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by pille 11y ago
You might want to try getting out of the HN/SV bubble more often.
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by pille 11y ago
It's pretty meaningless to me and I've lived in North Carolina. I have no idea what it would be like for another Raleigh to spring up there, plus North Carolina is not a nation state. I think it's just hard to come up with us
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by pille 11y ago
No, not really. If you can manipulate the price on one exchange, it will drag the prices in the other exchanges along with it. MtGox's high BTC rates were too close to arbitrage until it was clear you wouldn't get your money out.
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by pille 11y ago
> Thanks for using non-free music. You're putting a lot of faith in GEMA's judgement on the matter, aren't you?
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by pille 11y ago
Insulting a cop is actually a crime in Germany. But ironically, you're probably in less danger for doing it than you would be in the US, where it's technically your right, but effectively not. In Germany, you'd get a citation
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by pille 11y ago
I've had this problem for years, and I think it's because I often switch my apple account between countries. The update notifications and the updates themselves come through on two different channels, which are usually out of sync
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by pille 12y ago
I think if you replace 'hackers' with 'guys' you get the basic definition of government: at some point, a nation picks its 'biggest meanest' (i.e. most capable) guy(s) to protect it and maintain order. Democrac
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by pille 12y ago
Every day, thousands of people smuggle improperly-packed liquids and gels through TSA security screening for completely benign reasons.
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by pille 12y ago
Wouldn't front running as a broker be illegal anyway, or is bitcoin somehow different? IIRC the SEC has already showed that it won't ignore financial crimes just because they're done with bitcoin. It's not their own expl
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by pille 12y ago
Netflix will face no competition in Germany as long as they choose to offer the content in its original language. Those other services insist mostly on showing the ruined/dubbed versions.
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by pille 12y ago
For this specific problem though, "settings" -> "privacy" -> "location services" allows you to turn off location tracking per app in iOS, or turn it off altogether.
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by pille 13y ago
He claims to have notified Criticker in 2010, and links to a post on their forum (username teario): http://www.criticker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2063#p188...
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by pille 13y ago
I was curious too, so I tried to look it up. According to the DOT, it looks like driving mileage has trended downward slightly since a peak in 2007, FWIW. http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/fil
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by pille 13y ago
There is hope. I ordered a SEPA withdrawal around New Year's Day, and received the deposit a few days ago. It was a very pleasant surprise to see the funds actually show up.
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by pille 13y ago
They use your public PGP key to encrypt mails sent to you, before storing them on their server. This is an optional feature, and turning it on will make webmail and smartphone mail unusable. Edit, source: (even if you read German it was tri
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by pille 13y ago
> Definitely makes it clear where the real power lies in our society. It does? I don't think the logic follows. Just because Wall Streeters are paranoid and sensitive about their public image doesn't mean they are not invincibl
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by pille 13y ago
We already know their behavior at work is pretty terrible. The article just highlights that, deep down, they're not actually great guys once you get to know them.
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by pille 13y ago
Well physically speaking, sine waves ARE the only thing you can put through dell speakers, or any speakers. Dell would have to set an upper limit on the wave superposition, or set a top frequency.
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by pille 13y ago
German healthcare is clearly superior by any measure not thought up by a Koch-Brothers think-tank. It covers 100% of treatment, and even if it didn't, list prices for treatment are not off-the-wall absurd. I'm not arguing that the
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by pille 13y ago
From what I've heard from colleagues, and seen while working on projects there, Munich sucks precisely because it's so expensive and the pay does not track the cost of living. Working in Frankfurt pays better, and living there is
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by pille 13y ago
Not to go too deep into the weeds, but there are comparable trade-offs, such as premiums being a percentage of pay instead of a flat fee. The German system is without a doubt better, but I think (and hope) that the US is closing this gap wi
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by pille 13y ago
It doesn't. Germany is having its own little housing price explosion in every major city where there is employment. Prices are being driven up by wealthy non-tech investors throughout the EU thinking German (and London) real estate is
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by pille 13y ago
And in Germany I'd be hard-pressed to find you a non-management tech job that makes north of 90k USD/year. It would be great if someone could prove me wrong.
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by pille 13y ago
> The large investment banks actually have a code they can append to their orders so they can jump to the top of the order cue. Source? I believe you but I'd like to be able to quote an authority if I'm telling someone else abo
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by pille 13y ago
Pandoc does this well. It's what I use.
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by pille 13y ago
One of the biggest problems with disability pay is the barrier it creates to joining the workforce. Losing payments when you get employed is a huge disincentive to looking for employment. That's the opposite of what UBI is trying to do