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by wsy 7y ago
I agree that you cannot easily assess if such a legislation is beneficial for the public or not. That is the case for many government decisions. It still is not a matter of personal opinions/taste, it is a matter of arguments. So it wo
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by wsy 7y ago
No, according to my logic, ecosystems should be forced to open up where it is beneficial to the public. This pretty obviously excludes access to ring 0. Also, it needs to be balanced with the interests of the companies owning the ecosyste
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by wsy 7y ago
The law has a provision for this case, but I highly doubt there is a technical reason for not opening NFC on iOS.
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by wsy 7y ago
It is certainly that simple. You might not like it, because it limits the ability of Apple to exploit their ecosystem for rent-seeking. But it is just opening up an area for competition. And indeed, why not doing this for other closed ecosy
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by wsy 7y ago
What Apple is forced to allow now is already practice with Android phones. So we are really not talking about something new and risky, this is well-established technology.
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by wsy 7y ago
Germany has a pretty good legislation track record, so you can safely assume that technical and financial experts have reviewed that law. It just so happened that Apple was not given an opportunity to lobby for their monopoly on iPhone.
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by wsy 7y ago
It is a simple matter of competition. As a customer, if I consider Apple Pay so much more convenient, I'll choose a bank which supports it. So banks are under pressure to either support Apple Pay, or create an equally customer-friendly
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by wsy 7y ago
People who grew up with classical music don't need to jump through that hoop. Or do you require them to acquire a taste for Hip Hop? If not, then it is exactly as I pointed out before: the bar is much higher if you come from the '
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by wsy 7y ago
Of course you can escape, but it is much harder. Love of music style is learned, and you learn it from your immediate social environment. I recommend to read "Distinction : A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste" by Pierre
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by wsy 7y ago
Amazon has dozens of different models. If the physical stores don't have it, that is an indicator that they are low-volume items, i.e., only few users have this problem at all.
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by wsy 7y ago
I can see that it is an annoyance (need of USB-C to USB-A adapter), but where is the "major problem"?
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by wsy 7y ago
I once got the advice that my target group should be the ones deciding if the quality level of my work is good enough, not myself. If they see value in what I do, I'm good. I still will strive to improve further, but there is no reason
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by wsy 7y ago
That is again something the constituency can easily change. It just needs one of the many anti-surveillance voters to be willing to run for office.
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by wsy 7y ago
If you don't _want_ to get a PhD, it will be very hard to finish. It is already hard if you are motivated and eager to do research. Also, just the title alone is of not much value in industry, you need to have done research in a sought
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by wsy 7y ago
I agree with your last point: church institutions are privileged in that some jobs in these institutions are exempt from some labor laws. Since a recent court decision, this exemption is now quite limited ( https://efarbeitsrecht.
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by wsy 7y ago
The essence of successful post mortems is getting the fact collection right, before discussing how to prevent the issue. The grandparent's summary omitted essential facts.
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by wsy 7y ago
I think that for B2B software, the right approach is "service first!": you should consider service processes as equally important as the business processes your product supports. For each feature, you should ask yourself "How
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by wsy 7y ago
This is correct, but also needs to be put into context. You only pay church tax if you are member of one of the churches eligible to collect taxes via the German state tax system. Non-Members don't pay church taxes. So there is again n
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by wsy 7y ago
This description is a bit misleading: - School: Germany mostly has public schools. If you have operated a private school for a few years, you can apply for subsidy. You will receive roughly the amount per pupil that would otherwise be neede
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by wsy 7y ago
After consideration, you decided that even though you don't like systemd, using a distro with it is the better deal than all other available options, such as moving to Debian. It still seems to be the best trade-off for you. You don&#x
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by wsy 7y ago
It's unfortunately not true. A large fraction of the UML creators come from the formal specification camp. They always wanted UML to be a specification language, instead of a visual communication tool for developers. Therefore, most of
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by wsy 7y ago
The citation from Germany's constitution is a bit misleading. In Germany, law enforcement warrants must be signed by a judge (in urgent cases, a prosecutor can sign them, and they have to be confirmed soon afterwards by a judge). There
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by wsy 7y ago
GDPR wants to ensure that user privacy is protected. If you do that in your business, you don't need to show any cookie popups. A honest cookie popup would ask "Do you want to be tracked for advertising purposes? yes/no"
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by wsy 7y ago
That's not how GDPR is designed. In Europe, the business model to 'sell' Web content for the permission to track has now become illegal. Web site owners will need to change their business model, or they will be fined. Note th
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by wsy 7y ago
It is an interesting and inspiring read. However, it turned out to be completely wrong, like many (all?) predictive models of history.
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by wsy 7y ago
A lot of tools have safety measures which can't be circumvented by their users (e.g., you have to use both hands to start thems). The reason being that some dangers are easily underestimated, even by experienced users. Manufacturers do
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by wsy 7y ago
It is easy to say this as long as you are not the victim of insults.
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by wsy 7y ago
The rules of society are always a trade-off. In this case, the idea is to lose a bit of free speech, and gain less hatred and less murder. That is not an arbitrary judgement; admittedly this is also not a clear-cut judgement. The system nev
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by wsy 7y ago
Already the parent didn't make a big effort to argue, it was more like literature ("progress is an illusion"), paired with a very far-fetched conclusion from the second law of thermodynamics. On the latter, a proper counter a
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by wsy 7y ago
Of course you are allowed: you just did it here, and nobody prohibited it. What you seem to request is that nobody is criticizing your stance. But why would you be entitled to that?

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