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by nagrom 14y ago
Whenever I read about natural disasters affecting some large urban dwelling, e.g. Winnipeg, New Orleans, I always wonder why we still have that problem. Not that people are building on that land, but that we haven't yet figured out how to l
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by nagrom 14y ago
I once got shouted at by a man on Osdorfer Weg for crossing against the red man. I've also had that near U-Bahn Schlump and in Berlin, despite there having been no traffic in sight. Never anywhere else though. I've found more strong family
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by nagrom 14y ago
Nope, lived in Hamburg for 3 years and lived in Berlin for 3 months. In fact, southern Germany is the part of the country that I know the least! ;-)
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by nagrom 14y ago
Your first point basically matches mine - in a lot of other countries, it is an act of God. Only in central European countries is it considered to be the responsibility of the home owner. After all, if you don't have power over that sidewal
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by nagrom 14y ago
Not that I have seen. In fact, in my experience, even publications are not all that important! In the UK and Germany both it seems to be 30% of what you know, 60% of who you know and 10% luck.
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by nagrom 14y ago
My own feeling is that Germans guard quite strongly their societal and cultural goods; advanced degrees are a status indicator and it's not a surprise that incorrectly-gained degrees cause outrage to me. Perceived pollution in the shared co
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by nagrom 14y ago
- The fight for gender equality is exclusively 20th century thing; never happened before As another poster already commented, and you already acknowledged, the fight for gender equality has been continuing for at least three centuries. It c
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by nagrom 14y ago
What the fuck has happened to science. This is fairly standard in the science industry (I use the term deliberately). I get rated (in nuclear and particle physics) on how many papers I've published, what indictions of recognition I ge
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by nagrom 14y ago
Sure you do! So do I! You and I probably live in the most expensive 1% of places on the planet. We live incredible lives - our existences are better on average than anything any king had 150 years ago. We have whatever food we want at whate
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by nagrom 14y ago
Yes and no. The Bologna Process, as I understand it, is a harmonisation of academic qualifications designed to allow someone with a degree in Italy to be qualified to do a PhD. in the Netherlands, etc. I'm talking more about a FOSS-style cu
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by nagrom 14y ago
I don't think it is so much of a surprise. The Roman empire enforced a lot of cultural norms and spread a common religion. The religion, in particular, was responsible for a largely common education and that still exists today! It is theref
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by nagrom 14y ago
If someone was to download these images and make a simple site that links them all with transition fades to show the change over time, would it be an infringement of the Euratlas copyright?
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by nagrom 14y ago
Not sure whether you are pro- or anti-EU with that comment... You are aware that the union in year 1 was effectively a somewhat brutal dictatorship imposed by force where human life was treated as a toy for an elite caste that ruled from af
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by nagrom 14y ago
While it is down, the summary of the post is something like: Don't give recruiters access to your reference contacts before an interview. If they are looking for them, there's a high chance that they are simply looking to use them for leads
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On the rise of Islamism in Africa(bbc.co.uk)
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by nagrom 14y ago
"I literally fucking exploded like a WWII bomb at the clueless peon who made that accusation." No you didn't ;-)
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by nagrom 14y ago
Sadly, ROOT is generally-speaking the best part of physics code...if it were me, I would ask that all software used to derive a result be made available. It's far too easy for scientists to make stupid errors in their coding and it cannot
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by nagrom 14y ago
Jan or Jurgen? I was on shift just before Christmas...read my username on here backwards ;-)
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by nagrom 14y ago
I dislike the fact that the library is forever expanding its feature set while a lot of the core code is badly written or buggy (see the method for calculating the angle between two T3vectors, for example). This is crazy when development is
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by nagrom 14y ago
None of it is easy. I haven't read this particular paper, but I have worked on similar experiments. First, you have to create muons and then isolate them in the particle beam and this costs quite some money (typically fire accelerated proto
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by nagrom 14y ago
I would imagine that you use up some of those 'extra' resting heartbeats by doing all that cardio and long distance running, no?
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by nagrom 14y ago
Joseph Heller Kurt Vonnegut's writing is superior to my mind, but a lot of people may disagree.
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by nagrom 14y ago
It sets the scene really well: "A bright, cold day in April" is evocative of exactly that. It's not pretentious and it immediately puts a setting in the readers mind. "and the clocks were striking thirteen." is an immediate juxtaposition of
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Mathbox.js: beautiful mathematical visualisations in WebGL(github.com)
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by nagrom 14y ago
Yes and no. They also use it to buy and store commodities, in the believe that money will devalue and it is better to store it as gold or similar. This line of thinking pretty much creates no value - the money does get kept in a undergr
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by nagrom 14y ago
I think it has to do with the level of mastery. At some point, when you become really good at something (almost anything), you realise that a lot of your own knowledge now comes from explaining the basics to people who don't know anything.
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by nagrom 14y ago
I completely understand that it makes sense to have prosperous, stable neighbours. However, I'm not convinced that the EU as an institution is absolutely necessary to achieve that. Given that it has so many problems with corruption itself,
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by nagrom 14y ago
This is a very low quality article; in fact, it's actually an advertisement! It should be marked by Wired as such. The pictures are all supplied by Mercedes, there's no opinion or consideration of the features except gushingly positive desc
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by nagrom 14y ago
Not all political action should be seen as advantageous for oneself...but it should almost certainly be advantageous for oneself. I think that any politician that proposes sacrificing their own team's quality of life for the benefit of ot
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by nagrom 14y ago
Bluntly: Aside from slightly cheaper holidays, I'm not seeing the advantages for Scandanavia. I'm also confused as to why you think that you would need some political union to benefit from their examples? Not so much for France, but a lot o

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