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2551.
by distances 11y ago
I would expect Dropbox to be rather safe (please use two-factor auth), though I did migrate to self-hosted ownCloud myself. Anyway, this is not even a crucial part, since the password file is obviously encrypted with a strong password. The
2552.
by distances 11y ago
I've been using Dropbox/ownCloud + KeePassX/KeePassDroid for years now. Putting the password in is a manual step, but that also means I feel like being more in control. Very happy with the setup.
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by distances 11y ago
> In fact, the stream doesn’t neatly slice the town into two equal parts: it meanders through the city, giving a wide berth to the actual centre. As a result, Estonia got a significantly better deal [...] Kind of nice to hear that some c
2554.
by distances 11y ago
Indeed. My employer would perhaps not tolerate me having a second paid job since that could be seen as taking away from my limited concentration or rest time.
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by distances 11y ago
Surprisingly, not really even that. As pointed out in the Wired article The Deadly Global War for Sand [1]: "Desert sand generally doesn’t work for construction; shaped by wind rather than water, desert grains are too round to bind tog
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by distances 11y ago
"Property rights" aren't any natural rights. It's a societal agreement, and that agreement comes with strings attached. In your case you pay taxes, and your society holds everyone up to this bunch of collective agreement
2557.
by distances 11y ago
Is it? As far as I've understood, rent control is quite rare in Western Europe nowadays, and at least Finland doesn't have any.
2558.
by distances 11y ago
Did you read the article? She has been personally harassed due to her profession. That by definition makes her a victim of harassment.
2559.
by distances 11y ago
This is investigative journalism of a proven phenomenon (paid Russian troll factories), and claiming it to be part of "information war" frankly smacks of the very thing the journalist is investigating here.
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by distances 11y ago
Not being too familiar with US pension schemes, could you elaborate why you expect to end up paying for this personally? Aren't your private pension savings comparable to other private assets?
2561.
by distances 11y ago
At least in most of Europe that is not an option. There's no opt-out of national pension systems, except perhaps for entrepreneurs. On the plus side, your future pension is not dependent on the success of your employer, a much larger c
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by distances 11y ago
Most of my developer colleagues indeed are using OSX, and have for years already. Using Stetson-Harrison method, we have 80% OSX / 10% Linux / 10% Windows.
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by distances 11y ago
This is a bit offtopic, but Berlin is really beautifully mapped in OSM. In places the details are more than what I would have ever thought of, for example the individual pillars of the Holocaust Memorial: http://umap.openstreetma
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by distances 11y ago
There were no angry governments, that is just your sour grapes about the globalization. Finland lost production to Germany, Germany to Romania, and Romania to Asia, and blaming a single company is quite naive. Nokia's downfall was due
2565.
by distances 11y ago
Some of the very best workplaces are IT contractors. Generally there are limits to hourly invoicing, so the pay ranges are quite limited compared to product companies. Thus, in order to attract top talent the companies simply have to be nic
2566.
by distances 11y ago
I'm using RequestPolicy for this. If a site doesn't load completely, just enable a couple of required sources, and you're done. It's an extra step sure, but usually needs to be done just once per site.
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by distances 11y ago
And the alerts are naturally extra annoying if you don't actually use cookies, since the acceptance status isn't saved and you'll see the warning again and again.
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by distances 11y ago
Not really, the article quite clearly says "... and its freemium model doesn’t seem to be working great." At the end the article mentions the game wasn't designed with the current freemium model in mind (since the first itera
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by distances 11y ago
I'm using RequestPolicy [0] for selectively disabling JavaScript based on domains. It's usually a bit of clicking to allow crucial sources when I visit a new site, but I think it pays back with the reduction in distracting UI elem
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by distances 11y ago
Just start monthly investments into index funds / ETFs. Start with small sums if that makes it better, but do start with monthly (automated?) investments. I kind of hope someone would have pointed me to the right direction years earlie
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by distances 11y ago
Interestingly MUDs still have some niche to fill. Granted, a lot of them withered roughly a decade ago when MMORPGs became mainstream, but there are some that are fully alive and kicking. For example, Aardwolf MUD [1] seems to have about 30
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by distances 11y ago
I think you're in this discussion just trying to spread misery which I don't understand at all. KDE is definitely targeting all users, and their user experience philosophy is "Simple by Default, Powerful When Needed". Th
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by distances 11y ago
I have to agree. I think Plasma 5 delivers the best UI/UX available on Linux today, and in many ways exceeds what the Windows and OSX worlds have to offer. This was quite surprising since I wasn't a big fan of the KDE 4 user exper