ashildr

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   by ashildr 8y ago

   It‘s relevant because you are using HN, though Usenet news could do easily what HN does. Or can it?
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   by ashildr 8y ago

   Half of US-Americans voted Trump and there’s a bigger than 0 probability that they will, again. Whatever the result will be, the leading role the US had for many countries is gone and will not be restored. All hope is lost for that country,
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   by ashildr 8y ago

   Tell me about that NNTP-Hackernews gateway you’re posting from...
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   by ashildr 8y ago

   And Apple can’t tell how Qaulcomm is wrong because Apple just buys the chips and does not manufacture them. Beautiful, isn’t it?
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   by ashildr 8y ago

   I’m sure that will change now. From small portion to none. And basically Australian software developers are unemployable now.
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   by ashildr 8y ago

   So australian software developers have become pretty much toxic now?
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   by ashildr 8y ago

   I’m sure your customers will believe you if you say that your government did not tell you to lie about backdoors and weaknesses in your products security.
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   by ashildr 8y ago

   Gels?
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   by ashildr 8y ago

   35 years is still very young in the sense that you can still begin a new career.
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    > the US healthcare system is broken. s/healthcare//
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    What makes you guess it wasn’t a drone?
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    Whether the patient will see a doctor in the early or late stages of Their Ebola infection will depend on whether they have health insurance. So here’s another reason for socialized healthcare.
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    AirPods have no latency issues since the latency is taken into account when playing back video. It seems the video is belt back by the expected latency of the Bluetooth connection.
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    Because DST is used as THE standard Anti-Brussels rhetorical Point it was all over the news for weeks in Germany.
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    Quadruple plot twist: Tesla buys VAG (Being German VAG not succeeding is quite a frightening perspective. But being human I appreciate Musk jumpstarting the EV business, whoever will be the big players in the end.)
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    I really like this idea. Actually, I have it in control center on my iDevices, but I’m not sure if I had to turn that on.
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    I lost count of the people who complained about their iDevices features not working properly because they intentionally (so they thought) turned them off. Having eg location services turned off by default and not ask about it will just lead
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    SBC with DisplayPort are hard to find, but some displays only provide DP for licensing reasons. So that would be a nice thing to add.
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    I don’t understand why this is only a problem in the US. Are people so sick over there, are they continuously poisoning or shooting each other? Heck, even their life expectancy is not top notch.
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    > Thousands of people can create this kind of paintings But you didn’t.
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    Land of the free. Christians.
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    So it’s somehow not your fault that you don’t know German law and so didn’t realize that the explicit speed limit ended with signage for „end of this city“? (And an most likely another speed limit begun depending on the number of lanes)
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    „I can't imagine there's the same desire for consensual validation, etc that drives so many normative relationships.“ So is the rational decision to be together with a S/O less worthy than being bound together by the subconsc
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    So even a person who only has very tuned down emotions, does not mirror other people’s emotions and mostly reacts very rational comes to prefer the same kind of relationships neurotypicals do. That’s interesting. I had a “commander Data” M
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    And if you’re into classical music you may enjoy the Makropoulos affair, an opera by Leoš Janáček based on a play of Karel Čapek about the inhuman inhuman concept of eternal life. Witty and beautiful. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    That’s how you sell newspapers and clicks. Im in Amsterdam quite often, it just a short drive from where I live in Germany, and it’s a safe and fun place to be, if you take into account that it’s very touristy. I’ve been watching the canal
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    While the title is disingenuous because it’s easy to misunderstand it’s actually very close to the truth. Xrays are just a very energetic form of light or electromagnetic radiation, above the spectrum of visible light. Until now we only mea
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    Students in Germany usually have free healthcare from their parents mandatory insurance, if they are older than 25 most have to pay about €70 and from 30 they usually have to pay about €115. These are the rates for the public insurances, p
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    We have universal healthcare in Germany. The longest time I had to wait was 17 days for a stationary colonoscopy because I wanted that exact hospital. And a MRI of the knee would have been 12 days of waiting until I called different radiolo
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    by ashildr 8y ago

    > What we need are privacy notices that describe in plain language how a company's policy deviates from some standard privacy policy that we do take the time to understand. And that’s exactly one point the GDPR asks for: (39) ... Th