netrus

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by netrus 8y ago
For context: Anthea Bell recently died.
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by netrus 8y ago
You are confusing the Guardian with something else. The Guardian is left-leaning, independent, and not associated with Rupert Murdoch.
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by netrus 8y ago
This is a masterpiece of framing by Google. Am I the only one who does not believe for a second that this technique will be mostly used to do calls for consumers, but to call WITH consumers? We will get back to asking hotlines strange quest
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by netrus 8y ago
German perspective: Wow, what a dramatic shift in Eastern Germany! Maybe it is just a general upwards trend in Germany with little room for improvement in Southern Germany, but it might also be the beginning of the end of Eastern Germany&#x
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by netrus 8y ago
Maybe that's a chance for European internet startups? Entry barriers for foreign startups give European companies a headstart, while successful, more mature foreign companies will comply with EU standards to get access to the market. S
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by netrus 8y ago
This is very confusing. Your landing page is available in German, but the app is not available in Germany. Ratings in the Play Store are horrible, and support responds to bad reviews in the wrong language (English Review, Spanish response).
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by netrus 9y ago
In the end, half of everything you pay for anything is labor. 100B / 100,000 jobs = 1M / job. Sounds about right to me! Remember that they will need to manufacture the panels, transport the panels, prepare the sites, build the str
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by netrus 9y ago
Hm, that doesn't sound very convincing to me. When I fly over Germany, it appears to me that actually almost every land is owned by people that are affected by the environment a lot: Farmers. Furthermore, air polution is one of the big
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by netrus 9y ago
The order of magnitude is correct: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(diameter+of+blood+cel... (convert erythrocyte | diameter to meters)×(convert diameter of Neptune's orbit to kilometers)/(convert Earth
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by netrus 9y ago
I think it is based on Böll's "Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral" [1] - not only a great short story, but a great title as well ("Anecdote concerning the Lowering of Productivity" - but also "[An] anecdote
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by netrus 9y ago
Think of it as Pascal's wager. We are talking about catastrophy here, the cost function is quite out of balance when looking at the alternative of "Reducing our standard of living a bit even though the catastrophy would not have h
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by netrus 9y ago
I don't get the demo - if I enter google.com, shouldn't it check for google.de instead of google.com.de?
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by netrus 9y ago
Have you checked kaggle for relevant datasets?
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by netrus 9y ago
This is not a joke (or is it?): The stock is up 243.44% intraday at the moment.
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Long Island Iced Tea Corp. To Rebrand as “Long Blockchain Corp.”(markets.businessinsider.com)
3 points by netrus 9y ago|2 comments
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Dagen H: The right-hand traffic diversion(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by netrus 9y ago|0 comments
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by netrus 9y ago
It's good that they are going after individuals in Germany and the US in the VW case. All too often illegal behavior is only a risk to the company but no (substantial) personal risk to the individuals involved.
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Google Translate Community(translate.google.com)
1 points by netrus 9y ago|0 comments
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Wahl-O-Mat: German Election Decision Support System(translate.google.de)
1 points by netrus 9y ago|0 comments
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by netrus 9y ago
Same in Germany. In Hamburg, the Critical Mass bikers make use of this trick: They are cycling as one large group, and thus are treated like a single vehicle (a special rule, intended for groups of bike racers): once the first biker is on t
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by netrus 9y ago
In German, the Job title is usually gendered (and male), so f/m notes that males and females are looked for -> "Ingenieur (m/f)" vs "Ingenieur oder Ingenieurin"
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by netrus 9y ago
Not working for Facebook, but while their business is an advertising engine, let's not pretend they do not offer something else to their users. Social media has changed the way our society works, how families, politics and friendships
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by netrus 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the argument is that total payroll is way above any dividend payments. It's a good point, but I think it fails to account for the investment of the employees in form of opportunity cost/work.
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by netrus 10y ago
Happened to me in Germany as well. I always wonder about the incentive to the bad guy, but it is really great considering the hassel of getting all the new documents is far worse than the loss of the money I usually carry with me. The polic
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Why language is not everything that Noam Chomsky said it is(aeon.co)
2 points by netrus 10y ago|0 comments
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by netrus 10y ago
You seem to assume that pictures are not copyrighted material.
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Elbphilharmonie slow motion [interactive video](countdown.elbphilharmonie.de)
1 points by netrus 10y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What podcasts do you recommend?
3 points by netrus 10y ago|2 comments
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by netrus 10y ago
While I do not know if that number is correct, a Boing if engineered to be as light as possible, while the lid should be as heavy as possible. The density of a plane is way lower than that of water, as Tom Hanks recently proved ;)
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by netrus 10y ago
Good read, he appears quite sane. In a nutshell, he has hope we do only know Trump on steroids, and he might not be a likable person, but in the end Trump has the necessary discomfort with the status quo to move the economy ahead - not the

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