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by skrause 9y ago
Here in Germany the copayment for an ambulance is 10 €, everything else is covered by the health-insurance. So the choice is easy: If it's urgent call an ambulance, if it's not urgent and/or there are other ways too get to th
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by skrause 9y ago
> The idea is to have the stuff one really needs. One of my main uses for a file browser is to quickly go through a list of files and delete some of them when I clean up a directory. And nnn doesn't even support deletion... Just f
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by skrause 9y ago
> Modern dumps can be very environmentally friendly. Why use dumps at all? Here in Germany dumps are not allowed anymore, instead everything that can not be recycled is being burned; the energy is converted into electricity. Yes, burni
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by skrause 9y ago
That's why you need something municipal dark fibers that every ISP can cheaply rent. The last mile is the expensive part or a network which should be open-access and never belong to a single ISP.
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by skrause 9y ago
I had the chance to get in when Bitcoin was at $3 in 2011. I didn't. But I also don't regret it. Because I also clearly remember that when it hit $9 I thought at the time that if I owned any Bitcoin I would certainly sell now. Wit
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by skrause 9y ago
I don't think this has a lot to do with the antitrust case. His wealth simply peaked at the height of the dotcom bubble and then went down again because of the stock market crash in 2000.
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by skrause 9y ago
Here in Germany it's illegal to drug test your employees and yet there are less fatal injuries at work compared to the US ( https://sites.google.com/site/ryoichihoriguchi/home/occupati... ).
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by skrause 9y ago
Your closest servers: 172.104.136.243 (ns2.he.de): 96.51% uptime 5.135.183.146 (ns12.fr): 95.63% uptime Now that is some uptime I want for my DNS...
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by skrause 9y ago
I never understand the argument that I shouldn't use an ORM because I "should not be afraid of SQL". No, I don't use ORMs because I'm afraid of SQL. I actually really like SQL and I'm good at writing SQL querie
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by skrause 9y ago
In such situations you have to identify yourself somehow , that's what obligation of identification means. I was with a friend in the same situation (he forgot his ticket and had no ID). I just had to witness that he was indeed the pe
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by skrause 9y ago
That's a log of myths and misinformation spread here. In the EU you only have to carry an ID while you're crossing a border. If you stay in another country of the EU you should have your ID available somewhere in that country.
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by skrause 9y ago
> Isn't it legally required that you carry your ID at all times unless you are within 200 meters of your home? In Germany there is no such requirement, even though many Germans also think that you have to carry it with you. But th
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by skrause 9y ago
> Health insurance: if you're freelance, your health insurance is preferably private (cheaper) and you're free to cancel it if you please. No, having health insurance has been mandatory in Germany since 2007. You're free
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by skrause 9y ago
Self-driving cars used to move only one or two people around will probably look a bit like the Renault Twizy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Twizy
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by skrause 9y ago
I know you're joking, but Wall-E has figured this out: https://i.imgur.com/cw3Ge.jpg I find it really disturbing that some people think that non-walkable cities full of speeding robot cars without any regard for pedest
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by skrause 9y ago
That video is just full of false assumptions. For example at 0:25 he attributes the delays between cars starting at traffic lights to bad reaction times of humans. No, you start with a short delay because otherwise there is no way to reesta
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by skrause 9y ago
Or more importantly, cyclists. Because they already share the road with cars.
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by skrause 9y ago
> Give pedestrians a route over or under the roads. This is done in many places throughout the world already, and it works well. It really doesn't. Here in Germany most underpasses built in the car-friendly 60s and 70s are being a
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by skrause 9y ago
Don't say "European". The rights may be bad in the UK, but here in Germany we have rights as strong as the Bill of Rights.
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by skrause 9y ago
This is not a fine, it's back taxes. That's a very big difference.
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by skrause 9y ago
But you still call an URL first, e.g. https://www.pytosquatting.org/pingback/pypi/urllib2/ for "urllib2" before raising the exception. Though it is not an IP in China and only returns the text &quot
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by skrause 9y ago
No it doesn't, you simply get the value from the last dict: >>> a = {'x': 1} >>> b = {'x': 2} >>> {**a, **b} {'x': 2} >>> {**b, **a} {'x': 1}
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by skrause 9y ago
Why not drop bash completely and make zsh the default shell? Apple has been shipping zsh for a very long time already...
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by skrause 9y ago
> Q: Can I use my Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular) internationally? > A: Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular) does not support international roaming. From the FAQ section of the Apple Watch page in the Store. I'm wondering
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by skrause 9y ago
You can have a system that is somewhere between "capitalism in its purest form" and "communism". When both extremes thrive on misery, why not try some kind of middle ground?
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by skrause 9y ago
In Germany the fines for parking where you aren't allowed to park are something like 10 €, probably much lower than the European average.
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by skrause 9y ago
* Do they allow a data restore without you giving them your encryption password? - No: https://www.backblaze.com/backup-encryption.html
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by skrause 9y ago
I hear that a lot about tarsnap, do you all mainly back up VMs or log files? The majority of my most important backup data is my photos. I don't see how tarsnap could duplicate (or even further compress) that.
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by skrause 9y ago
> Why do you think people get different cases So that it doesn't break as easily if it falls down? At least that's my reason.
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by skrause 9y ago
I own an iPhone SE and will continue to do so in the future. - I'm currently buying a new ThinkPad. - I have never owned an Apple TV. My iPhone integrates just fine with my Sony TV. - I have never bought anything in iTunes. - My phone

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