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by krn 8y ago
> When someone shows me an: open sourced, graphical, log based, spam ip filtering, self hosted, server alternative to GA that I can set up in < 10x the time I will happily switch to it. https://goaccess.io/ ? I would
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by krn 8y ago
Not to everyone, for sure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18998227
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by krn 8y ago
I think the front-ends would remain completely separate, and the back-ends would be namespaced by a platform. For instance: facebook.users, facebook.ads, facebook.feed, facebook.messenger, facebook.instagram, facebook.whatsapp. This way, us
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by krn 8y ago
Facebook already has all the data it needs. What this change would do, is make an average person more aware of this. It would also help to increase the protection of the single "Facebook Account" to those, who will decide that the
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by krn 8y ago
It makes a lot of sense from the technical point of view. Essentially, one could share a single table of "users" between Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Because the accounts can be easily identified and connected by email addre
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by krn 8y ago
Isn't ChromeOS based on Linux, and, therefore, all Chromebooks affected by this?
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by krn 8y ago
I agree, they don't quite fit into the list. I meant all kinds of cameras, including DSLR. It was just an additional electronic device many people used to own that got replaced by the increasing capabilites of a smartphone. Just like n
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by krn 8y ago
That's true, in a small European country home assistants will never be as feature-proof as they are in the US, and the language support might never even be there, when the language is spoken by fewer than 3 million people. Yet, most pe
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by krn 8y ago
That's insane. In my EU country, pretty much everyone of age 18-65 has a smartphone and a laptop, and that's it. Tablets, e-readers, smart watches, and digital cameras are not popular, and home assistants are pretty much non-exist
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by krn 8y ago
Also, not all engineers have a risk-taking mentality. The Bay Area attracts mostly the "hacker" types, but there are plenty of more conservative – yet equally technically capable – individuals who prefer working for the government
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by krn 8y ago
EuroNCAP tests are a way more advanced than those done in North America[1]: "Ford Mustang hits the wall with 2-star Euro NCAP score [...] Lack of modern safety technology and other flaws mark Ford's sports car down in the latest r
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by krn 8y ago
In most of Europe, software engineers are paid the same as other highly skilled engineers. And Europe has plenty of engineering talent. What it doesn't have, though, is people willing to take and fund bold projects. But building the sa
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by krn 8y ago
I agree. Dell XPS 13 is a direct competitor to Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon[1], and is inferior in almost every way (build quality, port selection, keyboard, and screen). In my opinion, Macbooks stand on their own: you either want MacOS with t
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by krn 8y ago
I hope that Pixelbook 2 will be released soon with smaller bezels and more up-to-date hardware. Then switching from a Thinkpad running Fedora / Ubuntu to a Pixelbook will be a no-brainer to me. I think that ChromeOS is the most secure
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by krn 8y ago
> No idea why Berlin is so reluctant to deal with credit cards. https://qz.com/262595/why-germans-pay-cash-for-almost-everyt... A short answer: because of history.
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by krn 8y ago
I would probably do the same, if I lived in the US, because that's how the entire country is optimized to operate. At the same time, I am glad that the EU provides a more conservative alternative and style of living. I think the US is
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by krn 8y ago
In my country, it's possible to get the money back if somebody charged your debit card without your knowledge, but not if you approved the payment yourself. In such case, you are expected to solve the issue with the merchant yourself.
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by krn 8y ago
I definitely wouldn't use a debit card if I lived in the US, just because of the general atmosphere of "suing and disputing" everyone and everything, if something goes wrong. But debit cards work just fine in the EU, where go
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by krn 8y ago
I never heard of anyone disputing his Visa / MasterCard payment in my country. That's probably because people pay online only at a very limited number of places they trust, and it's easier to solve issues with the local merch
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by krn 8y ago
In Europe, most cards are debit cards, not credit cards. In some countries and places, credit cards are not even accepted because of the possibility of a chargeback and much higher processing fees. In essence, many people here treat Visa &#
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by krn 8y ago
Thanks, that's great news. My last visit was in May 2017. And for 10 years between 2007-2017 I pretty much carried only cash in Berlin. The cardless life was very strange in the beginning, but I learnt to love the absolute sense of fre
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by krn 8y ago
And in Germany it's Girocard[1]. You couldn't even buy a metro ticket with a Visa / MasterCard in Berlin a few years ago. And maybe you still can't. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girocard
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by krn 8y ago
It reminded me of "10 minutes"[1], the Best European Short Film of 2002. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za8-THNtk-M
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Chinese drone maker DJI uncovers fraud that could cost it $150M(cnn.com)
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Oracle systematically underpaid thousands of women, lawsuit says(theguardian.com)
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Connected car tech is eroding personal privacy (2016)(bbc.com)
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by krn 8y ago
> Your argument I'm not arguing that it's how it should be. I'm arguing that it's the way it is now in many parts of the world. It would be a normal procedure to request the car's owner to disable the dashcam b
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by krn 8y ago
Random people you never met before are recording you with their dashcams all the time in public places. If it was a problem at the dealership, the car owner should have been asked to turn off the dashcam before presenting the car, and no ca
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by krn 8y ago
To everyone claiming, that an employee has a right not to be recorded when working: in practice, he doesn't. There are security cameras on every floor in every office building. There are security cameras in every bar, restaurant, and g
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by krn 8y ago
Steve Jobs essentially described what was later coined "The Innovator's Dilemma"[1], but in a more general way. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma

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