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The rate is based on Euribor [1], fixed for 6 months in my case (and commonly most everyone) but anything between 3 to 24 months was possible. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eur…

I just bought an apartment with 15% down. It's in the EU; 15% down is about the standard here with no special exceptions. With government assistance programmes it can be even 5% do…

> The direct profit motive leads to "forfeiture corridors". This is where typically drugs will go in one direction and the resulting cash will go in the other. The police will set …

Get your bloodwork done, see if there aren't any obvious deficiencies. One very notable would be iron deficiency which is quite common. Low iron leads to low hemoglobin, which lead…

> I personally don't having sex on a foam mattress I'm sorry but you personally don't what on a foam mattress? You left out like the most important word of all of your comment. Don…

> I'd say when the data is observed is when it becomes surveillance. If I recall correctly, that was exactly the US government's defense after the 2013 Snowden leaks revealed it wa…

Have you seen users? I have to convince users not to install random crap.

> FYI I'd wager they're fully aware of the differences between tungsten carbide and pure tungsten, having done a doctorate about it.

We can't and they probably will, everyone else seems to already be doing so. There's that Swiss federal police report that only about 10% of NCMEC reports are actually relevant ( h…

Indeed, I touched on that in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28227141

Because it's not a cryptographic hash where a one bit difference results in a completely different hash. It's a perceptual hash that operates on a smaller bitmap derived from the i…

The thing is that this is a better and more privacy preserving technique. Their hubris is in not seeing or thinking that they will be able to stand up to all kinds of abuses of thi…

A false positive in matching faces results in a click to fix it or a wrongly categorized photo. A false positive in this new thing may land you in jail or have your life destroyed.…

Since we're talking anecdata anyway, it could be from decreased sleep quality instead of direct causation.

I've got a bone to pick with the article - it makes it sound like the Scottish only invented whisky in the beginning of 19th century: > So it was only a matter of time before the S…

To recap: the problems are that data is accessed without independent permission, and data is collected for reasons other than serious crime. So the solution is to create a governme…