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by lixtra 5y ago
One could argue that the data becomes public, after it became sellable. I’m all for the 4th. But restraining law enforcement not to use public data? Now should it be so easy to give up your rights to your data is a different question.
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by lixtra 5y ago
> There can be no separation of money and state, because the state is the only party that could issue money almost by definition. A state is not an atomic entity. It’s an abstract object comprised of its citizens. If a part of the popula
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by lixtra 5y ago
> In the end the only sensible choice was to switch to ESP32 I understand and appreciate the fun to get something working on minimal hardware. But unless you are going to mass produce a stronger dev platform gets my project going much fa
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by lixtra 5y ago
In many places of the world PhD candidates officially work 50% and more as teaching assistants, system admins or other vaguely related jobs. I see little scientific downside to work part time in a well paid related job instead.
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by lixtra 5y ago
> How could side-loading be illegal? It's just software. Lawmakers have no problem making software illegal [1]. > How would the state prevent vpns or tor users from connecting to Signal servers? They don’t have to prevent a 100%.
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by lixtra 5y ago
> 2. What if they simply don't comply? So long as they don't have an office in the EU, is there anything that could be done? Signal would be banned from European appstores/IPs. > Users could just side-load. Yes. But tha
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by lixtra 5y ago
> Restricting ourselves to ASCII again and thus forcing English on everybody is not a solution. Yet most programming languages force them to use English Arabic numbers. Wouldn’t it be great to use Roman numerals? And then images in sourc
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by lixtra 5y ago
> So having suppliers instead of being vertically integrated gets taxed repeatedly. Yes. But maybe having a long chain of suppliers is worth a tax penalty. The vertically integrated company has a stronger incentive to stay solvent. I’m t
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by lixtra 5y ago
But did you have to show an ID or could you just show a John Doe certificate?
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by lixtra 5y ago
Keep in mind that WP has a vast installation base, so your local sample is not necessarily representative. I only know WP admins that a fairly comfortable with Linux and use it on a daily basis.
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by lixtra 5y ago
As EU-citizen who recently moved countries in Europe I cannot agree. It took me about 2 months to open a business account for an at this point registered business in the country. The private account was a bit faster, but not until I actuall
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by lixtra 5y ago
>> think the law is the edge of what is acceptable. > particularly amoral group, > but politicians certainly are. To be fair, if all politicians were always morally rooted in the center of the law, nothing would ever change. No
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by lixtra 5y ago
While the software might have failed here, so did the human driver who failed to stop the unsafely operating autopilot. And this very problem could be fixed with the next software upgrade. The more appropriate question if the autopilot is
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by lixtra 5y ago
I miss: A good trap is safe - if the defender responds optimal, the trap setter is not in a worse position than before.
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by lixtra 5y ago
Did you carefully read [1]? As noted by others many WP users don’t have access to the webserver or lack knowledge to configure it properly. [1] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_cache.html
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by lixtra 5y ago
> Even if there was Adam Bird's company is welcome to go above and beyond the requirement. It’s a brand issue. Being EU based signals that you have to obey GDPR by law, not only contract. Just like being a Swiss bank was a brand adv
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by lixtra 5y ago
> This is a step toward general AI, because our model can predict crash maps in uncharted territories.” I hope they are misquoted here.
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by lixtra 5y ago
> In any case if you tax the wealthy too much they'll run away with their money which will be worse in the long run and the government I saw companies leaving countries for tax reasons. I see people working 80% instead of 100% becau
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by lixtra 5y ago
In the end I don‘t see how hiding value somewhere can be stopped without total surveillance. Maybe we are getting there.
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by lixtra 5y ago
>> My strong recommendation - don't use the power laser! I recommend making a device that will track an object using a safe laser pointer. I always wondered if you can’t use several low power lasers and then cross the beams on th
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by lixtra 5y ago
> There was a long-running transaction, usually relating to PostgreSQL's autovacuuming, during the time. The stalls stopped quickly after the transaction ended. What is about the other end? Why does vacuum need to be a long running
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by lixtra 5y ago
How does it differ from http://sqlfiddle.com/ ?
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by lixtra 5y ago
> ex-wife > By design, she gets fucking nothing and is not invited to the funeral. Please respect my wishes here. I wish him to be able to forgive before his death. Just for the love of my children, I would allow my ex-partner to my
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by lixtra 5y ago
It’s a karma thing. For example you seem to be enjoying the existence of the internet. Maybe your organ ends up in somebody that enabled that for you or in somebody dear to somebody that made your life better. And if you say that your organ
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by lixtra 5y ago
> But there are not marathon runners who run 10x faster than other professional marathon runners. It’s true that they don’t run 10 times as fast, but the marathon runner that is 1% faster will finish 10x more races before the slower one
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by lixtra 5y ago
Vigilantism is a form of revolt. After the state had failed them.
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by lixtra 5y ago
For those who want to very this claim: https://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl/comp/atom/atap/
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by lixtra 5y ago
Mirror https://archive.is/I72gs
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by lixtra 5y ago
Unless "table does not exist" does take precisely the same time as “access denied” you still leak the same information by replacing the latter. For logged in users I would prefer logging with explicit error messages. Like that you
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by lixtra 5y ago
> 1.1. What is Pest? > Pest is a peer-to-peer network protocol intended for IRC-style chat. It is designed for decentralization of control, resistance to natural and artificial interference, and fits-in-head mechanical simplicity -- i

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