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by sgift 8y ago
> A company is not there to solve stereotypes. That ties into the question if companies should have a responsibility to society or just be a vehicle to make money. Opinions differ on this. (Legality is another topic, but for the sake of
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by sgift 8y ago
> Is it unethical? Some people would say so, Anyone with something resembling a moral compass would say so. > The free market is a very powerful thing. Yes. It can make horrible people at least sometimes be a boon to society instead o
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by sgift 8y ago
> If the author's assertion is true, and this novel, unlike his others, was passed over due to antisemitism, Anti-Israel, not antisemitism.
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by sgift 8y ago
Unfortunately, the electrolysis of water is not efficient enough to produce enough H2 on an industrial scale at the moment. Most H2 is produced by steam reforming of gas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_productio
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by sgift 8y ago
As do the pages. All this has been tested before in Germany with the Leistungsschutzrecht. Even before it was struck down by the courts it was more or less not active anymore. Google just stopped sending traffic to the pages of the German p
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by sgift 8y ago
> Colonial powers left their mark behind in so many unfortunate ways that are just too complex for countries to deal with even today. What does that even mean? They are free countries. No one forced India to hold onto that law. No one fo
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by sgift 8y ago
Luckily, this is not the case in Germany. Here such behavior is illegal. We have experience what happens when you give people unrestricted access to data to do with whatever they want. Spoiler: It leads to bad outcomes.
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by sgift 8y ago
So, you nearly rear-ended someone because you didn't hold proper distance? What's your point?
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by sgift 8y ago
And, unfortunately, both results are in the expected spectrum. They may even be at the same time. The list of side effects on the medications I have to take is longer than my arm written in a small font and I hope every day that I don'
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by sgift 8y ago
You are right. They were first acquired by Braintree which later was acquired by Paypal.
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by sgift 8y ago
By quoting a few high-profile stories and ignoring everything else Mozilla does for privacy. That really is infuriating.
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by sgift 8y ago
We have no way to check if they were actually an inmate or just a sock puppet for their political position. Even then, they never experienced the alternative, so they don't have any more information than we do. A classic "alternat
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by sgift 8y ago
Leave it to the typical HN comment on things like that to equate heaps of evidence with "I read X somewhere" and praise some anon anecdote over solid data.
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by sgift 8y ago
It's probably not so much that they've been forgotten (in Bavaria) but that many people not from Bavaria don't associate the vegetarian recipes with Bavaria, but other regions - here are a few traditional Bavarian dishes: Dam
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by sgift 8y ago
There are so many metrics out there and everyone can choose whichever suits them best to make an argument. So, here's another one: Is a country able to be a nuclear power (note: Able to, not is one) - yes: Developed country. This metri
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by sgift 8y ago
In theory? Yes. In practice? No. UN is for all practical purposes controlled by the big five with permanent seats in the UNSC. The US' influence over NATO amounts to control. And so on. Most multilateral organizations are controlled by
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by sgift 8y ago
If the west tariffs developing countries there will be an outcry over neocolonialism and forcing the poor countries to our will and whatever. The only thing the west is allowed to do is putting money into developing countries without any gu
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by sgift 8y ago
Considering ... done. Comparison with other countries says: Not reversed.
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by sgift 8y ago
> This is why absolutely nobody takes seriously the empty words about human rights. Yeah, sure, because art taken hundred years ago is somehow comparable to breaking human rights.
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by sgift 8y ago
Where did you get the idea that the museum cut it? All information I could find points to the first scenes being lost at a far earlier date.
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by sgift 8y ago
> At worst there's people fighting against that change, preventing it from happening in the first place. Who exactly? People from the country of the passport holder? People from other countries? I try to get to the root issue here.
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by sgift 8y ago
> It looks like you're not really familiar with the sense of desperation and powerlessness which is the normal state for citizens of many countries. As an individual ("I need to get a visa and it's hard and there's no
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by sgift 8y ago
The problem is not that we cannot parallelize hardware. The problem is that the software making use of it is lacking. 24 cores is plenty, but if most software only uses one core even more cores won't help.
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by sgift 8y ago
Being an asshole about it is easier. But you don't have to be. Someone who can be principled without being an asshole is a true gem.
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by sgift 8y ago
The fusion between Daimler and Chrysler has been estimated to cost 75 billion and failed too. It was a complete disaster in the name of "shareholder value"
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by sgift 8y ago
How are males helped in nursing?
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by sgift 8y ago
Half the country and half the people are not the same thing. Someone told me that the US voting system is designed to make sure more populated regions (e.g. big cities) don't overrule the less populated parts.
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by sgift 8y ago
> Did Germany really has grown only 1% if we consider migration and the refugee crisis? There are official migration statistics, so you can look that up and check for yourself - here is a good start: https://www.destatis.de&#x
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by sgift 8y ago
China stealing German/European technology is a common topic here in Germany. HN is just a relatively US focused site, so it isn't discussed as often here.
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by sgift 8y ago
The foundation adopted it. Which is kind of my point.

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