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by mk89 3y ago
This looks like the typical black or white view about things. Germany has 80+ million people. Having nobody on Instagram/Tiktok would be unthinkable. However, historically speaking, this hesitation to have privacy over "convenienc
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by mk89 3y ago
Are these the same SMBs that ... accept only cash? :) Or do they really exclude CCs?
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by mk89 3y ago
I don't have enough experience to speak about CC in Germany, but I don't see why a Rewe or ... boh, Aldi, Mcdonalds, etc should prevent that. I am a bit surprised, to be honest.
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by mk89 3y ago
> However, it begs the question, why do we need a notary? The way I learnt it, until now, is the following: the person you are contracting is there to perform a single specific task. Applied to the specific context: "Notarvertrag&qu
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by mk89 3y ago
Germany and "digital" payments have a history due to old reasons. We don't appreciate its meaning anymore, but cash is literally the only anonymous payment method you can have in this lifetime, and people in Germany tend NOT
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by mk89 3y ago
> Soon you'll be able to use a credit card in most shops even! Not sure where you people live, but this myth has to stop, eventually. I can literally count on one hand the n. of shops NOT accepting cards - it's most of the time
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by mk89 3y ago
Let's take TikTok down. I am all for it. Let's also take Facebook and Instagram down, though. Bad propaganda from China that makes our kids depressed is as bad as the same bad propaganda from an American company. And Facebook sto
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by mk89 3y ago
To be even more fair, US is still buying uranium from Russia... Anyway, that's how it is. The german economy profited quite well from the cheap gas. It was actually a strong decision to drop it, as the economy has a lot of heavy indust
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by mk89 3y ago
The energy use per capita can also indicate that people use less energy because of more careful consumption, modern appliances etc. I wouldn't see it as "wow, there is no electricity in Germany!!!". There are some policies ap
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by mk89 3y ago
Well, my experience says that they are decently accurate, at least here in EU. However, I would ban surveys because they can lead people to vote for the wrong person due to social pressure.
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by mk89 3y ago
> if those actually still exist) That's what I fear is not the case anymore. And I am not sure we're getting back there. With so many regulations in all industries, it has become impossible to innovate from your home. Unless yo
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by mk89 3y ago
You can: increase the price for patenting something. Google will think twice before spending 100K for hello world. Patent trolls you'll always have, but you need to reduce them. The system has to become again "healthy" to fos
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by mk89 3y ago
I was reading somewhere (forbes?) that more than 90% patents are anyways useless. Most patents are to scare people like the average Joe that opens up a company and needs to be careful about a whole bunch of things. In reality, competition i
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by mk89 3y ago
Because they need them for their stupid election campaigns, surveys and crap like that.
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by mk89 3y ago
No, I would say that's just life experience until now. Nothing ever wins against "we need to keep the country safe".
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by mk89 3y ago
> For example they can see I posted a request to Hacker News on a specific time. Then it is a matter of finding all posts that were made around that timestamp to see what I wrote and what my username is. I think this is a lot of work to
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by mk89 3y ago
There is literally nothing that can win against national security as "state actors (Russia, China, even mentioned in the text) trying to sabotage your infrastructure - look we have evidence but we're not gonna share it with the pu
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by mk89 3y ago
> what damage could they cause You want to listen to what they want to do before they do something to your country. This is what this thing allows you to do: every internet packet transiting through the Dutch internet exchanges will be &
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by mk89 3y ago
Don't worry, as long as we don't militarise ourselves anymore.... oh shoot, that's also happening!
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by mk89 3y ago
Considering they exchange technology with the USA and other states, I am pretty sure that you can find some malware to install on specific actors's devices (routers/phones/etc.) to have traffic decrypted. I am decently sure t
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by mk89 3y ago
I disagree. The purpose should be (1) no need for app developers to pay 30% to Apple, (2) bypassing whatever Apple claims to be mandatory (e.g., notarization, etc) to run on their, sorry, your device. None of this is currently possible. The
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by mk89 3y ago
Afd says whatever people want to hear: today people want a more flexible and free market? We give you that! And we do it better: we privatize deutsche bahn so the trains are never late anymore! Yes, yes, yes! This is what makes them dangero
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by mk89 3y ago
Careful, there are some Apple fanboys defending Apple for their beautiful UX that does things only to simplify and make life better, not to monetize - that's just a small side effect. PS: I own several Apple devices, but I can still re
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by mk89 3y ago
283? You're talking about a personal blog, right? I have seen 500+. Which is like wtf is going on. I can't even name 500+ companies or websites, who the hell are these companies?
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by mk89 3y ago
There can be two main reasons: 1. Their EVOO can reach temps ~200°C 2. They use medium temperatures on the frying pan (so they keep it at 180-200°C, or lower). This is especially true when you use pans with anti-stick coating, which literal
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by mk89 3y ago
Agreed! There is a LOT of value in squeezing many sources of information and give a concise answer (with 1-2 steps to follow, or with a yes/no answer, etc.).
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by mk89 3y ago
2.3 million conversations per month ~= 75K/day poor people not finding some answers on FAQ or in the dashboards, or in their history, or whatever. > Customers now resolve their errands in less than 2 mins compared to 11 mins previou
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by mk89 3y ago
> Sadly, not all of us have the privilege of working with codebases like SQLite's, which go much beyond 100% line/statement coverage[1]... Linked SQLite page mentions this: > 100% branch test coverage in an as-deployed confi
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by mk89 3y ago
> I've heard this aversion to unit tests a few times in my career, and I'm unable to make sense of it. It's very simple: most of the time people are told by management that they MUST achieve a 80-90-95% of code coverage (
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by mk89 3y ago
There is no other solution than federating AI the same way as Mastodon does etc. It's obviously not right that one company has the power to generate and manipulate things (filtering IS a form of manipulation).

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