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by sentenza 13y ago
Note that most people don't know that the plane is flown by the auto-pilot. They will, however, notice that their car doesn't have a steering wheel any more.
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And thus, the NSA scandal returns to the spotlight. Here in Germany this is a big deal, since the government not only has been very apathetic, but also publically declared that the scandal was now "over" a few weeks ago. I wondere
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I wonder how many of my compatriots actually live with those restrictions and how many find ways to circumvent them. By blocking so many Youtube videos, GEMA has done a huge service to internet literacy in Germany. It still surprises me tha
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An important point that should be checked would certainly be if and when the plugin on its own tries to contact servers in the US, be they servers of Google or of the other parties involved. If it doesn't, it deserves the attention of
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Quadruple that for me as a German. I'm pretty certain that if videos surfaced of children reciting the pledge or something similar in front of a German flag in a German school, a scandal would ensue, resulting in disciplinary measures
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The problem here is that you can't really explain the technology without freaking people out even more. Well, at least not without leaving out the "1 ton magnet spinning around you at crazy speeds" part. In any case, everybod
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Don't be to hard on the Spanish. I lived there for some time and can attest to that most Spaniards really would like to improve their English but find it incredibly difficult to do so. This is especially true for the spoken language. M
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Funnily enough, last week a comparative test of educational outcomes was discussed in the press showing that today there still exists a clear difference between outcomes in (former) East Germany and (former) West Germany. East German Childr
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So the people of Finland have different genetics from the English? The article also states that he is against extending pre-school education, which has to be shown to be highly effective again and again. But those studies were done in the U
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Certainly in the EU. I am not sure about the Walmart situation though, since something similar is tolerated here (Germany) with the supermarket oligopoly. Given their size, you can be certain that Amazon is being watched. It's possible
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Unfortunately, there is actual experimental evidence to the contrary. Some of the Arabian Emirates have cash payments to their ethnically Arabian citizens that are practically equivalent to a high basic income. In those cases, all the &quot
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I wonder if they combine this with the new "90% of admins will be replaced by magic" credo to create an actual internal infrastructure meltdown. All it takes is somebody with some say in the matter to decide that it would all work
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In every university cantina in Spain you will find a multiple-course lunch. Better yet, (at least in Madrid) every institute has its own cantina, so you can decide between different lunch options: "Wanna go to physics today?", &qu
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by sentenza 13y ago
Hm. This does not quite agree with my experience. A few years back, when I lived in Madrid, I noticed that this city has an insane grind. To me it looked as if the culture there started off with a "begin work early, have siesta, end wo
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Importantly, this has been demonstrated. The CCC has been doing it for years and published a howto with material costs in the low one-digit Euro range. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=
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Interestingly, here in Germany, the "average person" was much more concerned about data collection by Facebook and Google than by governments. (We even had a heated debate about Google Streetview in the mainstream press.) Then the
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My wife had her work computer infected with malware by an ad that was served on the main page of one of the biggest news oultets in Germany. That single instance reportedly caused thousands of infections. Since then I unconditionally recomm
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German news also showed smaller numbers. For what it's worth, 1.6e6 people on 250 miles means everybody had only about 25cm (<1 foot) of space. A realistic number for a human chain would be about 1m (approx. 3 feet). Seems bogus.
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But consider this important point: While it stands to reason that WW2 was almost inevitable after the treaty of Versailles (US and Brit diplomats said as much at the time), the Holocaust was very much evitable. Had the Communists won the ba
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This whole issue leads to a dark place (intellectually). Would you be alive today without WW2 or without the Holocaust? I wouldn't. How am I supposed to feel about that?
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Oh boy, are you right. I have an Economist subscription which I got after foolishly assuming that the quality of Charlemagne and Bagehot are representative of the whole product. What enrages me most is that the "leader" opinion pi
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Good move. At this point it's obvious that going back will not be an option for these refugees in the forseeable future. Permanent residency allows them to regain the ability to make long-term plans.
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Accredited private schools that are staffed with teachers that went through the same educational path as the public school teachers. Not home schooling.
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A universal health care system would probably fix a lot of this, as it should reduce the number of untreated mental disorders. When I was still considering moving to another country, one of the factors I used to assess the attractiveness of
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You are aware that one of the reasons we do this is to take away parents ability to indoctrinate their children in a nationalist ideology? In German _public_ schools, children learn about the Holocaust, the Wars, the STASI multiple times ov
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The true problem is that most parties flat-out refuse to state a vision for the future of the country. This election season it has become so bad that "having a plan for the future" and "fringe party" have become synonymo
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It's one of those things that you fall in love with after having heard about it way too late. At my last workplace (linux only environment), one day, somebody showed it to a second person while a bunch of other people were in the room.
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Hm. I don't know. The vibe that I get from talking to the people around me is that spying happens among enemies and prospective enemies. And being downgraded into the prospective enemies category comes with a bit of emotional trauma fo
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I second this. If most parents are anything like me, they avoid flying with their small children as much as possible. What a nightmare. However.... Sometimes you just _have_ to fly somewhere. Anybody demanding that babies be banned from air
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What bugs me as an outsider is that the people who "survive" this and come out on the other side as powerful senior bankers are then also very likely to be powerful outside of the banking profession. It might be that they fund pol

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