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by sentenza 13y ago
This is what makes the Dagger Complex so special: Usually, locals are very friendly to the US troops and the local dignitaries are devastated when they leave. Not here. The NSA people are secretive, hostile and their activities are unpopula
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I find it funny that you would read me like that. Among my colleagues, I'm that one guy who, in his private life, is friends with "regular" people, who chooses to live in a rural area and who speaks with his native hillbilly
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You make good points. I second the last thing you brought up: Germany has one of the worst gender pay gaps in Europe, so that the situation in the US is most likely better than here, not worse. However, I'd like to point out that my cr
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Because children. My wife and I split the fourteen months of paternity leave between us and believe me, that stuff is rough. I can tell you from that experience, staying at home for a few months and then working while taking care of a small
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It is horrifying to read the comments here. In Germany, where I live, on average, a woman will earn less than a man IF EVERYTHING ELSE IS THE SAME. Here is the source (PDF, in German): https://www.destatis.de/DE/Publika
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Please take note: Merkel has behaved extremely apathetic considering that she is in the middle of a reelection campaign. This has multiple reasons, one of which is that her ideological compass indicates that "staunch support" for
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In truth, no. I've heard this stated by various people, among them Tim Pritlove, who said it in one of his podcasts (I think it was NSFW, but I'm not sure). Nobody I've heard it say has pointed to evidence. It is one of those
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The latter. Leaving hunches and feelings aside, I'd point to a piece of anecdotal evidence: There was a This American Life story some time back about the life of some drug dealer/pimp in the 80s (or 70s, can't remember). As a
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No it does not. I'm from Europe and the whole rape culture discussion has not really made it over here. If you say that I'm completely off the mark, then let me ask you this: Would you not agree that male teenagers are incredibly
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I think nobody doubts that the porn industry is a very exploitative business. However, an easily overlooked aspect of porn is that it canalizes and binds a lot of "useless" energy. A few years ago I heard this tongue-in-cheek hypo
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Are your google account settings localized to the UK? This issue used to regularly drive me crazy. Fortunately they now have a worldwide setting. At one point you could select only 5 (or was it 7?) languages for which Google would show you
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I might be just a single data point, but PRISM is the primary cause of my slow but persistent move away from Google services. Oh, btw, I know many people over here in Europe who never use any Google service other than search out of general
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As a pirate, I never understood how the majority of us could think that this is a good system. People that become active in politics do so because they want to do what in their opinion is right. With the current system of the German Pirate
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One thing I'd like to add: IMO most people that support mass surveillance don't do so because they are scared of terrorism. To me it looks more lik an "us vs. them" powertrip thing.
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Although Berlin has more of a reputation, I'd recommend to also consider other places within Germany. Berlin, while having a lot of startups, is not the center of the "real" software industry. I recommend taking a serious loo
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Yes, but now there is new proof, spelled out in clear German, and in a major newspaper on top of that. The fact that a new NSA facility is being built near Wiesbaden, considering how unpopular the one in Griesheim is, looks like it has enou
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I think his point was that some injuries might incapacitate you to such a degree that shopping around is not an option.
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If you know that arthritis is coming, adjust now and move to Germany (or another similar place). Waiting times for specialists might be a little longer, but you (=everybody) will be treated for treatable diseases and injuries. What you have
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To me as a supporter of the European Project, the entire thing is heartbreaking. We now have two crises that could possibly be the defining "history book moments" of our century badly mishandled by the "leaders" of Europ
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Well, at least in the case of electrical and mechanical engineering, no company can survive burning through grads so fast. For one thing, the number of engineers available is more limited, because of the (relatively) reduced sexiness of tho
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Le Monde is actually quite good. I try to keep a multi-angle view of politics in Europe, so I frequent a few newspapers/sites from different European countries. After shopping around a bit, I settled for Le Monde as the IMO best among
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We're talking about future developments of society in a rather abstract manner, so the whole discussion is always scraping along the edge of BS territory. However, I've stated clear assumptions each step of the way. Some of them m
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It is best to do the following thought experiment: What if all communications data was available to "somebody"? Well, sooner or later, this "somebody" would use it for things that for them are no-brainers: For example fi
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Ok, so it seems this thing that we call free society is rapidly going off the rails. In addition to GCHQ and this crap from France, Netzpolitik.org recently dug up some interesting info on the publically known activities of the German secre
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Because of accountability. And I am much more confident about the EU than the US regarding the possibility of stopping the surveillance dystopia. Yes, bad things happen over here too, but the indifference of the public has received a huge d
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After reading the article, I am slightly disappointed. This is about banners on homepages, not people carrying signs through the streets. Please don't underestimate what actual protest in the streets can do, especially if it appears in
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With math-related fields it IMO boils down to this: From what I have seen in academia during the last few years (yes, anecdotal, sample size of about two dozen female PhD students), I'd say that women are sorted out at almost all stage
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Hm. They managed to lose me as a G+ user by discontinuing Google Reader, since Reader was the centerpoint of all my sharing activity.
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Funny enough, as a continental European, I am not allowed to pay for streaming access to the great programs (programmes?) produced by the BBC. Ridiculousness of the same sort is happening with the publicly financed broadcasts over here in G
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Here is some useful info to avoid this from happening: Whenever it comes up in conversation that the FDP might be a viable alternative, tell people that an FDP man acted as a mole for the US during the last coalition negotiations[1]. The pa

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