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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> he believes that Products sold in the US should be made in the US. Let's ensure that software and media sold in Europe are made in Europe. (not that Trump minds: both hit California for the most part and he doesn't care about
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> But suddenly this project has motivated German politicians to push for unity? Really? The article was copied to reddit (see link somewhere else in this discussion): The ideas that were floated on twitter (of all places! this is far fro
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The Energiewende will make natural gas prohibitive over time. That pipeline will be profitable, but I don't see it as a strategic factor (except for Ukraine who can't exert pressure on Russia by withholding deliveries to Western E
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> Speaking as a German, the fact that Germany would rather deal with and be reliant on a country like Russia is, frankly, insane and incredibly shameful. This is about Nordstream 2 I guess. Given how natural gas comes from Russia right n
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> I thought most of this research was done on federal grants And if not, why not? There may be folks who think public research grants shouldn't exist, but since they do, what else would be worthy of such support if not public health
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
The original post was about covered preventative measures. They're not "unnecessary medical procedures", otherwise insurances would get rid of their obligation to pay for them. They don't advertise them a lot, which is t
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Careful about the milkman: https://youtu.be/lZTrb49wi3o?t=30 (scene from James Bond, The Living Daylights) That movie was the first time I learned about "milkman" being a job. We had glass bottles that we filled o
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Lifetime of the product. Given such constraints I would seriously consider just starting different projects and let that app die a slow, painful death by having the ecosystem around it move forward. Yes, the app will be functional on Androi
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What other app developers did in similar situations (seen a couple of time with transitions from free to paid): create a new app in the same space but with the new (hopefully more sustainable) terms, stop providing new licenses to the old a
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> support the IEEE instead First time I had to do with the IEEE, I was introduced to it being the "Institute of Engineers Exploiting Engineers". I guess that could be considered an improvement over lawyers exploiting engineers,
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Should I be offended that they are using northern hemisphere iconography? I'm not sure the snowflake is (primarily) meant as a seasonal marker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_(slang)
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
The ruling doesn't look arbitrary to me: Uber pretended to not be part of the transaction, while they were a) the public face to the customer, b) offering the ride at a given price, c) negotiated with a specific driver to fulfill it (a
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Mafia taxi cartel? At least "taxi cartel" is a very popular phrase in Uber's PR.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> I'll update my opinion when international debit and credit cards are universally accepted rather than needing bank cards. That's coming now that credit cards aren't fleecing merchants anymore: they just weren't comp
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> i think it's time for your laws to change as well. Maybe we could leave that to German society and politics instead of letting some money-drunken American jackass[0] run the show? Which is exactly what the court is doing, so: miss
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Taxi companies around the world refuse to give a price before starting the ride. In my region (in Germany), up to 4 passengers: €2.50 base fee + €2.20/km. 36€/hr if you want them to wait for you. Larger car (6 passengers + lo
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Of course, she only accepted cash, too. Cash? In Germany? Outrageous! (When in Rome, do as the Romans do)
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> Uber has the advantage of being ubiquitous among a certain class of travellers Which is funny because Uber's shtick is to complain about the evil taxi cartels, while statements like yours indicate that they're really the bigg
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
"not Germany" may be the keyword: Taxis in Germany are part of the public transportation network and as such part of a regulatory system. For example, they can't make up their own prices (neither higher nor lower). There are
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> There is no reason they need to replace parts with the exact same chip they came with. If newer CPUs/chips are available they could put a new model in. There will likely need to be more standardization so individual parts can be r
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
The chip in Chromebooks is called cr50 or h1. It has open source firmware ( https://github.com/coreboot/chrome-ec/tree/master/board/cr50 ) and a few public mentions, e.g. https://2018.osfc.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> All electronics makers should be required by law to supply security updates and spare parts for devices for at least 10 years after the point of sale (not after the release date). Let's start by requiring then that chip vendors se
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Or extend the support: https://9to5google.com/2019/11/05/google-chromebooks-extende... Other than that, few vendors sell 6 year old computers. Since Apple is often put up as model company here: 2013 had the i
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
For the use case of running whatever win32 executable is promoted on zdnet.com (or pcworld.com or whatever is out there that appeals to computer users that aren't developers) any given day? Yes.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
How long does it take you to find the security contact for the coreboot project (www.coreboot.org)? I guess it's on the order of seconds. And yet we had some interaction on the main mailing list with a journalist covering security fluf
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That varies by locale
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> that they want all the ergonomics of Slack a lot more than they want cryptographically sound secure messaging. So you consider accounts not tied to a phone number "Slack ergonomics"? Before WhatsApp that was the default.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> I initially thought that the emotional motivation was independence. More like autonomy: apparently Hong Kong citizens don't mind being part of China as long as they can keep their self-governance. And that ties in to your question
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
USB4 is essentially Thunderbolt 3. Since TB3 also defines how a USB 1-3 connection can be pushed over the wire, that's what most devices can fall back to.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Firefox Preview is open source, https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix

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