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by Flip-per 8y ago
That's interesting. In the list of intentional homicides Sri Lanka indeed ranks higher than I expected, rank 132 of 230: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention... About being calm: I agree ab
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by Flip-per 8y ago
I've been to Sri Lanka recently where 70 % of the people are Buddhists. It's a beautiful island, the people are very calm and nice to each other and to Tourists, it was a pleasure to travel around. It's a very safe place, cri
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by Flip-per 8y ago
Fairy tales in central Europe are equally violent. My mom refused to read or tell me those fairy tales because of that.
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by Flip-per 8y ago
Pretty much zero. Except if they want to shut down github and need a bandwagon full of bad press and furious developers.
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by Flip-per 8y ago
Stretching went from dynamic stretching (bouncing) to static, and then back to dynamic - with phases of not stretching at all. There were even books about how stretching was considered dangerous or harmful.
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by Flip-per 8y ago
I agree that the sports industry is trying to sell tons of unnecessary stuff. But only because there is not (yet) any scientific evidence doesn't mean that something doesn't work. Sports academia has a long history of false findin
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by Flip-per 8y ago
Most of the plastic gets into the oceans from a couple of rivers in Asia. I wonder whether it'd be possible to build such cleanup facilities close to those river mouths (still in the rivers, not in the ocean). It'd be easier to ma
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by Flip-per 8y ago
TLDR: Misleading title, waste of time. "Finland is analyzing the results to see what lessons can be learned." - that's all the substance there is. It's just a video of two randomly picked persons of this experiment, whic
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by Flip-per 8y ago
Absolutely. My more than 7 year old X220 now has 12GB RAM and would support up to 16GB afaik. Moreover it has a non-glossy screen, and a replaceable battery.
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by Flip-per 8y ago
I don't think that you just have to be passionate and the money will follow. Making money depends on many other personality characteristics than just passion.
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by Flip-per 8y ago
> You can't eat food grown in huge areas of Europe. Do you mean Tschernobyl? It depends how you define 'huge areas in Europe', there is a good overview on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chern
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by Flip-per 8y ago
Why is this so important to you? I, living in Europe and not owning a car, would be happy about higher gas prices (they are way higher in Europe than in the US already). Because I hope this would help to reduce CO2 emissions.
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by Flip-per 8y ago
I'm contributing to a >20k LOC open-source python/django project (counting .py files only). It's quite clean with an architecture that makes sense, and thus way easier to understand and refactor than an actually smaller Ja
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by Flip-per 9y ago
Both links work for me; They go to debian wiki pages (which could be confusing), is that what you mean?
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by Flip-per 9y ago
Big waves travel over long distances in the open sea. But it's not the big waves that would disturb when you are floating around, they would just make you float up and down a bit. More disturbing are the small waves that are caused by
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by Flip-per 9y ago
Also living in Austria (Vienna), I do not experience the situation being as bad as you do. There are cafés where you can talk for hours (also in the evening), there are pubs (some of them do play loud music tough), and plenty other bars whe
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by Flip-per 9y ago
Could you please look up and post the name of these?
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by Flip-per 10y ago
> I definitely feel like a slave. In no other area it's that easy to break free. You on your own or with a couple of friends/colleagues. As a side-project if you have that much energy, or full-time if you saved some money. Don&
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by Flip-per 10y ago
How else would you introduce backwards incompatible changes? Especially with the LTS upgrade path that alasdairnicol mentioned I wonder what there is still to improve.
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by Flip-per 10y ago
Copyright could be used as litmus test to see who actually makes decisions / writes laws in a country.
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by Flip-per 10y ago
So if Allo, Whatsapp and Signal itself use the protocol and implementation of Signal, wouldn't it be possible to freely choose one of these clients which then can communicate with all other clients?
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by Flip-per 11y ago
I do not like this approach, and I think it is not the right way for medium to large software projects. Maintaining lots of interacting 'just-good-enough' code is a nightmare - and it can easily cost you way more than you saved wr
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by Flip-per 11y ago
I spent a whole afternoon+evening reading before recommending my brother a laptop that is a) available where he happened to be and b) would probably just work fine with Linux. The article discusses several points that would substantially im
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by Flip-per 11y ago
So far there's a couple of prototypes and no boxes were sold. A small initial batch (100 boxes) is planned for 2016.
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by Flip-per 11y ago
The FreedomBox Foundation is led by Eben Moglen, founder of the Software Freedom Law Center ( http://softwarefreedom.org/ ), which takes care of the human and law layer.
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by Flip-per 11y ago
These are the initial goals, but you can think of anything that decentralizes the web and advocates privacy. Here are the packages that are currently included: https://github.com/freedombox/Plinth/tree/master&
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FreedomBox 0.7 released(freedomboxfoundation.org)
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by Flip-per 11y ago
Mono-cultural areas are areas where nobody wants to move to. These are almost exclusively third-world countries. The borders of nations are a bad separation or aggregation for cultures, we'd have to look at cultures by themselves and c
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by Flip-per 11y ago
In the UK you lose your unemployment insurance benefits and thus the health insurance after ~30 weeks (source: http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=10852&langId=en ) Average for EU countries is ~50 weeks. Th
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by Flip-per 11y ago
Switching is no problem usually, but if you are able to work but not 'willing' you'll lose your health insurance pretty soon.

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