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xanipher··on Houses are assets, not goods
"But at the end of each sales chain is either another landlord or someone who was previously renting."

Or, in many cities, on the end of many sales chains is a Chinese or Saudi who is trying to get wealth away from an oppressive regime.

xanipher··on Alcohol Belts of Europe
Many countries even have their own internal alcohol belts. Austria has many wine growing regions where Wine dominates alcohol consumption.
xanipher··on Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%
Yeah, but farming in general is different in Austria, just look at the rates of e.g. cage eggs in the US, where 95% are caged. Plus even in Austria you have to watch out, a lot of the cheaper meat is from large German farms with similar conditions.
xanipher··on Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%
No, what they are saying is that cows fed with seaweed AND antibiotics are still more profitable than cows fed only with seaweed.
xanipher··on Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, police and defence firms
If you collect the data, some of it will be exposed, that's a very real risk. Especially in cases like this with biometrical data that can't be changed. I wonder if something will change after a few big leaks in this sector.
xanipher··on Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting too often in a group
I thought Telegram was sending messages encrypted (though not E2E) per default?
xanipher··on Japanese addressing system
How is this a purely technical problem? I'd argue it's a purely non-technical problem, especially in the many cases where e.g. the postal worker needs some implicit knowledge to make the right decisions.
xanipher··on Escape rooms are big business
There already are VR rooms. I'm stoked to try it out (going next week), but from what I can tell it's still a niche even for the companies where you can do them.
xanipher··on YouTube faces creator backlash
But most of this content will get a negligible amount of views, which means that most of the conplaints come from a much lower number of videos.
xanipher··on Let’s Destroy Robocalls
It hasn't always been the case, mostly because for most of human history attention wasn't the limiting scarce resource to things.
xanipher··on Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
This is not about personal "pleasure in the physical appearance", but about the culture where using Playboy photos in a professional cobtext doesn't raise any eyebrows.
xanipher··on Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks women
How is it reasonable that "this line that you will not cross" is pornography and not "an app that tracks and controls Saudi Arabian women"?
xanipher··on The Norwegian art of the packed lunch
Where are warm lunches for schools typical/expected? Have never seen them "properly".
xanipher··on China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon
Learning about the gods of old greece and their stories is still part of the curriculum in a lot of European countries. I doubt most would think of the Moon Landing first.
xanipher··on A Tiny Austrian Town Has the Coolest Bus Shelters (2014)
The bus stops are for the surroundings of Krumbach, which probably means about one per village. I doubt it will be hard to discover them, especially because there are still signs for the buses there.
xanipher··on A Tiny Austrian Town Has the Coolest Bus Shelters (2014)
>Some sort of privacy or seclusion area for women or children who have to wait alone

How is this supposed to work? Especially with bus stations of that size?

xanipher··on People with Depression Use Language Differently
Depressive realism is still a strongly contested theory. There is also a lot of evidence that depressed people rate themself worse than warranted.
xanipher··on Over half of older US workers are pushed out of longtime jobs before they retire
It's the reality in most western countries.
xanipher··on PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold funds for 180 days
Are there no other options? I get that it's difficult if you want international payments, but surely for inter-American payments enough other options are available? (Genuinely curious)
xanipher··on Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record
But since not everyone that would be or could become a good software developer takes that path there are also a lot of people out there better than the CS grads described here.
xanipher··on Countries that have preoccupied Americans the most since 1900
And the Landeshauptmann of Lower Austria doesn't work for chancellor Kurz. I get what you're saying, but the US is not that special.
xanipher··on Facebook's seized files published by MPs
>Should Facebook provide this without redaction of the recipients' identities? I'd say no, providing this data without that redaction is a violation of the recipients' privacy.

How is it a violation of privacy to tell a user with which other users they have communicated in the past?

xanipher··on The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need to Know
It's a rather small company, but it's in the top 20 Websites worldwide, top 10 in the US.
xanipher··on Does Google harm local search rivals? EU antitrust regulators ask
I'm aware, but "has a different approach to fines" is not really relevant, otherwise this just boils down to "The EU has a different approach to Anti-Trust-Law".
xanipher··on Does Google harm local search rivals? EU antitrust regulators ask
Deutsche Bank and especially VW are already targeted by the US. Just compare the fines for VW in Europe and the US.
xanipher··on Lenovo to pay $7.3M for installing adware in laptops
Most of the Japan railway system was built by the state and privatized later.
xanipher··on Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product?
Yeah, but if without the enabler the world would be better off on net, there still is a case against WhatsApp.
xanipher··on Tumblr was removed from Apple’s App Store over child pornography issues
Yeah, but the Tumblr code and infrastructure was always a bit special. Few sites of this dimension had so many major bugs.
xanipher··on International System of Units overhauled in historic vote
But that's because your recipes are built on the easy divisibility, no? If your recipes are built on weight measurements, suddenly "easy divisibility" brings nothing to the table. If you cook with a kitchen scale, "one ml of water is one gram" is used all the time.
xanipher··on Google, Facebook, and Amazon benefit from an outdated definition of “monopoly”
I don't know about the US, but in Europe the big one was taxes: Due to loopholes in tax regulations, weird accoubting practices, etc. Amazon pays next to no taxes, whereas small bookstores who can't afford to "Double-Irish with a Dutch" their taxes pay way more.