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by sentenza 13y ago
Wow, I didn't know that. Being from Europe and having only visited the US once (East Coast), I had the impression they were everywhere. New York has a working mass transit system, though. For poor people this makes the world of a diffe
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What an irresponsible headline. I'm not familiar with the research in question but I've worked on cancer during my PhD and the headline alone is sufficient to discredit the article. Every kind of tumor? Really? Because we don&#x27
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I'd say it lasted just long enough. 1933-45 was enough time for a generation of schoolchildren to have grown up knowing nothing else. Also, you must remember that living in the Weimar Republic was pure hardship for many people. So ther
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by sentenza 13y ago
5th Avenue in NYC is a lot smaller than San Francisco, though. There are also a great number of apartments within commutable distances of 5th Ave. I have never been to SF, but my knowledge of American culture leads me to believe that there
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by sentenza 13y ago
I'd say you're right that it is quite unlike all we have seen before, however, there are more precedents (although you picked an excellent one with Albania). One example comes to mind is post-defeat Germany in 1945. This is partic
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I must assure you that there are wasteful and overly bureaucratic processes here too, but thanks for the compliment. The key, I think, is that one has to picture "the state" as non-static and plan accordingly. For instance, we hav
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by sentenza 13y ago
Nothing pathological or irrational here. Facebook has a track record of trying to trick its users into revealing more information about themselves than they want. Sneaky TOS changes, anyone? More facebook in the lives of everybody = road to
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It's also weird how many don't see the big white elephant in the room: People hate Facebook. For about 3-4 months now, whenever I talk to a non-techie and Facebook comes up _they_ start complaining and telling me how they're
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by sentenza 13y ago
(Warning: Post contains expletives as part of an anecdote.) About 15 years ago I turned on the TV one day, zapped to the music channel and was faced, all of a sudden, with the face of Kid Rock. He was talking to some sort of host on the Ger
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by sentenza 13y ago
Also, this story has nothing to do with Europe. This is the UK. Many in the English-speaking world assume that things in the UK are representative of what happens in Europe or the EU, but reality is that the UK is in many cases an odd outli
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by sentenza 13y ago
A general word of warning. (Disclaimer I'm for gay marriage, but that is not the point of the following text.) I have been subscribed to the main mailing list of the German Pirate party for four years now and from this very rich data s
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by sentenza 13y ago
This is a problem with the Kemalistic approach to history and Turkey needs to fix it fast, because it poisons self-perspective. I distinctly remember one day back when I was in school (in Germany), when a Turkish student stood up during a h
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In all fairness, many EU leaders are scared shitless of Turkey. It is not so much that they have something against Islam (well, at least most of them), but they are acutely aware that Turkish society might blow up once the power of the mili
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by sentenza 13y ago
Sigh. Part of the Maidan movement consists of militant fascists, yes. But that doesn't make the whole movement fascist and neither does it make the overthrowing of Yanukowich a fascist coup. I know a bunch of Ukraininans (ethnic and Uk
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by sentenza 13y ago
Solitary is worse. Sticks and stones will break your bones, but if your personality crumbles away, you will lose _you_.
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Those "almost costless revenue streams" that HBO has abroad will be insta-killed if Netflix manages to enter those markets. We here in Germany (and much of Europe) are stuck in a world where Television and DVD/Bluray are the
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by sentenza 13y ago
Is it really not possible to trace gold? I was under the impression that for much of the gold out there you could use the "footprint" of contaminations in the gold to infer the age (since mining) and procedence to a certain degree
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Many of us over here in Europe lost a lot of respect for the NYT when it failed to denounce the complete garbageness of the Saddam-WMD connection, which was widely reported on over here. Personally, I was also disappointed when Cablegate ha
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by sentenza 13y ago
I find it interesting that the original description [1], if followed to the letter, will with a very high probability kill (all?) user contributions over time. Here's why: It says that you can't post another comment when you have
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What... what hosting provider will not notice this? Shouldn't their abuse mail address be glowing red?
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You have never been in the Russian-speaking part of the Internet, have you?
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I grew up in Germany during the 90s. Our view was that, while the US doesn't have the figurative "clean hands" (insert vague reminiscence of some half-knowledge about things that happened South America), they were rather &quo
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Turkey is kind of special, though. Atatürk managed to glue together the remainder of the Ottoman Empire by streamlining culture and society (by force). You have the culturally suppresed Kurds who were even prohibited from speaking their lan
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What kind of question is that even? If you'd told me before the Snowden/NSA scandal that the NSA or GCHQ were _blackmailing_ clerks, I'd have called it spy fiction. To my knowledge, it was only publically proven that the Russ
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Depends on how you value your time. If you have time to spare, buy crappy old PCs with Vista license keys on Ebay, "harvest" the license keys, install a nice shiny Ubuntu and re-sell them as Computer (No Windows) on Ebay again. Mi
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Because there are different kinds of "just works". There are those people that want to have a seamlessly integrated UI that just works, so they use Apple. There are those people that want their toolchain to just work, so they use
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Another data point: Toll Collect in Germany. A fee is collected from Trucks for using the Autobahn, with compliance being monitored via plate-scanning cameras on all Autobahnen. We were assured that the data for cars would not be used for p
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by sentenza 13y ago
In a way I'm happy he is not involved with Microsoft's day-to-day operations any more. So I can now cultivate some respect for Bill Gates the person while still vehemently opposing Microsoft and its dominance.
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The thing is, there is no Netflix here. Neither is HBO by the way (yes, we _can't_ subscribe to HBO in Germany). There is currently no way for me to give them any money directly and the indirect methods are all horribly unattractive, a
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There is more than prudishness to it, though. Working on a camming site is a much sketchier business than say, a sex shop or online sex toy retailer. I wouldn't think twice about working on the latter but would definitely avoid the fo

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