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by pintxo 2y ago
If you cannot change your semantic identifiers because you have shared them with the outside world, and they are not willing to follow your change, than encryption won’t make a difference, will it?
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by pintxo 3y ago
In my past company we looked at EU MDR class 2a certification, we established it would cost around 100k€/a to get and maintain all necessary certifications. Essentially hiring a full-time resource to do all documentation, plus costs du
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by pintxo 3y ago
Do they consciously decide this, or is this basic bio-chemistry, selected for over millennia? One would expect evolution to select for chemistry that make an organism want to continue living on. As those organisms have a higher chance of pr
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by pintxo 3y ago
Because in a poverty situation, where there is zero state support, the only ones who might eventually help you are your kids? So procreating is a legitimate survival strategy.
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by pintxo 3y ago
Also it seems that 30% loss was mostly in regions not experiencing economic growth. While others actually saw growth in the number of notaries as well.
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by pintxo 3y ago
Almost halved = 30% less https://www.juve.de/markt-und-management/notariate-immer-wen...
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by pintxo 3y ago
Yes, for Germany you can expect at least around 5k/a in costs for accounting, audits etc.
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by pintxo 3y ago
The property tax thing is actually not true. Not if the company only exists to hold properties. The tax office is not that stupid.
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by pintxo 3y ago
Technically, there is competition. You are free to choose whichever notary you want. But pricing is legally regulated, so you will pay the same price everywhere.
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by pintxo 3y ago
It wasn’t for a long time. It sort of is now. The question is if, with new tech, we might be able to undo that?
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by pintxo 3y ago
To be fair, dreams are still totally free, but yes, it infinitely more realistic, after buying a lottery ticket.
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by pintxo 3y ago
Wondering if this is the same effect which causes people to vote for fringe positions? Because the mainstream options did not work out in the past?
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by pintxo 3y ago
You just gave three possible alternatives, how is that not a perfect example for a non-trivial design decision? Also, the simple fact that they quite clearly got it wrong, is the 2nd indicator that it a non-trivial thing.
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by pintxo 3y ago
TLDR: Designing user interfaces is non-trivial, both in the digital as well as the real™ world.
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by pintxo 3y ago
There is no single threshold above which you’d say it’s cancer. PSA levels will vary between people, basically depending on the size of the individual prostate and physical activity (they should not take your PSA when you took your cycle to
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by pintxo 3y ago
The recent growing support for far-right parties in Europe?
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by pintxo 3y ago
> For Fukushima, it was a classic example of design failure (failsafes were supposed to work except they were badly designed, and there was too few of them), and no proper reaction to earlier warnings of the system in place being too wea
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by pintxo 3y ago
> https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth107/node/1426 Given the learning checkpoint below that page alone, I have to question the quality of the information presented there. How can "It is hard to ass
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by pintxo 3y ago
Are they? The Fukushima nuclear power plant should never have been build at that location OR at least should have received a more proper protection against tsunamis. They clearly forgot/ignored the historical knowledge of much higher t
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by pintxo 3y ago
We are bound to repeat the errors of our ancestors when we forget the lessons they paid for with blood, sweat and tears. Hence why I am afraid of the passing of those who lived through the 1930/40s. I seems we are quickly forgetting lo
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by pintxo 3y ago
> Germany had an influx of millions of immigrants the past few years. How could they possibly have a labor shortage? Very simple, we just have laws forbidding immigrants to work. It’s a tragedy. And then we complain about immigrants bein
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by pintxo 3y ago
Too much video content out there? 0.5 x /s
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by pintxo 3y ago
It seams you are assuming that the law in UK forbids publishing a suspects identity. But maybe the law is written in a way that publishing someone’s identity is fine if it’s been made available by Police (in whatever country), in that case
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by pintxo 3y ago
Nice example for the (common?) inability of many managers to assess performance realistically.
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by pintxo 3y ago
The key is learning to identify the situations where a transactional mentality is the rational thing to do to protect yourself.
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by pintxo 3y ago
Or: The Preparedness paradox [1] / "There is no glory in prevention" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox
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by pintxo 3y ago
It might be that some people feel infantilized, but it seems to work for the majority? For example, in lots of jurisdictions there is your gross salary, but then there are often additional costs like employer taxes, or social security contr
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by pintxo 3y ago
Economically it’s the same, but not psychologically. And that’s probably equally important because the homo oeconomicus is just the spherical cow of economics and not a real thing.
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by pintxo 3y ago
Risk aversion would mean you try to be on the forefront. As medical advances are often rigorously tested against the status quo. So the new version more often than not should have less risk than the old, no?
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by pintxo 3y ago
It did make total sense at the time. Consider we are talking a time where you had static html. It is obviously good to be able to automate generating web pages based on say the state of a database. As this gives you up-to-date pages without

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