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721.
by claudius 13y ago
He drove on the right on the way to the post office, but I thought of the UK, too, before I noticed that :)
722.
by claudius 13y ago
I can’t believe Foreign Policy didn’t black out Y . Apart from that, if these people are allowed to use Twitter to spread their messages, they shouldn’t be treated any different from any other account – so the question is whether to al
723.
by claudius 13y ago
> They cobbled it together using a Raspberry Pi, a portable hard drive, and the Camlistore software built by Fitzpatrick and Slatkin. Do tell, how could something be less black-boxy than that?
724.
by claudius 13y ago
I met a couple of postdocs and such who didn’t speak German (and, in some cases, their English wasn’t all that good either) during my undergrad in Berlin. I guess it’s possible in larger companies or universities and larger cities where p
725.
by claudius 13y ago
And the swimming pool.
726.
by claudius 13y ago
The literal translation of the Chinese name for Switzerland is “Swiss Scholar”? I smell recursion…
727.
by claudius 13y ago
Just in case someone is actually confused: I am sure you can buy McDonald's-equivalent burgers in Iceland or at least estimate the cost of a burger if it were to be sold there (in the appropriate quantity typical of such a country etc.
728.
by claudius 13y ago
TL;DR: "If it’s cold outside, chances are temperature sensors sometimes outside are colder than usual." By itself, I have to admit I don’t find this particularly surprising, especially since they both averaged over space (whole ci
729.
by claudius 13y ago
Quite everything does, and if you take the many ‘non-massive’ fatal accidents of modern roads together, you get one uber-massive fatal accident – so it might well be worth risking one ‘massive fatal accident’ if it avoids 500 smaller ones.
730.
by claudius 13y ago
That sounds about as simple as ‘Just write a kernel and a userland and then use some glue to hold it together’. The relevant point here is the ‘size’/length of the oxygen-transporting molecules.
731.
by claudius 13y ago
While this is certainly a fantastic feat, it’s not always practical to have a car ride in front of you – which is why I’m still thinking of getting one of those ‘Velomobiles’[0], apparently with regular cruising speeds of ~45 km/h[1].
732.
by claudius 13y ago
I am sure that there will be an outcry among teletext users how the devs dared to remove their favourite feature! Let’s see when/what Debian releases…
733.
by claudius 13y ago
And statically linked binaries, if necessary.
734.
by claudius 13y ago
Getting an appropriate screen was not an option, I assume?
735.
by claudius 13y ago
> Western countries at least might theoretically not spy on their own citizens but the exchange data with partners intelligence services. Hoping that this is true, moving to services from one’s home country would make some sense. Of cour
736.
by claudius 13y ago
Are you not allowed to charge back debit card transactions? Granted, it’s only 6 weeks for me, but not being able to do that at all rather surprises me.
737.
by claudius 13y ago
If you were a physicist, you’d likely also have to be a programmer – the inverse, unfortunately, does not hold.
738.
by claudius 13y ago
It’s about twice as high as in the rest of western Europe (that Americans spend more on healthcare than, say, Senegalese, is not really a surprise), which I, in my orders-of-magnitude mindset, would classify as ‘slightly’. Especially if you
739.
by claudius 13y ago
The UK and every other developed country also has to somehow finance their healthcare system. Regardless of whether people pay privately or via taxes (or insurance or…), the cost still has to be covered somehow – of course, these costs ca
740.
by claudius 13y ago
I would believe you can still lead the life of a farmer and hunter-gatherer if you absolutely insist on doing so. But be prepared for every other of your children dying before their fifth birthday, be prepared to bury your parents at the ag
741.
by claudius 13y ago
How many of said 100 hours do you spend in coal mines or heavy engineering factories?
742.
by claudius 13y ago
We are working less and, more importantly, we are working differently (at least in the industrialised/western world). I doubt that there are still many children around in Europe working 60+ a week in coal mines, nor are people who put
743.
by claudius 13y ago
There is no possibility to build this in a web app without the server having access to the key. The only way to get this is by some (currently) non-standard support in the browser, e.g. by an extension – given the auto-update functionalit
744.
by claudius 13y ago
Or you could just implement sensible taxes in the first place, e.g. by not exempting ‘services’ from a (then-renamed) ‘sales tax’. It is rather easy to have a loophole-free tax on sales and services, unless you have specific requirements no
745.
by claudius 13y ago
Could she use it if she spent an hour reading the manual? (Is there a manual?)
746.
by claudius 13y ago
I haven’t tried it, but there is generally no need for interfaces to be intuitive, as long as we use these interfaces in the long term. On the contrary, it is often preferable to have a less intuitive but more powerful interface which lets
747.
by claudius 13y ago
It’s not only about how long you work but also about how much work you get done in that time. Though I guess that this specifically is a case of not feeding trolls.
748.
by claudius 13y ago
Germany, too, as SMS flatrates got to the market rather late and there was some social networking confusion with the VZ group, slowing down the expansion/adoption of Facebook a bit.
749.
by claudius 13y ago
> Why is writing criticism and announcing it in social media (what the article seems to call “planned”) a bad thing? It might explain why this absolutely harmless banter between Greg and Linus was used to set off the whole discussion. Re
750.
by claudius 13y ago
Well, what exactly do you expect from people consorting with openly sexist organisations?

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