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alphager
·19 ngày trước·discuss
The check for citizenship is not done at the polling place; it's done at the time of voter registration with plenty of accepted IDs.
alphager
·23 ngày trước·discuss
ZFS on Linux works great, but with most distributions, it will compile the kernel module on device upon installation. Only Ubuntu distributes binaries.

As a consequence, you don't necessarily want a rolling distro, as the ZFS module can get out of sync with the kernel.

ZFS itself is build for both BSD and Linux from the same source, so there's feature parity there.
alphager
·23 ngày trước·discuss
There's bias and then there's ignoring all of your own laws when it's convenient.
alphager
·tháng trước·discuss
There are very limited seats (a few teens of thousands). Free market logic dictates that the 100000 richest fans get the tickets.

If you don't like it, you are not a true believer in a free market. There's a reason social democrat countries heavily subsidize culture.
alphager
·tháng trước·discuss
*in the US
alphager
·tháng trước·discuss
It is absolutely bonkers to think about using UV to disinfect human skin, let alone the inside of the human body.

Any UV radiation strong enough to destroy the cells of bacteria is strong enough to destroy human cells. We know that UV-radiaton that's not strong enough to kill bacteria is already harmful to human skin (we call the phenomenon sunburn).
alphager
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Nope. You have to possess a valid ID or passport, but you are not required to carry it. Keeping it at home is perfectly fine.

Carrying it is practical and most Germans do carry their ID, but it's not a requirement.
alphager
·2 tháng trước·discuss
We are as close as you can get, but we estimate that we're about 3.5% away from true optimum on the hardest problem we try to optimize.
alphager
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Absolutely true in the real world; I was part of a real team that explored quantum optimization algorithms as part of a strategic initiative (my day job is algorithmic optimization on classical computers).

Our problem is similar (but not identical) to the traveling salesman problem. We run on a tight time constraint (measured in days for the complex type and measured in minutes for the simple type).

We're running approximations on classic computers but estimate that we'd save billions if we could reach optimum.
alphager
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Logistics would love to optimize the traveling salesman problem.
alphager
·2 tháng trước·discuss
X$ for the ticket plus a convenience fee/service fee for standing in line.
alphager
·2 tháng trước·discuss
What difficulties do you mean? We got Sepa instant transfers nowadays...
alphager
·3 tháng trước·discuss
How is that a ban?
alphager
·3 tháng trước·discuss
It's in all kinds of medicine. People take some pills and then add a cough syrup, not noticing that the syrup also contains it as an active ingredient.
alphager
·3 tháng trước·discuss
Stealing is one possible problem (transactions out of country are really hard to claw back), but the major fear is probably stability. You won't like the consequences if a significant percentage of your countries banks are down for a few days...
alphager
·3 tháng trước·discuss
That are paid (if not avoided) at the location of the owner, not the location of the dc.

Datacenters really aren't that good for the locals. Low property tax, just tens of jobs but very high infrastructure needs.
alphager
·3 tháng trước·discuss
Just be aware that DW is literally government propaganda. If you want news from a German perspective, it's great; however its purpose is explicitly to give the German governments POV.
alphager
·3 tháng trước·discuss
A steam sauna originating in Turkey, popular in many Arabic countries.
alphager
·3 tháng trước·discuss
People with 2 minimum wage jobs have even less time.
alphager
·3 tháng trước·discuss
That would be about 10-15 years after the moment it would have been wise to migrate to PQC. You won't have the time to migrate before breach when you start after ECC is broken.