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by arrrg 12y ago
Eh … German labor law, for example, while quite strict when it comes to firing long-term employees, has several mechanisms in place that would make this easily possible with new hires. Lawmakers of course have long recognized that to spur c
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by arrrg 12y ago
No issues, no scratches on the lens. If anything less of the lens has a chance to contact the surface (since it’s on an angle). I never use cases. I also never drop my phones (and have AppleCare+ just in case), but I did accidentally drop m
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by arrrg 12y ago
She lost her job and faced the usual (sadly) torrent of internet abuse. I really dare you to be cool then … I mean, the gall of some people. That’s so fucking weird. In my view no one should have been fired here and that’s that. We are faci
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by arrrg 12y ago
I really don’t think it’s that simple. Plenty of anarchic places are also aggressively homogenous in the views expressed there and their overall culture (e.g. 4chan and sites like that). I think in those places aggression simply serves to p
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by arrrg 12y ago
The big problem here are the horrific amounts of harassment and abuse on Twitter, not a couple of false positives. Why do people in these parts always zero in on that right away? So what, some people can’t use Twitter anymore even though th
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by arrrg 12y ago
Hm, I think you might be completely right. I mean, it seems like there are more than enough people who want this and that you can turn this into a decent and very cool business. They don’t have to compete on the turf Apple is competing and
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by arrrg 12y ago
I think that's a totally fair point. I mean, I was once obsessed with those Casio G-Shock watches (when I was a child until maybe a couple years into being a teenager), so I know people want watches like that. I'm mostly coming at
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by arrrg 12y ago
It's a bland gadget. I'm really not sure about that approach. It's so cheap and uninspired. Whatever you think about the overall shape of the Apple Watch, at least it's not a bland gadget. It seems to pay meticulous atte
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by arrrg 12y ago
Also, when I played with Lego (that was actually during the dark times, the late nineties and early 2000s) I actually loved special and weird pieces I would get in sets (excluding pieces with stickers)! If those pieces weren’t overly large
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by arrrg 12y ago
My first impression of this would be that it’s an alright joke, mostly because I think “treason” is a ridiculous and non-sensical concept in the first place and in general.
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by arrrg 12y ago
The net result is that employees are exploited to an absurd degree, without proper compensation. That's just how it is, it's a disgusting ideological tool for oppression.
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by arrrg 12y ago
Am I completely off base here or is this mumbling equals laziness thing something unique to the English language? I'm German and I really wasn't aware of this association at all. I associate mumbling with shyness … and that's
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by arrrg 12y ago
What's liking Apple got to do with that? Even if you despise Apple you cannot just ignore its relevance and the role it plays. Do you really think it's wasted effort to write a couple thousand words about a designer as influential
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by arrrg 12y ago
Well, in my country people do have the right to sleep unimpeded (between 10pm and 6am). One that is regularly enforced, actually, so it’s not just on the books. Is that such an outlandish concept?
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by arrrg 12y ago
That’s non-sensical. The central problem with backups is that no one makes them but everyone should, without a question. That’s an attempt to solve that problem, even going so far as to purposefully annoy people! (Remember, everything is a
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by arrrg 12y ago
“Embellish” is used here because this happened a long time ago and it’s just completely, utterly irrelevant to anything at all … People around here seem so, so convinced that everyone here loves Apple and anything to do with it, all the whi
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by arrrg 12y ago
I really don’t understand this obsession with consequences. KRZ is extremely effective in letting you make very meaningful choice without those choices affecting anything at all, really. That’s possible, you know. There don’t have to be (bi
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by arrrg 12y ago
It is possible to put that all underground, that's just extremely expensive. (That's currently a hotly debated topic in my region, since the new north-south connection in Germany is very controversial and underground transmission
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by arrrg 12y ago
It seems to me that in the end it all comes down to your actual hypothesis whether and what is actually interesting …
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by arrrg 12y ago
Glasses are right in the middle of your face! That’s prime real estate. Obviously they are all about fashion (if you can afford it). Like, isn’t that the first thing everyone cares about when buying glasses? Not what lenses to get, but whic
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by arrrg 12y ago
Introducing a larger device was exactly the right move it seems … I wonder how that interacts with their iPad business (which isn’t even just stagnant, it’s shrinking). Maybe it’s one of the reasons why the iPad really didn’t do this well t
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by arrrg 12y ago
Look at podcasts. They are nearly all, in essence, using exactly Gruber’s model. It seems to me as though there is practically nothing else there … (I’m not sure exactly where this podcast model is coming from. I think I first heard it –
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by arrrg 12y ago
The only hard part about that is avoiding cars coming at high speeds from behind. (Though usually these people will be used to slowing down and they actually have to slow down if the car in front of them is legitimately overtaking another o
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by arrrg 12y ago
That’s all well and good for most of the stuff humans do in space (and it really, really helps to get a sort of general, very basic and intuitive understanding of orbital mechanics), but KSP does not do Lagrange points at all. You cannot us
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by arrrg 12y ago
The main focus of these kinds of toy boxes was always less on accuracy and more on making playing with the toys enjoyable. I really don’t see the contradiction in that and Sim City being an simulation. It’s practically always only accurate
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by arrrg 12y ago
Beagle 2 hitched a ride on Mars Express which was and still is a very successful low cost mission. It’s still orbiting Mars and being used for scientific research more than a decade into its mission. The total cost including that decade of
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by arrrg 12y ago
That wasn’t true for me personally. I personally lost weight almost with mechanical precision. About a 7500 calorie deficit resulted indeed in 1 lost kg. That’s with about half the deficit coming from exercise and the other half coming from
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by arrrg 12y ago
Congratulations to you, too! But, to be honest, I feel like I can only start to be really happy about this when I manage to keep it steady for a couple years (though currently that is going quite well and I feel that my previous tendency to
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by arrrg 12y ago
A BMI of 18 is not reasonably slim, it’s extremely slim, right (potentially unhealthy, depending on the individual)? Is that irony?

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