Derbasti

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by Derbasti 16y ago
They do get health insurance. However, it is paid as part of the general German welfare system (hence, tax money) and not by the employer. As far as I know they get the same retirement compensation as if they were unemployed. (Not so sure,
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by Derbasti 16y ago
Actually, I am not sure about the statistics. Even though 400E-jobs are considered unemployed legally, they might still include them in the statistics to make them look better.
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by Derbasti 16y ago
Remember that in Germany, you are legally unemployed if you earn less than 400 Euros (500-600$) per month. If you are unemployed, you don't have to pay taxes. This makes most employees of Starbucks, McDonalds etc. count as unemployed.
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by Derbasti 16y ago
What you are missing here is that the Euro only works if the stronger countries support the weaker ones financially. Without this, the Euro could not be a stable currency. If a country like Greece or Ireland is basically collapsing, it surv
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by Derbasti 16y ago
There is one issue no one ever seems to talk about. The one thing that really really screws up incentives at universities is the money the students have to pay. If students have to pay for individual courses, they will try to minimize the a
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by Derbasti 16y ago
True, very true. (Although I would change "naive" into "native" in your first sentence. Or otherwise I completely misunderstood you.)
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by Derbasti 16y ago
Audio Systems consist of electrical circuits (amplifier, player), mechanical circuits (loudspeaker-membrane) and acoustical circuits (air, room acoustics). All these parts can be modeled as circuits that directly interact with each other. Y
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by Derbasti 16y ago
The world looked slightly different after I watched that movie. There are many things that I blindly refused to believe without any means of disproving them.
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by Derbasti 16y ago
Windows 7 x64, Chrome, Flash is jerky, glitchy and ugly, HTML5 is smooth and nice.
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by Derbasti 16y ago
Well, TRIM seems to be pretty redundant these days. The latest generation of SSDs (Intel, Sandforce) work just fine even without TRIM due to intelligent block management and aggressive garbage collection. As for Blu-Ray, I don't really see
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by Derbasti 16y ago
I think that Apple is following Android here instead of the other way around. Still, I like the idea of having more pixels at my disposal. We will see what the app store will make of that.
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by Derbasti 16y ago
Could anyone tell me the problem here? The iPad is not bound to AT&T, so just pop out your current SIM, get a new one from a different provider and you are good to go.
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by Derbasti 16y ago
I know. It doesn't work with regular expressions, it doesn't highlight every instance it finds. In short, I find it useless.
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by Derbasti 16y ago
You know that there is E-Texteditor for Windows and supposedly Linux? It is completely compatible with Textmate Bundles… It also adds a few really nice things that Textmate can not do (revision history graph, incremential search…)
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by Derbasti 17y ago
They do include the entertainment system of the car, which has to have some GUI controls, probably some map rendering and speech recognition, which unsurprisingly adds up to a few more lines of code than you would expect from steering alone
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by Derbasti 17y ago
It is hard to claim that eBooks are too expensive while audio books are already profitable at 10$. Hence, I think that the discussion about the need for high prices for eBooks is ridiculous.