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by pjc50 4mo ago
> The police was extremely careful not to scan any data that where stored on US-servers This seems exactly backwards to what I'd expect, I wonder what the official rationale is.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
The slight problem here is that the war was started by Netenyahu, whom US voters are unable to remove. But yes, I doubt Harris would have gone for the decapitation strike that destabilized everything.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
Everyone's contribution is insignificant, and yet it all adds up. This is rather like saying the average player in a football match scores 0 goals, therefore 0 goals were scored.
604.
by pjc50 4mo ago
> inflation, crime and unemployment? Here's a subject I want to explore; the statistical vs individual view of the world. Because those things do matter - to the individuals they happen to. People care about the price level every ti
605.
by pjc50 4mo ago
> You can erase your length information from the type. This was an intentional decision. Well yes, but given the number of security issues the argument is that it was in retrospect the wrong decision.
606.
by pjc50 4mo ago
Neumann, and .. what? In what way?
607.
by pjc50 4mo ago
.. which is why you need a second type, the one dotnet calls "Span". A substring.
608.
by pjc50 4mo ago
Requiring ID (which is what age gating is) for VPNs is absurd. Given that SSH can act as a proxy service, are you going to require all ssh connections out of the country to be age verified?
609.
by pjc50 4mo ago
Exactly. Customer's RAM is free to the developer.
610.
by pjc50 4mo ago
P2p networks either kill your phone battery or require you run a hosted instance somewhere, which cuts out about 99% of potential users.
611.
by pjc50 4mo ago
Is that being injected by an extension or something? It's perfectly readable to me.
612.
by pjc50 4mo ago
Occasionally on here is user fanf with email address dot@dotat.at
613.
by pjc50 4mo ago
Note that this actually exists in a mixed economy: it's a private members association, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverok , which is basically a big D&D club that has achieved a small amount of government fu
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by pjc50 4mo ago
> whoever provides it is eventually going to be dragged over the coals by their community Something deeply wrong here. Both that this level of antisocial behavior is expected, and that liability would be placed on people who were not mea
615.
by pjc50 4mo ago
Do Zeiss provide digital services? If not, then how are they a digital markets act gatekeeper? Americans may be used to political characterisation by arbitrary whim of the President, but the EU actually has a process. You can read the decis
616.
by pjc50 4mo ago
> I like it when other people try to talk to me. Probably an unpopular point on HN, but this is very gendered. There's a lot of women who don't want to be chatted up who wear headphones, and therefore a lot of men who are annoy
617.
by pjc50 4mo ago
My gmail account is over 20 years old!
618.
by pjc50 4mo ago
District heating only works if the whole district is built at once with it in mind, it's not really viable to retrofit. And the compact cores were often built before the industrial era.
619.
by pjc50 4mo ago
Disappointingly, it's about personal shrinkage - weight loss. Yes, you have to want to do it; people fail because they get hungry, and that can be surprisingly hard to fight. The magic GLP drugs work because they suppress hunger, at wh
620.
by pjc50 4mo ago
The solution is competition in software. But it's a really, really dysfunctional market. Outlook persists because it can speak to Exchange. Too many bad software products persist because they're part of a lock-in with something th
621.
by pjc50 4mo ago
Where's the solar currently? Is it also victim to NIMBYs? Or shading? I can understand people objecting to plastering the south facing unshaded Alps with panels, but .. it would certainly generate a lot.
622.
by pjc50 4mo ago
> Multinationals really confuse comparisons Well, yes, but in both cases of Youtube revenue and Apple, that money is eventually going to show up in the accounts of the US parent company and its share price, even if it's in a Swiss b
623.
by pjc50 4mo ago
I will just note that there was quite a lot of European participation in the bombing of Libya, as well as the Iraq war. European policy towards North Africa has basically been "hopefully they'll drown before they cross the Mediter
624.
by pjc50 4mo ago
Now wondering: is the US "richer" because its pensioners are "poorer"? Because that doesn't quite seem to be the case. I'm not familiar with US pensions discourse. I suspect if you count Medicare (14% of Federa
625.
by pjc50 4mo ago
I think it's valid to question whether and how GDP translates into happiness, but America (as a whole) does just have .. more and bigger. We will eventually start cottoning on to air conditioning as people realize it's a bidirecti
626.
by pjc50 4mo ago
> Yet productivity growth as conventionally measured has in fact been much faster in the US than in Europe. How can this be consistent with the fact that there has been virtually no change in the relative value of goods produced per hour
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by pjc50 4mo ago
> maybe the Israelis managed to sell a story 1) attack Iran, directly as well as in the neutral third country Lebanon; 2) Iran counterattacks, including at unrelated parties 3) US is forced to intervene on the Israeli/Gulf States si
628.
by pjc50 4mo ago
The real problem is we built the genie in the lamp or the monkey's paw: it's a machine that gives you what you ask for!
629.
by pjc50 4mo ago
Too many people have said too many stupid things entirely seriously.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
Online ordering. Backend logistics (like icebergs, most of a supermarket is invisible). Stocktaking. Financials. They've probably got several role-isolated servers per store, each with a backup.

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