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by rb2k_ 13y ago
It's not that they didn't give him a J1 visa, it's just that they took way too long to process it. It sucks, but I wouldn't attribute to malice what I could attribute to inefficiency :)
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
I can confirm this. I did them as a "Freiberufler" and it's really not all that hard.
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
There is IBM and T-Systems nearby (Böblingen/Leinfelden), but that's mostly 'business' IT catering to Daimler/Porsche/Bosch rather than people doing anything exciting :-/
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Fast line iteration in PHP(arkanis.de)
1 points by rb2k_ 13y ago|0 comments
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
That being said, cultures on the asian subcontinent seem to have a certain way of avoiding the word "no". So while they will charge the $20 per hour, they will assure you that their work will be completely up to par with the $200
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
Yeah, food stamps don't exist in most countries because it seems undignified
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
Also: Keep in mind that you could cut almost all social systems (unemployment insurance, the whole departments that manage that stuff currently, ...)
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
"Strange" as in "a very small percentage of travelers"
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
Update: His own recollection of the events is available here: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/autoren/ilija-... So it was at the Brazilian airport and American Airlines had something pop up
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
What a horrible pice of writing... He was denied entry without explanation. That this has anything to do with some petition he signed at some point seems a bit far fetched. Also: A positive ESTA application doesn't mean anything. For G
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
What would a filesystem do better than a DB in that case? After all a filesystem is just a database who's primary keys are mostly filenames. Most of them use the same data-structures (e.g. b+trees) and especially the newer ones turn in
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
Germany has a state run retirement fund that gets deducted from you paycheck (about 19%. split between employer and employee). That mostly solves that problem, but leaves people like me that would like to handle retirement savings themselve
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
At 300$ a month for 25 years and a return of 4% (conservative for the stock market), he would have ended up with 156k$ thanks to compound interest. Also: who works for only 25 years? You'd have to graduate (very late) with 30 and retir
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
Because it's not very hard. Probably a lot easier than most of the things he coordinated in his job. I'm not American and I still know what to do: 1. Do montly investments in a few cheap ETFs (S&P 500, Emerging Markets, MSCI W
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
We run some Virtualbox builds on them which AWS doesn't support. Our build slaves are pretty busy (I'd say jobs running 16+ hours a day). There isn't really that much possible cost saving towards an OVH server :) Also: HDD pe
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
AWS isn't really a solution for people trying to run a "small" project on a fixed amount of servers 24/7. It's great if you want to be able to: - provision lots of machines without delays - launch and terminate new
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
I think the deal only works for .nl
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
Not all of Europe. Here in Germany e.g. it doesn't work. It does however work using a VPN to the Netherlands.
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
Seeing as I get my fingerprints taken at the airport every time I enter the US, I personally don't care :)
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
Or a capacitive touchscreen unless they buy special gloves...
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
Maybe the far, far right or far, far left. But I think they're universally liked because of the economic upswings they bring to the regions (often rural).
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
bitcoin.de has some sort of cooperation with a German Bank: https://blog.bitcoin.de/en/bitcoin-de-und-fidor-bank-ag-vere... As from the start of the cooperation, which will be activated upon the registration
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
HA! :D http://shining.wikia.com/wiki/Jogurt
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
For us, the state has to do this because this is Article 1, paragraph 1 of our "constitution": "Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority." If somebody calls yo
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
That's normal in other parts of the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_name#Forenames > In Germany, the chosen name must be approved by the local Standesamt (civil registry office or Office of Vital Sta
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
1-2% might be possible by using aggressive gzip encoders such as https://code.google.com/p/zopfli/ ( as seen in https://github.com/sayurin/optipng-zopfli and mentioned in https://t
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
I just got a slight flashback to my 15 year old self sitting in front of little "crackme" programs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crackme ) Nice to see that things change, but do somehow remain the same :)
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
I see a lot of "yes, that's how it worked/works" answers from Australians and people from the UK. Maybe to add a little bit of diversity: At least in Germany, I don't recall this ever working.
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Bitcoin ruled illegal in Thailand(bitcoin.co.th)
236 points by rb2k_ 13y ago|102 comments
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
Is there an official name for that data dump?

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