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by pintxo 6y ago
Germany was actually planning to give away masks for free to other countries as they seemingly ordered too much. And before they are aging past their best-used-by date in storage, better give them away.
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by pintxo 6y ago
As someone "reading with the mouse" I love them until the mouseover appears over the piece of text, I was just going to read.
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by pintxo 6y ago
Reader View is available in Firefox.
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Randomized response can help collect sensitive information responsibly(pair.withgoogle.com)
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by pintxo 6y ago
This, enterprise software seems to be largely targeted to make a good impression on the golf course, not to work well in practice and show sympathy to it's users.
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by pintxo 6y ago
While we are here, anyone knows a resource explaining the general interface decision made by the teams designers? Asking for a friend who still struggles to understand the rational for the top menu selection, ordering and naming. And also j
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by pintxo 6y ago
Not my reading. I understood they had two ground crews with charging equipment and possibly batteries such that at every airport they land, the ground crew arrives in time to recharge the plane. Which was necessary, as there is no electrica
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by pintxo 6y ago
Thats pretty much what I meant with "funny".
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by pintxo 6y ago
Funny that being ethical and prioritizing to not do harm is not on the list.
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by pintxo 6y ago
Nice. Being a happy customer of https://poeditor.com I'd like to point out that there's also a service for this out there.
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by pintxo 6y ago
CIV VI (and its add-ons) has slightly improved here with religious units that can actively distribute your religion and also fight other religious units. Also the "band" gaining cultural points for your civ are somewhat going into
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by pintxo 6y ago
Actually, there are no sirens in Berlin at all. They got all decomissioned in the 90s. Some municipalities still habe sirens, either because past experiences with industry accidents (chemical plants) or to summon the (citizen) fire brigate.
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by pintxo 6y ago
> Those animal/shape hierarchies are indeed very easy to grasp, and they are also useless. That's a wonderful description.
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by pintxo 6y ago
The predigital and national solution are laws requiring a a copy to be sent to the national library. What's the digital, and post-national solution?
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by pintxo 6y ago
My preferred Sushi place will recognize me by my phone number and take my order within seconds. Payment in cash at the door. There is no reason why the process could not be quick and hassle free, even using the phone.
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by pintxo 6y ago
Sure, as in: if the spec is flawless, we can source out the coding to a bunch of minimum wage dudes in {location of your choice}. Anyone happy with this approach?
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by pintxo 6y ago
Let's face it, the FT is published in English, and I would not be irritated at all if BaFin was still looking to issue a call for proposals to find a translator to translate the FT articles into German, on the day the whole scam was fi
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by pintxo 6y ago
Is it normal to drill a 1km hole under the Beach and out to sea to land a trans-ocean cable? I was under the impression you merely digg it into the Beach for 1-2m?
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by pintxo 6y ago
Given that capital gains are taxed at lower rates then income, its actually a tax-avoidance schema above everything else.
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by pintxo 6y ago
But it's ~hard to know if~ unlikely your CEO is this single person out of 8 billion, especially because you only considered searching in a pool of optimistically maybe 1 thousand candidates.
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by pintxo 6y ago
Problematic might be the delay in the process. Anti-trust cases can take decades until a final verdict is given.
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by pintxo 6y ago
The blog is from 2017!
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by pintxo 6y ago
It's a very understandable mindset and I tend to sympathize with it. On the other hand, fast-tracked does not necessarily mean less safe. As far as my understanding for clinical trials goes, we can still have the exact same tests with
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by pintxo 6y ago
That would be an interesting task for some scholars: "We have a bunch of technology literature here, could you translate it for us into classical greek?"
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by pintxo 6y ago
The EU - as political body - had nearly no say in the measure in Europe. Germany - a EU member - is itself a federal republic. Here, it's not the federal government but the state and local country/city governments who managed the
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by pintxo 6y ago
If readability in 1000s of years of time is the goal, wouldn't you want to add as many (common) languages as possible? And for each book add as many translations of them as possible? That way they will be able to read most/all eve
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by pintxo 6y ago
I did not immediately see anything on standards? ISOC, IETF, W3C, ISO... Do they hope to redevelop a single standard to rule them all from the books alone?
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by pintxo 6y ago
Not if I want it to be converted to a date ;-)
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by pintxo 6y ago
It's enforced to the point where the access control system to the building, even if it tracks entry and exit timestamps, cannot be used for e.g. time keeping or to monitor employee attendance. German companies will have to have a separ
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by pintxo 6y ago
It's likely an effect of data privacy being established as one of the fundamental rights guaranteed by the German constitution and further strengthened by specific laws like the German data privacy law, which is a lot older than GDPR.

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