lagadu

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901.
by lagadu 10y ago
It's absolutely horrid. Lets say you want to read everything: first you need to experiment whether depth-first search is going down or right. Then you miss stuff because the down and up buttons on some screens use a lighter shade than
902.
by lagadu 10y ago
If you think renting in Berlin is expensive, check out Copenhagen. I know a few people living in Berlin, rent is 60-100% more expensive here.
903.
by lagadu 10y ago
I dislike DA for being involved, even if involuntarily, in the McBoatFace fiasco :) OK, I don't but that would ruin the joke.
904.
by lagadu 11y ago
It's not about economic benefit, it's about equality: if you have a major form of income not being taxed, you're effectively giving preferential treatment to that person versus everyone who gets taxed.
905.
by lagadu 11y ago
Only a minority of the apps have them (and even fewer of those are remotely good/configurable), absolutely no consistency in the design between widgets and how they're a mix of background and icon. WP just had fantastic design pat
906.
by lagadu 11y ago
As a Windows phone refugee living in Androidland (seriously MS, was it so hard to make a worthy successor for the 930 along with not completely abandoning the rest of the range?) live tiles is the feature I miss the most :(
907.
by lagadu 11y ago
It seems I'm out of the loop: what just happened?
908.
by lagadu 11y ago
Those are unenforceable in most (maybe all?) of the EU.
909.
by lagadu 11y ago
> I have seen only 3 Teslas on the road in my lifetime, besides some promo by the Tesla store. Like he said, anecdote. I guarantee I'll see more than 3 teslas when I walk to the metro station later today when I leave work. I live in
910.
by lagadu 11y ago
> I won't own any vehicle newer than the early 2010s unless it is fully self-driving. Fiesta ST. 2013 (14?) and oodles of fun. full disclosure: it's my "fun on weekends" car.
911.
by lagadu 11y ago
It's a small minority. Even more interesting, while gentrification is arguably the solution/balancing phenomena to this problem, it's generally speaking a term with a negative connotation associated with it.
912.
by lagadu 11y ago
By European standards Germany doesn't have expensive gas at all[1] :) [1]: http://autotraveler.ru/en/spravka/fuel-price-in-europe.html
913.
by lagadu 11y ago
Or even just cut the middle-man (the employer). Here in Denmark if you live more than a set distance from your place of work (IIRC it's 20km) you get tax deductions based on the distance of your commute. This way it's the governme
914.
by lagadu 11y ago
The problem is that it's too late. Urban sprawl already grew so much that it's out of hand, it looks next to impossible to make a public transportation network that would rival the ones we have on our side of the pond. It's n
915.
by lagadu 11y ago
> You want to drive a vehicle that gets less than 20 MPG? Fine, you're also going to pay a gasoline consumption tax to support the social programs that take care of the families your pollution is giving cancer. The US doesn't h
916.
by lagadu 11y ago
Because I want to. The publisher is free to put a paywall up; of course we know they won't because nobody will ever pay even $1 for the overwhelming majority of the content they have and no publisher in the world has control over my br
917.
by lagadu 11y ago
Yes that's it: it always feels like bragging.
918.
by lagadu 11y ago
> Are you sure that isn't an act? It isn't. I'm from a economically below-average country in Europe, have lived in a couple others and I've settled down in the north. Almost none of my friends (particularly back home
919.
by lagadu 11y ago
It's not insurers who pay it's the central bank. It has control over the currency itself; because of that it can (and has to) always pay. > Another motivation would be if you are concerned about having your assets frozen. I&#x2
920.
by lagadu 11y ago
I was not, at any of them. Yes, I was effectively giving them my time but it doesn't sound unreasonable when you compare it to the alternative: I'd spend that same time answering whatever obscure coding questions or far-fetched ex
921.
by lagadu 11y ago
I'm not saying anything objective about its worth. Under some circumstances it has a certain value, under other circumstances it has a different one. By bias I meant that you flat out said that Windows and a few other MS products aren&
922.
by lagadu 11y ago
Fees for card payments are a US thing, mostly because they predominantly use credit instead of debit I believe.
923.
by lagadu 11y ago
> By storing your cash in a bank, you are exposed to both the bank's insolvency Only for very large amounts, at least in Europe, the central bank insures your money from its own reserves in case of bank failure up to a certain amoun
924.
by lagadu 11y ago
> I find Windows (and Outlook and let's not talk about Sharepoint) not a good product and thus not worth the money This is exactly what I mean. Them opening up the patents wouldn't change your bias against their products (justi
925.
by lagadu 11y ago
> almost nobody does this. Maybe this is an US thing. I changed jobs last year and nearly every single recruitment process involved exactly that, after a remote interview them giving me a small project worth 2-5 hours of work and then go
926.
by lagadu 11y ago
The group of people that still hates Microsoft by and large will always hate them until they die. Even if they opened up the patents they'd still be hated for "being evil". There's next to nothing to gain from doing and
927.
by lagadu 11y ago
> That is what happens when you put government into too much of control. This doesn't make any sense, most of the leading countries have far more governmental control over education than the US does. If "governmental control&
928.
by lagadu 11y ago
13 year olds should be treated like 13 years olds: they go to school and after they leave they get to go hang out with their boy/girlfriends, do sports, ride their bikes around or play videogames with their friends.
929.
by lagadu 11y ago
> Everything you once knew was completely wrong and you have to re-learn everything. It's really cool in practice but the way you phrased it makes it sound dreadful :)
930.
by lagadu 11y ago
Details vary by country, but in the three countries I've lived in 100% of your salary. It's paid by social security, even if your salary is in the seven figures, then you also paid a high amount to social security to cover for it.

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