 7.3: The divideByZero exception shall be signaled if and only if an exact infinite result is defined for an operation on finite operands. The default result of divi
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by ketzu 5y ago
> The mere act of having to verify yourself when going into a mall, restaurant, bus, train gives enormous tracking and control capabilities. Then they messed that up quite well here. And that doesn't seem all that great a payoff at
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According to the article, the current plan says yes: "The draft stipulates that people who cannot be vaccinated for health reasons like expectant women and children under 18 will continue to be entitled to subsidised tests."

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