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by pergadad 8y ago
Fun fact: I'd you go around older and we'll maintained European cities you'll see little holes with metal bars next to most front doors. Those were to scrape your shoes clean of all the street dirt (mainly horse products) bef
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by pergadad 8y ago
I think most or all have English classes in school, but in addition to the drop-out/absenteeism even those that attend these classes often don't end up learning much of the language itself as the teachers either have little traini
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by pergadad 8y ago
This is a common theme across all Western countries, see eg PISA & other OECD data and the excellent and detailed Eurostat statistics: - Girls perform much better in most domains of education (in math & STEM the picture is more mixe
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by pergadad 8y ago
While I very much agree with most of your points I think you have to be careful not to assume malicious intent. Very likely most of the decision makers on the other side are very much thinking they are making the best decisions for their co
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by pergadad 8y ago
Well if you launch your own army of satellites and they smash into and destroy someone else's - will you pay? Will you be able to pay? What if it was another government's spy satellite/military Comms/positioning system a
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by pergadad 8y ago
It's complex and a calculation that you have to do carefully. To start at the most obvious point: what is the subsidy subsidising? The largest cost item of a coal power plant is in building it and the matching infrastructure, then cost
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by pergadad 8y ago
Indeed, the tech world seems to be full of people totally oblivious to branding - anything that's short and snappy and sounds vaguely familiar is 'great', no matter the real world or rest of the world. Actually Google seems t
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by pergadad 8y ago
My local tea shop tells me it's easy to get near caffeine-free tea: as caffeine goes quickly into the water you simply pour water once, let it sit for 3-10 seconds and then throw the water out and pour fresh water on the leaves. I&#x27
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by pergadad 8y ago
But RT openly lies and misleads. So it's not a narrative you can actually consider useful. Chinese propaganda is a bit more honest but omits a lot and is focused on diverting/misleading on key policy issues, see Uighur camps
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by pergadad 8y ago
But the for-profit is owned and governed by the non-profit, so overall it's still non-profit. It's probably about the statues of the nonprofit and certainly at least on part about keeping a separation between income (Google) and a
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by pergadad 8y ago
That's not illegal under the EU directive though...
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Thank you!!
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This is fascinating but being neither a CS nor Maths graduate I'm having trouble following the maths from the moment modulo operations are introduced. Would someone be able to suggest a self-learning resource (book, app, ...) that goes
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by pergadad 8y ago
"use the reporting tools" - as far as I'm aware there is no reporting tool for "this product is fake" and "this review looks fake". If they did want to fight fake reviews they would make reporting easy. Th
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by pergadad 8y ago
Could a national security gag order even cover a sworn statement to Congress?
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by pergadad 8y ago
Most people are happier if they know that they are actively contributing to the world or at least to others people's happiness. Whether that applies to you is a question you have to answer yourself. I wouldn't want to live my life
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by pergadad 8y ago
That doesn't make much sense at all. Ruining goodwill and relationships (and of course trade) with YOUR MOST IMPORTANT ALLIES is certainly not just proxy economic warfare. The EU economy as a whole is bigger than either China or the US
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by pergadad 8y ago
There are some real grievances where China is not playing fair - forced partnerships, cheap loans for state-backed companies, etc. Lots of empty promises each year with no change to the rules and approaches. So while I think trump is insane
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by pergadad 8y ago
I like how it's very selectively showing filters. I can filter by price on my laptop, but not using the store on my Kindle. Alright Amazon, I guess you know who are the captive customers, but I'll not buy another Kindle...
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by pergadad 8y ago
Seems to be the way forward. TripAdvisor recently sent me a message that hotel X remodeled and this they deleted all (?) old reviews. I'm sure the hotel paid a nice sum for that, from seeing the new reviews not much has changed...
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by pergadad 8y ago
For me the comparison of gene and meme blew me away. In short: There are not one but two things in you yearning/working to be reproduced: your genes (not body) and your memes/meme complexes. Thosr memes that are not good at gettin
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by pergadad 8y ago
A very laudable effort and hopefully it goes well. But to be clear, the first ethical smartphone is Fairphone. I don't see how exactly this one could get even close to trying to be ethical in the way Fairphone does, but it might just b
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by pergadad 8y ago
Look at the last paragraph. A good city government will not just aim to meet business easy, they'll also have criteria for ensuring good impact on other policy fields, eg here low income residents. This whole "hands off" appr
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by pergadad 8y ago
Probably this is one reason why gig economy is much bigger in the US than elsewhere (excluding cross-border services delivered from poor to rich countries). Airbnb is big in other places, but Uber much less so.
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by pergadad 8y ago
English is not my mother tongue, but I can skim it easily, maybe not easily than my native German. A lot might also be about writing style: English has developed a very anecdote/story- heavy style. Try to find an article by an author w
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by pergadad 8y ago
Just to respond to your first comment - government contracts normally contain margins for admin (which don't need to be justified by actual cost), most organisations will use these to cover part of the writing process. Equally, mutuall
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Another account lost in the Google void – how many are there?
4 points by pergadad 8y ago|2 comments
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
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by pergadad 8y ago
I always get the impression Amazon doesn't care about customers until they complain, and then they are suddenly very nice. Why not add some obvious QA features like: - reporting fake reviews - reporting fake/misleading listings -
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by pergadad 8y ago
I get the impression that you didn't read the actual article. There are three complaints all basically about the contractual conditions Google imposes, two about imposing Google search and the most interesting one about Google forcing

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