ahakki

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by ahakki 8y ago
Wait, how do five years of University at a price of $80 - $10000 a year add up to 750'000. Because that is a huge number.
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by ahakki 8y ago
China has UnionPay, it's accepted at quite a few places in Zurich, so it has some international adoption. No way for Swiss People to get a UnionPay card themselves though.
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by ahakki 8y ago
They are kicked out. The doors are locked.
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General Advocate of the European Court: Limit Right to Be Forgotten to EU [pdf](curia.europa.eu)
1 points by ahakki 8y ago|0 comments
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by ahakki 8y ago
Just be happy you’re not coding is Haskell. That thing has like 20 string types.
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by ahakki 8y ago
I love 3D Touch. It’s exclusion from the reasonably priced Xr made me keep my 7.
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by ahakki 8y ago
Rega is not a traveling agency. It’s an air ambulance company.
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by ahakki 8y ago
Rega offers the service for 25.- a year iirc https://www.rega.ch/en/about-us/faq.aspx?kid=56&gid=250#Frag...
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by ahakki 8y ago
It is based on a mixture of tenure and equity. I’ve seen reports of new hires apparently getting between 300K-500K.
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E-Cigarette Maker Juul Just Gave Its Employees an Average 1.3M Bonus(inc.com)
91 points by ahakki 8y ago|143 comments
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by ahakki 8y ago
> Johnson admitted to taking bait package, claiming he did it because Amazon has an incentive program that pays drivers $5 for each undelivered package they return. Like paying for rat tails.
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by ahakki 8y ago
Flash light has very high uv content which can fade the pigments. The effect is similar to a picture that fades because it’s been exposed to sunlight. I doubt that a day of journalists making pics would have any measurable effect. It’s more
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FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than was thought(gizmodo.com)
333 points by ahakki 8y ago|116 comments
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by ahakki 8y ago
Well I don’t know about tech, but multiple swiss banks have had internal advisories against visit to the US, as some of their employees have been arrested.
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by ahakki 8y ago
Well they're french, so M stands for Mille (one thousand). MM is just a thousand squared, and MMM is a thousand qubed. Once you understand this system you might also understand why the long system makes more sense. 1000
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by ahakki 8y ago
>what do you mean, no one will do anything? >>Every time I hear politicians say how they know what needs to be done, but they will get voted out if they try. I don't believe this is true. I meant we all know that no one will d
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by ahakki 8y ago
No, I didn't miss it. The problem is that no one actually seems to accept any reduction in quality of life for the commons. Saying that someone else should bear the load is just deflecting responsibility (and incidently what everyone d
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by ahakki 8y ago
> Every time I hear politicians say how they know what needs to be done, but they will get voted out if they try. I don't believe this is true. Imagine people rioting in the streets because you put a carbon tax on gas.
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by ahakki 8y ago
That’s what we had Gawker for.
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by ahakki 8y ago
Have you seen all the kids around? Let’s just say there has always been a lot of sex. What changes is the discussion around it.
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by ahakki 8y ago
Tumblr being just for porn is mostly a meme. I have used Tumblr for many years, not for porn, but for art and lifestyle content, and memes. It actually took me a few years to find out that Tumbler had tons of extremly high quality free porn
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by ahakki 8y ago
I’m pretty sure Uber has terrible margins :)
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by ahakki 8y ago
sell it short now, cover with the vested shares :)
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by ahakki 8y ago
So for 859 I can buy an XR that doesn’t even include 3D-Touch (A feature standard since the 6S). For 450 I can buy an iPhone 7 with 3D-touch. Doesn’t rly impress me.
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by ahakki 8y ago
Damn bro I‘m rly sorry. I thought Bitcoin was a decentralized system free of government influence. That was the USP, right?
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by ahakki 8y ago
> Uber's new "cheap" pool option forces you to walk up to 5 blocks (!!) Uber is disrupting the bus service.
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by ahakki 8y ago
Initially IIRC it was a 99 Cent App on the App Store without an annual fee, as there were no in-app purchases on iOS yet
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by ahakki 8y ago
Pretty sure that 4bn gap is more than compensated by the fact that smokers die earlier.
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by ahakki 8y ago
Oil is brought in via the Rhine river and processed at the refinery in Cressier. It would of course be possible to ship seawater instead and desalinate it. I doubt it’s an economical enterprise.
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by ahakki 8y ago
There is very little saltwater supply in Switzerland.

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