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by pchangr 1y ago
Germany actually uses their own card system .. or cash. They are very much against visa/mastercard due to their “high commission fees” and “privacy concerns” Girocard charges a 0,3% fee vs visa/mastercard 3% See: https:/&#x2
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by pchangr 1y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20250707213532/https://www.reddi...
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by pchangr 1y ago
Afghanistan was almost never a democracy tho. It was mostly monarchies until 1973.. then a totalitarian state from 1978-ish until 1989… then mostly in civil war until 1996.. when it was again mostly a totalitarian state.. then it got invade
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by pchangr 1y ago
May I suggest you to show some data supporting your claims?
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by pchangr 1y ago
That really just means dictatorships are a common form of government in Asia IMHO. Progress is orthogonal to the form of government, I think.
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by pchangr 1y ago
I didn’t claim it violated them either. I just thought having a curious story was a good enough value for this post to exist. I don’t think it needs code or a product.. in fact .. I wish more people did this kind of posts.. and just encoura
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by pchangr 1y ago
From the guidelines: “Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that
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by pchangr 1y ago
That’s not true. There’s a whole business industry in Germany for legal buro’s who specialize in basically extorting business into paying for their services to make their websites or compliant .. or be sued and face a 54k euro fine. I perso
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by pchangr 1y ago
No, this was not about the alternative image format. This was about the browsers and screen resolutions that we choose to fully support. We took the data directly from the website visitors analytics. Basically .. resolutions under 1024px
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by pchangr 1y ago
I absolutely agree. I’m very glad we have accessibility requirements in the EU.
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by pchangr 1y ago
By that logic, yes. Thankfully, EU regulation forces them to implement accessibility even if it makes no sense by that specific logic. As for Linux users… I do recall they were even less than the 3%. Firefox users were more tho. In any case
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by pchangr 1y ago
I literally decided not to serve the German market so I could get away with not having to deal with German regulations
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by pchangr 1y ago
I can tell you, I have personally worked with a global corporation and we estimated that for one of their websites, supporting the 3% that we exclude by using “modern standards” would be more costly than the amount of revenue they get from
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by pchangr 1y ago
Look, what I can tell you is this: …. 7am is the starting time of school classes in Guatemala City. It’s 7am so it doesn’t clashes with office hours.. which start at 8am.. most of the time. But if you’re lucky you can choose to start at 7am
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by pchangr 1y ago
Sure, and what I meant was .. calling 7am “late” is a bit of an overstatement.. people start working at 8/9 am. Where I come, by 6am you’re already in your car on your way to work/school. And THERE.. 7am is late. But Germany… no
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by pchangr 1y ago
LMAO!!!! Have you ever been in a German street at 7am?!!!! Not even breakfast places are open at that time
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by pchangr 1y ago
Then maybe it was just a choice of words. My main point was that being depressed is not the same as being sad like being happy is not the same as being manic.
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by pchangr 1y ago
I don’t think you understand depression. There’s a big difference between depression and sadness … like the difference between purple and green. They are just not comparable. This is not shades of a different color. My personal experience
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by pchangr 1y ago
Advice for ADHD people helps everyone in the same way that any accessibility improvement commonly helps everyone.
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by pchangr 1y ago
Feminism, in my understanding, advocates for gender equality. It doesn’t deny differences among genders but addresses the flaws in the system that unfairly punish or prioritizes one gender over other. And achieving gender equality sometime
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by pchangr 1y ago
That is closer to “empathy” than compassion. Compassion has no reason other recognizing the other person as “human”. “Mitgefühl” seems closer to understanding how the other person feels and therefore acting on it.. empathy. Perhaps you coul
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by pchangr 1y ago
I think it’s hard to “get” modern art with no context. I think you can start by asking yourself: “what am I looking at?”.. and just reply yourself .. out loud .. in your mind… however .. then .. explore what you feel .. what it reminds you
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by pchangr 1y ago
Zoom? Better? Maybe to have a videocall.. but add a couple hundred users to a call .. and you start hitting limits. Granted, those are not very common but I think the killer feature of slack and teams is discoverable channels. Dont get me
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by pchangr 1y ago
Because science is not looking for the absolute truth. Science is one (of many) method of knowledge generation.. which stands upon logic .. given P and Q .. we conclude X. And that will be true even if one day discover that given P and Q an
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by pchangr 1y ago
Artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, malaria treatments researched exclusively in China by Tu Youyou are considered one of the most important developments in medicine and were good enough for her to qualify for the 2015 Nobel prize. I could
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by pchangr 1y ago
Having tried the whole startup thing in Berlin.. then comparing financing opportunities in say.. London… honestly I don’t think there’s much in favor of deep tech startups in Berlin other than .. a lot of universities being physically prese
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by pchangr 1y ago
I think that this was a sarcastic remark about the grant being very low
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by pchangr 1y ago
Mmmm… El Salvador uses US dollars
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by pchangr 1y ago
I believe the red-green blind means you can’t distinguish between different shades of red and green ., not that you can’t see red and green. So you’re safe as long as you’re not using multiple red and green shades
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by pchangr 1y ago
The point of bitcoin, in words of their creator is to “allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.” That’s it.

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