DocTomoe

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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> Technically it's not, which is why there is private company collecting it. Technically it is a "öffentlich-rechtliche, nicht rechtsfähige Gemeinschaftseinrichtung", and not a private company.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
German living in Germany > - You have to register your current address with the local authorities (anmeldung) after moving into a new place. Yeah. I do not see a problem with that. In fact, I like the idea of an identity being linked to
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Snaps/Flatpacks/other binary-containerised stuff is one of the major reasons why I abandoned Linux distributions after 22-odd years (1999-2022), and am now a happy Apple user (the other one being abandoning X11 in favour of Waylan
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
That works great if you are living in a major city. Once you become even remotely rural, public transit becomes a massive problem - turns out point-to-point connections do not all converge on the same entry- and exit points. Which leads to
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
hacker s , not one particular hacker, like you. You would be surprised how many of us are interested in in-depth political analysis. It's like reading Perl code, only more arcane.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I have never, in 20 years in the business world - and that includes long years working closely with people in controlling - see anyone do something in Excel that could not be achieved in LibreOffice with similar effort. Yes, there is no 100
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
As an European outdoor enthusiast ... I have never been in a situation where I needed a machete instead of just going a slightly different path. Are American forests darker versions of Fangorn?
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I may be a bit peculiar about this ... but I'd rather be dead than having 300k worth of debt to pay off for the rest of my life...
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
That's nice and useful in many circumstances, but a phone - and an SOS signal - serve a different purpose: To save your life when you can't save yourself, e.g. if you are trapped or your leg is broken on the trail.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
The vast majority of employers in the UK don't need to ask the UK prime minister (and his dark vizier) for permission to make you work 32 hours instead of 40.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> There are ~no good rural jobs. This depends on your definition of a 'good job'. If this is about pay, yes, wages in the countryside are lower - but so are living costs. If I average over my contacts, people working rurally se
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
World income principle works the same, only it thethers you based on main area of presence, not nationality. A Turkish citizen mostly living in Germany (-> Steuerinländer), but working in France for a French company will pay German and F
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> The US is unique in taxing worldwide income [..] based on citizenship This is technically correct, but many other countries use a similar principle called the worldwide income principle, in which all your income, no matter where it is
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
If someone is traveling on a tourist visa, they are not allowed to work in the host country. So now they are not only potential tax evaders both in their host country and their country of origin, a crime in many countries worthy of lengthy
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> Did you read all of them? To say it with Umberto Eco[1]: A library is a research tool. A library of books you've all read is worthless. [1] I have read that directly from Eco, I guess in some old book about how to write scientific
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Depending on their country of origin. Most western countries have rules that make income originating in other countries taxable in their home country (and then often have bilateral treaties that avoid income being taxed twice). Quite a few
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Gotta protect the lady's privacy. /s Or maybe it wasn't done, and this is just a claim.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Well, you can't have it both ways. Banks that follow the standard "we are a respectable organization of respectable managers" image rarely allow people a look into their systems. Disclaimer: I'm a bunq customer, both for
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
That works as long as you need a standard stamp. It fails the moment you need to send a letter to overseas.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
EC cards, when they first came out, were revolutionary and way better than the credit cards of old. Eventually, though they became increasingly unusual, mostly thanks to the internet (no way to pay with them there. They had a hidden creditc
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Channelling my inner HR drone here, but I've heard that all at different times from them when looking for talent: Because why would you linger around in university if you can have a serious income ten years earlier? Obviously something
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
A friend of mine who is in "serious" AI research keeps telling me not to get too excited about Google's AI stuff, as they do release a lot of papers, but these are essentially worthless and non-reproduceable as they hide raw
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Beware, though, because in other fields - particularly in STEM - a PHD may actually lower your job prospects. "You're overqualified" gets old really fast if no one offers jobs that align with your proficiency level.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
To be fair, that's the problem with OTHER vendors, not with them. They would have been free to put the customer first as well, but chose not to. Why should I as the customer accept subpar service just because the only place I get decen
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
If I was the US government, I would add some fake but legitimate-looking IDs in such lists, different ones for every airline I send the list to, so I can identify who leaked the list ex post facto, and come down with God's Wrath on any
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
... which translates to "refugee for healthcare/unemployment benefits/social benefits reasons", implying that they never paid a dime in, but happily take out of the pot nontheless. fransje26 meant this as a joke, but the
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Well, if you get in contact with the police for any reason, you obviously are a problematic person, so "Ausländer".
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Well, we do have "Nafri" (North AFRIcans), "Ausländer" (foreigners, but only used for "problematic" foreigners somehow), "Migrationshintergrund" (migration background, meaning everyone who is an immig
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
In 20 years of me being a customer with Amazon, I have never once had a problem with them. Returns are quick and easy. Payment systems work. I can't say the same for other stores. And thus, other stores successively lost my business (w
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Add some way to export heightmaps or topographical maps, and this will be useful for RPG scenario writers (so much better than the standard "macaroni throw" method of island creation)

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