Hacker News: Jdam

New comment by Jdam in "How to effectively evade the GDPR and the reach of the DPA"

Jdam — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 10:12:25 +0000

I just read a bit on that site:

> The private person used a dashcam to make recordings of public road traffic and then published them on YouTube as a compilation.

What a PATHETIC thing this GDPR is. Fully agree that we should admit that GDPR is a massive failure (who would have thought!)

Greetings from a European.

New comment by Jdam in "Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of warnings about Wirecard"

Jdam — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:25:05 +0000

BS. My area had fibre since the 80s or 90s and that's why we had to have dial-up until early 2000s. Early DSL only worked through copper.

New comment by Jdam in "Most of Europe Is a Lot Poorer Than Most of the United States (2016)"

Jdam — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 14:37:05 +0000

Literally any discussion about EU vs US: „But what about healthcare??“

Disclaimer: I’m European.

New comment by Jdam in "EU safety agency suspends Pakistani airlines' European authorisation"

Jdam — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 09:56:08 +0000

If this doesn't apply to the UK as well, it is not enough. I would like to see a flyover ban as well, as PIA flies through the EU to the UK.

I'm following the aviation industry closely and there are plenty of reports every now and then where PIA flights don't respond on radio anymore, triggering fighter intercepts. It is assumed that those pilots are oftentimes either sleeping or just don't bother because of their ego, which was built in their former careers as military pilots.

I don't want to have PIA planes crashing into others or falling on my head.

New comment by Jdam in "Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first"

Jdam — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 07:08:15 +0000

> Living in a country with an extremely efficient police department is not fun either. See: China and Singapore.

I lived in Singapore it was one of the best times of my life. But you know what? I never even saw the police there. I can't even tell you how their uniform or cars look like. But also I didn't smoke pot or vandalised; I respected the rules that that community set up.

New comment by Jdam in "Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’"

Jdam — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 09:22:24 +0000

I think the title of this article sums it up quite well: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/german-economy-mi...

New comment by Jdam in "Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’"

Jdam — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 09:19:20 +0000

https://www.qwant.com/

New comment by Jdam in "Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’"

Jdam — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 09:18:29 +0000

because they are not well connected to politics.

New comment by Jdam in "Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz Is Out"

Jdam — Fri, 29 May 2020 14:03:31 +0000

Reminds me of 3D TV

New comment by Jdam in "Siri, What Time Is It in London?"

Jdam — Fri, 22 May 2020 12:16:36 +0000

My favorite Siri moment since like iOS 7 is when I ask Siri to turn off all alarms:

".......... one moment please ........... there's a problem with the network connection".

No. There. Is. Not. In fact, all alarms always get deactivated. All other queries immediately before or after work fine.

The failure rate when I ask that is no less than 100% for me. Just sad.

New comment by Jdam in "Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?"

Jdam — Thu, 14 May 2020 07:42:55 +0000

I'm a huge aviation nerd and super curious about the impact of covid on that market. I've built a website that tracks which aircraft type flew where over the last days and what the average number of flights per day for that type is and was:

http://www.flightstats.pro/

It already works well, but there's still a lot to do, like showing aircraft routes on a map. The overall data provides a nice trend that is statistically stable, but since free aircraft data is hard to come by, coverage of regions that are not Europe or North America is not that great unfortunately.

New comment by Jdam in "The Rhine waterway risks becoming impassable because of climate change"

Jdam — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 12:11:03 +0000

I'm originally from the Rhine river area and I still spend time there. It's certainly true that the water level was low this summer, but it was an exceptionally long and hot summer. I found interesting that my grandma labeled the it "a summer like the summers we were used to long time ago".

There's even a famous german song "Wann wird's mal wieder richtig Sommer?" (When will we have a real summer again?).

Btw since it was basically constantly raining from Oct-Dec, the river replenished really quickly.

New comment by Jdam in "Germans don’t do tech startups – more access to capital might change that"

Jdam — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 09:14:32 +0000

I‘ve worked at a major company that is more or less controlled by Rocket and my direct neighbor was the Germany-CEO of one of their successfuller ventures, so I think I have a rather good picture of Rocket. However, I think they have not met expectations. They have not become huge, and are just doing okay, what I consider as a failure, given their goals.

New comment by Jdam in "Germans don’t do tech startups – more access to capital might change that"

Jdam — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 08:50:38 +0000

I‘d have been eligible for EXIST, but that program is a bad joke. 100k for 3 persons for one year before tax? C‘mon. That is financial sucide, if you’re in tech these days.

New comment by Jdam in "Germans don’t do tech startups – more access to capital might change that"

Jdam — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 08:44:55 +0000

I’ve lived in Berlin for some years. What I‘ve seen from most of the startup scene there was that people are more collecting memories than building businesses. The predominant mindset was like „we don’t want to take over the world and we will most likely fail anyway“.

The successful ones, like Dubsmash, leave for the US after a while.

If I, as a German, was to create a startup in Europe today, I’d do so in London.

New comment by Jdam in "Delta to start scanning faces at airport check-in"

Jdam — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 06:41:56 +0000

You mean like the CBP database that stores a fresh picture of my face [and other data] whenever I enter the US?

New comment by Jdam in "Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality"

Jdam — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 19:51:44 +0000

Have you ever heard about that thing called fog?

New comment by Jdam in "EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’"

Jdam — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 08:32:33 +0000

As a European, I wish I could just say the same :/

New comment by Jdam in "EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’"

Jdam — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 08:30:35 +0000

> After this goes through I will become a single-issue voter, to leave the EU.

Same. This institution has given me enough. Not only in tech.

New comment by Jdam in "PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $90M at a $1.3B Valuation"

Jdam — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 19:30:31 +0000

It takes more than 2 days to flesh out those deals.