hanbura

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by hanbura 8y ago
I am guaranteed to die at some point. Yet (at least in Germany) I can go to a private insurance company, agree to pay a few euros each month and in return they pay out 10000€ when I die to cover my funeral, no questions about cause of death
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by hanbura 8y ago
>have no reason to be concerned about governments ... Many aren't, but everyone has reason to. Governments change. Telling your government your religion in 1920s Germany was harmless, in 1940 many would have preferred if the governm
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by hanbura 8y ago
Determining whether anybody is in the car doesn't sound trivial beyond the driver seat. The seatbelt warnings are triggered by weight, but people frequently store stuff on their seats, and occasionally that stuff has a weight plausible
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by hanbura 8y ago
That would lead to far more accidents where people leave kids or animals alone in a car in direct sunlight, assuming the AC will keep them cool. But as they step away from the vehicle, the engine and AC turn off, leaving anyone in the car t
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by hanbura 8y ago
Sure, sending spam that I can opt out of isn't the worst thing they can do. But if you are selling security products I expect better morals than that. This is yubico squandering trust in exchange for sending a few more marketing emails
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by hanbura 8y ago
Yes, but in order to be useful for training, the fake detection algorithm has to be reasonably performant. Performance is less of an issue if you just want to test if one video is fake. Unless of course the attacker has vastly more computat
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by hanbura 8y ago
Technological solutions will help, but software to spot fake videos will lead to an arms race between video creation and video classification. The more promising angle is imho the society angle. Most people view their memory as the best sou
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by hanbura 8y ago
>The press would absolutely hate that, and rightfully so. Not only the press. Whoever is making the decision what's real is the ultimate censor and can decide which reality the voting public sees. Of course convincing, largely circu
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by hanbura 8y ago
An individual fact isn't copyrightable, a collection of facts can be. Details vary by jurisdiction, but in an international project like OSM you have to comply with the strictest jurisdiction
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by hanbura 8y ago
Copying from Google Maps would violate copyright. Ideally you visit the place in question and correct them in OSM based on your observations. There are also some satellite maps that are licensed for use as OSM source (and that are often int
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by hanbura 8y ago
db01 is taking it into meaninglessness. Is that running PostgreSQL, Redis or MongoDB? Was Redis on db05 or cache01? That's not far from naming them server01, server02, etc. sql01 is good if you only use sql abstraction layers, otherwis
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by hanbura 8y ago
Satellites and space stations are neither aerodynamic nor dense. If anything survives reentry, drag will slow it down until it might still damage a regular building but will do nothing to an impact resistant concrete dome designed to resi
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by hanbura 8y ago
If every email service prohibits a topic, that's indistinguishable from state censorship. I fail to see how only one is bad and the other isn't. The free market isn't of any help here either. Censorship is about stopping the
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by hanbura 8y ago
>Having said that, can't Mailchimp do whatever they want? Sure, in the same sense we can be appalled by anything we want and boycott things for any or no reason. There is no legal question here, but the moral question is far less cl
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by hanbura 8y ago
An increasing number of subcommunities have learned to rely on sponsors and patreon because YouTube demonetizes most of their videos. Meanwhile YouTube's three strike system is a constant threat to channels operating on fair use (revie
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by hanbura 8y ago
This was a big problem on YouTube too. Their solution wasn't to find a better thumbnail, but to change the incentives. Basically they now promote videos based on minutes watched instead of clicks (also factoring in subsequent videos wa
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by hanbura 8y ago
I imagine Amazon wouldn't be opposed to preinstalling the Play Store. But getting permission from Google to do that comes with a long list of requirements. You are either at the mercy of Google's requirements and conditions or y
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by hanbura 8y ago
To me the entire point of a password manager is to solve password reuse. I can only remember a small number of high-quality passwords. I use one of those to secure my password manager, and I consider that password good enough to be unbreaka
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by hanbura 8y ago
I'm glad to see they left a door open for users of custom ROMs. While inconvenient, it will end up as just another item on the already complicated guides for installing custom ROMs. Let's just hope this option doesn't disappe
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by hanbura 8y ago
If anything, I would have said that KeePass provides too many ways to sync devices... KeePass has a feature to sync two files, and can access a variety of network storages. That's not one turn-key solution, but it covers just about eve
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by hanbura 8y ago
That's such an often repeated and weird argument. Censorship isn't dangerous because of who is doing it but because of what it does. Censorship inhibits the spread of information and ideas, thus inhibiting the democratic process.
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by hanbura 8y ago
Oh course German sex trafficing increased; prostitution is illegal in the neighboring countries, so now Germany's border regions service a large international customer base. Sex tourism is also big thing for some cities. The market got
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by hanbura 9y ago
When real life sounds like a Black Mirror episode
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by hanbura 9y ago
Leaving children in the car for short periods has occasionally practical benefits, just as with pets. And both humans and animals do just fine in cars as long as you make sure that the interior doesn't get too hot. In this instance it&
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by hanbura 9y ago
There is no surveillance of actual people, the government just found a cheap way to find out that their own land had an unexpected change. Finding suspects seems to be old fashioned police work. I find it very hard to find any arguments aga
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by hanbura 9y ago
>Part of me hopes software development is the next job we automate away We are hard at work automating software development. Thanks to massive advances in programming language design, IDEs, the invention of module systems in combination
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by hanbura 9y ago
JSON lines is fairly common in cases where you don't want to hold the entire file in memory.
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by hanbura 9y ago
command lines are powerful, but only make sense for power users because they lack discovery and require more memorization than GUIs. Simple voice interfaces suffer the same problems as command line interfaces while being less flexible and s
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by hanbura 9y ago
Most of our space travel challenges are caused by the size restrictions and cost associated with putting spacecraft into space. Currently spaceflight is still very much an aerospace (literally translated as airspace) problem. In a theoretic
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by hanbura 9y ago
Yes, on all common metrics, in great detail: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat

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