jlangenauer

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by jlangenauer 7y ago
I read this yesterday, and found it fascinating - I’d like to think I have a reasonably good knowledge of world history, but I’d never even heard or it.
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
I’ve never understood why tickets can’t have your name on them, with ID checked at the venue. That’d stop scalping.
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
There was an episode of Hannibal where this sort of thing was part of the plot - using bodies to grow fungi.
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
One thing to be aware of is that registering a company in the US (or anywhere else) does NOT mean that it's not taxable where the founders or management are resident. For example, in Australia, a foreign company is taxable if i) Austr
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
And what about what’s best for the person being fired? Or are they just a cog in the machine, unworthy of empathy or decent treatment?
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
For those who haven't yet come across it, bundler-audit is a very useful tool to pick up any old and/or insecure gems in your application. It should be part of your CI pipeline, or at a minimum, run locally every so often. https:
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The MacBook keyboard fiasco is surely worse than Apple thinks(m.signalvnoise.com)
102 points by jlangenauer 8y ago|68 comments
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
Good for you! Stand up for yourself if they ask, use words like “inappropriate” and “disrespectful” to describe scheduling a conference call on a Saturday.
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
> If you want to fly from Germany to the Canarian Islands for 50 EUR round trip then you're going to end up with unstable airframes. How does B follow from A? That's quite the non-sequitur.
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
I will also refuse to fly on one anytime soon.
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
If, in the Soviet Union, people had to live in tents while working, most sensible people would blame the economic system in place. Yet in capitalist America...?
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
It’s not tax, we pay to a “Krankenkasse” (roughly a not-for-Profit health insurer), so we see exactly what it costs. The premium is based on your monthly salary.
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
Yes, this is a constant irritation here, presumably to protect the awful Apothekes, who have a protectionist guild, and also - shamefully - sell complete nonsense like homeopathy. I normally stock up on OTC medication like Ibuprofen when I’
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
That’s what he/she was making in the United States.
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
What rubbish. Germans are fiercely protective of their work/life balance.
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
Are the SSDs on these located in the servers that the DBs run on, or do they live on a separate SAN? I ask, as at a previous job, we used to run our Postgres DBs on raw Droplets, and we'd get awesome performance on disk bandwidth (whic
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
Well, I better get myself to Toulouse this year, so I can take a tour of the Airbus factory while they're still building them.
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
It’s worth noting that government placement of massive economic projects over the desires or even well-being of local people is a feature of Soviet and modern day Chinese economic systems. And so it seems, American capitalism as well.
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
I paid for courses at the start, which really helped. Beyond that, reading books in German, and dealing with German society in German (surprisingly hard to do here in Berlin, as all the locals love to speak English, Jens Spahn excepted). Wa
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
Yes, but I find that you fill in the blanks as you use and are exposed to German.
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
Having lived in Germany for 3 years now, and managed to speak German to a half-decent level (B1/B2), I offer the following observations. 1. The genders don't matter nearly as much as non-speakers think they do. If you talk to your
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
I quit the job that was causing my burnout, flew to Argentina, and spent some time hiking in Patagonia. Worked remarkably well.
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
Not all of this is the EU - which is not exactly some super-state that controls every aspect of life on the continent. Almost all of these things are in the jurisdiction of the member states themselves, and the EU has little power to contro
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
One reason is because I think there isn't such an obsession with becoming a billionaire here. If you're a founder, and someone offers you a deal which will personally see you net €10-20m after tax, why wouldn't you take it?
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
> You also have to provide the immigrants with whatever social spending to which locals are entitled. Absolutely not true. The UK, for instance, explicitly states on its work visas "No recourse to public funds", although they a
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Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2019?
1 points by jlangenauer 8y ago|0 comments
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
Examples like this make me appreciate the European Union's strict rules around state aid - which do a lot to eliminate beggar-thy-neighbour competition between countries, preserve tax bases to actually provide services and infrastructu
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Remind HN: On January 1, New Horizons makes a fly-by of (486958) 2014 MU69(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by jlangenauer 8y ago|0 comments
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by jlangenauer 8y ago
The thing with hyperloop that I've not seen solved yet: points/switches. How do you divert the vehicles between two different paths?
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Why didn't I get any money from my startup?(reddit.com)
12 points by jlangenauer 8y ago|3 comments

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