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by jonp888 4y ago
If I understand the comment chain correctly, they first tried a random "not hosted by Apple" podcast and could get the MP3, as expected. They were then directed to a "hosted by Apple" podcast and could not get an MP3. So
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by jonp888 4y ago
Well, yes, I don't know, I'm only going off never having heard of gerrymandering being a major problem in any other country. Plus that in general America seems to involve politics in decisions which are more usually left to offici
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by jonp888 4y ago
Because America is the greatest democracy in the world, which means the democratic system it was built on is the best in the world. Anyone who suggests otherwise hates America. I'm not being serious, but at least in the UK one of the m
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by jonp888 4y ago
In most countries you just hire some officials as part of an independent agency and tell them to create reasonable districts based on geographic and social groupings, and it works fine. I'm not sure if the problem is that the poltician
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Fixation on whatever it is the German government is currently being asked to do but won't agree to seem to be a common theme of the Ukraine conflict.
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Some of the differences in Germany would be: 1. The minimium notice period for termination of employment is between 1 and 3 months. 2. The employer must select which employees to lay off depending on social factors(age, do they have young c
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by jonp888 4y ago
I guess we do need the verb 'pwn' after all :D
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I work for a company about twice as big as Google. Getting permission to hire anyone is very difficult, and everyone is always 100% busy just to meet customer deadlines(which we often don't). I guess Google and other FAANG-type compani
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by jonp888 4y ago
Here's a quick guide: https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=562
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by jonp888 4y ago
Your comment makes no sense. The suburbs are next to the city, not "many hours" from it. It makes no difference to rural communities if they are there are not, they just go to the city instead, at minimal extra travel time.
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by jonp888 4y ago
Selling the inherent slowness of a transfer method as an anti fraud feature is just absurd. If a delay is beneficial it can be introduced artificially for those who want/need it For instance, my bank limits the total daily transfer, wi
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by jonp888 4y ago
You can sell stuff directly to your fans: - branded merchandise - endorse or develop your own products - write a book - other platforms(TikTok, Instagram etc.) Or use your experience and brand value to do things your YouTube fans might not
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by jonp888 4y ago
But is it not common to force students, as a condition of attending lectures, to live in university housing, and to eat university provided meals? And it is not the case that university housing comes with "advisers" who ensure you
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by jonp888 4y ago
The US is an exception though, since having any kind of leave at all is a gift of of the employer and not defined in law. For the rest of the world, the idea that an employer can arbitrarily decide it is not possible for someone to be ill m
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by jonp888 4y ago
They're only out of stock because they only sell in retail channels what is left over after industrial customers have bought everything they need. So if you look at this as an advert about industrial usage aimed at industrial users, it
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by jonp888 4y ago
"The most destructive non war related choice by any government"(in the history of human civilization, presumably). I am genuinely baffled when I read such histrionic statements. Can you explain what has been destroyed? Nuclear was
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by jonp888 4y ago
Be sure to look into how you will handle Health Insurance. You are required to have Health Insurance if you live in Germany, and for freelancers it is quite expensive(it will probably cost more per month than apartment rent). This can be a
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by jonp888 4y ago
Except for a small percentage of the population who have coordination problems or find driving extremely stressful, operating a gearbox is not something which extends the length of driver training. It takes far longer to learn how to naviga
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by jonp888 4y ago
If the total lack of employment rights (no maternity or paternity leave, no sick leave, no holidays, no protection against being fired) was applied in any other developed country, it would be the number 1 political topic every day until the
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by jonp888 4y ago
Get a job doing something 'boring'. I work for a company which makes control systems for large industrial machinery. Our order book is about 10 years long. The products we sell will be in use for at least 30 years, and if at any t
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by jonp888 4y ago
Remember the Milk ( https://www.rememberthemilk.com/ ) is a fairly advanced todo application which works identically offline and online. I believe they use Google Firebase Cloud to automatically synchronise data between all d
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by jonp888 4y ago
The ideology that punishment is a form of retribution, with the primary aim being to inflict as much suffering as the subject has earned through their crimes, rather than to produce a change in behaviour, is what leads to the US having the
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by jonp888 4y ago
I guess the "problem" is that American iPhone users will either exclude non-iPhone users altogether or default to SMS rather than switching to a cross-platform messaging app, despite the deficiencies of SMS in modern communication
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The publisher will have signed an agreement with the author, and also spent plenty of money on editing, typesetting, marketing. You can't just arbitrarily decide that only one party "deserves" to make money from the book, an
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by jonp888 4y ago
It's pretty disturbing and disgusting that the President would threaten to strip people of their citizenship for having the 'wrong' job. Is there any crime you could commit in the US that is do bad it would result in loss of
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by jonp888 4y ago
Over the past 30 years Germany has transitioned from 30% to 0% nuclear power, meanwhile solar + wind has gone from 0% to 30%. Gas(from all sources) has grown from 5% to 15% of power in that time. It is in no way relied on and your hyperboli
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by jonp888 4y ago
What does he mean by: > >> I definitely had no plans to backport any of that stuff, > >> but I guess the automagics did it anyway. > >> Looks like stable is at least missing this pile of stuff: Did a half-finished
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by jonp888 4y ago
In London (state owned) museums are free for everyone. Maybe they should offer them a Eurostar ticket as an alternative.
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> By your logic I should pay taxes to the country I go on holiday on the paycheck I get while being there. No, because when your are on holiday it is not your place of employment. All they want is if you are using somewhere as your place
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by jonp888 4y ago
Yes, a new high speed line will be built between Dresden and Prague, mostly in tunnel to replace the current slow and restricted line which had to stay in the river gorge.

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