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DasIch
11y ago
This only shows that Roche can either sell much more on the US market or that their margins can be much higher there. That's certainly interesting but doesn't explain anything at all.
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DasIch
11y ago
It has absolutely nothing to do with subsidization by Americans. It's simply that universal health care allows patients to be fairly represented as consumers via insurance agencies. The American health care system is a perfect example
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DasIch
11y ago
It's not just a series of quotes (not that it would this would necessarily be objective). He provides clearly heavily biased commentary, starting with the title.
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11y ago
"crusade", "SJW mode", "ranting", "meandering", "here [sic] arguments are so weak I had nothing but good laugh" and it goes on and on. The author couldn't be less objective and unprejud
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11y ago
Unless of course that man is competing against heavily subsidized large scale fishing companies from industrialized countries, that export to his own country and can undercut his prices. Free trade and free markets are truly amazing, aren&#
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11y ago
YC startups don't grow on a tree in the YC garden and YC is what most startups want to get into. It makes much more sense to make that research widely available, chances are good for YC that the startups that do something useful with i
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DasIch
11y ago
Facebook does have a problem with racism, not just that but the Germany's minister of justice and Angela Merkel have recently confronted Facebook about it.
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DasIch
11y ago
Data isn't encrypted on the client side only the "password" is.
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DasIch
11y ago
As a German - you know the country the word Kindergarten comes from - I'm always amazed that people consider Kindergarten to be a school of some kind. Kindergärten aren't schools in Germany, they don't operate like schools, y
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11y ago
That's not an element specific to China. Wealth inequality is fairly well accepted to be a threat to social stability and the economy. People tend to see such inequality is unfair and at some point they are going to discover their revo
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DasIch
11y ago
How about lexical memory management as a nod to dynamic vs. lexical scoping?
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DasIch
11y ago
The debris doesn't have to reach stable orbits. The debris gets created in orbits that are already stable. It's also important to consider that stable in this context doesn't mean that the debris stays up there forever, it&#x
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DasIch
11y ago
The consumer price of electricity has gone up but that's a complex problem with many reasons behind it. Abandoning nuclear energy is not the only reason and probably one of the least important ones. Even if it were a reason, reversing
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11y ago
What the Greens want is completely irrelevant to Merkel's government and has been for as long as she has been Bundeskanzlerin. Abandoning nuclear energy is a widely accepted move by the majority of the population and across political p
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DasIch
11y ago
The VOC is important enough that you will learn about it in history classes in school, at least in some countries.
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DasIch
11y ago
Just for fun? To take advantage of the Java ecosystem similarly to Jython?
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DasIch
11y ago
Don't really see why you got downvoted. It looks like they copied the logo exactly[1]. I'm rather surprised anyone would want to be associated with such an organization. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutc
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DasIch
11y ago
It would only lower the fuel economy (as advertised), if they didn't apply the cheat during those tests. If they did, the cars fuel economy right now is higher than advertised. Besides fuel economy heavily depends on load, driving styl
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DasIch
11y ago
It's not at all clear that they would win. There is an article by a German lawyer on the topic[1]. The tl;dr of it is, that given that the car works mostly as intended and that any damage to individual customers is little (if it even e
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DasIch
11y ago
Way forward? Stuff like this has existed for years already just not as well marketed maybe. At my university we typically use a single shared svn repository. Permissions restrict which directories are readable and writeable to students/
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DasIch
11y ago
The entire purpose of a programming language is that everything written in it describes an unambigiously executable process. English isn't and never will be a programming language, no matter how much computers will be able to comprehen
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DasIch
11y ago
What they are free to do or not is irrelevant, as long as users complain about the 16GB phones causing negative publicity.
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DasIch
11y ago
Sweden is just one example. In Germany you get a criminal sentence and potentially preventive detention, which means you get to stay in prison until you no longer pose any danger to society. Given that nobody wants to be responsible for rel
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11y ago
70% of all users might not have a problem but the real question is how it impacts the users that matter, the users that voice their opinion and are listened to. I would expect that quite a few of them do notice or would, if they were using
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DasIch
11y ago
I would assume that titanium has a higher density than bone and rib bones aren't that large to begin with. Making them larger and thereby heavier would probably cause a few problems.
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11y ago
> There was never any evidence that a few decorative pixels hurt the user. Is there any evidence that removing them does? > The HIG wasn’t about aesthetics, it was about interaction. > It was based on research, not trends. It'
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DasIch
11y ago
These libraries are not just used because of performance. Some of them are quite old, large and partly written in Fortran. Unless you can do better in other ways than performance, you have to be quite a bit faster to make the effort of port
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DasIch
11y ago
Specialized Gymnasien aren't all that common and while you don't need to go through a Gymnasium to study at a university, it's by far the easiest way.
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DasIch
11y ago
While it doesn't make it any better, one should keep in mind that anti-semitism was widespread everywhere at the time. Jewish refugees were denied entry not just by the US but also many european countries.
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DasIch
11y ago
Of course these things are fixable but not with an over the air software update. Getting your car fixed, especially if it takes a day or more is a problem I wouldn't want to deal with.
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