Xylakant

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by Xylakant 4y ago
Back in the days when I first moved to Berlin, my landlord commented on a motorbike dealer with the words “we didn’t buy there, they were too friendly.” That’s Berlin.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
The problem with buying in bulk is that it requires the money up-front and that works only if you can save enough money at least once. Poor people can be permanently cash-strapped, so they never manage to get to the point for that upfront i
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by Xylakant 4y ago
I’ll even subscribe. You can see how long I haven’t been on Twitter, I missed the move I subscription on tweetbot ;)
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by Xylakant 4y ago
On the other hand, I left twitter quite a while ago and I was a tweetbot user. I’ll be purchasing Ivory the day it’s available since I’m really waiting for a mastodon client that offers the tweetbot experience.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
> Fuck that and the horse it rode in on. Targeted advertising is a blight on society. I agree. But I doubt they care.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
It’s not a problem for email since they never intend to send an email to the normalized address. All they want to use it for is to connect two separate identities. The worst case from their perspective is that two actually unrelated people
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by Xylakant 4y ago
DF has a summary https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/01/14/information-twi...
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by Xylakant 4y ago
As mentioned here [1], the tweets received via the API do not contain the ads, so third-party clients usually don’t display them. Twitter never tried - so a better and probably more effective change would have been to include the sponsored
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by Xylakant 4y ago
I’m fairly confident that in the same breach scenario (laptop with admin permissions taken over), most small orgs would fare worse. The CI system would likely be behind a VPN, but the laptop would likely have those credentials, so it would
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by Xylakant 4y ago
I live in the city, my parents live in a suburb/village. But the village is all mowed lawn, it’s surrounded by intense farming. I see more wild animals than they do. There’s a breeding pair of some bird of prey in the park next door,
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by Xylakant 4y ago
No home schooling exists in germany - all children must go to a state-approved school and that school must follow the standard curriculum. There are a handful of possible exceptions - serious illness for example - but in the general case it
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by Xylakant 4y ago
But the question is whether parents should be the ultimate authority on the child, and the law in many countries does not support that. The lines get drawn at different points in different countries, but many have laws against child endange
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Our pediatrician (not in the US) has the same policy. She mentioned that the people that reject recommended vaccinations are often the same that show up with a highly contagious child at the front desk, asking for immediate treatment instea
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by Xylakant 4y ago
For many drugs, the worst negative effects are caused directly or indirectly by the drug being illegal. Opiates in general have very limited negative effects on your body - constipation is a common complication. People can be highly functio
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by Xylakant 4y ago
No, at around 1% fixed for 10 years. You can get up to 2% on very short term investments in Germany right now with interests rising.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Obviously it’s great of you can save huge chunks of you income for multiple years, but even then it may be the financially better decision to buy at a good time and mortgage rather than buying when you have the money. For example, my remain
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by Xylakant 4y ago
That’s going to be hard to buy a flat/house then, or at least inefficient. The mortgage I paid on my flat was initially higher than the rent for a comparable flat. Within a few years, it evened out, and now it’s less. Financially, this
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by Xylakant 4y ago
At the moment, there are checks in quite a few places, we crossed over from Riga to Poland by bus a few days ago and they’ve checked the bus. But they were mostly interested in Russian passports and Visa. Similar from Germany to Denmark and
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Why do you expect that to happen? Finnland uses the Euro and has different prices from Germany, so does Latvia, Spain, Italy, France,… if the prices for goods depended on the currency alone, we’d all have the same prices. But we don’t. And
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Germany has a substantial labor shortage in practically all departments except low/unskilled labor. Unemployment hovers around 5% and falling. There are regional differences, but all in all, the threat of “I’ll replace you with a cheap
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Groceries is a high capital very low margin business because you need to have all of the things in store before you can sell them, some of them for extended periods. Essentially this reduces the amount of capital you need to upfront and sho
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by Xylakant 4y ago
He selectively cited Roth’s academic work to make it appear as if Roth was supporting grooming and sexualization of children, despite the work doing none of that. Roth had to flee their home due to threats to their safety. Has Musk apologiz
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by Xylakant 4y ago
The guy as an expert in his domain publicly called musks idea out as unworkable. Is that any kind of reason to call him a pedophile? Is that the standard that we should hold one of the most powerful men in the world to? That’s behavior I’d
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Remember the episode with the cavediver rescuing children from a flooded cave that musk called a pedophile and then refused to back down? That one for example.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
It’s also strictly superior, because it doesn’t contain cookies or JavaScript and loads quickly even on slower connections.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
It’s not even the prescription opioids alone - germany has a similar prescription rate for opioids as the US (or at least had for a very long time), and we still don’t see the same effect. The way these treatments are administered and check
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It’s not like there isn’t some kind of middle ground - germany has about 1000 drug overdoses per year and we managed to get there without hanging people. Portugal, a country that has decriminalized drug consumption in 2001 has even better n
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by Xylakant 4y ago
I just visited Helsinki, and if you’re ever around there, go see oodi. It’s an amazing space. They even have a small makerspace in there with 3D printers, lasercutters,…
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It‘s a bit of a question whether this would be fully covered by EU 261 (including compensation etc.), as it contains exemption clauses for events that are outside the airlines control. So you‘d need to argue here that the failure was not du
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by Xylakant 4y ago
It’s certainly an issue, but in a complex system, you’ll never be able to pinpoint a single cause with a full evidence chain. It will never be possible to link a specific weather incident to climate change, like you could never directly lin

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