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by hussong 11y ago
Generally speaking: how many violent protests do you need before you consider changing the law? Nasty as that may seem, but without violent protests, France would possibly still be a kingdom (and the US a colony).
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by hussong 11y ago
There are some areas (e.g. weather), where Google's own content is a lot more useful (because of its simplicity) to me than third-party sites. On others (e.g. shopping in DE) not so much.
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by hussong 11y ago
But the prices are in euro. I'm writing this just to illustrate my point: why "but"? You make it seem like your statement is contradicting mine, yet I fail to see the connection.
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by hussong 11y ago
FWIW, in Germany they sell 4, 6, 9, and 20 pieces.
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by hussong 11y ago
Why do you keep posting more or less the same comment over and over again? We get your point, no need to repeat yourself.
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by hussong 11y ago
Funny, I had it the other way round. I wanted paypal to pull the money from my bank account, but the UI would insist on using my credit card (it would always jump back to credit card).
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by hussong 12y ago
I think your comment is especially true when you think less of websites that make money and are actively maintained and more about the wealth of information that's out there on old websites that haven't been touched for years -- b
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by hussong 12y ago
From a European perspective, I like how you say that the house is still standing 10 years later (and someone in another comment above mentioned 25 years) like it's something outstanding. I would expect a house to last 100 years. A fami
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by hussong 12y ago
As a start, correct ID3 tags and an album cover bigger than the size of a thumbnail would be great. Bonus points for configurable folder and file naming scheme and playlists generation upon download. I always felt kinda stupid paying 10 Eur
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by hussong 12y ago
I love you you put dance/eletronic, elevator music and toddler songs in one bucket. I never thought of it that way and I think you're spot on. I guess we could add most of the music played on commercial radio stations (from top 40
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by hussong 12y ago
I'm a paying light listener. I coudn't stand the ads and the audio quality on the freebie, plus I need the offline music feature when I'm travelling or commuting.
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by hussong 12y ago
That's not entirely correct, at least for Germany. ALG1 comes out of the mandatory unemployment insurance (that you and your employer have paid for every month) and they will pay you 60% of your previous take-home salary + health insur
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by hussong 12y ago
And, if you're in Europe, you can thank the EU, who limited portable audio players to 150 mV max output at the phone jack and 100 dB (A) peak level with the included headphones. This renders my iPhone almost useless as an iPod replacem
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by hussong 12y ago
Everybody I talked to in Germany was complaining about the new regulations -- it's a PITA for every single online retailer and shop system vendor. New rules will be in effect on Jan 1st and even accountants are still fuzzy on the detai
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by hussong 12y ago
I agree that iOS and apps could do more to help users stay within the limits of their data plan. Sometimes it seems like they assume data is free. I once had Spotify eat my entire data for the month in a few hours because wifi was spotty an
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by hussong 12y ago
> What makes Trader Joes Trader Joes is that they carefully curate the entire experience and having a loss of control over how they are presented to the customer is a big deal. Apparently not in Germany, where you can buy a small selecti
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by hussong 12y ago
I'd argue that entertainment media do provide value to consumers and that there is an observable willingness to pay for these kinds of goods. On the cost side, even if your marginal costs are zero, you still have to recover your first
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by hussong 12y ago
There's also an extended version of that joke involving Italian car mechanics and Swiss lovers.
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by hussong 12y ago
passpack.com -- have been using it for a few years now and never looked back.
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by hussong 12y ago
To be fair, you can consider yourself lucky — many people in rural areas can only get 384 kbit/s DSL.
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by hussong 12y ago
But you're not supposed to paste the URL elsewhere, you're supposed to hit that share button to share the content on one service, and one service only! SCNR
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by hussong 12y ago
FWIW, commands like the ones you mentioned used to be possible with the ubiquity extension for firefox. Good times.
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by hussong 13y ago
I wish ISPs could stay out of the content business since their content curation and presentation are usually subpar at best.
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by hussong 13y ago
I wonder what's going to happen to Need/Want's "Designed in San Francisco" claim. Would "Designed in Saint Louis" work just as well?
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by hussong 13y ago
I'll bite: panini is simply the plural of panino.
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by hussong 13y ago
How does this compare to the way that sharing is implemented in PassPack?
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by hussong 13y ago
I wish the German T-Mobile mothership were as customer-friendly as the US operation.
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by hussong 13y ago
You can read the generic complaints as "I don't want things to change at all. They were ok the way they were. I don't want to be forced to adapt to changes that I never asked for and that do not seem beneficial to me. I don&#
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by hussong 13y ago
I'm afraid we will see more of those puke-colored gradient backgrounds in the near future...
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by hussong 13y ago
German Aldis offer good customer experience and the assorment of goods has come close to premium supermarkets in affluent areas, giving the old nickname "Feinkost Albrecht" a new meaning. At the same time, they have recently been

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