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   by lixtra 7y ago

   If they had put “Pay x USD to continue using python 2 till 2020” in the document, I bet it would have been less alien to oracle customers [1]. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-customer-explains-aud...
2. 452.▲
   by lixtra 7y ago

   And you think those landlords would rent to cash payers?
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   by lixtra 7y ago

   You can do statistical analysis if certain users get checked unusually often (I.e. generate tickets only when checked). After some time you can force those users into online only mode.
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   by lixtra 7y ago

   I.e. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoric_iron#cite_note-Wald... There are several examples in the Wikipedia entry
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   by lixtra 7y ago

   The coolest solution I heard was to look at a well defined spot of the gold bar and register the impurities/bubbles/structure that naturally happen while casting. This is very difficult to reproduce (because there is no legitimate
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   by lixtra 7y ago

   > My stomach turns thinking all we’re going to learn about this chapter in American history over the next 10 years because we’re not seeing all of it unfold in real time. > Much of this adds up to an existential crisis in democracy th
7. 457.▲
   by lixtra 7y ago

   So as a high earner, what would be a rational thing to do? German savings rate is about 10%, let’s assume it’s 20% for a high earner. If she decides to stop saving, she can reduce her workload to 80%. This is generally easier than it might
8. 458.▲
   by lixtra 7y ago

   Look at the discussion around MMT https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
9. 459.▲
   by lixtra 7y ago

   I think ECB is doing a terrible job in reaching their stated goal of 2% inflation. I think actual helicopter money distributed equally to each EU citizen (a few hundred EUR) would have been much better than buying state bonds. Most people w
10. 460.▲
    by lixtra 7y ago

    The problem in this case was that another credit card was connected to the account.
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    I read HN also during work time, so yes. My job is general IT with outsourcing partners usually doing the heavy lifting. I need some understanding in many subfields. That said, I rarely search in HN for old information that I didn’t read be
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    > Take the Bitcoin blockchain: an unencrypted public key is sent along with every bitcoin transaction, and left unencrypted during the time it takes for the network to confirm the block, around ten minutes. My understanding is that it re
13. 463.▲
    by lixtra 7y ago

    Sometimes they share how they beat the market in the past after their advantage faded, i.e. http://www.edwardothorp.com/books/a-man-for-all-markets/
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    Why couldn’t something with an impact of Fukushima or worse happen in any other industrial plant? I.e. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppau_explosion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaste
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19007493
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    Please reread Someone1234’s comment. In my words: Nest devices had security issues in the past [1]. It’s very likely that they still have issues today (like most software). Once a hacker gains enough control of the device she can turn off t
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    See https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessecolombo/2018/08/24/u-s-hou... for a more elaborate treatise of the subject.
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    Funny enough the owner of Der Spiegel was himself considered an anti-semite by the Wiesenthal Center[1] a few years ago which stirred quite some debate back then. [1] https://m.jpost.com/International/Wiesenthal-dean-la
19. 469.▲
    by lixtra 7y ago

    Sharing your location with the state in real time all time seemed barbaric a decade ago while it will be normal for our kids.
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    If we think like this, we are either paranoid or already live in a totalitarian society.
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    > So-called “functional” programming has no proper mechanism of abstraction since it is based on mathematics (which obviously is inferior and has no applications in the real world apart from academia). It’s tough to read on after that. E
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    See also GDPR enforcement tracker (initial source of data for the github project): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20278819
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    GTA would fall into the league. Just a different team. Of course no sane person takes it literally.
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    Of course you are misunderstanding the parent. But to go with your interpretation: If you ask the victims of the Arab spring[1], fb is no better than 8chan. Also YouTube did a bad job in containing Islamic state propaganda early on [2]. [1]
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    Did you ever look at Japan? Still not back to the all time high decades ago.
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    If the performance bounces around, how do you know you hit the true minimum? Therefore the true time can be less than the observed minimum. On the other hand, the true time required fits in the observed minimum, so it cannot be more.
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    I doubt it’s that one dimensional. One could point out that making things equal results in (edit) even more terror (as most former communists countries prove). Of course that reasoning would ignore the Scandinavian “exception“.
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    But it’s the citizens that are attached to cash. Not the government nor the businesses.
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    > The US doesn't yet have massive prison camp systems full of political dissidents — but then, for the first couple of decades, neither did the USSR. You may want to reread that last part of history. [...] established in 1918 an
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    by lixtra 7y ago

    Don’t you need gcc to compile the Linux kernel? At least it was like this for a very long time.