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Snowden.

It can be smelly/unlawful without being unethical. Even quite the opposite.

I cannot answer, I'm not affiliated with the project. Better ask @vavoida.

17 years living in Germany, never heard of Fair, Isaac. Creditreform and Arvato are much likely next targets.

I think this is properly disclosed. And definitely does not reduce the value of the effort.

I am not affiliated with OpenSCHUFA.

When applying for a loan, mobile phone contract, or even trying to rent an apartment in Germany, the Schufa score - Germany's credit rating - is decisive. If you have a few "points…

I don't know if this is HN effect or what but I just dont't get to the game. All I see after log in is some terrain and, a few moments later "Destroyed by " someone. No units movem…

And definitely not with a child.

What suprizes me is that you ask "why is it necessary to have car if you have kids?" and when I answer why you switch to theoritizing about how the world should be. So either we di…

I have replied to "What exactly is it about children under the age of 12 that requires a car?", I did not say it is unique to children. But children is a big factor. We did not rea…

The goverment could do all those things but the reality is, if you don't live in a city and/or have kids, you need a car, period.

That would be ca. 30 minutes cycling one direction, then another 20 minutes to the train station where I need to catch my train. 50% of the route on country roads where overtaking …

Not every city is built for it. And not everybody lives in a city built for it. I live in a village 25km away from Frankfurt, there is no way you could get around here without a ca…

My 5yo goes to a kindergarten which is 7km away. I'm sure he'll be delighted to walk that distance. Five days a week.

I'm a father of two boys (8 and 5 yo) and we live in a small village (Ober-Erlenbach) next to a sattelite city (Bad Homburg) close to a big city (Frankfurt). We could not get along…

Get well soon.

Anathem by Neal Stephenson. You need to get through the first 100 or so pages and then it clicks in. Blue Bacon Fat by Vladimir Sorokin.

I actually think Seveneves might have pretty much been inspired by The Martian.

For everyone interested in algorithms behind Graphviz, here's a paper so start with: http://www.graphviz.org/Documentation/TSE93.pdf This work is absolutely amazing. I've tried imp…

If they'll do this for one case like QR codes on boarding passes, then the question and and expectation will arise, why don't they do it for every other possible case? This is not …

If you booked the flight together then it is very probable that it's seen in the booking system that you travel together. So it was probably a little bit mor that just his "word". …

AWS Lambda appeared to be a nice method for task scheduling. In any case it is very cheap I only get billed for like 400ms per day. Other services like KMS came in quite handy as w…

I was interested in trying out the "Dollar Cost Averaging" investment "strategy for Bitcoin. There were a couple implementations of that (for instance https://github.com/0x13a/bitc…