Successful_Try543

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The last time in Germany, at least as I can remember, was the 2010 Loveparade disaster in Duisburg, that has happened due to enormous errors made by the organisers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It was not special from the outside, but from the inside. It was either the envelope or the TAN list that was printed with a special pattern to prevent reading the list by using a flashlight.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

As a German, when living in Sweden, I was (and still am) very impressed, how widespread the use of (Mobile) Bank ID, beside the use of the personal ID number (As a male German, the state has assigned me at least three different ones without requiring any interaction.) for basically everything, is.

In Germany, before introducing a second electronic way of authentication for online (or phone) banking, it was done by a chosen password and a TAN (transaction number) from a list that you regularly got sent by mail in a special envelope. Later it was replaced by that "thingy", a mobile TAN generator, or push TAN via SMS.

[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

It says one special character, not at least one. Maybe the password has more than one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

At least it should not, in many countries must not, be the only measure.
I once encountered an OR in the requirements: Capital letters, small letters and digits OR special characters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, but the smaller object is dragged into the valley formed by a heavier object due to gravity (of the earth), not due to following the curvature of the blanket.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (9 children)

One could be picky and say you're explaining gravity with gravity. But for the sake of simplicity that's OK.
I've once read an article where someone complained about that and tried to explain it with the actual cause, curvature of space time, like using a model car with glue attached to the wheels. But that was not really intuitive and simple to understand.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But that's made from ambergrease which is produced in the digestive system of a whale and can be found once in a while on the beach too.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Whale oil was also used as a raw material in chemical industry for a lot of things where it was replaced by mineral oil too, e.g. in the production of tensides for washing powder, and not at least was also used for the production of margarine, as fat was rare in the early 20th century.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Copernikus wrote in De revolutionibus:

„The planet tortured us with many riddles and great hardship as we explored its wanderings“.

So he observed him for three times, but it wasn't easy.

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