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by allendoerfer 4y ago
Can we flag/correct/remove the article? I am reading this as someone a little too young and too European to yet know much about Nixon, but would prefer if HN could avoid potentially making an idiot out of myself, when talking abou
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
That's a dangerous way of thinking. Just because you have a common enemey (AfD hating all things Europe and therefor hating this stupid law), does not make you a friend or even a good ally. Also whataboutism of the highest order! Of co
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
The questions are indeed gold: > 4. Does the COM share the view that recital 26 indicating that the use of end-to-end-encryption technology is an important tool to guarantee the security and confidentiality of the communications of users
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
I want to develop Python at 80 characters per line, inside vim. I enjoy the elegance and simplicity and frankly the whole culture around it. Libraries, ecosystems and actual business reasons that matter aside, if I cannot have that, I would
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
Humanity is a "can we" approach.
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
Maybe you are already playing it. Or am I?
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> Where does it say in Christianity or Islam that this world is an illusion, Christianity is very obviously all about eternal live in heaven with god. That's the main selling point: Your suffering on earth is not actually the real t
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
I am not naming people I know personally, especially not in this context. There is no irony, I am telling you, that there is a Taiwanese source behind my statement. I would have been happy with the same statement from OP.
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
> To many Taiwanese, support for "Taiwan independence" would be tantamount to denying their history and self-experienced identity. A very real sort of oppression. Source? I have Taiwanese sources stating the exact opposite. The
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California and Germany are both rich and relatively successful. The reasons for it have nothing to do with their respective stance on nudity. It makes no sense to compare metrics here, they are useless, because there is no causation. You ju
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
While we are comparing irrelevant metrics to the discussed topic: Germany beats California at World Cups but loses out to it at World Wars. Turns out a country can be superior at one thing without being superior at all the things.
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> I feel that the battle is lost at this point, kind of like the battle for the meaning of "hacker." I know you are referring to something else, but it actually means that the battle is won.
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
I am not talking about the German Empire turning into the Federal Republic, I am talking about the Federal Republic absorbing Eastern Germany (with state-owned property and very little income per person).
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
Historically you just do debt reliefs every few hundred years and start fresh. Worked out pretty well so far (I would rather live now than any time before).
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> Germany is by far the biggest success It helps if you compare against a point in time, where you have just absorbed an impoverished communist economy that has to start from 0.
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
You have just discovered collectivism. Individualism sounds worse, but to my understanding is ultimately just an excess of enlightment, which is the better philosophy ™.
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
Many other fields do not have to edit turing complete results. Also you don’t need WYSIWYG but WYSIWTG, since you want to see what THEY will be getting, they being endless combinations of systems. I was there, too. Dreamweaver was not good
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
So people with the worst vision have the biggest say in what is the best color.
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I found the thought of adding a "yellowlist" funny, as some people are starting to find the use of "whitelist" and "blacklist" racist.
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Nothing is 10/10 really. Some parts come close: - I enjoy using ctrlp.vim (and similiar). Fuzzy search in general is just faster to use. - git add -p is gives you a great feeling of control - the combination of tmux, ssh, grep and so o
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
Can anyone defend product management to me? Shouldn't this basically be UX/UI designers working together with developers based on user input acquired in some scientific way (either quantitative or qualitative)? How do product mana
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
Depends on whether your goal is to have fun/be a human being or to work towards our future as immortal explorers of the universe.
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
You are on Hacker News. Wikipedia says: A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who uses their technical knowledge to achieve a goal or overcome an obstacle, within a computerized system by non-standard means.
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
I will play devil's advocate and defend some parts of the German system. Although my actual personal opinion of some of those institutions may vary, I will try very hard to keep this simple and just take the opposing side. - IHK: Not b
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Or we could continue to expect big tech monopolies, which are extracting the most value out of Open Source, to also fund it.
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by allendoerfer 4y ago
Every enterprise uses Java and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Enterprises pay higher wages than smaller shops.
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This is the single biggest problem with Gimp. As long as it is missing, you have to duplicate layers and do some mental version control, which becomes really memory intensive after you have descended the tree a few steps. That's why yo
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But your blood is created by cells dividing and they cannot do so unlimited. Your DNA shortens and you run out of room for mistakes proteins make while translating it.
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I have faith in your ability to understand that I have not decided that your job interest is per se stupid, but that choosing to build weapons, because of a short-lived frontend landscape sounds exceptionally stupid.
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> Edit: it’s also 100x more interesting than making a website or an app and arguing about which fotm framework to use. I am not a pacifist. There are some people doing bad things, that need to be stopped. But there being many npm packa

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