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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> its intermediate scales are un-prefixable huh? Mrd, Brd, Trd, ... > it names adjacent intermediate orders of magnitude with only subtle mutations of the previous name million and ten million are also rather close. So what? > it&#
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
German has Tausend (1000), Million (1000 Tausend) , Milliarde (1000 Millionen), Billion (1000 Milliarden), Billiarde (1000 Billionen), Trillion (1000 Billiarden), and there aren't even proposals to change, and why should we?
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion disagrees and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Short_sc... goes into more detail.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> should be the way we lead and liaise with this problem instead of `go plant more trees`. Why should it be one or the other? Let's do both (plus many more things). Even the authors of this study mention that "planting trees&qu
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Article 13 has nothing to do with GDPR except that it comes from approximately the same regulatory body.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Oops, thanks. Because this requires more digging: the detailed specs come from UNECE Regulation 138 which can be found at https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/main/wp29/wp29regs... (which also
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
The implementation requirements are defined in Annex VIII of https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:52... and there's an upper bound (as in: not louder than an ICE car) but no lower bo
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Given that it seems to be the only project that provides modern e2ee in a way where your data is actually controlled by you without a central authority, ... OMEMO on XMPP?
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
See https://www.ghacks.net/2019/06/14/chrome-76-blocks-sites-fro...
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
The algorithm works using more complex state tracking, but given the worst case of being in all states at once at a given point of the input, you're at O_space(len_regex), where the input string length still doesn't factor in at a
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
If you have a phone without GApps, you're either in China (which has its own app store ecosystems) or not Mozilla's target audience for their binaries. https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/releases&#x2F
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> disable telemetry/remote-control by default (pushing updates where you control the code is remote control, don't even try to argue against that one). So they shouldn't put updates on the Play Store?
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
I found Monal (monal.im) to be a better maintained iOS client than Chatsecure, very responsive developer, too.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Banks have special offers for bank accounts for children (no credit, and parents sign the contract, but it's in the child's name and responsibility). I got mine when I was 6 or 7. Mobile service, good question - I have no kids of
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Presumably a unified "age of adulthood" would be more logically justifiable but that's not where modern societies tend to end up. It depends. Some things have different consequences than others, and it makes sense to pha
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
To be fair, this policy (pre-planning and announcing update timeframes) only really started after Nexus 7 for Google Android devices.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Contract law (as changed by MietAnpG) is part of the BGB ("civil code"), which is federal law, while the rent cap is built on top of housing law ("Wohnungsrecht"), which is - mostly - state law (e.g. https://w
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Because Germany is a federal republic. There's stuff the federal government just has nothing to say about. I mean, in case of Berlin, they could help by moving back to Bonn. Lots of real estate, both office and residential, would free
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Price increases in housing are limited in Germany and have been for a _long_ time (and tightened up in the last couple years). This specific Berlin regulation is on top of that.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
It works reasonably well in the rest of Germany. As for it not working in Berlin, I have a hard time to come up with _anything_ that works there, so my hunch would be that the housing market in Berlin is broken not because of rent control,
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
In other contexts "split up between a group of folks" (that may be open to newcomers or not) is sometimes called "federated", while "everybody has (theoretically) a voice in the outcome" would be "decentra
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Many open source licenses have this clause (and few care about them). The intent for that type of clause is to ensure that nobody can come back to the original author with your modified file and claim that they violated some rule (eg. copie
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Installations went down due to reduced subsidies, apparently as an reaction to more than expected solar being installed [0]. I have a hard time calling that "killing of an industry". "So we kickstarted an industry that c
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> France invested a lot into nuclear energy and no government since then would dare to throw such a huge industry (2500 companies, 222 000 jobs) into the trash. I don't think it was the case with other European countries. Germany al
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Unlike Germans, the French (thanks to their increased distance) don't have to check their wild mushrooms or boar for radioactive residues to this day due to Chernobyl: https://www.bfs.de/DE/themen/ion/umw
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
That doesn't work as well for https connections where you can only block on domain name, for which any DNS/VPN-based blocking works just as well.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
I'm not entirely sure but the paper seems to indicate that the defect has an impact on the maximum life of a panel - fixing that would directly impact installation cost (by spreading it over a longer life time).
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
I use XMPP with bridging to IRC (to access freenode). There would have been no need to reinvent that particular wheel. Sadly the hype-train comment upthread also applies to Matrix.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Holding messages is a client side task in IRC. Which works because IRC is a protocol, not a product.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Before Zen, yes. Since Zen, that's in PSP, presumably for the PSP's various other features.

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