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by maze-le 7y ago
In Europe, definitly not while applying for a visum (they don't want your online-handles and passwords for example). You'll probably get "background-checked" from the interior intelligence agencies (e.g. Verfassungsschut
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by maze-le 7y ago
That's what THEY want you to think anyway...
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The North Atlantic ocean current may be slowing(yaleclimateconnections.org)
92 points by maze-le 7y ago|34 comments
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by maze-le 7y ago
There won't be much ice in Greenland either in the near/mid future... >> I know this is off topic and doesn't add much, I guess I use humor in order to make myself feel better about dire situations (such as climate chan
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by maze-le 7y ago
This trope never gets old it seems... >> “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants o
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by maze-le 7y ago
It is a propoaganda account -- recently created to convey the message: "Everything is fine, everything is OK, nothing fishy has happened in Kazakhstan, now move along nothing to see here..." "And if we force you to install ou
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by maze-le 7y ago
Unless it is a jet-powered drone, it won't reach the altitude. Rotors stop creating uplift at some height, because the air to create uplift is far too thin. And if you are able to build a jet-engine -- well you could basically call it
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by maze-le 7y ago
Use a self hosted gogs installation ( https://gogs.io/ ) under your own domain and root server outside US jurisdiction.
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by maze-le 7y ago
Likewise with god...
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by maze-le 7y ago
That sounds as if it were a fact that can be measured. Everything can be conjured into existence by false assumptions. "The spaghetti monster, by definition, is that for which no more delicious thing can be conceived. The spaghetti mon
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by maze-le 7y ago
Thanks, I am fine, had a hard time concentrating at work today, but except for that I am doing well. I worry about the people with heart or circulatory conditions though -- not everyone is equipped to handle these temperatures.
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by maze-le 7y ago
You cannot cool down a building without making the exterior even warmer -- this is the second law of thermodynamics. The Problem is not "solved" by producing even more energy and thus generating entropy (unusable heat). Certain in
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by maze-le 7y ago
>> Packet analysis was seen as the worst thing in the company Wow, that is just insane... "We want you to put a nail in that board but, by god do not even think of using a hammer". That must be the worst case of "securi
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by maze-le 7y ago
Political machinations like this are one of the reasons most of the population in western democracies do not feel represented in any way whatsoever. The systems designed to balance power between civil servants, the economy, the military and
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by maze-le 7y ago
Good response! See my updated/edited other post. You are right essentially -- these games can and sometimes do work like drugs -- neurochemically. And like with drugs total prohibition will probably make things even worse.
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by maze-le 7y ago
That is a very bad example. In Switzerland, if you are a severe addict, you can get heroine in pharmacies. The most important restriction is that if you buy the stuff, you are also bound to go to a therapeutic clinic and have staff assistin
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by maze-le 7y ago
No, not necessarily. It depends on each individual and the circumstances they are in. Its like with drugs, if you have a healthy social circle, a relationship / family you care about and a stable and productive work-environment, it wil
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by maze-le 7y ago
I almost fell into such a trap before. I knew about the mechanics, but I was willing to give the developers the benefit of a doubt. And so I started playing, and after a while started to acquire shortcuts with money. Once, twice and at the
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by maze-le 7y ago
Not to mention, that they are direct competitors of Palantir.
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by maze-le 7y ago
Calling the biggest gang around the block... interesting way to get rid of an competitor -- tried and tested through the ages.
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by maze-le 7y ago
I was barely alive at that time, so I only know these stories from my family members. But I've seen photographs of the time, that confirm it happened, albeit I doubt that it happened on a regular basis.
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by maze-le 7y ago
Yes, there is such a program. There is a region in eastern Germany, that was known as the 'death triangle' during the DDR -- the region between Bitterfeld, Halle and Borna ( https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3649
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by maze-le 7y ago
If the data hadn't been collected in the first place, it wouldn't be used against us. Data austerity is the best form of data protection. In this case the state mandates the data hoarding of telco providers, which makes it even wo
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by maze-le 7y ago
>> Many knowledgeable eyes on the open parts can help Well, that is the problem. No one (well, say very very few) do code reviews on their own -- they do not provide as much benefits as coding (learning and reputation wise). Its a bi
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by maze-le 7y ago
Three, revolutions have always led to counter-revolutionary movements, that almost always attain some degree of power in the new system too. Bloody vicious cycles of purges and counter-purges follow. With a new system and the very same mega
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by maze-le 7y ago
This is why there are countless indictments against sources. Editorial work [the very things he is accused of] should not be viewed as illegitimate -- even if you think that the sources should be jailed -- they have made the information pub
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by maze-le 7y ago
Wow, that's really impressive. The following excerpt was generated by feeding the own domain itself to the generator: (generated) >> grover.allenai.org/detect >> Grover - A State-of-the-Art Defense against Neural Fake
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by maze-le 7y ago
>> Put aside the complaints about Google and DRM, and the main gist of this article is arguing that the "patch" for Open Source is to get rid of forking. Well, that kind of is the "open" part of "open source&q
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by maze-le 7y ago
https://nordvpn.com/blog/torguard-lawsuit/ Apparently its a torguard-vulnerability. To tag a vulnerability as 'trade secret', and the fact that the disclosure process involved threats (allegedly) is a ve
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by maze-le 7y ago
No you are not. Issues that are bigger for one human/group to tackle effectively are the reason we have invented political processes and systems in the first place (laws, governance, taxes, regulations). We should use the tools we have

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