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by DominikR 11y ago
> this makes me question Wikileaks as a trusted medium. Aren't you overreacting? There are many possibilities why Wikileaks needs the money. For one it might be that they had to pay the informant to get the information. Also they pr
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by DominikR 11y ago
I'm sure the US government is already working hard on organising an incident.
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by DominikR 11y ago
The problem is that most terror organisations have been sponsored or are still secretly supported by the US government or its allies with approval from the US.
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by DominikR 11y ago
Yeah, that's also what Napoleon, Hitler and every other major power that tried to invade Russia in the last 500 years also said.
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by DominikR 11y ago
The one thing I hate most is setting up my Google or Apple account on a new iOS/Android device. I use a very long generated password with all kinds of special characters so what does Google do after you successfully entered the usernam
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by DominikR 11y ago
My personal experience with a Lenovo W520 having the battery needlessly inserted for two years (40 hours per week) while connected to the charger: The battery lost 50% of its capacity. The laptop was almost exclusively used while connected
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by DominikR 11y ago
Thanks for this insight, I absolutely agree that diluting the value of stock was a bad move by her. Regarding the first point you made I'm somehow split. The mere act of laying off employees to hire more cheap labor in other countries
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by DominikR 11y ago
Indisputably Lybia. One might also consider several regime changes and interventions in the Middle East and Europe (Ukraine) as acts of war.
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by DominikR 11y ago
It is probably the unpopular position but I'd like to point out that it is sometimes needed to lay off employees because otherwise a company wont survive. Sometimes this must be done rather quick. I don't know the exact reasons wh
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by DominikR 11y ago
Beauty is obviously subjective but quite often it is not only about physical attributes but also about social status, power and money. I think that most people here will agree that white people are on average better off from a financial per
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by DominikR 11y ago
At some point in the future: Yes. But there's no way that this will start without at least human backup pilots on board. And then there's the testing phase where many pilots will be needed to validate the safety of such flights. E
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by DominikR 11y ago
That's maybe because he's the only US President in the last 110 years that didn't start a war. It's sad that he is frequently criticised as being weak. (most likely because of that)
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by DominikR 11y ago
Once travel into space is viable for average tourists (not only tourists willing to pay 100 million dollars) it'll probably also require more pilots than today, so I'll say that he still has a better chance being there before you.
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by DominikR 11y ago
"That a small group of people had to sacrifice their lives for political gain" They didn't "sacrifice" their lives, they were drug dealers and found guilty by the courts in Indonesia. There's nothing heroic abo
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by DominikR 12y ago
A human pilot can't be simply disconnected of reprogrammed to turn around and bomb Washington. I think that's a major consideration. Yes, there are drones that work quite well against countries like Afghanistan but good luck using
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by DominikR 12y ago
I don't tip a doctor with money (because it is strictly forbidden in Austria), but it's not unusual to give him a small gift (fine chocolate and similar things) and I would definitely do that after an operation if I had one.
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by DominikR 12y ago
In Austria (Europe) this is common too.
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by DominikR 12y ago
> "First of all, tipping someone implicitly puts them in a servile position and says you're off better than them. Secondly, and this is probably the killer, it says that you don't think they would manage without your help.
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by DominikR 12y ago
While I agree that maternity leave laws are quite problematic for many women in the US it should also be mentioned that not every mother is able to breast feed their child. It's actually not that uncommon and in most cases these women
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by DominikR 12y ago
Hitler was a US backed dictator in the same way that Saddam was for decades. Eventually it got out of hand and the USA had to declare war on Nazi Germany, but Hitler still managed to do what the US wanted him to do: Inflict maximum damage o
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by DominikR 12y ago
I'd like to see the sysadmin or programmer that is willing to take the loss if someone hacks the network (or an app) of his employer and steals a few hundred million dollars.
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by DominikR 12y ago
If I understand this correctly (please correct me if I'm wrong) it would imply that one could encode an arbitrary number of bits by flipping only one bit on such a board with a random state, as long as the board is sufficiently large.
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by DominikR 12y ago
I can't imagine that they just failed to observer the demand for smaller form factors. For one they surely have pretty accurate data on what most customers really want and they are still selling the 5S. If they see that demand for the
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by DominikR 12y ago
I for one have switched from Android (I mainly develop for Android) the first time to an iPhone (6 Plus) because Apple finally provides a "phablet" and I'd definitely switch back to Android if they should stop selling this fo
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Journalist Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months in prison(theverge.com)
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by DominikR 12y ago
> The US of 1945 is not the US of today. Our ethics and standards have risen significantly in the past 65 years. This is true, but what is also true is that most of the world outside the US and EU views the West (which is something like
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by DominikR 12y ago
Interesting concept. However, is it really a proof? If I removed piece #7 I'd have 24 boxes (12 white, 12 black) with which I could theoretically build a 6x4 rectangle, but I don't see how this would be actually possible with thos
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by DominikR 12y ago
One possible explanation would be that China has such a gigantic population. Basically everything that is a niche there is a big community by our standards.
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by DominikR 12y ago
Why shouldn't the Indians have their own nationalism? Last time I checked India was a sovereign nation.
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by DominikR 12y ago
According to Amazons top 20 best selling laptops, Chromebooks do quite well. A Chromebook is in the second position and Chromebooks take up 6 spots in this list. http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-Laptop-Comput..

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