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www.science.org 26d ago

Why have papers by Max Planck been retracted?

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infosec.exchange 2mo ago

Turn any Chromium-based browser into a permanent JavaScript botnet member

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plasmabeamgames.wordpress.com 3y ago

Mitzi the Cat (2021)

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www.theguardian.com 3y ago

Apple asks suppliers in Taiwan to label products as made in China

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 5y ago

Peloton's $3k treadmill now comes with surprise 'subscription fee'

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www.fox2detroit.com 5y ago

Ransomware attack payments might be tax deductible, says US government

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belledejour.substack.com 5y ago

Your Tunes and the Road

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Pattern experiments with a fantasy record player

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

My career as an international blood smuggler

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www.mcsweeneys.net 8y ago

Updated Rules for Settlers of Catan

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noxxi.de 8y ago

Breaking DKIM – On Purpose and by Chance

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www.intezer.com 8y ago

More Ties Uncovered Between CCleaner Hack and Chinese Hackers

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www.theverge.com 9y ago

New Pebble update allows watches to keep working once online servers go dark

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github.com 9y ago

Iaito – A Qt and C++ GUI for radare2 reverse engineering framework

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www.troyhunt.com 9y ago

Should you care about the quality of your neighbours on a SAN certificate?

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www.theregister.co.uk 9y ago

Y'know that ridiculously expensive Oculus Rift? Yeah, it just got worse

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medium.com 9y ago

My Dead Girlfriend’s Bot

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www.marmot.org.uk 10y ago

“HAMNET” – Shakespeare's play adapted for IRC

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newrepublic.com 10y ago

The Mass-Market Edition of to Kill a Mockingbird Is Dead

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mashable.com 10y ago

What being a flight attendant taught me about human trafficking

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blog.gopheracademy.com 10y ago

2D Game Libraries for Go

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www.open-std.org 10y ago

Subtleties of the ANSI/ISO C standard [pdf]

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techcrunch.com 10y ago

Jolla to Cut Half Its Staff, Restructure Its Debt After Funding Stalls

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medium.com 10y ago

Notes from a VC Pitch Meeting

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www.umich.edu 10y ago

US Army Field Manual: Basic Cryptanalysis (1990)

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ritter.vg 11y ago

An Experimental “RequireCT” Directive for HSTS

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krebsonsecurity.com 11y ago

Flash Patch Targets Zero-Day Exploit

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code.google.com 11y ago

A Valid JPG/JAR, PNG or FLV After AES and PDF After 3DES Decryption

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www.khronos.org 12y ago

Default Website Page (cPanel) on khronos.org

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the relative majority with fptp is always with the CSU.

I feel like this is part of the reason. CDU/CSU currently seem to profit most from this system and they have been governing for 16 years. Before that, SPD got the most direct mandates and was governing.

Even if the governing parties wanted a change, it would probably be hard to convince their MPs to vote for a law that would endanger their own re-election.

I don't know either, therefore I considered it a pretty tangential point. It feels like the choice is a bit more diverse here because there are six(+1*) parties all but guaranteed to enter parliament, so you wouldn't waste a vote if you voted for any of them.

*) seven actually, one party (CSU) only standing in Bavaria instead of the conservative party CDU.

Tangential point but Germany's parliament has a 5% public vote threshold for parties to enter parliament (some exceptions apply).

According to current polls, that means between of 6%-9% of votes (for minor parties) will end up without parliamentary representation (5% at the last federal election).

NB: The number of not represented people is of course much higher, even discounting non-voters and underage citizens, since most(all?) foreign residents don't have the right to vote in federal elections.

Actually, I should add that even in the unlikely extreme scenario, the upper bound would be the number of candidates on the parties' lists (Landeslisten). Even if a party would have a right to more seats, they cannot fill more than they have approved candidates on their lists. One could determine this actual upper bound by looking at each state's lists, which are public of course, but I haven't quickly found them compiled in one place, so I won't bother.

(Berlin's pirate party once won a surprisingly high share in the state parliament but wasn't able to fill all seats, because they were polling way lower when compiling their list.)

Hm, as I understand it, if one party won all 299 direct mandates at 0% 2nd vote share, the other parties' seats would have to be increased until 299 == 0%. Depending on how you round, that would be at least 30,000 seats (there's some tolerance allowed that I did not consider here but that's the ballpark for that unlikely scenario).

The linked site lists a (more realistic) scenario already, where the number of seats comes out to more than 900. How did you end up at your 897 seat upper bound?

Because nearly everyone in Germany is in some sort of union.

This is not true. DGB (comprising most unions and all major ones) reported less than 6M members last year [1] out of ~45M working population total or ~34M of dependently employed people [2].

A lot of people might end up benefiting from a union due to them often negotiating contracts for whole occupational groups, but they are not members.

[1] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/5837/umfrage/...

[2] https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Arbeit/Arbeitsmarkt/Erwerb...

Is the real estate market (esp. for renting out) actually dominated by private investors and their savings? Here in German cities, it feels like it's dominated by faceless investors and corporations but I have no data to back that up.

Not affected since that app was the first to go from my phone but:

uninstalling updates from Android System WebView seems to be bad advice - that'll likely reintroduce some security issues in the browser widget that most apps use.

Well, the ratings as displayed cannot be trusted here either. Recently, I saw a product on amazon Germany with 3.5 stars, determined from 4 reviews. The reviews were 2x 5 stars and no text, 2x 1 star with reasonable reviews IMHO (and a high number of 'Users rated this review useful').

Still, amazon weights the 5-star no text reviews higher to arrive at 3.5 stars.

(The product now has 7 reviews with at least 3x 1 star text reviews and the weighting still favors the no-text 4/5 star ratings: [1])

[1] https://smile.amazon.de/Lego-Technic-42125-Ferrari-Corse/pro...

When you click a link, your browser sends the URL of the site where you clicked the link to the server that hosts the link you're clicking. This is called 'Referer' (sic)[0] and can be disabled in your browser [1].

Now, the owner of that blog set it up in a way that people coming fon HN (who send a Referer) are redirected. (Another user figured that out a few minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26078619 )

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer

Yeah. I understand the unfortunate symbolism of right-wing intruders taking the chambers but I still think in terms of injuries/ fatalities while staff and lawmakers were evacuated, this was a successful de-escalation. (This [well, 'taking' the parliament] happened in Germany, too, and no-one was talking about it anymore days later because nothing really happened.)

It is unfortunate though, that this strategy is only seemingly applied to white people.