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by pluma 8y ago
So when Indians believe propaganda and kill a group of travelers, that's a lack of education. What is it when white Americans invade an Italian restaurant in search of child abuse or harass firefighters and grieving parents while accus
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by pluma 8y ago
You're making an awful lot of assumptions of both "educated, urban people" and "uneducated people in remote areas". We're all human and we all fall for these kinds of myths, just different ones. Just look at &q
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by pluma 8y ago
Firefox hides the scheme IFF it is ` http://` . It doesn't hide ` https://` . Also the subdomain AND the path is slightly toned down. The net effect is precisely what Google tries to do and Apple has been doing (nam
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by pluma 8y ago
Isn't this the same logic that still results in Windows users running malware because someone sent them sexy_nudes.jpeg.exe ?
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by pluma 8y ago
Cambridge Analytica would have blatantly violated the GDPR, so there's that.
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by pluma 8y ago
Also UK? Luther, Cracker, Broadchurch come to mind. Even the UK version of Law & Order was surprisingly watchable.
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by pluma 8y ago
Yes, because the assumption is that the police protects you against any aggressors (i.e. criminals) that might attack you. In Germany (and most Western nations) the state has the monopoly of violence, so it's responsible for protecting
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by pluma 8y ago
That's just the thing. IMO there isn't one best country as far as movies (or TV shows) go in the EU. I would say the UK is a strong contender but mostly because BBC and Channel 4 produce pretty high quality straight-to-TV movies.
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by pluma 8y ago
That says more about your porn preferences than about German cinema, though.
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by pluma 8y ago
I didn't say there are no good German movies. I said I don't like most German movies. Logically speaking "30% German movies" means that for every German movie there can be only 2-3 movies from _any other country_ (includ
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by pluma 8y ago
Not just that, the AI also can't recognise fair use. The only legitimate (read: non-overbearing, not publishing individual creators by erring on the side of registered rights holders) implementation of this process would be if the regi
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by pluma 8y ago
I'd be fine with "30% from any country in the EU", but "30% from my country" is torture. I mean, have you even seen what movies Germany produces? If I could stand any of that rubbish, I'd be watching cable TV,
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by pluma 8y ago
Says someone who probably hasn't worked without natural light for extended periods of time?
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by pluma 8y ago
That list is terrible: 3: pillows may be considered passive weapons but that is irrelevant unless it is used as such or carried in a context where it is likely intended to be used as such (e.g. while participating in a demonstration). That
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by pluma 8y ago
The special status of "Beamter" is officially granted after a fixed time of service. However schools have avoided this by hiring teachers on temporary contracts, usually initially as substitute teachers. The contracts are then ren
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by pluma 8y ago
> Quervergleiche sind nicht zulässig For anyone not speaking German: this means performance reviews can't be based on the performance of other employees in that company . This also cuts both ways: when challenging a performance rev
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by pluma 8y ago
> I use the word "fact" above because I think it is obvious that Then it's not a fact. That you think "if A then B" is obvious just means you take it for granted and betrays your bias. EDIT: Making it easy to fir
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by pluma 8y ago
They cared enough to pressure news reports into not airing any footage of dead American soldiers though. Modern politics are always about optics. Caskets with American flags draped over them are bad optics, especially when there's lots
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by pluma 8y ago
The US is not the largest economy. Whatever gave you that idea? Except for military force and incarcerations per capita, the US is lagging behind in almost every statistic compared to China or the EU.
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by pluma 8y ago
DNT is a flawed idea in the first place. DNT is based on the idea that users can opt out of being tracked by sending that header. But (e.g.) European privacy law requires having users explicitly opt in to being tracked -- the message DNT is
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by pluma 8y ago
I wasn't aware Chicago is in Europe. Jokes aside, as a kid growing up in Germany I already went to school in the dark in winter even with DST. Having permanent summer time won't change that. It's also a total non-issue becaus
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by pluma 8y ago
But if you would have to go to bed earlier, how is that better than staying up later?
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by pluma 8y ago
Well, Microsoft kinda dropped the ball on that one by making it the default (although they later changed that).
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by pluma 8y ago
I don't know. Why are EU companies paying attention to American laws, again?
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by pluma 8y ago
I too am on a laptop and the code block requires me to scroll for every single line. EDIT: Maybe I should mention that I'm zoomed in 150% because I find the default font size unreadable. But I guess accessibility doesn't matter.
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by pluma 8y ago
Assuming you're a master of the English language, can you clarify what "the questions are not 100%" is supposed to mean? Also I think you made a number of mistakes yourself.
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by pluma 8y ago
User of software A tries out software B, keeps using software A for most tasks, tries out plugins for software B to make it feel more like software A, eventually decides to drop software B again and return to software A full-time. Nothing p
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by pluma 8y ago
> Why are tech workers wages so low in Germany compared to the USA, if they have workers on the board? Because in Germany we have a lower cost of living compared to the tech hubs in the US. Also we have socialised welfare and healthcare
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by pluma 8y ago
> rather than a corp whose sole purpose is to make profit So we've all now universally accepted the Friedman doctrine? You're aware that the Friedman doctrine isn't held as an inherent truth everywhere and by everyone, rig
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by pluma 8y ago
Toys 'R' Us was doing fine and making stable profits but the company was run to the ground in an attempt to push online sales for a chance of massive growth. It's not so much that the market favors "short term" grow

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