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by odiroot 5y ago
From Wikipedia: [..] Islamic Resistance Movement") is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist,[c] militant,[16] and nationalist organization.
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by odiroot 5y ago
Is 21st century going to be all about wars over water sources?
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by odiroot 5y ago
Are these the same people who want to vote without showing their ID?
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by odiroot 5y ago
> Six to eight weeks of vacation, plentiful Holidays, a 35-hour work week. That's very rare even for jobs with good employers.
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by odiroot 5y ago
In Germany, even good software engineering jobs pay on average 2-3x less than their US equivalents.
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by odiroot 5y ago
N900 was absolutely my favourite out of all phones I owned. It felt like such a power-user device.
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by odiroot 5y ago
I chuckled at your picking up that part out of this whole (really great) book. The general story line about the terrorists trying to "deal" with the global warming is ahead of its time. Don't want to spoil it for anyone, but
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by odiroot 5y ago
Thanks Github, whole team could clock out early.
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by odiroot 5y ago
> See VW and Wireguard You probably meant Wirecard.
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by odiroot 5y ago
Because most of the developed world (if not whole) is already there. How do you plan to implement it in less-develop states?
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by odiroot 5y ago
> Last, signing bonuses are quite large... Is it a US-specific thing? Never heard of anyone getting it.
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by odiroot 5y ago
> My wife is South Korean so I'm biased. But I've been to Japan and South Korea and if you're looking for one of the most modern nations in the world, I strongly recommend you go to Korea. The only comparable country I&#x2
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by odiroot 5y ago
Probably, if you take good care of them and most importantly avoid wearing them every single day. Leather shoes need resting periods.
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by odiroot 5y ago
> - Asyncio from the ground up > - Python only fallback if the C extension fails to build These two are really big! The former, for first-party async support, making it much easier to use with async frameworks. The latter would make i
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by odiroot 5y ago
No, just entering the 5th wave.
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by odiroot 5y ago
Vapor-wave is definitely on the meme side. Synth-wave is probably the most "serious" and retro-wave is usually just synonym for the former.
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by odiroot 5y ago
> As for the SynthWave (2.0 because the original SynthWave happened in very early 80s and I do not know why it is called that way since it is unrelated and I prfere to call it RetroWave) it is still produced. The original was just called
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by odiroot 5y ago
> I hate the word "sprint" which comes from the much hated "agile" culture Lowercase agile culture is not hated. What's hated is usually completely wrong implementation of that idea and cargo-cultism. Even more
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by odiroot 5y ago
> because somehow something worse was foisted upon us. Hot-desking without any personalisation opportunity is the next big thing. Just rows and rows of homogenous work terminals. Plug in, crunch, go out.
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by odiroot 5y ago
> For example, the Taiwanese use traditional Chinese whereas Mainland China use simplified Chinese It may be political though. As in Taiwan keeping up with the "true" Chinese tradition -- as opposed to post-Cultural-Revolution
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by odiroot 5y ago
> There are so many shops in Berlin where I constantly wonder how the hell they make enough money to even afford the rent. Some of them are just money-laundering fronts for organised crime.
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by odiroot 5y ago
I wouldn't be as harsh, but indeed that decision is a bit weird. They cannot really count on cheap labour, or "friendly" economic incentives. And seeing the case of Tesla factory, it's not so easy and fast. One great thi
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by odiroot 5y ago
I noticed this in Chengdu and Taipei and wondered a few times, why go up just to go down. Thanks for explaining this!
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by odiroot 5y ago
> how deeply associated dense, urban environments are with random violence and crime. > If I could live in an environment like Berlin, I might consider it You made me chuckle. Berlin is heavily associated with crime. There's mult
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by odiroot 5y ago
> You can just nibble a little on the edge, and you get western society. That would be Singapore. Western societies are really great at consuming unconstrained amount of taxes without efficiently generating returns.
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by odiroot 5y ago
> Statutory health insurances are Körperschaften des öffentlichen Rechts, which (as the name implies) are public institutions and very much not private companies. This is not so clear-cut as in other countries. Translated from Wiki: >
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by odiroot 5y ago
HipChat had probably the best native desktop chat client for Linux. I really miss it.
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by odiroot 5y ago
> Germany has health insurances, both private and public but there is not one unified system really. The "public" is private anyway, as the Krankenkassen are all private companies (although strictly regulated by BMG). But yes,
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by odiroot 5y ago
> I'm surprised modafinil isn't no. 1 Someone shared modafinil with me once. The effect is crazy. As you say, it lets you focus on single task for quite a long time, without feeling tired. And I'm saying it as a person who
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by odiroot 5y ago
This is what "kids" on Robinhood were doing the last year or so.

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