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by pintxo 6y ago
From this we can safely assume their privacy approach was "lets pray no one will find our S3 buckets"
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by pintxo 6y ago
On the one hand, this is a fair question. On the other hand, isn't it blindingly obvious, what the condition will be? Essentials, most countries are trying to flatten the curve [1]. Mandating masks is one layer of a swiss cheese [2] se
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by pintxo 6y ago
You mean the first phrasing, not the latter, do you?
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by pintxo 6y ago
I am reminded of "Every 11 minutes a single falls in love on Parship" [1] [1] "Alle 11 Minuten verliebt sich ein Single über Parship"
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by pintxo 6y ago
Or yes, I am one of the People using a non-standard mouse speed. Using someone else’s mouse feels like your arm and hand are suddenly being forced to slow down.
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by pintxo 6y ago
In Germany, those counting the polls are often associated with the parties, so you actually often have party members (at least of the biggest parties) involved in the counting. But because any party can contribute + there is free access for
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by pintxo 6y ago
While costs are always an issue, according to [1], the parties involved spend over 6 billion $ on their campaigns. I fail to see how money can be a issue here. If we are talking about the allocation of money, then this is a political proble
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by pintxo 6y ago
Pretty much as in Germany. Election workes get a small monetary compensation for refreshments in Germany. And because all polling is local, within a couple hundred meters of your place of living, and voting is on Sundays, there is nearly no
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by pintxo 6y ago
Personally, mail in ballets should not be touched before the end of the election period and be counted together with the in-person votes. But given the ability to count them as they are received it should be rather easy to provide enough vo
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by pintxo 6y ago
This was the 2011 city council ballot for Frankfurt am Main: https://chalog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/stimmzettel.jpg Every voter had 93 votes, one for each seat in the city council. It's a rather complicat
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by pintxo 6y ago
What I don't get: vote counting is an easy to distribute problem, if done completely manually. Why take all this effort, cost and risk with the automation if it's awfully slow in the end? Germany uses (mostly) all paper ballots wh
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by pintxo 6y ago
You might have different definitions of broadband.
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by pintxo 6y ago
Your response seems to show the problem. Trying to add little quick fixes might sound reasonable from a business perspective, but it's not going to help on the tech side. If anything it's going to make matters worse.
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by pintxo 6y ago
Not scientific, but east Asia seems to be managing this little Virus rather well.
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by pintxo 6y ago
Anyone wondering how this might look like may like reading "Radicalized" by Cory Doctorow
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by pintxo 6y ago
> Doesn't protect against the owner saying you didn't send the photo, or that it didn't arrive in time, ... The owner could be required to send back a confirmation. But I agree, a trusted hash/timestamp service might
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by pintxo 6y ago
Wouldn't sending a copy of the photo to the owner prior to transportation be sufficient? Actually, why doesn't the owner take a picture himself? After all I could easily manipulate the picture before timestamping.
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by pintxo 6y ago
I wonder how bad the roaming charges will be for the astronauts if they accidentally use their earthly iPhone SIM with the Moon network.
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by pintxo 6y ago
Wouldn't this make it even worse? It worked correctly, then they changed it to _not_ work for their sites?
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by pintxo 6y ago
Am I the only one to find it strange that a country without a central, government run, citizen registry, has a public voter registry with actual party affiliations?
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by pintxo 6y ago
Staying in this analogy, aren't APIs more like pictures or verbal descriptions of the facade of the building? An API spec will not (necessarily) provide you with any internal implementation detail. Architectural diagrams/design sp
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by pintxo 6y ago
I've (miss)used excel as a web-service testing platform once. The test data (input/expected output) was anyway in the Excel sheet, so why not. We did not have other software available at the time, so Excel+VBA it is. It was one of
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by pintxo 6y ago
It started very innocent: Some consulting company apparently was tasked to create a prototype of the credit rating algorithm. Quite appropriately, I would say, they did so in Excel. As you can easily tweak the logic, show input, intermediat
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by pintxo 6y ago
Have you every worked in a large enterprise? I have personally tested an Excel based credit rating tool, to be rolled-out globally by a major financial institution. The fact that one should not do this, is by no means a reason not to do it.
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by pintxo 6y ago
Maybe oAuth then is not the right technology to be used in this setting? Sounds like a case of "if all you have is a hammer".
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by pintxo 6y ago
True, no need for a controller (phone). But the sonos speakers themselves are little controllers, in theory they can perform all necessary actions, store the needed data and talk to any streaming services. Why is there a technical need for
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by pintxo 6y ago
Did your kids make a conscious decision to be YOUR kids? I consider it random chance whether ones parents go the extra mile or not. I had zero influence on being born in a western country having parents who worked hard to afford to send me
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by pintxo 6y ago
"[...] premature optimization is the root of all evil [...]" D. Knuth
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by pintxo 6y ago
Maybe this will be the first real problem fixed by Brexit? /s
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by pintxo 6y ago
Apparently yes [1]: > Until 1 January 2001, the use of siphon-type cisterns was mandatory in the UK[12] to avoid the potential waste of water by millions of leaking toilets with flapper valves, but due to EU harmonisation the regulations

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