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by thesimon 11y ago
>(just buy them at any shop/gas station, no info/ID required By law, they have to request your name, adress and DOB before you can activate the card (usually not done in store, but online at home). They don't need to valid
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by thesimon 11y ago
Tangential to this article, but >pay outside of the US is often much lower for reasons that don’t really make sense to me). Can someone explain why salaries in for example Europe are so much less? Out of uni salary for example seems to
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by thesimon 11y ago
SparkGift seems to be for US-residents only. Does someone know an alternative for Europe?
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by thesimon 11y ago
Desktop version: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/calendar/Uhfpcw...
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by thesimon 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reply_coupon Might work if they are still sold in your country. A bit expensive though and not sure if they are willing to accept these, because they have to be exchanged f
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by thesimon 11y ago
https://stripe.com/blog/pricing-update-for-europe Down across all Europe. Not really surprising considering the EU limited card interchange fees to 0.2% for debit and 0.3% for credit cards. Actually a bit surprised it&
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by thesimon 11y ago
Thank god. Not being able to paste/visit the link directly from WhatsApp surely prevents them from planning an attack over Telegram /s I agree with you that Telegram has been in the news recently, but I doubt it's related wit
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by thesimon 11y ago
But as the top comment says: The actual issue was that some developers used an old version of OpenSSL, which couldn't handle the SHA2 cert. Apple apparently "deprecated" their SHA1 cert and started to use an SHA2 cert. IIRC s
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by thesimon 11y ago
Quite sad to see them go, too. There were a lot of interesting products to work on and a great community. And being rewarded with parts of the company is such a great idea. I guess they were missing profitable companies. There were a lot of
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by thesimon 11y ago
One thing to look out for though is the fact that they offer you to generate a private key for you. You probably don't want them to have your private key :)
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by thesimon 11y ago
He's probably talking about the following: If you torrent for example a copyrighted mp3 and you are not leeching, you are actively uploading the file and sharing it with others. And a lot of lawyers are now actively tracking peer-to-pe
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by thesimon 11y ago
>my instructor very strongly warned against waving / signalling other drivers through for this very reason Over here in Germany, too. My instructor told the the people in my class to never wave. If we were 100% sure and really think
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by thesimon 11y ago
Couldn't find anything in their guidelines https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#pur... And other big companies like Spotify have been doing it for years. I think I recall that this wa
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by thesimon 11y ago
PayPals 2-factor is terrible to begin with. Only site I need Symantec VIP Access for, because implementing de facto industry standards is overrated. (But to be honest, at least they offer 2fa.)
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by thesimon 11y ago
"The ruling came about because of [...] a company which [...] installs security systems. The company shut its regional offices down in 2011, resulting in employees travelling varying distances before arriving at their first appointment
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by thesimon 11y ago
Great to hear (I also love how transparent YCombinator is). Off topic: My first name is Simon and I was a bit surprised seeing "Welcome Simon" with YCombinator.com as url. New personalization feature :)
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by thesimon 11y ago
Afaik Paypass/Paywave can't be cloned as well ( http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/21982/can-i-clone... ) so their "solution" is going to be interesting. The purpose of chipped cards is e
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by thesimon 11y ago
Not all countries use the U.S. style
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by thesimon 11y ago
Worked on something similar on a local open data hackathon before, but instead I used a scraper to parse the logos. https://github.com/c0dr/LogoParser It worked okay for like 40% of the sites, and for the rest of the s
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by thesimon 11y ago
IRRC they use Dorco blades, which can be purchased significantly cheaper elsewhere (e.g. Amazon)
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by thesimon 11y ago
>It would be interesting to see whether you could build a national Döner chain in Germany. Uneducated guess: Not easy, because Döner is a quite homogeneous good in comparison to pizza or Burger (as long as you don't change the curre
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by thesimon 11y ago
Probably not cheaper for larger customers, but the easy API & payment flow are for sure part of the success.
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by thesimon 11y ago
Not OP, but http://jekyllrb.com/ and ghost are both great.
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by thesimon 11y ago
Yeah, what about a man who simply decides everything. No need to worry about anything. He'll probably promise everyone a job and will improve the road network. And some people can go on a free vacation by train which will last until th
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by thesimon 11y ago
German Spiegel reports, that mostly European agencies and diplomats were being spied on by the NSA with the help of the German Intelligence Agency, but "Schindler [Head of Germany intelligence agency] tries to play it down: Most europe
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by thesimon 11y ago
Amazon already offers this https://www.createspace.com/
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by thesimon 11y ago
Some people care about it, yes. But obviously only a small percentage, the general public doesn't care as long as Merkel is in office and says nothing to worry about. Just like this Simpsons quote Homer: "Lisa, the whole reason we
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by thesimon 12y ago
Thanks. A lot of people told me they didn't know about the FOIA law before, so hopefully we'll see some interesting requests :) Edit: I felt like giving an update on how the exams were without the tasks and what my perspective was
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Getting exam tasks beforehand through Freedom of Information Act(simon-schraeder.de)
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by thesimon 12y ago
Your page looks great, the photo is really nice and the mailto title is a nice touch. <shamelessplug> I should've thought about submitting to HN too :) http://simon-schraeder.de/summer/

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