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by chokma 15y ago
If you want to upgrade to 11.04 with a PAE kernel and proprietary Nvidia drivers, be careful: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-common/+bug...
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by chokma 16y ago
There is still hope - the government is about to abolish the state-guaranteed monopoly. http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article12492654/Bahn-verliert-... [German] Of course, public transport is a complex issue - the government as the curren
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by chokma 16y ago
I also do not understand the usefulness of "secret" questions ... mostly the correct answer would be far too easy, so every one with access to my website, Twitter or Facebook pages would be able to answer it (or trick it out of me or someon
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by chokma 16y ago
> And for years strawberries, mushrooms and deer were off limits on the food table. There are still areas in Germany were wild pigs have to be tested for radioactivity, as some of them are too fond of radioactive mushrooms. (lang=de: h
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by chokma 16y ago
> This is an incredible power. The power to effectively drain the bank account of every customer who has ever done business with you. And in the case of EA/Mythic Entertainment / Warhammer Online, this has happened last year http://ire
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by chokma 16y ago
After university, I was unemployed for a time and two things helped me to find new jobs and dramatically improve my income level: a) learning Perl on my own during the unemployment period* and writing two open source programs, thus demonstr
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by chokma 16y ago
The cost to turn unemployed clerks into construction workers is not close to zero. They would need training, equipment, supervision, health benefits etc. For this reason, when here in Germany someone suggested to get all those unemployed to
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by chokma 16y ago
I will donate for a plugin or extension that I want to install on every system the browser runs on. Like NoScript. (Well, as a Firefox user, I would not spend money on Chrome extensions...) Hm, looking back on my install base, it looks like
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by chokma 16y ago
But you do not need to take off Saturdays, which counts as part of the weekend for most (this depends on your employer). If I want to have a week long holiday, it's five days. Generally, if you live in the southern part of Germany, you also
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by chokma 16y ago
According to studies cited by Sonjy Lyubomirsky ( http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~sonja/ ) in her Book "The how of happiness" (a happiness book from a scientific view), the genetic predisposition is about 50%. 10% is your environment, and the
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by chokma 16y ago
>"The problem is that doing this while working full time is freaking hard. Doing an entire year of development after hours is just brutal. The longer the time to launch the more likely you are to not see it through to the end." I agree.
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by chokma 16y ago
The goal of getting 9000 readers to sign up for a newsletter which costs $2 a month is certainly ambitious. The concept reminds me of http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fan... where it's postulated that to survive as
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by chokma 16y ago
I think it is great that one can take an off-the-shelf video camera and make a movie. And this sparks a whole world of creativity. Each day a 100 years of video are uploaded to Youtube. What we need is a way to compensate professional artis
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by chokma 16y ago
And it's a sad thing when someone's identity hinges upon his being part of the elite, his sports team winning or making lots of money. Those are things to enjoy, surely - but if they get to be cornerstones of your personality, it's time for
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by chokma 16y ago
The novel about this is Neal Stephenson's Anathem... where people strive to keep just the necessary information alive (like, "Where did we store the atomic waste a couple of 1000 years ago?"). No matter how your data is going to be stored,
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by chokma 16y ago
"If you disagree, then apparently, "clean" just means "looks like what I saw yesterday and the day before"." Well , sometimes the way it was done yesterday simply _is_ the right way to do it . Of course , one can occasionally try
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by chokma 16y ago
Nomic is a fascinating game. For those about to try it in school: You should probably add a fixed rule about not ending class prematurely and going outside to play (my students needed a rather long time to come up with this loop hole). But
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by chokma 17y ago
> As I find it significantly easier to develop social relationships in English, I often wonder whether this lack of formal 'you' contributes to the economical prosperity of the English-speaking countries But then, the formal 'you' contr
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by chokma 17y ago
It's not working. (Ubuntu 9.10 64 Bit / Firefox 3.5.6) - the learning screen does not show any words.