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by pluma 9y ago
Yes, I'm fairly certain that the BKA being involved would have been a far greater scandal. The BND is well known to act above the law because of a total lack of accountability. The BKA is just the federal police. To put it in terms for
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by pluma 9y ago
Minor caveat: Berlin is not Germany. Berlin is fairly international so a lot of the infrastructure adapts to that, including public services. You'll still run into plenty public service workers speaking only German (and maybe rudimenta
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by pluma 9y ago
I'm pretty sure your friends in the manufacturing industry are bound by union contracts (Tarifverträge) which tend to define these things in ways that are meant to be difficult to adjust on a per-person (or per-company) basis to protec
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by pluma 9y ago
Actually you can opt out of the tax without leaving your church (though they might consider this grounds to exclude you from services -- in practice however the only punishment is heartfelt disapproval). Also it's important to point ou
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by pluma 9y ago
I'm not a CDU[1] voter by far but the Schröder government really screwed this one up by trying to "modernize" labor laws. When I started out freelancing I thought consulting agencies were actually viable so I applied to vario
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by pluma 9y ago
I was a freelancer and became a contractor for my own company a few years ago (only German kids will get this). I've been in situations like the one you describe, where I'm one of many developers and share my knowledge. I've
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by pluma 9y ago
As a German I'd say it's especially larger enterprise companies that are averse to change. For example having worked for clients in the medical sector in the past it was widely held wisdom that if you were observing a new trend in
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by pluma 9y ago
Depends. Some companies are rather paranoid about privacy issues and using services like Slack or GMail is a clear liability risk, especially when discussing customer data or confidential information. I'm not sure what the GDPR has to
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by pluma 9y ago
Luck is a catalyst. A lot of success stories are really stories of people getting extremely lucky if they're honest. But those stories wouldn't exist if those people hadn't been in positions where they could have taken advant
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by pluma 9y ago
Railway lines are physically barring people from crossing them. Walking on rail tracks is actually forbidden. When a railway crosses a road there are physical barriers and audiovisual signals to prevent people from crossing when a train is
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by pluma 9y ago
Weird, I'm pretty sure it was always called the Mengele effect but all Google results indicate it's always been called the Mandela effect. /s
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by pluma 9y ago
There's a transcript on the same page as the video, even with translations.
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by pluma 9y ago
Putting it this way creates the impression that a lack of IP laws directly results in political instability and danger to people's lives. That's incredibly disingenious. The reason South Sudan is such a horrible place is that it o
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by pluma 9y ago
Also DC not being a state as well as all the "territories". I'm pretty sure I as a child I thought DC counted as a state.
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by pluma 9y ago
The "52 states" thing seems to be a common false memory: http://www.debunkingmandelaeffects.com/51-or-52-states-in-th... Personally I also remember (as a child) thinking that the US had 52 states but that's m
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by pluma 9y ago
Sure but knowing that De Beers artificially inflates the price and that the "natural" diamond market is a major driver of bloodshed and slavery I'd hope that "natural diamonds" are eventually as frowned upon in poli
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by pluma 9y ago
Sure but even "natural" diamonds aren't as rare as they're made out to be. There's an artificial scarcity because De Beers wants to keep the prices up: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte
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by pluma 9y ago
Sure but this is the equivalent of him flailing his fists about while running around in public spaces.
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by pluma 9y ago
You're making a good point about handling criminals. The US still has the death penalty. The death penalty exists to "protect the public" but most civilised countries have agreed that it's inhumane compared to other alte
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by pluma 9y ago
> US stopping the Nazis First of all, the US didn't stop the Nazis. The Allies did. Saying the US stopped the Nazis belittles the sacrifices of all the other great nations that worked together and those that suffered the civilian
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by pluma 9y ago
> in the fb thread, none of us have even used KingSumo yet So you're complaining about something you bought that you don't even have any intention of using right now? > knowing we can use them 3 years later when we need them
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by pluma 9y ago
Maybe you shouldn't use a fork that's lagging behind so much it doesn't support CSS grid?
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by pluma 9y ago
Remember when console.log was available when the dev tools were open but would be undefined otherwise, so your code would break unexpectedly but then work fine when you tried to figure out what went wrong?
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by pluma 9y ago
Not using tooling also means no module system and no dependency management. Which likely also means no unit tests. And no minification. No linting or type checking. No third party code except maybe a few bundles you downloaded once and will
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by pluma 9y ago
I'd think older browsers like Mosaic have problems with SSL/TLS, especially now that most web servers no longer support older (compromised) versions of those protocols and SNI (server name indication, allowing web servers to serve
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by pluma 9y ago
No offense, but you are a great example for the rule that giving people privileges for free is a bad idea because they will take them for granted and be upset when you no longer give them those privileges for free. If you go to a take-away
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by pluma 9y ago
You bought the "outdated design" three months ago so presumably it was good enough then. I don't see why you think you're owed a flashy new design unless they explicitly teased the new design back then without revealing
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by pluma 9y ago
You got what you saw: unlimited use of the WordPress plugin. I don't even see mentions of any guarantees about updates -- but as long as they maintain the plugin for say 3-5 years or so I think the "lifetime" claim is perfect
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by pluma 9y ago
Fixing problems on Earth vs colonising Mars is the difference between carefully maintaining your family PC and buying a second one so you still have a working one when the first one breaks down. Redundancy doesn't fix problems but it c
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by pluma 9y ago
Where you're wrong is that military AI isn't a traditional WMD. WMDs work as a deterrent because they can destroy a large area and kill a lot of people, sure. But the reason the Cold War never went hot is that it's immediatel

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