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by skrause 9y ago
On the German Amazon site there are now even "Prime" articles directly sent from the third-party seller.
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by skrause 9y ago
> Germany doesn’t use the MasterCard or the VISA network Well, it is used (almost all major stores and large grocery chains support both Visa and MasterCard), but Girocard is far more widespread.
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by skrause 9y ago
> EC is Eurocheque, a German specific card system. Eurocheque hasn't existed since 2003. The current system is Girocard ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girocard ), it's just that the colloquial name is sti
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by skrause 9y ago
> Sooner or later you are going to wake up and realise that a government-run single payer scheme is the only way to go. But it's not. Just look at Germany, we have universal and not too expensive healthcare without a government-ru
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by skrause 9y ago
You got two facts wrong: - The T460s (and T470s) only has one free RAM slot, the other is soldered on as well. - You're implying that the X1 has a soldered on SSD, but that's not true, it has a standard M.2 connector for the SSD.
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by skrause 9y ago
Before clicking on the article I thought that the dangerous catch was that you have to sit in seat 31B and wondered why. The article's title and site name should really be differentiated better in HN's title.
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by skrause 9y ago
Not literally . But if you make the police work much easier by voluntarily giving out data that you don't need to give them of course they are happy to take your offer to make their job easier whenever they can.
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by skrause 9y ago
In Germany the police can threaten all they want, getting a warrant for user data is the prosecutor's job. That's also why don't give out the data directly the police. If the prosecutor is asking that's a totally differe
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by skrause 9y ago
Because if you make it too easy for the police they'll just ask for too much all the time, even for things where they wouldn't get a warrant. This is happening in Germany all the time when a provider wants to be nice to the police
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by skrause 9y ago
Chris Mason, the principal Btrfs author, left Oracle over 5 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs#History "In June 2012, Chris Mason left Oracle for Fusion-io, which he left a year later with Josef Bacik
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by skrause 9y ago
Are multiple classes of shares really that bad? Here in Germany a possible concept is the Vorzugsaktie ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred_stock#Germany ) where you have no voting rights in exchange for a higher
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by skrause 9y ago
Not the version by BigSQL.
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by skrause 9y ago
Fortunately pgAdmin3 is not going anywhere for now because BigSQL maintains an LTS release that stays compatible with the most recent Postgres versions: https://www.openscg.com/bigsql/pgadmin3/ So I simply continu
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by skrause 9y ago
It's weird that so many people report that. I'm a German who never waits for the green light at crosswalks and I never get any funny looks or comments.
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by skrause 9y ago
While a company has to give you a few weeks notice in Germany (unless you're fired without notice because stole something etc.), they can simply send you home with pay if they don't need you anymore or don't want to let you n
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by skrause 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons I know it's a difficult balance to find, but sometimes you have to restrict the individual's freedom of choice to protect the environment and society as a
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by skrause 9y ago
Did you know that you can sell products you no longer need instead of throwing them into the trash? Or just rent it if you only need it one or two times?
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by skrause 9y ago
Or to stay competitive on price the manufacturers will try to build longer lasting products instead of just rising prices to pay for repairs.
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by skrause 9y ago
Is there any plan to improve the current EU laws on products guarantees? Because the current one has a big problem: http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/guar... "The legal guarant
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by skrause 9y ago
The right to repair is a good step, but I think the better approach to fight short product lifespans would be much longer and mandatory guarantees on products. A mandatory 5-year guarantee on laptops and 10 years on washing machines or drye
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by skrause 9y ago
> And the videos almost always going to play faster and more smoothly from google CDN versus some homebrew solution. Speaking of this, why do all of those annoying autoplaying videos on every major news site always take ages to loa
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by skrause 9y ago
> I moved to the UK (from Ireland). It was relatively painless. That's because both are EU countries (for now at least). Moving to France will also be much easier if you're an EU citizen, you won't have to deal with resi
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by skrause 9y ago
The way https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-VAT-a... describes the difference between VAT and GST to me it seems that GST is very similar to the German Umsatzsteuer which also applies to goods and servi
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by skrause 9y ago
I never understood the argument that some automatic scanning for keywords is like "reading" your mail. By that same logic isn't Gmail's spam filter still "reading" your mail? It is classifying your mail based o
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by skrause 9y ago
I also don't think the bar should be "safer than a human driver", but "safer than than an experiended, sober, well-rested, defensive driver who doesn't use this phone while driving".
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by skrause 9y ago
As a German I would not understand "eiwitten" as "Eiweiß". However, the word "Protein" is also used in Germany as a regular alternative to "Eiweiß".
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by skrause 9y ago
Why are oil changes so frequent in the USA? Here in Germany the manufacturer's recommendation is usually an oil change every ~10k miles or once a year (whichever come first).
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by skrause 9y ago
You can donate your skin that is being removed after heavy weight loss: http://www.livestrong.com/article/126643-donate-skin-after-b... I can imaging that this is a big source of donated skin.
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by skrause 9y ago
If you were to be released on the 17th, would you rather go at 3 am or 10 pm? I would like to go as early as possible. 3 am is not as good as immediately at midnight, but I wouldn't consider it a kick to the head.
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by skrause 9y ago
As a German the self driving company Otto is really confusing. It doesn't only have the same name but also almost exactly the same logo as Otto, the decades old and second largest online retailer in Germany: https://www.otto

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