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by carlob 7y ago
Which is one of many reasons to outsource, so you can't be held accountable...
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by carlob 7y ago
People wearing gym clothes in their normal lives in Europe? Really not as much as in the US.
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by carlob 7y ago
> The metro in Berlin was pretty decent though. Crazy expensive compared to the cost of living though. One subway ride costs almost as much as a cheap meal (döner for example) and often more than a pint of beer. Contrast that with Paris
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by carlob 7y ago
Among large (northern) European cities, Germany is usually pretty car-friendly given how much of their economy relies on on car production. Copenhagen and Amsterdam are much more impressive IMHO.
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by carlob 7y ago
Reminds me a lot of the concept of contrapasso [0] in Dante's Divine Comedy. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrapasso
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by carlob 7y ago
Came here to say this, but I'm just going to correct you: Arabic is the language, Arab the people. :)
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by carlob 7y ago
I don't think that's how these calculations should be done. Let's assume that all of their estimates are correct, in most European countries the difference between what you cost an employee and what you take home is often mor
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by carlob 7y ago
As far as I know duckduckgo used being for images and some other stuff, but not for the main text search.
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In 1870 It was annexed to the rest of Italy, the Pope lost his temporal power and it was made into the capital of the newly unified state. That meant moving all the administration and building a lot of new areas. That is on top of industria
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by carlob 7y ago
> Is this article arguing that poverty is never a result of bad personal decisions? No I think this article is arguing that ending bad personal decisions (if at all possible) will not significantly affect poverty, but a safety net will.
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by carlob 7y ago
The version of KaiOS that shipped with HMD new Nokia-branded phones was such a piece of garbage compared to s40/s60 I had to return mine. I hope this one is better.
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by carlob 7y ago
Probably parent was thinking of Dutch clogs :)
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If by "modern society" you mean colonizing the American South-West and California, you are probably right. Those places are deserts and semi-deserts and should have been left sparsely populated, but a combination of corruption, Am
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by carlob 7y ago
Also in Italy: my mom has several middle names and she has one set on her national ID, another on her driver's license and the codice fiscale was calculated with only the first given name. She's having so much trouble opening a ne
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Not to mention the font gore. I think the mac screenshots also look very weird, they seem to have implemented a lot of non-standard UI elements.
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by carlob 7y ago
I know about that, I was more interested in the political point of being beholden to a proprietary platform. I think that is especially important for one of the most widely installed open source apps (on non-geeks computers).
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by carlob 7y ago
Completely OT: does anyone else find this style of posting stuff on a very long twitter thread hard to read, and somewhat worrying in terms of dependency on a proprietary platform? Why can't this be upfront on the videolan.org homepage
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by carlob 7y ago
There are a lot of companies that require you to enable MDM before you can setup an email account, I've seen it on android back in the day when I had a smartphone. FWIW when that happened I just started using the cruddy web interface.
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I don't think you are correct: you can view the extra degrees of freedom as just a symmetry
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Gas prices in most countries in Europe have a higher fraction than this, same for cigarettes.
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by carlob 7y ago
No it doesn't: for example Easter was 5th of April in 2015 and it will be again in 2037, but 2009 has Easter on 12th of April (while having the same day of the week structure). If you take into account Orthodox Easter too it's eve
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by carlob 7y ago
I totally agree with you. And I'm very scared of the day a job, the school my kids go to or whatever important life activity will require me to have a facebook, whatsapp, linkedin, twitter or whatever account. We need something to repl
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by carlob 7y ago
The story about 8675309 is pretty interesting, but I prefer 6345789.
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Proud to see it was solved using Mathematica :)
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Not Scotland though :)
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Yeah, but calling something from 1910 Soviet would be definitely wrong (probably more so than in this example).
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Italy. We specifically use the English word mobbing but we have a translation for bullying (bullismo).
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I also thought about this when I saw it. It's incredible how ahead of the times DFW was!
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I also tend to associate the term bullying with kids, and use mobbing for workplace bullying. Apparently wikipedia uses the two terms almost interchangeably.
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At Rome's FCO airport there is a facial recognition passport control for flights outside of the EU. Last time I left the EU, my aging passport's chip refused to work and a person made me retry 5 times before letting me go to the h

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