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by sentenza 13y ago
Think of change, copy, paste, do something else that you suddenly thought of, forget because lunch, commit without looking. (TODO: Write unit test.) Or a conspiracy. At this poing, I just don't know any more.
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Uhm no? I'm easily the most extroverted person wherever I go, but still manage to waste quite some time on HN and reddit. But now, let me tell you about meeeeeeeeeeeee...
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I can second the police thing. My personal experience, as a German born Germanoid of the most German kind is that interactions with the police here are just horrible. I get selected "randomly" at every traffic stop because of my l
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Been quite some time since Kaiser Wilhelm was cited on HN.
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I am not sure if there is even the hint of a chance that anything will change in the UK. However, the scandal has not died down in some continental EU countries, most prominently Germany, so these revelations might make a difference yet. It
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When visiting the Technikmuseum Speyer recently, I had the opportunity to see an actual Buran, the Russian Space Shuttle, on display. Today, it is easy to forget that the Russians percieved the Space Shuttle as a weapons platform. The tacti
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You assume that there is any staff.
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How much did you lose? I'm sorry you got burnt, but in the end, maybe it helps to think of the BTC and money inside that wallet as never having existed in the first place. After all, it never was possible to withdraw all of it in Dolla
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Ahem. My take on it is that, in order to write Neptunes Brood, he had to learn a lot of actual macroeconomics and also learn about cryptocurrencies. He is now an opponent of Bitcoin because of the very real problems that the wide-spread ado
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What I wonder is this: Were any bitcoins actually lost during the meltdown? I mean in the sense that nobody can get at them any more. The blockchain should, sooner or later, allow the tracing of some of the coins, right? So if somebody stil
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Basically yes. "Going green" increases energy prices and thus comes with a disadvantage regarding the cost of production/doing business. This cost is proportional to the relative offset to the global energy prices caused by g
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NO! Please read up on the Belgacom hack. Private citizens are now targets for the NSA and GCHQ because their personal vulnerabilities (and devices) can be used to compromise infrastructure that is used by "interesting" players.
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It's also wreaking geopolitical havoc. The USA now have a lot of cheap energy available. Good for them. Bad for the green energy revolution in Europe.
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The EU-only email thing is just a symptom of the broken worldview of some German politicians. They can't admit that they gambled away a lot of our freedom without even being aware of what their actions meant, so they engage in meaningl
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It's not like that in all countries, though. If the technology was inevitably reaching everybody, then guns would be readily available independently of cultural and political frame.
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We'll need to tap the Moon-He3 when we want to fuel manned interstellar missions. So probably not this year.
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That is true, and I don't question the success of Android. However, there are IMO enough people out there who want something different, so that Sailfish OS won't become a close-to-no-app system.
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But Sailfish OS should not require too much learning for developers with Qt experience, right? For me personally, that is what has put it on my "interesting"-radar. I know that Qt has served me well in the past and that I have som
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I'm not so sure. There are a lot of people out there that _really_ dislike Java.
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Fair enough. They claim to be thinking about open sourcing it, so there may be hope yet.
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I'd add bittorrent-sync. Encrypted, de-centralized Dropbox replacement.
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My brother lives in Vienna. He usually parks his car, which he needs for family visits and the odd trip to IKEA, and then leaves it untouched for weeks, since it is easier to move around the city without it than with it.
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The truly smart move would be if they skipped the even numbers after 9. I know it's a superstition, but you have to realize that the superstition, since it does exist now, pre-inclines the users to hate the even versions.
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Did they _really_ try though? Google sometimes fails to appreciate that just "putting it out there" isn't enough. Funny enough, they also fail to see that forcing people to adopt something doesn't work either. For a comp
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There are some technical quirks if it is supposed to be a decentralized system but still tied to your telephone number as account identification/address. You'd obviously want to be as independent as possible from your service prov
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Are you over 30? Seriously, I went to sit in with a few University freshmen recently here in Germany and they all used it. (They didn't know the Back to the Future movies, though!)
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And Orkut was number one in Brasil, but in the end, the network effect doesn't care for cultural borders (with the exception of the Great Firewall).
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Less than half. Europe and India easily make up for the US and China and then you still have South- and Middle America as well as South-East Asia (and Africa).
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But the network effects are still there if you have an interoperable standard. You can use _any_ app that supports the standard and still connect to everybody in the social network. There is no reason why the social network of mankind shoul
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Something's fishy though. Compare these acquisition numbers to the numbers that float in more "money-prone" parts of the software business. For instance, I've never heared of that kind of money being thrown around regard

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