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by netrus 3y ago
It's brave to announce this over the summer, a classic time for minor topics dominating public discussion. So far, however, there has been no hysteria, so I guess their communication department knows what they are doing, or got lucky.
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by netrus 3y ago
I am not aware of any traditional German dish that resembles a pizza - and we definitely have a tradition of bread making. So apparently it was not obvious to everyone.
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by netrus 3y ago
This plot point in Goldfinger blew my mind as a teenager (spoiler: Goldfinger does not want to steal gold - he want's to make the gold in Fort Knox radioactive, to raise the value of the gold he has). If there is one important subject
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How to request an abandoned community or a mod list reorder(old.reddit.com)
5 points by netrus 3y ago|0 comments
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by netrus 3y ago
But you can't see from the outside if the drive was wiped. How can I be sure that I do not mix up the to-be-wiped and the wiped drives with 99.999% accuracy? That I did not unplug the drive before the whipping was finished? It's m
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by netrus 3y ago
It's a hard problem. Some stores have half-size paper towels, which I prefer, as paper towels are unnecessary large most of the time. So I want to price-compare based on number of sheets, not cm² ;)
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by netrus 3y ago
Another way of saying "inventing hardships" is "raising the bar". People who struggle to find food might do all kinds of horrible things in order to survive - for example at the expense of other humans competing for the
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by netrus 3y ago
The employer must not under-record the time worked - no one forces them to track the duration of breaks.
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by netrus 3y ago
I mean, the people who die of cancer are the problem. If 88% survive instead of 78%, 55% of those who would have died survived (taking these numbers just from your comment).
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by netrus 3y ago
I was referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos_phone_hacking_incid... I did not know about the part of the story involving the brother, I must have missed it at that time.
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by netrus 3y ago
His personal data was most likely obtained and leaked by a foreign state, if memory serves me well. Said foreign state would also not be stopped by any number of men in black suites if it wanted to physically harm Bezos. That's simply
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by netrus 3y ago
Presumably those only accessibly with YouTube Music or for a fee (movie rentals).
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by netrus 3y ago
It can be both.
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by netrus 3y ago
Because then they cannot sell it. It's a BS story, they made a $250k investment because they expect to sell it for much more than that. It's a non-story.
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by netrus 3y ago
If you ever get to Hamburg, Germany, pay a visit to the remarkable Miniatur Wunderland [0]. ... and if you really enjoy niche museums, don't forget the German Museum of Additives [1]! [0] https://www.miniatur-wunderland.de&#
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Reddit bootstraps new German subs with fake posts(old.reddit.com)
6 points by netrus 3y ago|1 comments
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by netrus 3y ago
Reddit is launching new German subs that are direct equivalents to popular English subs (like r/tipofmytongue). They have just sent messages to top German reddit users that ask them to interact with the content in the new subs - respon
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by netrus 3y ago
Hm, the technical university I studied at (in a STEM program) has dozens of Erasmus partner universities, including programs in Sevilla, Milan, Istanbul and of course Barcelona. Erasmus is definitely open to all fields - maybe your universi
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by netrus 3y ago
Interesting! But the article is a good example of academic overthinking. A lot of theories mentioned in the article would not survive Occam's razor. There is the strong wish that everything ancient was meaningful, when a perfectly fine
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by netrus 3y ago
If these early '00 bridge builder games have taught me anything, you want to go as fast as possible, as you might reach the other side as the bridge is still in the process of collapsing ;)
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by netrus 3y ago
I have several Lacks at my place that are >15 years old. When I ever get sick of them, I will put them on eBay for a free pickup, and within an hour a student will show up and be happy with the free coffee table that they can use in thei
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by netrus 3y ago
Having one spouse at home is a tremendously expensive form of child care, from an economists point of view. But the cost is mostly flat with the number of children, that's true for sure.
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by netrus 4y ago
I know plenty of people who reduced their gas consumption way before their contracts got updated. No financial stimulus, pure feeling of civic duty and solidarity - with Ukraine, with those who already had adjusted contracts, and out of fea
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by netrus 4y ago
Having a hot shower would be rather inconsistent with keeping a place at 15C, at least when the purpose is to save energy.
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by netrus 4y ago
Wildly different meta data and needs for search. With classical music, it's a standard use case to search music composed by X. For most other genres, no one ever searches for a composer. On the other hand, there will hundreds of perfor
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by netrus 4y ago
A lot of this can be explained by our moving of the goalpost towards still attainable goals. At the moment it's the 1.5C goal, that is becoming more and more unrealistic. But of course we will aim for 2C after that, because its still b
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by netrus 4y ago
Am I missing something, or does this series end without explanation in February? Creepy, the artist is a young guy.
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by netrus 4y ago
My brain-teaser back-of-the-napkin skills tell me that's also the order of magnitude of human poop produced in NYC every day (I'd think its closer to 2-3 million kg)!
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by netrus 4y ago
Bot is a problematic example, as it has many different pronunciations depending on meaning and region. But non on the common pronunciations have an 'a' (IPA), like Gracias.
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by netrus 4y ago
Sure, but if you miss your connection you can just take the next train. Frankfurt to Berlin might be impossible, but Hamburg to Berlin is manageable (4-5h), if money is tight, as is Hamburg to Sylt (3h) and many other connections in the 200

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