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How is a thief taking thousands from London gym-goers?(bbc.com)
6 points by jlangenauer 4y ago|0 comments
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by jlangenauer 4y ago
I'm glad you put "mountain" in quotes, because we sure as hell don't have anything which counts as a mountain in this town - and no, that tiny hill in Humbolthain where the nazis built anti-air guns doesn't count.
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Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Processor?(journals.plos.org)
1 points by jlangenauer 4y ago|0 comments
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by jlangenauer 4y ago
Significant portions of the Berlin to Munich route run at 300km/h (the section from Halle via Erfurt and then to Bamberg). Of course, you have to be on one of the ICE3's that are actually capable of 300km/h - the others max o
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by jlangenauer 4y ago
There are so many people who want to see ordinary Germans suffer for decisions their government made. Do you think the pensioners who will freeze are the ones who decided on energy policy?
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by jlangenauer 4y ago
There's a difference between strong consumer rights for things like products being faulty, or not being as described. But there is no EU consumer right to simply return an item because you've decided you don't like it, or no
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by jlangenauer 4y ago
Here's another one: assuming that each point on the surface of the earth belongs to exactly one region. An example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinst%C3%BCcken Steinstücken was an exclave of West Berlin locate
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by jlangenauer 4y ago
In most countries, they simply conscripted them. There was no "convincing". Australia is one of the exceptions, although certainly not because the government didn't want conscription.
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by jlangenauer 5y ago
All our apps are down as well. And it seems (and I really have to almost laugh here) that https://status.heroku.com no longer loads.
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by jlangenauer 5y ago
Wait, someone stole a washing machine ? I have to know more about this.
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by jlangenauer 5y ago
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with Australians - and I speak as one, now thankfully living elsewhere - but "I got screwed, so someone else should get screwed too!" is a big part of the national psyche, along with "How dare someo
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by jlangenauer 5y ago
It's cheaper from the point of view of entire societies, or the planet. But it's much more expensive from the point of view of a company to stop emitting now, compared to having someone else in the future pay to pull carbon from t
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by jlangenauer 5y ago
Why? The creators created the software, they can put any conditions they please on how others might use it. They're under no moral or legal obligation to allow people to use the fruits of their labors, except as they permit.
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by jlangenauer 5y ago
You're not allowed to leave your state or your country with the permission of some bureaucrat, and you're claiming that you haven't given up any civil rights? I guess no-one had given up their civil rights in East Germany, or
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by jlangenauer 5y ago
I'm well aware of the "lucky country" stuff (and even have Donald Horne's book on my shelf). For those who don't know what we're talking about, the full "lucky country quote": "Australia is a luc
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by jlangenauer 5y ago
It got in because quarantine is a complex system (unless you completely seal your borders, and don't accept things like medicine), and complex systems do not operate perfectly forever. Australia foolishly believed that they could choos
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by jlangenauer 5y ago
I'm from Australia, but live in Germany, and have been just horrified at what's happened back there. It's as though the country has lost its mind. My personal theory is that it's a manifestation of fear and insecurity. A
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by jlangenauer 5y ago
I believe the governments in Australia do benefit from the lockdowns. I'm from Australia, but live in Germany, so when I look back home from here, I'm shocked by how deliberately the fear of Covid has been stoked and played up i
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by jlangenauer 5y ago
I'm not sure what your problem is with using harnesses on roof work - it's basic safety equipment, and even with Australia's (very good) safety laws and (mostly good) safety culture, there's still around 50-60 people kil
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by jlangenauer 5y ago
You do realise that you have paid that $3000 in higher prices, right? The credit card companies and banks are not giving you free money.
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by jlangenauer 5y ago
I've developed a rule over the years which says that any startup that has an "ideas guy", "visionary" or similar is one to avoid.
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by jlangenauer 5y ago
Astonishing that a mere corporation thinks they have the right to negotiate with a nation-state and "come to an agreement." Would that I could negotiate having to comply with laws that affect me.
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by jlangenauer 6y ago
Any UBI is not going to be "in addition to" whatever other money you might earn, but is more likely to look something like a minimum income, below which you cannot drop (even if you stop working).
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by jlangenauer 6y ago
Reward being tied to risk is only for the little people. One can point at numberous executive compensation packages where they have plenty of exposure to upside, and almost no risk (or even negative risk: a golden parachute if you get pushe
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by jlangenauer 6y ago
A lot of this sounds like some of the highest paid people in the world complaining that they are unable to practise lifestyle arbitrage by combining their high salaries with a low cost of living. This is simply not an option for the vast ma
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by jlangenauer 6y ago
It shouldn't be up to people to have to spend time and money to correct Google's errors, and to stop Google inconviencing them. Somehow, it has become completely accepted for Google/FB/et al to make profits while shiftin
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by jlangenauer 6y ago
I'm not entirely sure the world is getting worse, but I am certain that it's becoming more complex. And when the finite cognitive capacity of every human being must manage that complexity just to survive (let along propser), it su
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by jlangenauer 6y ago
I may be privileged, but I am neither young nor overpaid. I started programming on something called the Commodore 64, so my opinions have been refined over decades. And if I say programming has become joyless, it's because I've be
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by jlangenauer 6y ago
I think you are right to say that the methods are vastly improved, but the ends to which those methods are applied have become ever more uninteresting (for a lot of people), and often morally suspect. We have built exquisite tools, but we u
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by jlangenauer 6y ago
My solution to this is to rename that table/column to “table_deprecated” or “column_deprecated”. This has the nice property of being reversible, causes nice visible errors if something unanticipated is actually using the column/ta

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