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by kuschku 9y ago
A payment system that’s only useful with a credit card is useless in many countries, though. And Google has managed to fuck up every payment solution they’ve built yet.
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by kuschku 9y ago
> If following the license is too much to ask for, what exactly does "not heavy handed" mean? The "enforcement" that Torvalds wants is what you see with Android today: Everyone ships blobs of kernel builds, with the s
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by kuschku 9y ago
As discussed in the other subthread, I suggest you open an account with them, do not ever hold any balance on the account, and only transfer a few euros per year in and back out per CC. I bet they’ll either close your account, or, if you te
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by kuschku 9y ago
I’ve looked into the credit rating, and asked the bank – the rating is fine, the banks all would take me as normal customer. But no bank agrees to open an account if I am not going to hold any balance, and only use it for one or two transac
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by kuschku 9y ago
I’ve got the Student Start-Konto with Commerzbank, and they offer me a CC with a Jahresentgeld of 39.90€. Nothing below that. You can get the CC for free if you are in high school, but if you’re above 18 it’s 39.90€ per year. https:/&
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by kuschku 9y ago
That’s nice, but it doesn’t change the fact that I tried to get a CC with them, and they said no. I tried with Commerzbank, Comdirekt, Postbank, DKB, ING-Diba, Hanseaticbank, Wüstenrot, and a bunch more. Every bank required either some inco
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by kuschku 9y ago
I tried getting a credit card with basically every bank, as a student, with no income, but good SCHUFA. Comdirect offered me one if I’d pay 30€/year, DKB required that I have some income – even if it’s just 400€/month.
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by kuschku 9y ago
One major advantage of N26 is that they’re the only bank in Germany offering a free credit or debit card without conditions . All other banks require either > 30€/year fee for the card, or > X€/month income, or > X€&#x2F
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by kuschku 9y ago
Luckily, Kotlin does provide much better ADTs, and Java can be swapped out for Kotlin 1:1. While Go is reinventing the languages of the 80s in the 2010s.
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by kuschku 9y ago
> Unless your goal is to increase ticket revenue or appease the "think of the children crowd" there's no point to lowering speed limits. It doesn't do much to affect traffic speed. To do that you have to modify the ro
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by kuschku 9y ago
I read them, and often I make decisions based on this — or can use it to convince e.g. my family to stop using payback (a discount scheme where a company logs all your purchases, even cash ones, and you get ~1% cashback).
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by kuschku 9y ago
It’s already been automated. https://selbstauskunft.net/ exists to allow you to send a BDSG §34 request (like GDPR request, but under the older German law for it) to basically any company. You select the company, sign it, a
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by kuschku 9y ago
The GDPR specifically has a clause for those cases, it applies also extraterritorially, and will be inforced, if necessary, by seizing your funds via the SWIFT interbanking system. That's a very bad idea
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by kuschku 9y ago
AMD has usually used Ashes of the Singularity as demo to show how well a game can run with DX12 or Vulkan multi-GPU. But many of the modern engines have started splitting their render tasks so that some can be put onto additional GPUs (or p
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by kuschku 9y ago
Well, it’s entirely up to the developer – you won’t have any issues with the driver, or of similar nature. In contrast to SLI, where the driver frequently was the cause of issues.
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by kuschku 9y ago
Nvidia doesn't support it, but they don't have to. Vulkan allows game developers to spread the load across all GPUs, if they wish to. You can do SLI with 8 1080Tis, an intel iGPU and an RX VEGA all together without issues
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by kuschku 9y ago
Since 2014, where Martin Schulz and Jean-Claude Juncker as leaders od the largest factions in the parliament basically staged a coup, the parliament now also has the power to elect the commission, instead of, as previously, just having veto
2718.
by kuschku 9y ago
Rent seeking has everything to do with trying to extract a continuous profit out of a resource.
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by kuschku 9y ago
Reading the reports, it looks like the outstanding fact here is that they’ve been consistently able to reproduce the same results with different setups, in different reactors, in different configurations. In every case with Q > 1. If the
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by kuschku 9y ago
And this is where Uber/Waymo are going. Welcome, you just reinvented the problem of rent-seeking.
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by kuschku 9y ago
> Wow that’s really entitled behavior. When you buy something, the intention is for you to own that item. It isn’t a trial period meant to facilitate an in-home shopping experience. It’s tacky to make it a habit of regularly returning t
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by kuschku 9y ago
The vulnerabilities all sound like > we have another instance of MS07-052: Code execution results in code execution.
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by kuschku 9y ago
Actually, this has been done twice. Recently by the open microG project, and earlier by Amazon. Reimplementing every Google Play service, bug for bug, bit for bit. And Amazon did it (and microG is close). This is what prompted Google's
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by kuschku 9y ago
> API's are available in the platform for all of them or can be replicated. All the sensors are only available to foreground apps, and only while they are running (at significant battery cost). The only way to get aggregate data is
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by kuschku 9y ago
Android is Apache 2, sadly. And while the kernel is GPL, most vendors distribute kernel binaries without source, and even years later, never publish the source. A major part of the Android ecosystem is based on unspoken piracy of the Linux
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by kuschku 9y ago
Especially when used in the core/client split version, which allows you to use the webclient https://github.com/magne4000/quassel-webserver/ , the irssi-client https://github.com/phhusson/
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by kuschku 9y ago
Maybe when Apple runs 85% of the market and makes contracts with OEMs that have a noncompete clause? You can only commit the crime of "abusing a dominant market position" if you have a dominant market position.
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by kuschku 9y ago
Before Android 2.3.7, AOSP included Google Search, Google Books, Google Talk, the Android Music app, the Android Launcher, Settings, Contacts, Calendar. In Android 8.0, AOSP does not include any of these anymore. In Android 8.0, you need to
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by kuschku 9y ago
Really, only 3? Because there’s two alone in Kiel (old city hall and the Landtag)
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by kuschku 9y ago
I did, but that assumes the average person. This is HN, not Facebook, so we can make different assumptions. E.g., we can assume that everyone has read the famous XKCD on passwords, and is using passwords that are a bunch of words after anot

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