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by sentenza 13y ago
Never forget that you can try to contact the creator of the image if you are unclear about such things! If you don't want to have the attribuition in your blog header, shoot them a message and ask if they'd be ok with you putting
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What position are you starting from? My old workplace was a university group where we (admins) were recruted from the available pool of PhD students. So I'm used to guiding people from "no knowledge" to "enough knowledge
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by sentenza 13y ago
I don't know. IMO this is not more complicated than typical car-sharing services, and these work splendidly, judging based on what I hear from Berlin. On a side note: Dear car-sharing startups, _Berlin is not Germany_! The main differe
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by sentenza 13y ago
Yes, of course. I failed to specify this in my other reply to the parent.
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In most cases, anything that can't be opened from inside the fridge would also do it. The lock on the inside is only neccessary if it's a house with multiple renting parties and there are multiple such refrigerators in the wall be
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I wonder why he writes that the lockerbox didn't work. Deutsche Post introduced them here in Germany a few years ago and they are used to capacity. I've had this "I'm never gonna do it but it sure would be nice" ide
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by sentenza 13y ago
Simple English does not work for non-native speakers and here is why: Everybody is exposed to some English, but not all people are exposed to the same English. Every non-native speaker is using available media to learn the language, so you&
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by sentenza 13y ago
For me personally, this has become less of an issue in the last few years. I can't remember the last time I was unable to extract the meaning from a text fragent of interest. If you know a handful languages and substitute the rest with
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by sentenza 13y ago
This is good. I hope you manage to do the same for Iran, Cuba and so forth. Education is just too important, and there is a net gain for the US from giving out these opportunities. Somebody learning on a US-centric english-language site is
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by sentenza 13y ago
You are missing the point (though I share your criticism of things as they are). No country in recent history has been so thorroughly defeated both in military terms and in ideology as Germany. It would have been _incredibly_ easy to dole o
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by sentenza 13y ago
Heh. Coursentenza. Not all that bad for a site name. Probably the best way would be to build a solid network of non-english speaking Universities and then, once the kinks are worked out, have them also publish their english-language courses
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by sentenza 13y ago
Whoever controls the public discourse gains in the long run. What do you think Iran would look like today if local information policies hadn't been counterbalanced by the internet for the last ten years? I distinctly remember The Daily
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No, won't work. Parent company is on the hook for subsidiaries.
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Actually, not quite. Spain hasn't nationalized the debt directly but instead, since the beginning of the crisis, is continuously pumping money into banks that should have gone under. It is ruinous to Spain's public finances, but w
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by sentenza 13y ago
So that startup can have their Paypal account frozen? No thank you. Probably the best way is to create a Coursera competitor.
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by sentenza 13y ago
Why doesn't the US pursue the blue-jeans approach do diplomacy any more? You know, give them blue-jeans, fast-food and rock'n roll, so they will become like us instead of hate us. I know this works, since it has been applied in my
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by sentenza 13y ago
The promise was that, as search engines get better, there would be no need for bookmarking and downloading, since all the content in the world is only one sloppy search query away. Somehow, I seem to have ignored this stubbornly and instead
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by sentenza 13y ago
The fight against Bittorrent is more important than many realize. If "they" get away with destroying a technology (after all, it's only a protocol) for something as unimportant as copyright, we're truly fucked.
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by sentenza 13y ago
Without wanting to criticize the article, there is an interesting physics mistake here. Electric current is not actually moving electrons but _movement of electrons_. This means that no physical electrons make the "round trip" in
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by sentenza 13y ago
And yet another reason why my next phone is going to be a Jolla: In the future, I want to be able to run wireshark on my phone.
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In Germany we call what he did a "Nazivergleich". I cannot remember one as bad as his being uttered by a public figure over here in the last few decades and quite a few public figures had to apologize/step down because of Naz
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by sentenza 13y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7121533
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Here is some perspective from Germany, the prime exporter of horrible history in Europe: Tom Perkins is now disqualified from any meaningful discourse. Comparing some hate-mail you recieve to what happened in 1938 amounts to a declaration o
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by sentenza 13y ago
Well, he seems to be lashing out after having been criticized within a longer, ongoing discussion about sexism. So the sexism was already there before this recent development.
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Fair enough.
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Ok. Wait now. You both are generalizing regarding Bitcoin supporters. Yes, libertarians are likely to endorse Bitcoin, but at this point I'm pretty sure that libertarians are a minority in the Bitcoin world, because the Bitcoin world n
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Were they the most important words you say to her, though? Most of humanity has constantly been forgetting most of the conversation they've had with their loved ones. Maybe it is not reasonable to try to hold on to the literal incarnat
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Ok, I'm not sure if I still can do this. Let's try: In Soviet Russia, Slashdot retires you?
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The operation of these sites in Eastern Europe can be equated to willfull throwing away of goodwill towards the US. I mean secret prisons? In former satelites of the Soviet Union? How could anybody assume that this would not result in a sca
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by sentenza 13y ago
Indeed, it is quite likely that Merkel was less interesting at the time they started tapping her phone than Bill Gates is now (or has been since Win95). Her phone was already being tapped in 2002, when she had freshly become opposition lead

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