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by ar0 14d ago
Voting systems in Europe differ by country, but for example here in Switzerland I just get my ballot in the mail, fill it in and send it back to get counted. And of course Swiss Post just processes this as a regular piece of mail, routing i
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by ar0 4mo ago
I agree. I am a paying Le Chat Pro user, really rooting for a European alternative. But the quality difference between Mistral and the frontier labs is growing too big to ignore. It’s worrying to me that they didn’t talk much about new mode
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by ar0 6mo ago
To be clear this is only for the standalone Copilot chat or app and website; not for the “Copilot” services integrated into Office 365 etc.
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by ar0 6mo ago
Not the same, but there are data centers that feed their excess heat into district heating, e.g. here: https://news.infomaniak.com/en/infomaniak-inaugurates-a-revo...
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by ar0 7mo ago
I think the big difference is that Google is free: everyone is using Google because it doesn’t cost anything and for a long time was the best search engine out there. I am sure that if Google would suddenly charge a few dollars per month fo
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by ar0 1y ago
It can be tried here: https://publicai.co/ The model and training data sets are on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai
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Apertus: An open, transparent, multilingual language model(ethz.ch)
16 points by ar0 1y ago|4 comments
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by ar0 1y ago
Yes, this statement is so old and wrong that it gets boring real quick… You can just look at the roads of any country that has the same tariffs for U.S. and European cars and you will still not see all that many American cars there.
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by ar0 2y ago
This is a very shady website and thus not a good source for legal advice of any kind… they call themselves “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Datenschutz” (German society for data protection) but are actually located in Bulgaria. They are not any k
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by ar0 2y ago
The German BSI (Federal Office for IT Security) quotes the advisory from CrowdStrike (which is behind their customer login portal) as saying you need to roll-back to snapshots prior to 04:09 UTC: https://www.bsi.bund.de/Shar
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by ar0 2y ago
I don’t know… I think a very big reason why people don’t take taxis is because they are very expensive especially for longer rides. This seems like a thing robo taxis might change. If the driver goes away, they shouldn’t be much more expe
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The Apple curl security incident 12604(daniel.haxx.se)
15 points by ar0 3y ago|2 comments
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by ar0 3y ago
I do not read this court decision like that at all: the point of contention there seems to be that the customer was just sent a link to a webpage (where the contractual terms can be changed from under him at will by the company, thus this
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by ar0 3y ago
I don’t know… the overall tone seems to be a bit too negative for me here. I have used Nextcloud at home for years now without issues and we also used it at a large university where it worked just fine (from a user perspective; I don’t know
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by ar0 3y ago
This thread is an interesting example on how not very well defined terms can let people talk past each other… the original poster suggested “let’s try to be more like France, where this problem is solved”, the next one said “no, more libera
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by ar0 4y ago
There are lots of other ways credit card companies can make money: - Higher interchange fees when you purchase something outside of the EEA - Currency conversion when you buy something not in EUR - High interest payments when you do not pay
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by ar0 4y ago
The answer is in the original Stripe article: The merchant pays much higher fees when you pay with your US credit card than when you pay with a EEA credit card because the interchange limits only apply to purchases within the EEA made with
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by ar0 4y ago
> I’m using productivity as a measurement. Ideally, productivity accounts for inefficient work by comparing inputs (labor) to economic outputs. The U.S. is more productive in this sense, so it’s more than just butts in seats. Actually, t
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by ar0 4y ago
I don’t know. Switzerland works the same way and they have votes more often than every 6 months. (Also the average German will vote more often than just every 4 years due to European, national, state-level and regional elections.)
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by ar0 4y ago
Great idea. However, I think you need to be careful in the VAT area not to overpromise: I selected “selling from Switzerland to Switzerland” and your calculator quoted a VAT of 0%, which is of course false (selling stuff in Switzerland requ
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by ar0 4y ago
Yes, that also immediately focussed my attention… We have friends from Iceland and I have since added Reykjavik to my weather app — to feel good that weather there is even more miserable than where I currently am, wherever that may be. An o
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Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today(ns.nl)
651 points by ar0 4y ago|355 comments
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by ar0 5y ago
Which you are wrong about in this case, however, because this was a people’s initiative brought by various health- and youth-related NGOs and actually opposed by the majority of members of parliament and the government.
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Ask HN: File-based photo management applications?
5 points by ar0 5y ago|6 comments
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by ar0 5y ago
They seem to count CDNs as "hosting providers" and yes, without the necessary legal frameworks in place, this is also a problem if that leaks user data: https://www.technologylawdispatch.com/2021/12/priva
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by ar0 5y ago
I don‘t seem to get the point of this comment, but the reason for this is that the EU Commission has assigned this project to Deutsche Telekom and SAP, two German companies (as is explained in the README).
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by ar0 5y ago
"A-Post" is 1.00 CHF, not 1.20 CHF. Still more expensive, though (but way cheaper than the huge prices quoted for Denmark below!).
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by ar0 5y ago
PeerTube itself does support “video redundancy”, which allows your instance to mirror popular content from other servers, serving as a sort of CDN: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin-following-instances?id=i...
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by ar0 6y ago
As far as I read the article they are really talking about 100 MW maximum power output; they mention that the Australian version can supply that 100 MW for a bit more than an hour (so store a bit more than 100MWh), so they seem to be aware
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by ar0 6y ago
Also for comparison: a single pumped-storage plant will often have storage capacity in the GWh; e.g. the Linth-Limmern pumped storage part in Switzerland can store 33 GWh and provides 1000 MW peak power.

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