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by aristidb 14y ago
There's a nice video series about why the primitive moral idea "stealing is wrong" wreaks havoc in the world of ideas: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/
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by aristidb 14y ago
A "fandroid" who uses a Nokia dumb phone. Yeah right.
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by aristidb 14y ago
I'm confused. How can it be that Apple supposedly infringes _none_ of Samsung's patents?
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by aristidb 14y ago
Gotta applaud this Chinese firm for using scientific experiments rather than gut feeling to decide on important policies. However, please don't take far-ranging conclusions from this experiment. Call-center work is a fairly specific type of
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by aristidb 14y ago
Except it still gives me mostly bad German results for technical queries if I don't completely remove German there.
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by aristidb 14y ago
Actually, this problem also exists for native speakers in their own countries. I'm a German in Germany, yet when I'm searching for technical terms, in the overwhelming majority I want English results because they are better. (The German res
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by aristidb 14y ago
At least for me, that does not work anymore. However, http://www.google.com/?hl=en works.
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by aristidb 14y ago
There's also @PLT_Borat ( https://twitter.com/plt_borat )
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by aristidb 14y ago
Why worry about y10k when y2k38 is so much more pressing?!
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by aristidb 14y ago
Wow, these boxes are tiny. A Packstation is about 3 to 6 times as big.
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by aristidb 14y ago
With worst date i mean 1999. Well I guess 2000 would have been worse. It's a question of luck which date is good. And no, picking the stocks with more dividend yield is NOT a strategy that is guaranteed to work, because these are usually lo
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by aristidb 14y ago
Then if you don't want interest rate risk go for short duration. It isn't like that isn't available. Don't expect high yields, of course.
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by aristidb 14y ago
What? Index funds don't steal the dividends from you, they contribute to the performance or are paid out. Generally look at the performance index to evaluate returns, NEVER NEVER the price index, please. The total return of the S&P 500
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by aristidb 14y ago
Why it's the best for most people? Because study after study shows that generating alpha (excess returns that are not attributable to buying stuff with debt, basically) is _hard_. And if the risk is too high, just buy more US treasuries and
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by aristidb 14y ago
For most people, investing in the whole market (a.k.a. index) is the right thing. Period. It's not exactly rocket science either: Just buy the broadest index you can cheaply get. The MSCI World is probably a good candidate for that. The who
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by aristidb 14y ago
For individuals, wires are free. Businesses pay a few cents per wire. However, wires need about 2 days to process. That's the rates _from_ Germany to any EU country. So I wouldn't pay for a wire to France, but I don't know what a French per
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by aristidb 14y ago
That's a bit bizarre, because one would expect a German clone to support the payment variants that are far more popular than credit cards in Germany. EDIT: The biggest payment variant I was thinking of is direct debit (German: Lastschrift),
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by aristidb 14y ago
Next pundits will say even MATLAB copied Xcode... No, I'm pretty sure Samsung did not explicitly copy Xcode there. Although it's a pretty stupid move to create their own IDE in my opinion. I think the standard these days is to build on top
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by aristidb 14y ago
I feared you might have removed Paypal, because Paypal allows using local payment methods (like direct debit). Fortunately it seems like both Stripe and Paypal are supported now. Phew!
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by aristidb 14y ago
He has a lot of visibility, and makes an argument that many people disagree with. Also, on the Internet there is no such thing as "obvious".
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by aristidb 14y ago
It was in fact already submitted by somebody but hasn't caught a lot of attention: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4367807
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by aristidb 14y ago
Somehow I don't like this statement: "We've implemented https so you don't have to." Just because authentication itself is secured over SSL doesn't make the whole site secure enough. For some things, it might suffice, but it's not something
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by aristidb 14y ago
Wikipedia also has an English article about Packstation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation (You might think it's only on the German wikipedia, that's why I think this is worthwhile to post.)
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by aristidb 14y ago
For example in Minecraft, Let's Plays can give you ideas for things to build, maybe even outright copy, in your own world. This works because it's a huge open-ended game with rich game mechanics. Maybe if your game is a linear pseudo-Movie
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by aristidb 14y ago
If by Swiss you mean Swiss-German, there is a wikipedia for that language group ( http://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houptsyte ), but I'm pretty sure most Swiss-German speakers use the German wikipedia instead. I don't know about the situation f
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by aristidb 14y ago
I don't think normal people would even notice this. Doesn't mean personalization isn't something that should be done, just thinking you might be overblowing the problem.
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by aristidb 14y ago
That's a big editable table, not a spreadsheet. But as an editable table, it's nice.
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by aristidb 14y ago
The result is off by 1. :) Not bad though!
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by aristidb 14y ago
If they can't do a crippling DRM properly, then maybe they have no business building one at all.
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by aristidb 14y ago
Link that works for people with non-English Google: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=calculator (The link is setting the language to English for just that search.)

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