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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> should the Italians decide to have a referendum on the Euro. About the only way for an Eurozone member to leave is to leave the EU (since that's a condition for Eurozone membership and the Eurozone has no leaving procedure of its
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
"Like yesterday nothing extraordinary happened in 99% of India today" isn't newsworthy though. But maybe DW should emphasize the local aspect of these reports, like the foreign office does: https://www.auswaertiges
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Few countries have the workplace mobility required for such an experiment to work: There are countries where the social expectation is that you start in a company as an intern or apprentice and leave it to retire some 45 years later.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
All those like buttons on the net can be used by Facebook to create shadow profiles, too.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Germany has high speed trains for a long time (eg. the 200km of Frankfurt-Cologne: 55 minutes, topping out at 270km/h or so outside the city centers) It's just this route which had some geography-induced engineering challenges tha
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> firmware updateable, but not for you Like the Infineon before it.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Why lie to the public? I don't, and TBH I don't find your writing style (of which this is an example) very engaging. Cr50 is a replacement for the old TPM. It has approximately the same constraints as the Infineon TPM used in
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
I think it's worth noting that the TPM plans of 2003 differ a bit from TPM-as-of-2018. What was called Trusted Computing, Palladium, TCPA, etc. in 2003 and became known in geek circles as "TPM" is now implemented as TPM + Int
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> typically by inhibiting attempts to install modified firmware This also inhibits attempts by malicious third parties to install modified firmware on your machines. For Chromebooks we traditionally tried to find a middle route: locked d
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Let's track the RMA flow (the challenge/response mechanism you've tried out before it refused access because you're not a factory employee doing RMA repairs): common/rma_auth.c:rma_challenge_response() calls process
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Apparently puns can be translated rather freely (to match the cultural context of the target language), but they need to be translated back, explained and authorized.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
there are models with 8gb. with the expanded scope (android, linux), there will be pressure to increase RAM. Just like Android already increased the storage availability (3 years ago people would have laughed about a chromebook with 256gb s
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
You mean GDPR?
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Each website that is tracking you now could use its own cookie to record user behavior and then send it to FB/Google on the backend to link them later Which they need to document due to GDPR.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> The way to make health insurance work is for it to actually be insurance, i.e. it only covers major catastrophes with a multi-thousand dollar deductible and everything else is out of pocket. Health insurance is also cheaper if certain
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Costs spiraling out of control, people dying of preventable diseases because they can't afford health insurance And yet compared to that, many industrialized countries with "socialized medicine" get by rather well, even
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
highschoolers have one wonderful resource in abundance (compared to the working population) and that's time.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
There are hackers outside the bay area and venture capital space.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
We have 20+ years of dealing with tons of national and regional DPAs following national rules. Now these DPAs play by a single rule book, but other than that, little changes. How many $300kEUR fines (the maximum in Germany until yesterday)
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Some countries require you to list the transaction price/details, with proof of it is not within the norm; I don't know if that is required or not in Germany, There's the real estate sales tax that's a percentage of
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> You don’t swipe it You still have to hit the NFC coil by a few millimeters, it's a pretty comparable motion and effort. And it takes longer than it takes an Aldi cashier to give out change.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
SeaBIOS is doing a reasonable job at that
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
They're slower in populated areas because the tracks aren't made for high-speed there (eg. too strong curvature, lots of junctions). The same train takes 12 minutes for the ICE Frankfurt/Cologne to get from Frankfurt central
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
It's also reasonable to see what happened in the last 20+ years that there were DPAs already. I haven't seen overreach by them, did you?
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
That's why the GDPR talks about residents, not citizens.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Monal is an XMPP client running on user's iOS devices. Is that person even running an XMPP server for those users?
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
If, for stealing, you need a hand, crime is deterred after two instances of punishment for each criminal.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Not sure Berlin and the Bay Area are comparable. Berlin has working public transit (for some definition of working, much better than Caltrain and BART though). San Francisco has 700k inhabitants, Berlin has 3.5m inhabitants (half as many as
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> If you show up being German and wealthy, treatment will be way different unfortunately. Try being wealthy while Swabian in Berlin.
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
The payment isn't for the friends, but for the environment in which you meet them: You could pay membership fees for a club to be able to use their rooms to hang out with your peers. (paid community server) You can meet at your home, w

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