henrikschroder

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by henrikschroder 9y ago
There's a cure for Hepatitis C since 2015.
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
> But that says nothing about the preferences of others. That was exactly my point. OP claimed that it seemed like people on HN weren't using it based on the comments to this thread so far. I'm claiming the opposite, that a maj
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
> Based on the other comments so far, it sounds like HN'ers mostly don't use facebook and don't miss it. Let's just say that the "sour grapes" crowd are much more likely to pile on to stories like this. Face
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
(I agree, just piling on with more perspectives) Where I'm from the age of consent is 15, but the law also explicitly states that there is no crime if the age difference is small. So in your example, if the two kids are fine with it, n
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
> The balancing between protection of the abused and individual freedom is easy to make: on one hand, you have children being raped, on the other hand, you have young lovers that may have to wait a few years before fucking. I would say t
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
The problem is that it gives large multinational companies a strong competitive edge over single-national companies, and it makes tax money bleed from high-tax countries to low-tax countries. Both of these things are also self-reinforcing,
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
The lie-flat shell seats of modern business class really make a world of difference.
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
If you have multiple flights, there's always stress that you might miss a connection. And you can spend every flight worrying that you might not catch the next one. When you board your last flight, you know you "made it", you
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
Yes, it's a problem, but I think marketing across language and cultural barriers are a much larger problem, and the new VAT rules are merely a bump in the road in comparison.
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
Agree, the recent change to charge VAT depending on the location of the buyer is pure hell to deal with. As a EU business, I really don't want to have to figure out where in the EU my customers are, and adjust the price according to wh
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
What? It's not exactly VAT rules that are making it hard to expand your business across countries in the EU, it's language and culture barriers.
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
Holy crap, that article is full of crazy gems: > The Australian letter-to-number mapping was A=1, B=2, F=3, J=4, L=5, M=6, U=7, W=8, X=9, Y=0 wat? > In the United Kingdom the letter "O" was combined with the digit "0&qu
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
Oh wow, I had no idea the number positions varied across the world! I just assumed everyone went from 0 to 9, because it makes logical sense. :-D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_dial That article has a UK, a New Z
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
I remember the emergency number being 90000 back when rotary dials were common. It's harder to misdial that 999, because you want as separated numbers as possible, and it's faster to dial because only the first 9 takes time, and t
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
But this weirdness still happens when you have a combined entity like Kaiser. I went for a routine visit, and paid the $30 copay before the visit. After the visit, I get a bill for Ridiculous_Number_X - Ridiculous_Number_Y = $30. The "
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
Counterexample: Taxi companies in Stockholm developed hailing apps before Uber. Most of them already had location services for mobile phones so you could call their voice system, and there was an option to get a cab to your current location
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
Over time, you accrue a large tax benefit as a homeowner, if the actual value of your home increases more than 2% every year. By moving, you reset this benefit, which is a disincentive to moving.
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
> If you aren't willing to invest in yourself, why should society do so? Because society has an interest in a large, well-educated labour pool that its entrepreneurs and companies can draw from. They can then employ these people, an
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
+1 I also started a CS program in '95, with practically no previous programming experience. (10 PRINT "HENRIK IS THE BEST", 20 GOTO 10 doesn't count) One thing our university did though was that the introduction course w
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
> Given all that I have to wonder how government regulations would make this better? No no, that would impact free speech. You want all large user content-handling companies to be able to tell users wanting to talk about X to go somewher
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
Are you trying to derail, or are you seriously not understanding that there is no right to be heard, it's a thing GP made up on the spot to illustrate what free speech is not?
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
"Furthermore “script execution” have to be allowed (see cmdlet: set-execultionpolicy)." ...and we're back to square one. :-)
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
I'm definitely guilty of doing that the very few times I had to write a powershell script. But what's the alternative? What's the proper way of signing a script, and how much work is it to do that?
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
If you have a regular sedan with a tow ball in Europe, you know that you can't attach very large trailer or pull a lot of weight. Knowing how much you can tow and under what circumstances are part of the written driving test in Sweden
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
> No, you see - in the United States it is assumed that any towing or work activities must be done with a truck. I love subtle cultural differences like this where two sides are completely unaware that life could be any other way than it
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
I did computer science, almost all our lectures and classes were around the gorgeous castle courtyard. We pitied the architecture students... :-)
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
My university had a building for the architecture department that was originally designed to be completely covered in vines so as to "hide" the actual architecture of it, to clear the students minds of preconceived notations, etc,
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by henrikschroder 9y ago
I wish there was an easier way to block out "external" content, I'm really, really not interested in re-shares of clickbait from newspapers and other sources, or the inevitably political outrage and bullshit that people share
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by henrikschroder 10y ago
Infowars isn't a news organization, Alex Jones is a self-professed performance artist, and the performance pieces he publishes are created solely to incite outrage in a certain demographic, not to spread actual facts.
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by henrikschroder 10y ago
I'd rather pay a very small amount for something that does exactly what it says on the tin, every time, than some sketchy app that maybe works, or monetizes in weird ways by selling me or my traffic or whatever. It's a professiona

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