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by schlowmo 9y ago
Those signs differ from country to country, but the design is very similar. In Germany this sign looks like this https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkehrsberuhigter_Bereich#/me... The official meaning is "begini
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by schlowmo 9y ago
> "just not from someone with their best interests at hear" Oh dear...I really wish your kids have the best parents in the world. I really do, my parents probably believed that too, but unfortunately they were not - surprise! B
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by schlowmo 9y ago
This is one of those Why would you even do that? followed by Oh well...sorry for asking, totally got it article. I really applaud such curiosity.
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by schlowmo 9y ago
> "In Germany, when intelligence agencies merge with ordinary law enforcement, we call it Gestapo." Who is "we" in this context? At least in the Germany I know most people actually call this "Gefahrenabwehr"
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by schlowmo 9y ago
I can confirm issues myself, also there's discussion about ongoing issues on reddit[0] and people reporting issues to downdetector[1]. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/6c1p1t/so_twitter_
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So, Twitter is down...(reddit.com)
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by schlowmo 10y ago
That's what Linus has to say about Nvidia and Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36yNWw_07g SCNR
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> "what can I as a man in the tech industry do about this -- aside from not harassing people, which seems like a bare minimum." Those may be obvious basics, but starting at ones own (work) environment seems like a good idea: De
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by schlowmo 10y ago
Almost all numbers from free "burner apps"[0] I came across are already burned for all major Social Networks (probably because someone else already used those numbers for registration). I don't know if it works with paid serv
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> "which fails with the burner phone number used to create the account." Maybe I expressed that a bit unclear: I didn't mean it fails because you have no longer access to the number (= you burned the burner). It fails beca
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> "And finally, keep in mind that after all this, Twitter can always kick you off for their own reasons." The problem with anonymous e-mail address + burner phone + always use TOR to access the account is that this doesn't
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> "The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing." I felt that way since I know the word "procrastination". When I talk about "procrastiantion" with other people I propose exact
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by schlowmo 10y ago
I don't want to blame any parents for the desire of knowing where their kids are and that they're save. But at the same time I'm very glad that I was born two decades before parents started to think that making their kids car
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by schlowmo 10y ago
That may or may not be true, but unfortunately many people think Telegram uses end-to-end encryption by default. This is why I keep posting the link to the FAQ ;).
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by schlowmo 10y ago
I couldn't agree more with your comment. If you found your favorite framework, which is still maintained and gets the job done, then stick with it unless you have very good reasons not to (and "it's uncool to use this long es
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> most secured [...] messenger in the world That's indeed a very dubious claim, only the opt-in "Secret Chats" use end-to-end encryption. [0] [0] https://telegram.org/faq#q-so-how-do-you-encrypt-data
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by schlowmo 10y ago
Unfortunately I didn't find more actual stats, but there is a report from Deutsche Bundesbank (German Federal Bank) from 2014 which states that in 2014 the share of cash payments in Germany was 79.1% and only 1.3% credit card transacti
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by schlowmo 10y ago
I must admit that I first started reading about the details from the Apollo 1 disaster after hearing the Public Service Broadcasting[0] song "Fire In The Cockpit" from their "Race for Space" album. The album is a concept
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by schlowmo 10y ago
I told you I'm a sarcastic person ;). I confess using the rutabaga example knowing its bad reputation for the sake of aggravation. Although I grew up in that region with food-conservative parents,[0] I'm still fan of occasional ru
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by schlowmo 10y ago
Besides some flimsy claims about who consumes the most staples the article just basically says: - buy local - eat with the seasons - many small local farms are better than few big (remote) - there's need for a better market for those s
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by schlowmo 10y ago
This was the API Ben Cox used to gather more than a million of public keys from (active) Github users to analyze their strength or weakness, which finally led GitHub to revoke the vulnerable/weak keys and notify the users.[0] Edit: Bet
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> "I noticed it doesn't know about phones that have USB-C chargers." Allthough I find the base concept of the side promising (not only for older relatives), it would be much more helpful if you add more connection types. S
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by schlowmo 10y ago
Comment by the reporter of that issue (ro31337): > "Dropping a table is like checking a gun without bullets. It should not work, but just don't put it against your head while testing."
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by schlowmo 10y ago
While this is basically true, there is also the difficulty to teach less tech-savvy where it's save to experiment and where not. (And this is where things like "The Line of Death" come into play.) Anectdotal example: On one h
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> "[...] whose duty is it to volunteer to clean it up?" While this isn't applicable in all areas, a rule of thumb could be "those who making money with the people which have to use toilets". Anecdotal example: I&
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by schlowmo 10y ago
That's what StartCom might thought when they announced their new service "Start Encrypt" around the same time when Comodo tried to get hold of the "Let's Encrypt" trademark which Let's Encrypt successfully
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by schlowmo 10y ago
There are various (english) news articles (for example [0][1]) and also a paper for the European commision [2] (so called ESPN Flash Report) claiming that. But besides those sources there is also the fact that the child-raising benefits are
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by schlowmo 10y ago
While I second mrottenkolber that your guess is highly stereotypical, the intention of the polish state introducing their "500+" program seems to be exactly that: increasing the birth rate.
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> "which means that every family in the country receives 500PLN per month, per child" Looks like this isn't quite correct: "The new, universal child-raising benefit of PLN 500 (EUR 114) monthly is granted for every se
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ThyssenKrupp secrets stolen in 'massive' cyber attack(reuters.com)
1 points by schlowmo 10y ago|0 comments

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