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by DominikR 11y ago
Sadly we already have this in the form of illegal organ trade. (even against the will of victims) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade#Illegal_organ_trad...
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by DominikR 11y ago
I'm not a native english speaker so my use of the language is more basic than yours. But yes I agree, if a stranger is for some reason standing very close behind me in an unexpected situation (in public transportation it would be okay)
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by DominikR 11y ago
Then you are probably one of the very few persons that considers it normal to copulate regularly in the public.
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by DominikR 11y ago
Exactly, I'm not afraid of something when I feel that some woman enters my personal space against my will. I'm just not interested. I'm also not afraid of the colleague entering my personal space, I'm just not interested
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by DominikR 11y ago
If you bail out a company that generates only losses for years it is pretty safe to assume that this is a bad investment. (Edit: would you invest in these companies? I doubt it) I'm not saying that turnarounds are impossible (Apple) bu
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by DominikR 11y ago
Very true. I actually paid 400$ for an XRGB mini video upscaler not mainly because it could convert the output from 240p or 480i to 1080p, but because it can also add scanlines which actually reduces precision by a lot. Yet it increases qua
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by DominikR 11y ago
> but he most likely wouldn't be feeling like he was at home. I'm an Austrian and yes, the German variant in Switzerland is different but I would never consider Switzerland as a country or culture where I could possibly feel es
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by DominikR 11y ago
What a biased article. I'm interested in learning about the strengths and weaknesses of many cultures and countries (including China) but reducing it to "China can't build working pens therefore they suck" is not just ch
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by DominikR 11y ago
I agree with your description of the situation but on the other hand it can't be the solution for an economy to engage in currency wars. Greek labour SHOULD be priced lower than labour in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria or the UK bec
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by DominikR 11y ago
Clearly Pro EU work like handing out guides to immigration to people in the Middle East and inviting millions to come over here. We are all very happy about that here in the EU! There have been more than 800 arson attacks on refugee homes i
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by DominikR 11y ago
Interestingly, Kemal Atatürk made similar reforms in Turkey after the end of the Ottoman Empire. He abolished the use of the Arabic script and introduced a new Turkish script based on the Latin alphabet. His reasoning was the same one used
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by DominikR 11y ago
The point that I'm trying to make is not which OS or company is better, the thread is about Apple making more money with the app store and why that is so. I argue that Apple customers are less price sensitive than Android users. (on av
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by DominikR 11y ago
The iPhone 6s costs here in the EU 739€ in its smallest config, the 6s Plus 849€. (and many will opt for the 64GB option as 16GB isn't sufficient for most) I don't know of any other Android phone that costs that much and has somew
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by DominikR 11y ago
iPhones are even more expensive than flagship Android phones. iPhone users tend to use Macs which are even more expensive than their Windows counterparts. No matter how you slice it, if your business idea evolves around targeting people wil
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by DominikR 11y ago
I made the switch to iPhones a year ago (although I'm still mainly an Android developer) and can agree somewhat with your statement. I rarely bought anything from the Google Play Store but I'm pretty sure this is due to the fact t
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by DominikR 11y ago
> Once people discover that others agree with them, they become more confident -- and then more extreme. And then the example plus explanation. > Arriving at these judgments on your own, you might well hold them tentatively and with a
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by DominikR 11y ago
One could argue that kids and teenagers use these apps to learn promoting oneself successfully. This is a useful skill to have.
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by DominikR 11y ago
> if you are in Iran, you are likely to end up in prison for any form of openly displaying an unwillingness to follow Islamic rules. If you should find yourself in Iran, my best advice is to leave at the earliest opportunity. The problem
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by DominikR 11y ago
Example (sorry, it's in German): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung The second item of StGb 130 (updated in 2015) is interesting here: die Menschenwürde anderer dadurch angreift, dass er eine vorbezeich
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by DominikR 11y ago
Making a racist statement is something completely different than telling you to go out and torch someones home. The latter encourages you to actually commit a criminal act, while the first is just an opinion that you might dislike or not an
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by DominikR 11y ago
To support free speech is to support free speech precisely when you disagree with the opinion voiced. Either you support that people may say whatever the hell they like to say or you are definitely NOT in support of free speech.
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by DominikR 11y ago
They are now introducing "hate-crimes" here in the EU. This punishes there mere act of publicly saying or writing a hateful comment. (non threatening, non endorsing or inciting criminal acts) If people take offence, you will be pe
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by DominikR 11y ago
I agree that if the allegations are true, Martin Shkreli is an immoral person to say the least, but I wonder about one thing: The whole conduct of the prosecutors doesn't look impartial to me. It seems as if someone was vilified by the
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by DominikR 11y ago
Still you will have to codify in some way what the "common good" is, because some way or another humans must be able to judge if something is against the common good or not. I wonder how someone could possibly do that. The problem
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by DominikR 11y ago
I know that, but not all laws are unspecific like that one. In fact, most laws specify in which cases they apply. But with such a law it is impossible to specify anything. It just states that private property is to be used for the "com
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by DominikR 11y ago
Fully agree, if the state did not tax corporations they could work near maximum efficiency if correctly managed, while the state still could get his share whenever an owner extracts a part of the profits for private use.
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by DominikR 11y ago
How on earth can this be a law? This is such a broad and general statement that it could be used for whatever reasons to confiscate private property.
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by DominikR 11y ago
No I don't, Google and Apple do. They are distributing the app and are responsible that the content is compliant with all the countries where they sell apps in. Aside from that I don't understand what point you are trying to make
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by DominikR 11y ago
I'm not an outlaw because I am ignorant of the laws and regulations of every single state on this planet. I put an app into the store that mainly follows Google/Apple policies/guidelines and does not break any laws in my coun
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by DominikR 11y ago
One suggestion: Start thinking about details like foreign laws once you actually start to generate significant profit. Before that no one on earth will even care about your product enough to sue you. On top of that it's quite expensive

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