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by pgeorgi 6y ago
By "discrediting" it, the only thing you do is ensure that it'll make it another 24 hours in the media circus (and then there will be another claim that you have to refute or face claims that "but this time they didn&#x2
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by pgeorgi 6y ago
Good thing that Hunter Biden isn't on the ballot, right?
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Work within the law and everything is fine. Uber routinely tries to avoid that (even when there are escape hatches available to them they don't use them; it really seems part of the DNA of that company to do things as shady as possible
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by pgeorgi 6y ago
Not forgetting, they weren't there yet
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by pgeorgi 6y ago
European countries were also standardizing finance before the EU existed, but that meant that there already was the infrastructure of banks working together (in each country) that was then used to establish the EU wide protocols. In compari
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by pgeorgi 6y ago
> the US as a whole has cleaner-burning fuel than the EU, which for bizarre reasons settled on diesel as their standard even though it's far worse for the air than gasoline. Careful here: the US optimises for low NOx for health reas
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by pgeorgi 6y ago
> The ratio of unlit/lit habitat seems wildly in favor of unlit. Depends on where. Germany has a very different structure due to its population density than most parts of the US, for example, with comparably less unlit habitat. So t
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by pgeorgi 6y ago
> Brexit seems to have less repercussions than initially thought There are still agreements. Let's see in 2021. The question if the UK requires quarantine of its tourists coming back from Spain will be overshadowed by the question i
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by pgeorgi 6y ago
> Christianity in the USA The article is about Montreal which, last I checked, isn't in the USA.
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But if Schily is any indication (and why not?) it doesn't help to have a different party fill that position. Just like it took Nixon to go to China (because he wasn't at risk of being mistaken for a friend of communism) other part
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by pgeorgi 6y ago
> Conservative internet-printers By association Otto Schily wasn't a conservative and yet...
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> facing incredible challenges in attempting to use renewables. Most of these challenges are going by 3 letters and pretend to be political parties
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by pgeorgi 6y ago
And the US is one of the only western countries where wiring money from one bank to another might mean that the originating bank prints a check, mails it to the receiving bank where it's typed in manually (hopefully correctly) and clea
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by pgeorgi 6y ago
And it even varies by culture. US media reporting on crimes in Germany tend to get confused (to the point that at least once they suspected some public cover up attempt) that they won't get the names of arrested suspects - that's
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by pgeorgi 6y ago
> Nobody has global jurisdiction. So Europe gets a YouTube without guns but with nudity?
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1 person, 10 years ago, promptly fired. Somehow I'm missing the "many" part of the original claim.
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> many reports about Google or Facebook employees abusing private data. I'm sure you have a link or two handy?
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by pgeorgi 6y ago
> If you have open source voting machines that can be and are audited, It's extremely hard to verify that whatever code you audited is the one used in the actual devices. No such problem with pen and paper
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> There's something to be said in favour of a method that any village idiot can understand and observe with their own eyes. For example that it's a precondition to fair and open elections? :-)
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by pgeorgi 6y ago
It's a creative and family brand, so they adopt the same strategy as Ikea in Germany (also going for "du" everywhere). Such brands rather risk being mistaken for a family member than for an insurance salesman.
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by pgeorgi 6y ago
You might be taking "loyalty" a bit too literal, but that question seems odd on a forum that's broadly aligned with a community that features the editor wars (emacs, vi!), operating system wars (BSD, Linux, macos!) and countl
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
That's what INRIA and Fraunhofer thought as well, yet their approach is now dead.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Right now, there's not just wfh but also kids from home. Under normal circumstances they'd spend their day in school.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
It's a contractual clause that forces you to go to a private court like thingy to resolve issues instead of going to a real court of law. It's not necessarily bad but given that there's usually one party deciding which arbitr
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Doesn't help figure out if the signal update of the day that comes from the store is any good.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Then you reproduce the build of the open source code and check the hashes match. Assuming that the sgx environment hasn't been tampered with. There have been several flaws in sgx, e.g. https://www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
As I understand it, the need for UK regulation only came up due to brexit (before they were in thanks to the common market), so I guess "it's brexit" is sort of right, even if that leaves it a couple of steps? Without it they
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Why would the UK or Germany be interested in granting the NSA access? Those are some of the places where the US government is spending lots of effort to keep Huawei out. So yes, any intervention like that seems to me to be less about "
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> he didn't just contribute to Étoilé, since he seems aware of it. This is a hobby and passion project and yet it looks more alive and better maintained than Étoilé, which features "news" from 2014 about doing random Small
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Because every now and then these two banks will have to work together and then there will be such minor issues like "will the receiving bank just pocket the money while claiming to have never gotten it?" A common set of rules acro

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