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by levosmetalo 6y ago
The issue is people are just not aware on the corruption in Germany because there's no "personal" and "everyday" corruption in a daily life. But if you look "up" the amount of corruption rise to the astoni
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Even though losing the job is not a punishment, not everyone even lost his job. Andreas Sheuer is still in charge of transport as a federal Minister, despite the 500,000,000 € heavy corruption scandal. Von der Leyen got even "promoted&
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Why would it matter if it's an American or Chinese company? It's a sad world where we need to decide about company, product, person, idea, book or whatever based on their perceived country, colour, race, ideology, ...
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
I gave up after realizing that Signal will not deliver message for a couple of days and that message notification doesn't work. Why wasting personal credit on something that is clearly inferior from the usability point of view. And aft
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
3. Write an integration to the local cemetery, and after funeral is successfully detected serve "alive/dead" badge on the profile page.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Many would argue that the main benefit of studying in the US for an average foreign student is the possibility to live in the US, get some good connection in the US that could help him later and an opportunity to get a job in the US. If the
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
> I wonder what results you would see for something like yahoo, the daily mail, reddit, or other sites that heavily rely on ad revenue, which attempt to force the user to accept the cookies through non-obvious no buttons, or long process
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
If top HN comment completely misses the point on targeting and shows zero understanding what does it mean, and also considers "site is in Dutch" as "hyper targeted" what chance have an average marketer to properly set ta
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
> But my personal view is that sacrificing safety so people can get from A to B a little faster is not worth it, and perhaps it's not clear whether or not speed is a big factor, but why risk it? Whats the rush? It's not that si
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Too bad Kusturica ruined his chance to get big in Hollywood with "Arizona Dream" which is by far hist worst film.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
You mean like EU companies are not forced to stop trading with Iran, it was their free decision.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
> Several Austrian and German Newspapers present me with a clear popup choice "Accept Tracking" or "Pay Money" I'we only seen "Accept ads" or "Pay Money", which makes it bit different. There a
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
> If the information is worth it, I pay. So it's up to you to decide if the information is worthy? After already seeing that information? And you promise you will forget that information after not liking it and not paying for it?
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Consent needs to be explicit or there's no consent. Otherwise, we'd be back in the days of putting a message on the site telling "by using our website you accept our ToS and need to give use your firstborn child".
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
> I'm a diehard Firefox fan, but I will be honest No, you are not. You are a Google marketing tool. And this is not ad-hominem from my side, since you made a claim about yourself the main part of your argument. Google is known for i
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
I got sick of Amazon trying to squeeze the last cent from me that I now consciously avoid it, even in case it is "the cheapest". It happened to me many time that Amazon show me higher price when I go there and search directly, the
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Passive aggressive way is sometimes the only possible way when the imbalance of power is so overwhelming that you don't even get the possibility to express your perspective, let alone defend it directly.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Of course, people can work on whatever they like on their free time. The developer in case chooses to abandon his open-source projects to work for a company of his choice. Nobody forced him to take this job, it was his choice.
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by levosmetalo 7y ago
> "74. Of the electrical power transformer stations targeted, one transformer station supplied power to the air defence co-ordination network while the other supplied power to the northern-sector operations centre. Both these facili
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by levosmetalo 7y ago
Killing 500 civilians would be considered a war crime if anyone else except US military does it.
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by levosmetalo 7y ago
But then you need to create that zip file with the appropriate folder and file structure. I fear that would be too much to ask for then non-technical person that struggles with doing git commit.
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by levosmetalo 7y ago
What's wrong with that? I find many people are more comfortable to share private information and seek advice anonymously on the internet than face to face. And in this anonymous stranger setting, many people are actually more inclined
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by levosmetalo 7y ago
? I wonder if the modern genetic composition of Dutch society impacts that statistic. The massive growth in length is something that happened to the indigenous Dutch population, but the effect won't be present in the Dutch who hail fro
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by levosmetalo 7y ago
Just because one country decided to change its official name there's no reason all other languages and countries in the world would need to follow.
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by levosmetalo 7y ago
Even that is not that simple. You have set your browser to US-English and you expect your date to be displayed that way in the application, but you see something completely different because your OS happens to be set to French.
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by levosmetalo 7y ago
I agree with you 100%. Improving my productivity for 20% will not give me a 20% salary raise, since those two don't actually correlate. It would just make me more worn down and exhausted when I leave the office, and require would longe
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by levosmetalo 7y ago
It doesn't make you slower either. And shooting at a jumping target is still a bit more difficult than shoot at the linearly moving target.
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by levosmetalo 7y ago
You need to remember that F-35 is a peace project. It is supposed to suck up money from the military industry that would otherwise be employed to do much more harm to the humans than F-35 would ever be able to.

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