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by lgbr 10y ago
> Wouldn't the answer there be to try making your own of those too? The difference with carbonation is that I can get CO2 and carbonation equipment really easily, and in different forms from different suppliers. I could even get som
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by lgbr 10y ago
I'm actually dreading the day that I go to the store and find that my favorite soda syrups have been discontinued. I prefer diet sodas over coffee for my daily caffeine intake. I started using a SodaStream a couple years ago, and I&#x2
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by lgbr 10y ago
In order to be fair to people elsewhere, it need not be free. You simply need people elsewhere to pay the same license that the people in the UK do. Currently it's not at all possible to pay the license fee and watch from outside the U
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by lgbr 11y ago
> It is about the vast majority of skilled immigrants who have to go through the H-1B visa as a step in their immigration process. They don't have to go through the H-1B process. Generally, wealthy people are people don't just
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by lgbr 11y ago
In European countries it's common that civil servants achieve a distinct status from an employee. As an employee, your rights are relatively typical (you have a 1 month notification period if you are to be fired or laid off, certain pr
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by lgbr 11y ago
Because that content was also licensed by Netflix to other companies. House of Cards, for example, was licensed to companies in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, India, and others before Netflix's arrival there, and when Netflix did arr
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by lgbr 11y ago
Shortly after moving from the US to Germany, I was asked to investigate Klarna as a solution for payment processing for my company. I was pretty ill-suited for it, as I had no idea about paying by 'invoice'. Payment by invoice mea
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by lgbr 11y ago
> You could buy a more portable laptop that you wouldn't mind carrying around, for example the new Macbook Retina or an MS Surface. Here I think you're setting yourself up for failure. What happens when said laptop is stolen, h
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by lgbr 11y ago
This 247 € factors in vehicle costs, taxes, maintenance, and insurance. Keep in mind that actual fuel costs for this stretch with a VW Golf VII would be 25.4 € (3.3 l/100km * 550km * 1.40 €/liter). So you're right. If you go
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by lgbr 11y ago
> Germany -> Car loving country with a highly efficient railway system, and a well serviced road system as well. So it should be achievable. Germany has a highly efficient railway system and the country is so small that I can cross th
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by lgbr 11y ago
In relative terms, charging an electric car from home is cheap. It is even negligible enough to where the companies that sell you electric cars will do so by comparing the purchase price of an electric car to the cost of a normal gasoline c
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by lgbr 12y ago
> Dedicated lines such as telephones exist. In places where it does exist, this wont be the case for long. Telephone lines are facing obsolescence and at first you're going to see them stop being used, and then you're likely to
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by lgbr 12y ago
> We don't have the same problem in europe with net neutrality. Europe actually does, and net neutrality violations are actually commonplace within Europe. In fact, the EU documents a list of currently on-going violations of net neu
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by lgbr 12y ago
Setting up a private repository is a PITA? It's one command: docker run -p 5000:5000 registry Want to back it with S3 or another storage provider? It's still one command: docker run -e SETTINGS_FLAVOR=s3 -e AWS_BUCKET=a
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by lgbr 12y ago
No, not off the top of my head. You could probably just arrange your posts in src/documents in this format, and let your layout do a lot of work for you such that each of the files in src/documents/<lang> contains littl
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by lgbr 12y ago
You might look into docpad, then. Jekyll and others are largely built around blogging, but docpad is more of a framework for writing code to generate static sites. It does a much better job of allowing you to do anything you want, porvided
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by lgbr 12y ago
What would make you think that foreign governments would be any better? Supposedly privacy friendly European governments engage in plenty of wiretapping[1][2][3]. What I find different about what happens in the US is that these events are h
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by lgbr 12y ago
What's strange is, USPS actually seems to be aware of such services and perhaps endorses them. When I signed up for Virtual Post Mail, and proceeded to setup a mail forward on the USPS website, I got this message: > Our records indi
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by lgbr 12y ago
That's not too terribly different from a lot of places in the US. Tuition for in-state students at public universities can run $2,000 to $3,000 USD per semester, and every penny (and then some extra) is covered by unsubsidized student
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by lgbr 13y ago
I feel exactly the same way. The government has quite a bit of authority over its citizens that other first world governments do not. Free speech protection is really poor (see low-violence video games and the suppression the NDP is facing)
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by lgbr 13y ago
I don't quite buy this. In Germany you are legally required to register where you live with the government. Failing to do so can result in penalties, and your registration paperwork ("Anmeldung") is required for almost any go
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by lgbr 13y ago
In the United States, you generally have your specific apartment number as part of your address, like so: John Smith 123 W Main St #456 Pleasantville, PA 12345 The mailman will then find the mailbox labeled '#456' at the apartment
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by lgbr 13y ago
I've generally found that the order of the names on the doorbell list roughly matches your floor. So if you're on the 2nd floor, right side from the stairs, your doorbell is second from the bottom, on the right side. Obviously, th
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by lgbr 13y ago
Not true anymore. http://www.explosion.com/45404/call-duty-ghosts-pc-install-5...
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by lgbr 13y ago
This theory doesn't hold up at all. Germany nearly flattened, and yet, they had the Wirtschaftswunder ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtschaftswunder ). In fact, it wasn't just that Germany was bombed, but
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by lgbr 13y ago
Generally, government retirement programs aren't really tied to citizenship. You have to have contributed to social security for a number of years to receive benefits. I'm a US citizen, but my income is German, so I will ultimatel
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by lgbr 13y ago
> They're making the claim that food can be entirely replaced by Soylent I don't see where, in this quote, that claim is made. The claim is made that you wouldn't have to _worry_ about food. That is, for the meals where th
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by lgbr 13y ago
Knowing English is important for every startup, let alone every software developer. 1. Outside of English-speaking countries, and particularly in the Schengen area, teams are made up of people whose first language isn't the local langu
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by lgbr 13y ago
I see it this way as well, but most of the people I know who bring up this subject as a problem are either xenophobic or have some sort of cognitive dissonance. These kinds of statistics fail to point out the billions of people who have com
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by lgbr 13y ago
So if you keep peacefully not paying your taxes, you will be subjected to violence, yes? A person grabbing you and throwing you out of your house is violence, is it not?

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