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But I am confident we'll somehow manage to shoot Khan and his henchmen into space in the end.
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Interesting science fiction will not be available at the cinema in the forseeable future. The reason is that it doesn't pay at the box office. If you wonder why so few big action movies have an engaging sci-fi script, then the answer is: Be
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Yes, that's why Germany never wins. Or Finland. Or Israel. So I'm a physicist too and let me tell you: Take these calculations with a grain of salt. It is very easy to underestimate the complexity of what actual people do. Voting blocks exi
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13y ago
Please stop using the shape of fruit anti-EU attack. The shape of fruit is regulated in the EU because it was demanded by the producers of said fruit and the manufacturers of the machinery they use.
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14y ago
Ok, this makes a lot of sense. So, if anybody is interested, here is a small overview for prospective future student-migrants to Germany: 1. The good universities in Germany are public universities (TU München, TU Erlangen). Private univers
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But why go to the US? A British citizen can study everywhere in the EU. Personally, I would recommend going to Germany (disclaimer: yes, I'm German), especially for an education in engineering. In many Univerities here, you pay less than 50
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Are you really sure about calendar being a core product? Because the userbase size (without knowing what it actually is) probably isn't all too different from that of reader. It will probably be around forever as a part of google apps, but
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Better go yandex than bing. They at least manage to be ahead of google in some niches.
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But whether or not it is a game changer depends on the value of your users time and mental real estate. When you tell the rss crowd that they should remember to regularly come to your site, what you are actually telling them is that you con
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The twitterverse is a very small subset of reality, although it is very easy to believe otherwise, as it is used by "us" and "our multipliers". As far as my (of course limited) observations go, twitter is filling the social communication ne
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Same in Germany and possibly more countries in Europe. And here in Germany there are also special courses for giving first aid to children available to parents at low to no cost.
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IMO RSS is one of the backbones of the social net. There are a lot of people out there that pull content into the social networks from their rss stream. There is also this: From my experience, social networks as they exist today are totally
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Even this will not help you in the EU. The basic rule for EULAs in the EU is that they are only valid if you show them pre-purchase. Oh, and they become automatically invalid if you make a user sign away rights that he has under the law (of
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Then again, it means that he can't work in most professions until he is 21.
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It is funny that many people seem to have this idea at the same time. Must be that the time has come for this. A while back I wrote a bunch of python scripts that do the same thing for subtitles for myself. Regarding your problem with Goeth
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It's worse than that. Facebook already does face recognition, Google supposedly could too. If there's a face in that image, then there is the identity of a person in that image.
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So public humiliation in the form of an online-pillory is OK? Because that is exactly what this is. A platform for the public humiliation of women who walk in public. If we don't tolerate it for the guilty, why should we tolerate it for the
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Torrentfreak I get, but what's so bad about techdirt? Their "economics of free" series of articles is the single most useful online resource for dragging creative people into 21st century. You wouldn't believe how many musicians I know that
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Ah, I think I understand what is going on. I've never been in a situation like you describe but I have heard from friends and family about such work environments. Here is my take on what causes the kind of behaviour you describe: The flipsi
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I think I have to disagree here. From my experience, working as a team is the centerpoint of German work culture. This includes giving each member of a team the oportunity to contribute in discussions and then also taking their suggestions
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Ok. I'll admit that I got carried away and failed to actually respond to your 170 economists. I'm a physicist and one thing that I have learned throughout the crisis is that macroeconomics is plagued by an inflated importance of "schools of
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No, actually he is spot on. The European crisis is layered like an onion and if you peel away the outer layers like banking, sovereign debt and all the things we hear so much about in the press, then you will arrive at the core. That core i
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Short answer: Hard sciences: absolutely not. Social sciences: depends. Long answer: First you have to distinguish between the different European higher education systems which are merging only slowly and thus can't be considered uniform. Ev
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I wish there was more than one rss feed. What I really want to appear in my rss reader are the highest rated stories, not all of them. As it is, using the rss feed is actually more inefficient than visiting the page every now and then.