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by geff82 10y ago
So then let's drop some atomic bombs and let some reactors explode for the sake of nature! Are you in?
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by geff82 10y ago
They are inhabitable zones for humans now and have a bad effect on a lot of other organisms. I think humanity has done harm to the whole ecosystem (including humans themselves) by beginning to use atomic energy.
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by geff82 10y ago
I prefer changing landscapes over wasting landscapes, Fukushima-style. There are always tradeoffs, but some are better than the others.
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by geff82 10y ago
Imagine a world with no roads except the ones to walk around neighbourhoods, yet a perfect infrastructure made possible by personal drones that are fed by renewable energy. There is still some place for science fiction to come real...
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by geff82 10y ago
Flying cars are a wrong way of thinking. They will disrupt nothing. What would "disrupt" personal flying transportation would be some kind of 95% automated flying device, that takes off and lands vertically without large propeller
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Ask HN: What are new Platforms worth developing for?
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by geff82 10y ago
Flag and hide!
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by geff82 10y ago
Quick note: Lenovo x240 and T440 Laptops can still be had new in some places and they can run FreeBSD 11 quite well.
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by geff82 10y ago
He told me: for your first gig, fake or optimize your CV as much as needed(I know this was not ethical but it was better than robbing a bank or being broke). Then, go to Xing (the German Linkedin, which is a gold mine if you know where the
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by geff82 10y ago
OK, here now an inside story(when I still was in school). One day, a close relative came home from work at ECB/EMI, a bit exhausted. This was the day they found out that the winning draft of the banknotes was indeed NOT FICTION but REA
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by geff82 10y ago
For me, it was getting into IT when I was 30 (4 years ago) and for the first time in my life, I loved my work. I did not do it when I was 20, when was deeply into programming. Instead, I feared math in computer science studies, which led me
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by geff82 10y ago
Last time I checked, USA was far ahead of the UAE in absolute and relative numbers of regular executions (and we don't count drone strikes now). My counter arguments are not to defend the UAE, but to widen the perspective and trying to
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by geff82 10y ago
I instantly want to post a link to Guantanamo as a counter argument. VAE are far from perfect and I know it. Compared to many other countries in the region, it feels like pure "freedom" to be there. I found the residents to be rel
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by geff82 10y ago
That just killed Dubai/UAE off my list of countries I consider moving to.
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by geff82 10y ago
Tetrep, your comparison with vocal speech absolutely nails it. Just because the medium has changed, there is no justification for total surveillance. Few 50+ years old mainstream politicians see it that way.
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by geff82 10y ago
Being married to an Iranian, I hear a lot of persian music. Especially the traditional one sounds really "dissonant" to my western ear and it took me years to accustom. Of course for my wife and all of her family persian tunes sou
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by geff82 10y ago
If you make a decent salary, expect a hard 50% to go to the state. No reduction for marriage or children.
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by geff82 10y ago
You don't want to pay the ultra-high taxes and social security in Austria. While corporate taxes are ok, they went berserk with personal income.
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by geff82 10y ago
I love BSDs for their pureness. You feel connected to the machine.
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by geff82 10y ago
I have a lot of sympathy for the BSDs. I actually learned Unix with NetBSD in 2004. Problem with BSD nowadays, at least for me, is that all supported desktop hardware is really old. The newest, still available, Laptop that works is the Leno
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by geff82 10y ago
Take the Lenovo Y700-15isk for example. It can swallow up to 32GB of RAM, has quad-core CPUs and can have two hard drives (one M.2 and one normal SATA). The noise in normal office use is close to zero, and the keyboard, that is built for ga
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by geff82 10y ago
Use TeXstudio to write your documents. It is an IDE with autocompletion and contextual help and an integrated viewer. Made writing LaTeX so much easier, as it also has wizards to generate repeating boilerplate. I love Latex, especially math
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by geff82 10y ago
Knuth's TeX and Texstudio, in conjunction with gnuplot.
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by geff82 10y ago
Seems to want to be a Snowden-Lookalike. Cheap.
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by geff82 10y ago
It is not difficult to get hold of lists like this when you work in banking.
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by geff82 10y ago
At first I thought: giving this info might ease me from being treated as a semi-terrorist because I regularily visit Iran. Then I thought some more... my LinkedIn-Profile mentions I own a US company. Which is false, that mentioning there is
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by geff82 10y ago
Just as the pope would not find atheism an acceptable attitude, RMS would not find non-free-software or software that takes away rights to your devices and data acceptable. From what I found, it is very well possible to discuss a lot of bro
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by geff82 10y ago
RMS, to some extend, is like the pope. He often says strange things, where many people do not instantly agree. But he won't change his message just to please you, which is what we are used to get from most people, especially politician
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by geff82 10y ago
What a nicely curated site!
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by geff82 10y ago
You are absolutely right, while I am, too. Of course there are progressive, far thinking elderly people and I enjoy being around them. I recently talked to a 71 year old who is into fractal programming and wants to get into Linux, soon (all

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