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Comment Re: Addictive Design is just Good Design (Score 1) 61

It is against the mod rules to mod down you disagree with.
I carefully take care not to fall into that trap.

Despite the fact that some idiots troll mod me - and make new fake accounts - which get mod rights removed instantly: I can mod nearly every day.

However I do not have anymore the 35 mod points I used to have 20 years ago.

Comment Re: It's all about definitions. (Score 1) 135

If every one "would pass" by answering everything correctly, then every one should pass.

Does not farking matter if everyone is 100% correct. What matters is if they are above the threshold to pass.

Actually from a teaching perspective: if you can not make a student pass, who managed to jump the inscription barrier, it is probably the teaching at fault.

Comment Re:Parents (Score 1) 61

Depends what you do with them.

On TikTok I watch martial arts or Thai/Indian dance.

On Facebook I am in science and energy forums and Martial Arts forums.

It is pretty convenient to get information about events via Facebook, and share it with "friends". After all, most of the information you get: is coming from friends, anyway.

However I learned that there are indeed people who use Facebook et. all. as news replacement. I actually have no idea how that works. I do not get any news via TikTok or Facebook.

Comment Re:Endless scrolling is not an issue (Score 1) 61

I think what they intend is a break of a minute with a banner: "you are scrolling mindlessly around here since 90 minutes, your GF called already 3 times and you tabbed her away ..." (pun intended :P )

It is not the scrolling per se. "Endless scrolling" is meant to be a metaphor of: being captured in the hamster wheel of scrolling.

Comment Re:Highest privacy standards? (Score 1) 61

Is the code open source and inspectable? If not, you are trusting the people who developed the code.

Obviously you trust the people developing the code.
Do you assume a company/some random people working on an EU project put in backdoors?

Most EU projects are open source, see https://code.europa.eu/

No idea about this one.

The general push in the EU is for "Once-Only Technical System (OOTS)", and open source is published under the European Union Public License (EUPL).

For further reading: https://commission.europa.eu/a...

Comment Re:Highest privacy standards? (Score 1) 61

Perhaps you should read up how OAuth works.

The age verification app gets once configured, with passport, ID and what ever.

Then every app on the phone can ask the age verification app one thing: is the person owning the phone - who originally configured the verification app - over age X.

And the answer is Yes or No, and that is it. To trigger the answer, the verification app will pop up and ask for a finger print or the unlock key of the phone.

Privacy and secure means: you can not ask anything else from the App ... nor does the app know anything else.

My internet banking with my main bank in Germany works similar. The ordinary banking app does simple things, and if I want to transfer money or do an credit card payment in the internet, the "Bank Authorization app" pops up, showing me the desired transaction of the other side, and asks me if that is okay or not.

Obviously a bit stupid if both apps need to be on the same phone (which they do not, if you have two phones with the same phone number on a SIM. Not sure, but I think that is only required during activation of both apps)

Comment Re: Addictive Design is just Good Design (Score 1) 61

I feel your pain.
Especially the poison they call tobacco in some countries ...

I mean if a someone smokes a pipe, I do not like it, but at least I can follow, that they like the smell and taste.
Then comes a joint with "good tobacco", if I only smell it and do not get the real smoke ... I can somewhat tolerate, but try to change place.
Ordinary cigarettes in German, awful - but no puke reaction.
Outside of the EU, I do not know: do those cigarettes indeed contain tobacco? It is all at once: strange unpleasant headache, close to puke, nausea ... burning eyes, and more than a few hours, I get an awful cold.

Cigars, no idea how those people survive smoking them. The moment I smell it I have a headache that makes me run away. If I would ger smoke into my lungs, I probably would indeed vomit instantly.

Comment Re: Addictive Design is just Good Design (Score 1) 61

The problem with nitrate is not nitrate per se. Or in other words, it is warned to have to much in drinking water for example, especially for small kids ... that is it.

The real problem - here comes the bacon, or more important the cheese - is having nitrate salts in food with high concentration of proteins.

Cooking at the wrong temperature, usually the edge where pizza gets super crusty, and even the melting cheese gets a crust, creates amino acid + nitrate = chemical compound "nitrosamine". Those nitrosamine are generally carcinogenic.

That means, bacon just happening to contain nitrite salt, or sausages or cheese, are not carcinogenic. If they were: it was not allowed to sell them :P

Note, the devil is always in the details.

Ah, I get troll modded every day, yesterday two guys modded a post of mine to 0 ... I hope you see this in time :P

Comment Re:Conversely... (Score 1) 399

Perhaps you should drink less.

Your previous post made clear that you BELIEVE to be an Agnostic AND an Atheist.

Up to you, what you BELIEVE.

A person can hold that it's possible to know whether there is a god, yet not believe in a god.
That is stupid semantics, of one who is bad in English and/or bad in logic.

You mean "worship". Yes, you can believe there are gods, and still not worship any ... what exactly has to to do with the fact that you mix up what being agnostic actually means? And that there can not be an agnostic Atheist?

Oh, you want to say: an atheist does not worship any god(dess) - but still might think they exist? Sorry: that is wrong.

Strange, for an pseudo Atheist who is same time Agnostic, you have a strong urge to convince us about your believes.

I only have an urge to point out your scientifically wrong usage of words, and the fact that you do BELIEVE, in your odd truth, hence I point out your illogical conclusions from your misinterpretation of what words actually mean.

But as I said: your believes are up to you.

But do not teach people stuff that contradicts standard lexica or dictionary, that upsets me slightly :P

Comment Re:If it were me (Score 1) 74

Not challenging your number of 25 square miles. (However does instantly trigger the bullshit trigger in my head)

But: are you aware how farking small 25 square miles are?

Hint: it is a square of 5 miles versus 5 miles.

So, lets see what my BS trigger tells us: 25 square miles is the equivalent of 6,475e+7 square meters.
Why do I use meters? Oh, because the standard panels are roughly 1m wide and 1.5m long, and yield 650Wp (electric peak).
So 1.5 sq43166666666.7m are roughly 1.3kWp - obviously the yield of such a panel varies between 550Wp - 800Wp, so lets stick with the 650Wp for now.

6.475e+7 divided by 1.5 is 4.3166666666e+7
4.3166666666e+7 times 1.3kWp yields 5.61166666658e+7 or 56116666 kWp, which is obviously 5.6GWp.

So you are only off by roughly 50% - not bad at all. I actually assumed you are off by a factor of 10 ... so your guestimation was not so bad at all :P

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