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by pluma 9y ago
Interesting how they decided to already publish the article although they have nothing more than the teaser but no actual content. > So what does a decade of iPhone innovation look like? > Developing… Please refresh for updates.
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by pluma 9y ago
So in other words no way to get this directly rather than from a carrier and no way to switch carriers unless they explicitly support it. Sounds great.
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by pluma 9y ago
Isn't it incredible how Apple invented this and then went back in time so Samsung could steal it two years ago? They always do this. If only they'd learn not to go back in time and have people steal their ideas.
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by pluma 9y ago
Do you want sharknados? Because this is the kind of thinking that leads to sharknados.
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by pluma 9y ago
Sure, but the only reason you'd pose that question is that you seriously underestimate A) the force of a hurricane and B) the consequences of detonating a nuclear bomb. It's understandable you might underestimate the force of a hu
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by pluma 9y ago
Personal insolvency generally doesn't kill the person. Corporate insolvency typically results in the corporation being dissolved, effectively killing it. I'm not arguing that this is a bad thing. If anything I'm arguing that
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by pluma 9y ago
It's interesting, but it's like putting a TV on a robot arm and then saying it's a 3D display. The only difference is it uses multiple displays and limits the movement to a single axis.
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by pluma 9y ago
Technically it's a 2D surface extruded in real 3D space. Early 3D games didn't have polygonal models and the levels were actually defined by a 2D grid (making it impossible to climb "on top" of something as each square c
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by pluma 9y ago
The Church in Germany (churches actually, the Protestant alliance is about as large as the Catholic church) goes beyond that by not only having their schools, hospitals and so on de facto paid for by the state (always in part, sometimes 1
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by pluma 9y ago
33c3 was in 2016, for those like me who can't keep track of that.
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by pluma 9y ago
Emphasis on "to some extent". Relying on it is a bad idea even though it'll keep out most randos. Speech fingerprinting, much like actual fingerprints, is not a reliable way to establish identity, especially if you want to av
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by pluma 9y ago
This is a cool effect but it looks like it's mechanical: the screen is split into tiny squares which can slide in and out independently. It's not 3D, it's literally tiny screens moving along the z-axis. The technology behind
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by pluma 9y ago
Corporate "jail time" would be indistinguishable from "death penalty" in practice: suspending a corporation's ability to engage in contracts and do business basically means the corporation rapidly falls apart, exist
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by pluma 9y ago
I'd be surprised if this question was posed anywhere but in the US. I am surprised that they went to such lengths to explain why it's an obviously stupid idea that doesn't work and would instead make a terrible thing consider
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by pluma 9y ago
True. The only secular countries in "the West" I can think of are Turkey and France. And sadly Turkey has very nearly abandoned their secular foundations by embracing Erdoğanism. However despite Germany's faults at least Germ
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by pluma 9y ago
German here. The second we were allowed to use ballpoint pens, I stopped using fountain pens. The same goes for writing in cursive. As a result my cursive looks like a fourth-grader's.
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by pluma 9y ago
Even the vote buttons on HN are a bit obnoxiously small for my non-mobile use. Touchpads are a thing.
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by pluma 9y ago
> separation of state and religion FWIW as I used to be misinformed about this: Germany does not have a meaningful separation of state and religion. We have no state religion so it's not a "Christian nation" strictly spe
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by pluma 9y ago
It's improbable that the AfD will get enough votes to become a part of the government but I don't find it at all unlikely that they'll perform better than the polls suggest, especially considering the recent failures of polls
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by pluma 9y ago
Maajid Nawaz would disagree with your assessment of Islam and Islamism. For Christianity politics and religion used to be as inseparable as they are for Islam today. Not so long ago most heads of state were subject to the Vatican (whether c
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by pluma 9y ago
This seems to be the case. Anti-immigrant parties are more popular in sparsely populated areas that are mostly "ethnically German". This happens to also show up as an East/West divide for obvious reasons.
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by pluma 9y ago
I'm sure the voters of 1998 would love to have seen the Greens be sued for their support of militarism, or the SPD for their neoliberal labour reforms. But alas there were merely a few protests. If the Wahlprogramm were legally binding
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by pluma 9y ago
The Left was the result of a merger with the PDS, which was the successor to the socialist party of East Germany (the German Democratic Republic). Fun fact: There's a commonly held misbelief that the AfD is popular in the East because
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by pluma 9y ago
That's not really true. The NPD is more supportive of the lower class. Its politics (nationalism and xenophobia aside) tend to favor the poor, the unemployed and the wage slaves. The AfD is much more bourgeois. Despite its populist rhe
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by pluma 9y ago
Wait, what? What gives you the idea that the Wahlprogramm is ever legally binding? It's basically a mission statement that primarily serves as advertising and is usually signed off by the party's federal convention. I suggest you
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by pluma 9y ago
I'm not sure what the RILE score is but that chart is worthless if you want to understand party alignment. Because Germany doesn't have a two party system, putting the parties on a simple one-dimensional chart doesn't tell yo
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by pluma 9y ago
Many Nazis support the AfD, not every AfD supporter is a Nazi. Some people are just idiots. And a not-so-insignificant amount of people are plain "protest voters" who vote for the most unacceptable party the media talks about (bef
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by pluma 9y ago
The site's main idea seems to hinge on a very narrow definition of "porn". It offers sex video clips intended to arouse the audience -- I'm not sure what else to call that but pornographic. It tries to keep a niche focus
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by pluma 9y ago
Maybe humans only appear to be thinking but in fact only use some human form of ML?
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by pluma 9y ago
Does the US not have standardized letter and envelope sizes? In Germany we have standards for paper sizes, window placement and the layout of business letters. Considering this type of letter is probably not typed out by hand, it's tri

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