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by geff82 8y ago
I just upvoted your comment because it is the truth and most probably you will be heavily downvoted for not being mainstream :)
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by geff82 8y ago
Legalization mostly works in the way that more people consume it. (punishing the use does not lead anywhere either).
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by geff82 8y ago
Smoke once and it will be detectable in your body for weeks, drink once and no one will ever detect it in a linear number of hours after. The body has enzymes for alcohol, but non for pot. Drinking too much too often is another problem, of
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by geff82 8y ago
<irony>Who would have thought this!</irony> While enzyms in the human body are totally able to cope with alcohol and (which I absolutely do not favor either, for the record), the human body has to "wash out" the r
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by geff82 8y ago
Hearing this, nothong else than a big f word comes out of my mouth.
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by geff82 8y ago
As a now fluent speaker of the language, I can tell you it is one of the easiest languages you can learn. There are very few exceptions (most come only from the predominant Tehran dialect), no irregular verbs, a strict but easy grammar. Und
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by geff82 8y ago
Sure you could make Enterprise IT a lot more leaner and probably add a lot of productivity doing so. This is, by the way, my private field of research: how can friction in Enterprise IT be avoided (my position is that you could do IT in big
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by geff82 8y ago
You will absolutely get around Germany using English :) no worries.
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by geff82 8y ago
That is this HackerNews mindset. Software can be done from anywhere, sure, and big German companies get it coded in India or East Europe. The high paying IT jobs here are not coders who produce software, but architects, business analysts, p
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by geff82 8y ago
House worth 700k next to Frankfurt (the house I live in): 450 Euro a year. If you really count in the high rents on east and westcoast, I doubt there is high net difference of money to live from. If you are working as a freelancer, your tec
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by geff82 8y ago
Berlin is the worst place if you want to have a good paying job. If you only want to work for startups, then Berlin is the place to go. But if you are open to work in Big Enterprise IT, then there are many places where you can work and earn
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by geff82 8y ago
It totally depends. If you are working and living in one of the big centers like Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin or Hamburg, chances are good that you find work in a company that accepts English-only speakers and usually you can live day-to-day l
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by geff82 8y ago
You want good healthcare, good salary, the real Autobahns, good houses and you are talented, have at least a bachelor in IT and are willing to try something out? Come over to Germany. Honestly, no I other country I know of has such a fast a
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by geff82 8y ago
hahaha, everytime there is an article about the Amazon in South America I wonder when the news about the Cloud service comes.
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by geff82 8y ago
Frequent Iran traveller here: indeed, Iranian women usually wear a headscarf "only". Their skin is about as exposed to sun as those of European men/women in Germany/Northern Europe (where you usually do not run around se
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by geff82 8y ago
This is no new news. When I was 17, I had all the signs of an appendicitis. But I really feared to go to the hospital. I read through some medical books where they mentioned that after 72 hours of pain things can get real dangerous. I found
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by geff82 8y ago
You could buy it for a few years for a hundred grand, hand built.
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by geff82 8y ago
You can soon buy that thing again in an electric version called the „Microlino“.
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by geff82 8y ago
What I often like is when production cars have a concept-car like look with features you usually do not have with other cars. (Citroen C4 Cactus just comes into my mind)
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by geff82 8y ago
When you are part of this Community here at HN, you are no normal user, but, compared to most of the 7 billion other people, member of the tech elite, even when not in SV. As a member of that group, one should be a bit more open to new idea
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by geff82 8y ago
The perfect thing you are looking for is a Thinkpad of the T4XX series (even if it seems you want to get away from Lenovo). Why? Not because nothing ever breaks - but because they can always be repaired and every part is available for repla
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by geff82 8y ago
2018 and it is unusable on an iPhone SE.
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by geff82 8y ago
Haha, I recently bought the HP-12C and the HP-50g mainly just to own them.
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by geff82 8y ago
You, my fellow German (Frankfurter? I know too many people at the federal reserve...), are making the same mistake as most: beancounting and measuring everything in money. Degrees in Ancient Greek and Latin mean that besides being rich in m
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by geff82 8y ago
>> Always replace "free" with "I'm paying for you". Your thinking is flawed in this regard. Sure you are paying "my" tuition fees. But in an either indirect or direct way, you (you as the society, no
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by geff82 8y ago
What a surreal discussion about something obvious: University and college should be free for everyone. First, this is a great equalizer in the positive way: it does not depend on how wealthy your parents are, so you get an equal opportunity
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by geff82 8y ago
Write mail to eriklistserve [at] gmail dot com and I might have a job paying 20k more a year.
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by geff82 8y ago
Excellent question. I have found that I need office suites less and less. The reason I still have an Office365 subscription is for Onedrive and Onenote, for the few remaining classic documents I use Libreoffice because I found that I almost
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by geff82 8y ago
I did not mean you but Macron/the article
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by geff82 8y ago
Those words are essentially saying that France (and Europe) want to stop competing. Macrons words might put some inconvenience on Google et al. but the result will be that the US as a place to be for companies becomes even stronger.

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