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by skrause 6y ago
The only thing that works for me in the May 2020 Update is blocking all outgoing connections of SearchApp.exe in the Windows Firewall.
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by skrause 6y ago
Solar noon in Madrid is around 1 hour and 10 minutes later than in Berlin, yet they both use the same time zone. This is how it would look if you gave Spain a time zone where solar noon would be around 12 (winter time) just like Berlin and
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by skrause 6y ago
> Umm, what if I take photos in a public place with you in them and the laws of the country allow public photography? Here in Germany you are allowed to take photos in public, but you may not publish them in all circumstances. If a per
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by skrause 6y ago
"FCC requires carriers to deploy STIR/SHAKEN caller ID authentication" - https://www.fiercewireless.com/operators/fcc-requires-carrie...
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by skrause 7y ago
You get paid as if you had worked the full amount of hours in your employment contract. Zero-hour contracts are illegal in Germany.
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by skrause 7y ago
> Being sick means being unpaid, and many people cannot afford to go unpaid. In Germany being sick means full payment by the employer for 6 weeks, after that you'll receive around 90% of your last net income by your healh insuranc
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by skrause 7y ago
The standard library has something similar: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html#functools.s...
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by skrause 7y ago
> I must admit, I find it baffling how the EU uses metric, but yet, they use the comma as the decimal point. You make it sound that the EU is the odd one out here by not using the "normal" decimal point, but internationally b
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by skrause 7y ago
In Germany only witnesses are required to tell the truth (even without oath), but not the ones accused of a crime.
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by skrause 7y ago
In Germany is rule is simply that you are not required to do anything to actively help our own prosecution. They want to take your fingerprints? You don't need to help by lifting your arm. They want you to open a safe? No need to tel
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by skrause 7y ago
No, Germany doesn't use Maestro, it uses Girocard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girocard
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by skrause 7y ago
> Parking pages or any other use that intends to work around the restriction can be deemed illegitimate use. My personal domain doesn't even have an A record in the DNS, only an MX record because use it for all my email. By your d
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by skrause 7y ago
> Where are you located, and what version of the OS were you running when you reported these things? I live in Germany and I think I was running iOS 12 when I reported the issues. Maybe Apple only looks at reports in the USA...
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by skrause 7y ago
What I hate most about Apple Maps is that reports about incorrect data never seem to go anywhere. Apple Maps thinks that the road that leads to my house is a one-way street. It's not. But because of this error Apple Maps always wants t
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by skrause 7y ago
There is a great video by CGP Grey which covers exactly that topic: https://youtu.be/JEYh5WACqEk
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by skrause 7y ago
Yeah, we've already reached planets that are billions of kilometers away. Pluto is never closer than around 4.3 billion km.
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by skrause 7y ago
The better advice is to know the laws of the country you're in. For example in Germany you can simply refuse to give them your password and they can't use that against you in any way. No need for a reason or plausible deniability.
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by skrause 7y ago
> I dont see this 50% drop Obviously, because you're looking at installed peak capacity, not actual power generation. Here you can see that coal is indeed being used less and less: https://energy-charts.de/energy_d
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by skrause 7y ago
I donn't miss any keeys, somee eeveenn work twice as eefficieennt.
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by skrause 7y ago
Maybe they use Cloudflare DNS? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
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by skrause 7y ago
> but in Europe jaywalking doesn't exist Europe is not a country and each European country has different laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking#Europe
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by skrause 7y ago
> but honestly I'd rather have some SPAM get through than get HAM marked and placed in the big fucking SPAM bucket I never check. This is why I like that my email provider ( https://mailbox.org/en/ ) simply rej
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by skrause 7y ago
I use https://mailbox.org/en/ , it's from a small German company and I can use my own domain with the smallest plan for just 1 € per month. Their spam filter also seems pretty good.
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by skrause 7y ago
> I have voice-activated assistant on my droid turned off, meanwhile Siri is active on all iDevices This is not true, voice-activated Siri is a setting as well and turned off on my iPhone.
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by skrause 7y ago
> New phones are. But it's a setting. I own an iPhone have turned off "Hey Siri". If it would still listen all the time that would be a security issue and breach of trust.
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by skrause 7y ago
When I was using 1Password a few years ago it was much worse than this LastPass problem: The Windows version of 1Password resulted in a stuttering mouse cursor and completely lagging UI of the whole Windows system every time the CPU was u
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by skrause 7y ago
I have to deploy web applications written in Python on Windows... no uWSGI, no Gunicorn and no easy multiprocessing because no fork(). It's painful quite often and it makes me loathe the GIL, but I still enjoy writing Python code.
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by skrause 7y ago
> Does everyone here also drive a base model Honda Civic because “car hardware is done”? Well, I do (although it's a base model Hyundai). I also still use an iPhone SE and will do for the foreseeable future.
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by skrause 7y ago
"4th gen nuclear" that could utilize current waste is years or even decades away from commercial availability. If you want to bet everything on a potential future technology that doesn't currently exist why not choose nuclear
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by skrause 7y ago
How do you work for cash in a future cashless society?

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