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by sentenza 13y ago
Don't read the mailing lists, they're public and thus a trollfest. I was also somewhat disillusioned in the recent months, but that is over now. I went out setting up campaign advertisement signs in 2009 and I'm doing it agai
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Hopefully this can be clarified soon. If true, it could have extreme repercussions for the upcoming German elections.
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Huh? Could you give an example of a country in which communism was established without a violent mass uprising? Here in Western Europe, we have had a few rather stable decades of people voting right and left as they please. Are you aware th
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by sentenza 13y ago
I think I have to disagree. Not knowing the specifics of French unemployment benefits, here in Germany, the situation is probably closer to that in France than that in the US. If you are unemployed, you still have health insurance, you get
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by sentenza 13y ago
I am a physicist working on complex systems. When I read Krugman I get the vibe of a scientific peer using the scientific method within the constraints of the information available. Pretty much all other economists that make it into the mai
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by sentenza 13y ago
I think this one hit home. Judging from what I can see right now, these revelations have stirred up some unrest among EU politicians[1], most noticeably among the generally US-friendly right. Probably the most significant consequence of thi
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by sentenza 13y ago
If they came out tomorrow and declared that they don't spy on the US, I would probably believe them. Do you know why? Because there is a complete trust asymmetry between the leaders of some states in Europe and the leaders of the US. W
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by sentenza 13y ago
You bring up an interesting point. I very often read that the UK joined for the single market but then afterwards the EU started taking away national sovereignty. I don't quite understand how this view of things is possible. From the v
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by sentenza 13y ago
But the UK opted out of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and is not even part of Schengen. I personally, as a German, am much less forgiving towards the UK than towards the US for what has been revealed. The UK is a EU member, which is so
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by sentenza 13y ago
What I find suspiciously absent from the relevations so far is the DNA angle. If the STASI had had todays technology, they would have tapped all phones, stored all data, and collected DNA samples wherever they can. Assuming that all spy age
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by sentenza 13y ago
So what you are basically saying is that the cloud and the free international market of services are dead. I would prefer if we managed to stop this nation vs nation view on things. But, since this is probably impossible, the way forward is
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by sentenza 13y ago
I wonder if the same things that worked in Europe could be used in the US. Over here, we have a nascent network of professional activists (EDRI, DigiGes, laquadraturedunet) that monitor critical developments and coordinate the hacking, the
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Many details of the implementation are different in the individual states of the EU, since the health sector has so far not been harmonized. My experience is from Germany, where there exists a mixed system in which you are not allowed to ha
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by sentenza 13y ago
To me, as a European, your summary of the US-perspective on health care explains a lot. Over here, universal health care is supported by public opinion, mostly because it is seen as a question of ethics (with a healthy dose of "it coul
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by sentenza 13y ago
No. Many countries there are doing quite OK or even good (Poland, for instance). The stuff going down in Hungary threatens the entire European Project.
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by sentenza 13y ago
What about "your children will not be allowed to attend a university" or "no matter how hard you work or how good you are, your path is blocked" or "people just do not want to do business with you any more"? Un
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by sentenza 13y ago
Fun fact: The NSA actually requested data that was collected by the STASI in East Germany. http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=de&to=en&a=n... German original: https://netzpolitik.org/201
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by sentenza 13y ago
Funny. Here in Germany, everybody knows Gagarin and Armstrong, but nobody knows the names of the other Apollo 11 crewmembers.
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Ok, in the fist sentence of the original, it says that they can decrypt PGP partially. The whole report is based on one sentence that a spokesperson said at some point. For some context: The news releases from German security agencies tend
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by sentenza 13y ago
By the way, the new EU data protection (i.e., privacy) directive is being written _right now_ and consumer representatives (or activists) report that there is a massive lobbying effort underway to weaken current privacy standards. Given the
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by sentenza 13y ago
From my experience, Arch with KDE and XP/Win7 are extremely similar with regards to user experience quality, so that I myself wouldn't be willing to call one or the other better. At this point, a person more used to Windows might
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by sentenza 13y ago
Then maybe an acutal filmmakers perspective on why the prequels are bad might be the right thing for you. In case you haven't seen it before: http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/star-wars-episo...
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by sentenza 13y ago
You might be right, but I have the feeling that something other is at play here too. The PRISM scandal has raised awareness and interest about these things and we are now seeing a suddenly released glut of stuff like this working its way th
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While I principally agree with you, I must add that _the_ data protection related historical event that impressed me most is how the Nazis used the excellent Dutch census data that fell into their hands to round up the Jews of the Netherlan
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The intriguing part is, that while it is impossible to get DNA out of 15 million year old dinosaur bones, you could get dinosaur DNA fragments from the genome of currently living birds...
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You bring up an interesting point. I would describe the effect of revelations of this kind on people in Germany as a noticeable jump in one direction on a sentiment continuum, if that makes any sense. The generation of currently 25 to 40 ye
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As a someone from Europe (Germany), I can say that this whole affair is definitely a public relations disaster for the US over here. In the beginning, I was really unsure if regular people who are not members of the tech community would bec
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by sentenza 13y ago
It depends on what you mean by survive. If you work in an academic context, you will get by with English for work purposes just fine. I personally know various PhD students, postdocs and professors that use only English in their work life.
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I am kind of surprised how many people on HN try to downplay the PRISM thing. The recent revelations and controversy directly affect the business prospects of any US firm that stores data. A couple of months ago I was on an education busine
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It's likely that baseload and renewables will meet half way. Supposedly, adding a small amount of battery capacity to wind turbines dramatically increases their power output predictability. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514331/wind-

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