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by dschuler 6y ago
Any option in Euros is about 30% more expensive than buying the same in the US or Hong Kong (which is pretty crummy, but possibly related to taxes and the cost of doing business in the EU). EDIT: I don't mean VAT/sales tax, I&#x27
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by dschuler 6y ago
Same! Mid-2012 rMBP. Turns out I could upgrade the AirPort card with a used one from ebay for $20, as well as the SSD (although that was maxed out at 1TB with mSATA). Eight years later, it's still a good computer.
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by dschuler 6y ago
Exactly, he couldn't avoid expatriation taxes on anything he currently owns. ( https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/expa... ).
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by dschuler 6y ago
Certainly, that’s true. There are many ways to hurt others with words, even avoiding definitions that would be against the law in Germany. This is a bit personal, but my brothers and I grew up in Germany with a father who was verbally and e
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by dschuler 6y ago
Good catch, I should clarify - one could rightfully argue that free speech is not available to all if the legal system is not affordable to everyone. It’s a serious shortcoming of the justice system.
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by dschuler 6y ago
Could you expand on what you mean by that? I assume you don't mean someone giving someone else the middle finger.
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by dschuler 6y ago
According to the one law in this link (German law §90 StGB), offending the president of Germany carries a penalty of anywhere from 3 months to 5 years prison. This can even apply in private matters. Speaking of Austria, blasphemy laws still
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by dschuler 6y ago
There is actually _less_ legal protection for speech in Germany than the US. For instance, it's against the law to insult a government official like a cop (Beamtenbeleidigung). This could mean saying something like "damn cops&quot
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by dschuler 6y ago
EY (one of the Big Four accounting firms) has an office in Chennai, India where they do US taxes for public corporations. Of course they're part of the bigger company (EY) that has offices in the US as well, but the example you gave al
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by dschuler 6y ago
It’s not totally clear to me either, but maybe it’s a 32-bit value treated as a 34-bit value with a precision of 4 seconds (so left-shifted two bits elsewhere), since the whole term has the least significant two bits cleared with ‘& ~3’
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by dschuler 6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20201012172005if_/https://www.ec...
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by dschuler 6y ago
I've been considering a Mac Mini as an alternative to a laptop.. would you mind expanding on the hardware glitches you've been encountering? Is it any faster than a laptop or about the same?
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by dschuler 6y ago
I've used Migadu for a year now with a paid plan, and I kept having to debug deliverability and DMARC problems. They ended up changing their setup instructions, but didn't send out an email about it - when I updated everything, th
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by dschuler 6y ago
Do you think your company will go back to WFO eventually or will some of the WFH changes stick?
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by dschuler 6y ago
You write very well, it flows in a way that reminds me of Bukowski.
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by dschuler 6y ago
That's funny, the exact same thing happened to me!
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by dschuler 7y ago
The way you said that reminds me of a Wes Anderson movie, somehow it’s funny but endearing at the same time. I used to rent my parking space to my neighbor Mrs. SEO (a less common Korean name I suppose).
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by dschuler 7y ago
I don't know much about it, but I think it's usually provided by pressurized bleed air from the engines. There are cabin pressurization test carts for use on the ground, as well as start carts to provide bleed air for starting eng
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by dschuler 7y ago
For me it’s easier to think of sensitivity as being “sensitive to the true positive” without saying much about false positive or negative. A sensitive test will catch many positive cases. It may or may not have false positives though, eg a
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by dschuler 7y ago
Very creative idea, I wouldn’t have thought of that. So standard pressure at sea level is 29.92inHg, a 737 MAX can sustain 39k ft altitude indefinitely I suppose, where the exterior air pressure would be 7.66inHg. The cabin is normally pres
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by dschuler 7y ago
A test might have a high false positive rate, ie “low specificity”, but can still have “high sensitivity”. That would mean that while you catch most cases of the virus, you’d also get a bunch of false positives. Flipping a coin as a hypothe
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by dschuler 7y ago
It is possible to recover from a stall without MCAS, but the handling characteristics have changed. The requirement is that the force on the yoke increases with the angle of attack, but in the case of the MAX, the stick force becomes lighte
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by dschuler 7y ago
Apple did something similar with their ceramic/gold composite watch - there's some good info here: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2015/03/apple-gold/ Unsurprisingly, paying a huge premium for a
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by dschuler 7y ago
After using them many times, they tried to charge me for a rental car I couldn't pick up from a disreputable agency (they wouldn't let me see the car, but demanded I sign a statement claiming no damage, along with a 1000€ deposit)
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by dschuler 7y ago
How do you move it around if you can't use a pipette? Or if you say "well, you can't", do you know how the manufacturer gets it in the bottle?
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by dschuler 7y ago
10.14.5 is Mojave, and we're still waiting for the latest 10.14.6 Mojave source. Their open source repo seems to be about 6 months behind at any time.
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by dschuler 7y ago
Did you have Adobe Creative Cloud installed by any chance? I had the same issue, and found out after several reinstalls that Adobe’s core sync finder extension was the cause.
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by dschuler 7y ago
There were two names, but it might be confusing to use the other one, even though that’s what the company was called. I still have a bunch of their shirts that one of the Bens gave me :)
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by dschuler 7y ago
I'm surprised anyone still runs their business on a Google dependency. I was trying to use Google maps for Android ca. 2012 - they acknowledged the bugs I filed a few months ago. If a Google product is a dependency of your business, yo
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by dschuler 7y ago
Well, they _did_ warn him about the cat litter issue. All jest aside, I wonder what he could have done differently (not taking sides here, just speculating). One option would have been to live among the public in the UK, and let himself be

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