joyj2nd

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by joyj2nd 6y ago
"through a coerced opium trade," You forgot to mention WHY the opium trade happened. China was exporting tea, silk and porcelain like there is no tomorrow and at the same time had accumulated the majority of the world silver reser
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
As a private consumer, likely the law of your place of residency applies and they may be obligated to honour all kinds of cancellations, e.g. in California. https://www.cnet.com/news/companies-must-let-customers-cance..
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
Well, most people, including me I must admit, are using excel when they actually should use a database.
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
I worked in clinical research with the FDA and complex word documents. I am not a programmer, but lordy lord, how often did I wish we would use something like git.
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
Maybe the kiddies here in their parents basements were to stupid to realize that Stackit ist run by: STACKIT is the Schwarz Group's digital umbrella brand for IT services. Behind STACKIT stands the Schwarz IT KG as the group's cen
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
nothing beats recoll
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
1. Xournal to annotate PDFs (aka sign contracts without printing them and scanning them back). Will check it out. For PDFs I mostly use Master PDF Editor 2. LibreOffice of course for most document related work For me LibreOffice is a bad ni
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
Here you see an animation of a falling whale... https://giphy.com/gifs/fat-anS1ZNfpzXSjm
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
Blogs are not dead, neither is RSS. You find interesting blogs by chance or via blogroll of blogs you like. What really has changed are stock related news. Recently I went back into stock trading and was shocked. Basically 90% of the stock
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
Link or it didn't happen
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
This may work and may be much cheaper than the overpriced Amazon AWS, since Germany does not pay her people well. Most salaries are are a fraction of US salaries. This is the main reason for the exorbitant and quite bad trade surplus of Ger
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
My experience with Ryanair ist pretty good. If (big if) you know what to expect. I had terrible experiences with Wizz and United and avoid them like the plague. Ryanair is cheap. Tickets can be 9.99, 12.99 Euros. (One Way). I have often spe
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
Well, what else to do with your money? It is called asset price inflation. Most assets will devalue at some point but, in the broader range, won't go to zero. This is not clear for FIAT money.
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
Has a Nash Equilibrium for the first n-1 iterations if I remember correctly.
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
"Thought exists without language, does it not?" This is a very interesting question. The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.” Wittgenstein "How can dogs dream of sticks and wa
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
"Only the one who gives himself up is lost" Hans-Ulrich Rudel "Fun" fact: This guy was a convinced Nazi who basically destroyed two Russian tank divisions alone. I told this quote to an African American friend when he wa
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
Yeah, rent caps worked out in Lisbon extremely well. Not.
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
Try to buy
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
Can you elaborate? What and why did the guest destroy something?
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
AirBnB is a great business. I actually met the founders when they were just starting, handling out Obama 'O's as marketing gifts. Maybe should have asked them to join their company. This being said. Their business and bypassing of
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
Sorry to break the news for you, but German salaries are 50% of US salaries (US salaries may vary by location). My first offer on the cost as my first job was 160k USD. In Germany they were backing out in Munich if I asked for 60k EUR. &quo
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
Because of some reasons I use evolution and thunderbird. The search function in Evolution is abysmal. May try out InScribe
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
"Thanks for that anecdote. I was planning on using the lockdown home office situation to finally buy some domain and set up my own email server." Don't do this. Buy an email with a domain that offers email. e.g. gandi.net or
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
"With thousands of brainless bodies kept alive on life support," It is questionable, if you can do this without a brain. Have you seen Elysium? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film)
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
I don't understand the anger. 1. Booking has the best hotel prices. Much better then, lets say google 2. They always honoured their free cancellation policy when I used it. 3. With Corona they also accepted a cancellation beyond cancel
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
Why the downvote? Have you used this airline? Aeroflot, Turkish and Ethiopian are in an excellent geostrategic position for the future. I hold SU and TK gold elite, both just emailed me: Due to the crisis the both extend my gold elite statu
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
Well, a country with a decent population size and a decent economy has to rely on air transport. Just now many countries flew out their citizens for example. As far as I know, Lufthansa, like some other airlines, have a government owned gol
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
It may make more sense, to bey an apartment, rent it out and live in another place that your rent.
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
Many major national carriers have national importance. So, no, they won't go bankrupt. Be it Lufthansa, Air France, Air China, or whatever. Airlines like Ryanair and Wizz air might be different.
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by joyj2nd 6y ago
Nah. Aeroflot, Turkish, Ethiopian and Delta have pretty good customer service.

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