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addHocker··on China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable for Unlawful Messages
Even in democracies, the law is abused by those in power. I distinctly remember one party here in germany, slowing down criminal processes of member of the oppossing parties, so that there trials could be held during the election campaigns.
addHocker··on Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet officer who averted nuclear war, has died
You could make a time triggered death man switch that needs to be reset every year. Else your secret is decrypted
addHocker··on Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet officer who averted nuclear war, has died
Im pretty sure, similar stories happend in the US, but as the winner gets to write history, this page did not made it to print.
addHocker··on What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence
Imagine a fully centralized country like china ruled by someone impulsive. Centralization always relies on a well meaning, benefactorial power center- if that goes sour- and it always does, there is no plan for deprecation or recovery.

PS: How can land investment in africa make sense? They are often not enforceable and do not outlast populist government turnover?

addHocker··on Why is it so hard to swat a fly?
The real disgusting thing here are wasps.. who will go for dead rodents- and then move on to grab food from your plate.
addHocker··on EU lost up to €5.4B in tax revenues from Google, Facebook: report
Thats what china tought us all about mega-corps, they may try to outrun and subvert all laws, but at the end, as long as you controll acess to the citizens, you can make them dance.
addHocker··on As Electric Motors Impove, More Things Are Being Electrified
I know its kind of a ofshot question- but is there research in non-chemical batterys? As in storing energy mechanically in nano-structures? Goggle did not reveal much there.
addHocker··on “Cigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the US each year.”
Just what all the dealers need - another demographic.
addHocker··on Mystery of sonic weapon attacks in Cuba deepens
There is psych warfare- which wins by depriving a diplomat of sleep.
addHocker··on Parents Who Pay to Be Watched
Yeah, its a purely western disease, unknown in countrys where kids are allowed to be active and act out there energys.

Glad we protected the problem production from the discussion.

addHocker··on Parents Who Pay to Be Watched
The problem is, that the parents kill the most valuable thing. Iniative, the ablity to have a adeventure, to take a orthogonal way to the throdden road and find something new.

This style of parenting kills the most valuable skill a kid could develop.

addHocker··on 3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image
Tryied it on Harry Rowolth- didnt get along with the beard.
addHocker··on Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords (2013)
The problem is with how security is depcited and movies and television series. Cinmatographic Things will always recive more eye-candy value and feature bigger.

So to educated the audience security wise, one would need to raise the eyecandy value of good passwords.

addHocker··on Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages
I miss the ability to pair structures as "antagonistic" - aka if one exists the other is not, thus allowing for unions of various datatypes who guarantee that if they exist- the shared memory they reside in is theirs and theirs alone.
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