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lucullus

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  • What would you say is the most unsung "plot hole" in Harry Potter?

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  • She does! She could have emptied multiple supermarkets, but nah, who needs food if you have books to read. Everytime I really doubt, that Hermione wouldn't think of stocking food in her bag. So much conflict, so easily preventible...

  • What would you say is the most unsung "plot hole" in Harry Potter?

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  • Point taken - it really doesn't seem thought through by Dumby. But I think its funny, that Harry is basically ruining Dumbledoors plan of protecting the stone, because he cannot stop being a hero. Yeah, thanks Harry for "saving" the stone from Voldemort -.-

  • What would you say is the most unsung "plot hole" in Harry Potter?

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  • I always cringe with the 7th book, where the trio is hiding and searching for horkruxes, and for some weird reason they don't have enough food and are constantly hungry. From the reading perspective I understand, that the hunger is a device to generate conflict and make their time hard to endure, but it always baffles me.

    • It is mentioned, that Hermione pulled out all her muggle savings, so why didn't she think about going to a supermarket and buying all the conserved food (cans and such) she can before they got on the run? She even mentions, that food can be multiplicated, just not created out of nothing.
    • When they are hiding they sometimes get to a store or supermarket. But that only brings food for like a few days max. Why not more?
    • And when there where too many dementors in an area to get more food, why not going really far away. We know Hermione was at least one time in France with her parents. Why not going there? Probably the war-like situation was not spread over the complete world that seriously. At least we are not hearing any of that in the books (JKR probably didn't even thing much about international things when writing this)

  • What would you say is the most unsung "plot hole" in Harry Potter?

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  • I always thought of the polyjuice to be a restricted substance, that you can't easily buy. And making it yourself is not easy and takes like 2 months. That would severily limit the cases. I mean, like how often do school kids in our world put drugs in food or drinks of their classmates? I'm sure there are some cases, but probably nothing wide spread

  • What would you say is the most unsung "plot hole" in Harry Potter?

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  • To be fair: With Dumbledoors measures with the mirror of erised they had kind of a trap. The philosophers stone obviously hidden behind some challenges, that are not really that strong, so an attacker would think the last one would also be easy. But there you only got the stonen if you didn't want to use itn ruling out people with nefarious intentions (Dumbledoor didn't know about Voldy in Quirrel at that time). To bad some first graders thought they needed to safe the stone. Quirrel would have been still thereuwhen Dumbledoor arrived, but Harry gave him and Voldy the opportunity to get the stone from him instead from the mirror. A bit of captain hindsight here. He maybe should have thought of that. Or maybe it is understandable that he didn't foresee Harry fucking Potter

  • I want

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  • It did improve my experience though. And after a good chuckle I will move back the the other side of the moon, where I apparently live

  • Copied from another community: "Hoarder (the name) is being stolen from me"

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  • The OP doesn't say that they have a trademark. For me it sound as they don't have one. Only a registered domain and the name of the software on github. The letter came on the grounds of the oponnents trademark.

  • Assuming AI advance to the point that majority of the people accept them. What's stopping us from having our own AI personal representatives instead of voting another person in?

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  • With AI you can easily correct? Who would correct the AIs? The people who don't know what they want? Or some other party who knows even less, what the people want? And how would you personally correct without making up your mind by yourself about something? And how would society correct the overarching AI, which probably had used all peoples AI to train? Who would do this with what indentions and biases? Just seems to hide the problems under an AI carpet, creating even more problems.

  • Should Ukraine build the bomb? How would you feel if they did?

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  • It will surely help significantly preventing a tactical nuclear strike from russia, though it won't end the war. It is an absolute last resort trigger. Ukraine will be annihilated after they use it (Russia has way more nuklear weapons).

    So somewhat good for them and OK to do so, though no solution and no substitution for western military aid.

  • Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats

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  • Though having cash is not enough. The stores also need to be able to accept cash without internet usage. I think we had a case in germany a few years ago, where some supermarkets could not sell anything, because the servers, to which the local payment system connected (also uses for cash) didn't work. Not sure, if that was because of a security incident.

  • Would you buy "self-hosted in a box" hardware?

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  • An interesting customer base might be small communal organisations. At our local scouts troop I had a discussion with a friend, who is also in IT. His idea (not fleshed out) was to provide small local organizations with a stack of already configured open source software to support the typical needs of such organizations (like a wordpress website, a nextcloud for file storage and common calender, limesurvey for surveys and event registration, mailman3 for mailing lists,...). Depending on the needs you could sell the initial setup process (your personal work in setting up and skill transfer) or ongoing support. Though such organizations normally don't have much money to give away. So probably its not really worth your time financially (though probably really appreciated in the community).