DocTomoe

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by DocTomoe 4y ago
On the other hand, if you know what you're doing - and that is surprisingly little to know, it is a lot easier to land a 737 in MSFS2020 than a Cessna. ILS almost feels like cheating. (But then, I'm a self-designated FlightSim ent
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> If there's a manual up there, then maybe that will have info? Many (most?) airlines have abandoned printed manuals and paperwork in cockpits and have switched to tablets - often iPads - for weight considerations and because they a
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Be aware that if you include the taxes and mandatory insurances you have to pay (and your employer has to pay), you'd usually pass the six figures easily. It's easy to be a millionaire if the state takes fuck all from the paycheck
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
In the end, most people are even happy living under the most brutal of dictatorships as long as they themselves live a relatively comfortable life, and for that you need a working economy (and the hand of luck protecting you from being in t
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> This looks like a scare-story. Let's hope you are right. The EU has a funny history of beating through brain-dead policies. The current EU commission chief, Ursula von der Leyen, is known as "Zensursula" (a portemanteau
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Neither Google nor Facebook has built concentration camps in the past. The same can not be said about state actors. Thus, private companies, especially those in some other country, are inherently more trustworthy than a local government bod
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
The very idea of the EU is to move control away from democratically elected governments. It is designed to prevent democratic participation of its people. The one direct democratic structure, the European Parliament, is toothless, and being
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Isn't that what the Apple Watch is supposed to do? I agree that a relatively simple, relatively low-priced media player with great build quality would have a market - but Apple would be cannibalising it's 'fitness-oriented&#x
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
So, what's next? Taxis are user-unfriendly. You have the communication barrier with the taxi driver. Their means of getting paid are highly erratic ("The payment machine is borken, cash only"). The driver is unregulated and t
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Have you considered that 9-5 jobs and bills to pay are a choice or at least the result of choices made earlier in your life? There's no sense in being jealous for the paths other people have chosen.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Compare that to Germany, where the average water consumption per household is 12439 gallons per person per year [1]. Sounds to me like Americans are particularly wasteful with their water consumption. [1] https://www.bdew.de&#x2
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Or, instead of building a national water grid and thus another piece of incredibly expensive infrastructure that you won't find politicians willing to maintain 30 years from now, you could abandon areas like SoCal that are clearly beco
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
And that's the exact reason we need some kind of "corporate death penalty" for companies who have demonstrated a history of scamming. When triggered, it liquidates the corporation, takes all the money, and bans anyone in mana
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Definitely have some backup/restore functionality for that.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Images would load forever. Good websites had images twice, a low-resolution variant to load fast, to be replaced by the high-resolution one that eventually loaded. Other websites had images that loaded interlaced - separated in 4 strata tha
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Which is one of the reasons the US refuse to be subject to international tribunals on war crimes. No president would live to see their retirement as a free person.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Let's just assume that the way 19th century, Ludwig-II-style museums worked was not exactly historically accurate. This is the king who built Neuschwanstein Castle. He essentially cosplayed as a Roman sometimes, and he built a "Ro
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Let's talk to a lawyer first about that little concept of "concealment of stolen goods".
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
As a general rule, outside of the black market you will not find an auction house that touches a looted piece of art with a ten-foot-pole. Looted art is basically unsellable.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> * How is it going to be transported? Squashing it into airplane luggage is probably not a good idea, neither is sending it via a parcel. Art logistics is a thriving and lucrative business: https://www.dbschenker.com/de-
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> The Germans don't really have any more right to it than she does. Article 56 of the Hague Convention of 1907 disagrees. Stealing art is a war crime. So do the Allies themselves, in their memorandum on January 5th, 1943. > The m
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
If this breaks my 'check in code automatically with ssh key authentication' workflow, I'll be shopping for another option.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> (Did you know that Cinderella's evil stepsisters had their toes and heels cut off so they could fit in the slippers? Or that the ravens pecked their eyes as punishment? Or that Maleficent ends up in a boiling cauldron full of vipe
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Watership Down is mostly traumatising as a cartoon. I've read the book last year, and it feels a lot more as a deeply mythologic piece than a psychedelic horror. It's essentially a shorter Lord of the Rings, with bunnies. Highly r
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Sure - but are these clue tells likely to come up in what the interviewee considers a chance encounter - riding in a taxi - to a job interview (thus probably dressed in an uniform way), when their mind is likely on other things? Also, woul
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
And how would he know someone who was sitting in his taxi on their way to a job interview was gay?
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Knowing Apple, I expect that one dollar installation fee being pushed into their coffers, either directly (because the App Store is pay to play) or indirectly (because they force you to use Apple hardware to develop and push stuff onto the
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Having a quick look at their site, they provide translations to German and Dutch, where it is 'hallo', not 'hello'. More a quirk...
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Branded TLDs have been around for a while. Unfortunately, it's all just about signalling "we're a megacorp"; I have yet to see them used well (e.g. for Canon, I would expect something like [modelnumber].canon to work (an
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Even if he was (and he'd be a ridiculous taxi driver if the first thing he did was sharing his political opinions [though that's not unheard of, I've been riding with that kind of service provider]), not immediately going bal

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