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Ok, I was lucky in that regard. Now it looks all neat, but the first time I set it up I was really, really sloppy. Fortunately my wife is a lab-hardened scientist, so the conversation went like this: Me: "Do you mind if I nail these ca
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You are right that of course, not everybody has my usage pattern. Since my daughter becomes a mindless, staring zombie whenever a TV is running in her field of vision, we only watch TV late in the evening (for us, a lamp lasts about two yea
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On a side note, and without wanting to complain about Penn State specifically: I spent a few weeks in State College, PA a few years ago as a student (coming from Germany) and was extremely weirded out. I felt as if I was visiting from anoth
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I don't really understand how a TV can be needlessly large. Also, I don't understand why people still buy TVs in 2014. When I replaced my TV about 4-5 years ago, I bought a 500€ beamer and a 100€ retractable canvas. Sure, that bea
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Wow. Reddit is that young? It feels as if it has been around forever. I'm not so sure about the image overload thing. Maybe that is just a symptom of another problem. IMO, the standard settings of the main page should be "fixed&qu
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For me, Python has everything I need, among which there are many things that R or Matlab have not. If I should summarize what makes Python so suited for the things I do (and did when I was still doing research) it's the following: Pyth
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Nope. In the scandinavian countries you get decent service even in remote areas. And remote in Finland or Sweden means about as remote as you can get . I heared that in Sweden, if you drive far enough to the north, there will just be a netw
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Here in Germany, studying at most public universities is practically free and Phd students (in the natural sciences and engineering) are paid for their work, while research groups are generally underfunded. It doesn't matter if you jus
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There are four lights! It is a long time since I saw that TNG episode, but I remember it as a respectful treatment of the subject. Any television series in a modern setting in which characters that are portrayed as "good guys" use
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Larger numbers of units of a specific model sold bring greater stability to the user. When you buy one of the official steam boxes, you (hopefully) suffer less from the usual PC weirdness. Kind of like buying a HP or Dell machine compared t
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I'm not sure that matters. For all that I care, a site like HN or Slashdot might as well look as if it came straight from 1997. What killed Slashdot was the abysmal quality/delay/editing of posted stories.
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So you are saying that sysadmins don't have a life, since an outage of any public-facing sites _that they are responsible for_ usually has a significant impact on their lives.
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We're Germans, so just imagine we learnt all our English from 90s rap music. And he is really dirty. A recent HN commentary by me along the same lines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6979024
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True, but I personally can say that I'm very happy to hear this, as I've been hoping for a serious contender besides Android and IOS. I would like to have a good phone, with a non-dead app ecosystem that is sold to me by a phone v
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Time for a little lesson in German! Indeed, unlike in the natural sciences, most of the existing work on many topics of ancient history is distributed over obscure texts in half a dozen different languages, located in libraries all over the
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Can we place a moratorium on using the word feminist? Note that I am only tangentially talking about your comment. I started reading your comment and as soon as the word feminist appeared, my instant reaction was "oh, one of those guys
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Can I install cyanogenrod? I'd probably need some sort of adapter to connect my car to my computer. But then, will police start checking cars for Android-modding? Also, I am willing to void my warranty, but not my car insurance.
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Some clarification from the companies would certainly be nice, but for me and many others, the damage has already been done. If you start your company today and put all your stuff on newly bought Apple machines (or Windows boxen), in case y
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In the EU, we have lifetime plus 70 years. So the first released movie of the Marx Brothers, "Coacoanuts" (1929) will enter the public domain in 2048, since Groucho lived to be 87. System is broken. Please reboot.
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Ahem. What on earth are you talking about? Krugman explicitly talks about things that he as gotten wrong over the years, the internet thing being one of them and some of his predictions regarding Japan being another. Compare that to almost
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I'm not sure the expletive was warranted, this being HN and all, but the post he referred to did start with an ad hominem by implying that a personal account of how drone operators have the same emotions as everybody else was manipulat
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Want to get to know the history of nuclear power, spiced with interesting anecdotes? Then these two books are the right thing for you: Atomic Awakening by James Mahaffey and Atomic by Jim Baggott It's of course only one technology, but
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Please note that it would actually be worse if they had a connection with Kim Dotcom. To accurately judge his character, you cannot rely on the descriptions of his exploits as international "Mega-man". His english language Wikiped
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NO NO NO. This is what makes the CCC events different from events in the US. This is not a recruiting event. There are no banners visible of sponsoring companies (and the sponsoring that is done is almost exclusively in lent equipment). The
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Since the name of the channel she is talking about in the video is different from the channel the video is on, probably not.
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Oh, so since me and my company are _physically_ outside of the US, we're fucked then? But your point, of course, stands. Maybe avoid sending the data to the US and in addition punishing providing access to the NSA as treason? (I know.
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Was already tried here in Germany (Pirate Party), and failed miserably. Turns out, having the raging party yelling at you at all times leads to quasi-instant burnout.
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My first thought: What normal person uses the word "Desktop"? It doesn't sound weird in the context of "Year of the linux desktop", because we are so used to that meme, but otherwise, the word "desktop" se
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Your wife forgoing her career hurts the overall productivity of the economy. Why should this be subsidized?
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You are aware that it's not the company that pays the wage compensation during the maternity leave? At least here in Germany, you get 60% of your salary (up to an upper limit) for 12 months (14 if both parents take part of the leave) _

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