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kephra
13y ago
How does this site work? I see no search field. And jobs have no contact field.
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13y ago
Sorry, thats not limited to industrial age, Ancient Greek, Rome and Babylon had the same problem.
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Its natural human behavior, that the wealthy middle class people have only few children and invest in their education, while the poor have lots of children, in the hope two of them survive long enough to feed their parents, once they retire
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13y ago
oups thanks - corrected this!
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13y ago
e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=monsanto+india+suicide The base problem is: Once your neighbor starts to use Monanto and round up, the ground water and soil is poisoned and you need to grow resistant crops also. Using
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13y ago
I'm missing some points: - Land grabs: Big investors buy agriculture land to produce cash crops for export, e.g soy beans to feed pigs. - Colonial past: Most land in 3rd world countries is owned by a few rich people. E.g. Namibia was a
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13y ago
I had been testing Rackspace servers with real life applications, e.g Modx, Magento or Wordpress. And rackspace had been several times slower than my Ingate Euro4/month Xen system. Both in terms of CPU performance (wondering how to cri
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My tests with rackspace old servers showed that they are slow as hell, if compared with my Euro4/month Xen server at Ingate. I dont know how they managed to cripple Xen, to be worse the VZ, but they did. The new so called performance c
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13y ago
The swiss idea is much to high. The theatlantic idea much to low. I guess Euro800-1000/month is a much better choice. A basic income should allow living, health insurance, small flat, but not luxury goods like cars, big houses or the l
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13y ago
> Actually, I hope that this push succeeds. For me it would be a reason either to leave Germany! I'm 47 years old, and worked less then 4 years employed. The result is, that my retirement insurance would be less then Hartz IV, even
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13y ago
Germany has several safety networks: - Arbeitslosengeld is an unemployment insurance money paying 60% (alone) to 66% (families) of former income for one or two years. But you have to pay into insurance first. Payment is deducted automatical
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13y ago
This so called CCAN is missing the most important point of CPAN: Minimum code quality in terms, that code must compile same way, install same way, test itself same way, and have a documentation that describes how to use it. In addition CPAN
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Antibiotics in animal farms should be banned world wide. Unfortunate the only nation who has the power to convince others joining this ban, is one of the worst abusers of antibiotics. Consumers might have a choice, if they are wealthy enoug
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13y ago
Even if I dont know the book, the site shows that the author failed when 'his first web app' got some minimal traffic, of 1200 visitors (estimated by 12 points) in one hour.
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Einzelunternehmer is if you have eggs like Anton Schlecker who had 36000 employees as an e.K. (Eingetragener Kaufmann) without any legal umbrella. I would say for IT: Either go Freiberuflich, or GmbH. Freiberuflich has the benefit of easier
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13y ago
The most important advise is: Unbundle domain contract and hosting contract. Do not eat the bait of the free domain! About softlayer: Its possible to bargain with them. We have E-2620 servers there, official starting price at $879, and we p
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13y ago
As posted in comment on site: "the interview is lacking the most important question: What are the legal requirements and steps for a foreigner coming from outside Europe to fund a company in Germany and to become resident." perhap
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13y ago
Windows is a bad choice for an air gapped system. A much better would be Slackware, where its even simple to maintain an air gapped system. Maintaining a Linux with a package manager, e.g. Debian without internet is much more trouble. I had
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13y ago
I think there is still a difference if a man hires a female escort, or a woman hires a male escort, also in US. To cite Compagna.de/en_home.html "Compagna explicitly doesn`t offer erotic service at all." as a disclaimer. So i
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CPAN modules are free. But commercial replacements for XML::Edifact start at $100k not including the required consultant to implement it. So it was cheaper for them to pay me for consulting and maintenance. The Perl Module is bug free for a
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13y ago
I own half of a wine garden in San Antioco and cut the wines every winter. I sewn and sold more then hundred motorbike saddles. Its a nice winter job, that pays good for a craft. I've organized uncountable concerts, produced a few doze
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It also looks to me, as if At, Bk, Cf, Es, Fm, Md, No and Lr are display buggy at high temperatures. The low right window shows them right as going from solid to gas without a liquid state, but the big period table shows them liquid at 6000
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/me sings, "Another one bites the Dust" Error The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later. Error message PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket &#x
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13y ago
- I'm doing between l$20k and l$30k per month on commissions on vendor systems that rent out shoutcast servers to musicians and DJs in Secondlife. oups thats only us$80-$120, but its game money, that I can drop into tipjars, if I lik
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13y ago
I wonder how to debug a web app in R. Rscript has the habit to tell you that there is an error, but not to tell you what file or line number. So debugging Rscript requires print statements to circle the problem. No something I enjoy to do,
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13y ago
I have to disagree to the basic assumption of the article. Its often not necessary for a coder to understand why math works, but only how to use their results. e.g.: I've coded fft in 5 different languages, and used it uncountable time
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I wonder that the article does not mention Second Life. SL is a real boring thing, as long as you only consume it, but it becomes fascinating, once you start to design. I know several people who learned Gimp because of SL, or scripting. Scr
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13y ago
A nice, thats good to know, that my money wont bounce back!
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This depends on the civilization and their troops. Your claim is true for most barbarian, irregulars, and fanatics, but false for regular troops, and some irregulars like Greek style hoplite. The main things 0ad is missing to reflect ancien
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I fear the price tag is much to high. A tag around $10k or $20k would be much better, as payout is only done for successful campaigns, iirc.
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