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by skrause 10y ago
Germany already had its Pirate Party story and it was a total disaster. 4 years ago they entered a few local parliaments with over 8% of the votes, but in the end the party destroyed itself from the inside. Turns out that if a bunch of nerd
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For me it would be compared to just black coffee and no breakfast, so of course it would be additional calories if I force myself to drink coffee with butter in it.
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It's still much larger than the moon.
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by skrause 10y ago
Different VAT rates for different types of products are not a problem in EU, in fact almost all European countries also have a reduced VAT rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax... Quite oft
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by skrause 10y ago
For unreadable pages I always use the "zap colors" bookmarklet from https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html which gives you nice black-on-white text.
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by skrause 10y ago
In Germany Monsanto is 'the big evil American company' and Bayer is just a big company.
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by skrause 10y ago
In 2009 the German Constitutional Court (similar to the U.S. Supreme Court) had to decide about voting machines and made an interesting decision which de-facto banned them. They didn't really ban them, but simply set some requirement
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by skrause 10y ago
Apart from what the others have already mentioned (buying a grinder) I think it's even more important to try switching your method of brewing. I also don't like Bialetti coffee at all, it tastes for too "dirty" (for a la
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by skrause 10y ago
If you just want an object that stores a few attributes and you don't want to define a namedtuple, you can use types.SimpleNamespace in Python >= 3.3: https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/types.html#types.Si
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by skrause 10y ago
The problem with AAC is in the container format, as Marco explains in his podcast: While some important metadata like chapter marks which a podcast player might want to display are within the first KB in an MP3 file, this same information i
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by skrause 10y ago
To me all the Hyperloop startups have just been a scam to take big chunks of money from investors who believe in any Musk hype. None of them can still really explain how to overcome the big technical hurdles and I don't believe the cos
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by skrause 10y ago
The whitelist-type system of building a credit score in the USA just seems weird and invasive to me. Here in Germany you have something more like a blacklist: You pretty much have a good credit score by default and only get a bad score by
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by skrause 10y ago
The credit card acceptance in Germany is changing quickly right now, even the discounter chains like Aldi and Lidl who were cash-only just 15 years ago have been accepting contact-less VISA and MasterCard payments for around a year now.
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by skrause 10y ago
Other countries have adopted HbbTV instead and it looks like the BBC will also switch away from MHEG: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/statements/hbb-tv-standards
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by skrause 10y ago
I have the mobile site of the teletext by one of the German public broadcasters bookmarked in my phone simply because it loads so quickly even on a slow mobile 2G connection: http://www.ard-text.de/mobil/100
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by skrause 10y ago
I on the other hand have a mailbox that is not even 100 MB, but I would have to pay $40 a year just to use my own domain. That's also a bit too expensive for my low mail volume.
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by skrause 10y ago
The DDOS targeted only the web server. The NNTP server (news.gmane.org) is on a different server and actually still running just fine right now.
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by skrause 10y ago
Unfortunately electric cars won't solve the noise problem. The graph on http://www.leiserstrassenverkehr.bayern.de/laerm/entstehung/ (a German government website) compares the engine noise ("Antriebsgerä
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by skrause 10y ago
Here is some data for the USA and some other countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn#Safety:_international... Looks like in the US motorway driving is about twice as safe than "all roads" with a fat
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by skrause 10y ago
Why is staying single cheaper? My girlfriend and I save a lot of money by being able to share an apartment and splitting the rent, internet connection etc. Living alone would be much more expensive for each of us.
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by skrause 10y ago
Not true, most of the plain text protocols like SMTP, FTP, HTTP/1.1 etc. also mandate \r\n.
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by skrause 10y ago
> You have to trash all stuff down fast and then pack/repack afterwords somewere else and you get stressed. 1. Always have one or more foldable boxes in your car (like https://i.imgur.com/GG4FfAi.jpg ). Make sure t
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by skrause 10y ago
And since you can't know that the computer actually recorded what was printed on your paper receipt you have to dispute the result by default if a good democratic process is important to you. So if you have to count the paper balloty a
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by skrause 10y ago
They said "publish the APFS volume format". So that can mean just documentation and not code at all.
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No checksumming?
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by skrause 10y ago
The choice part doesn't seem to be required by EU regulations. The German Girocards basically all include VPay or Maestro as well, but you don't need to choose (and in fact you can't even choose) which payment system to use b
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And maybe that's a season why we haven't seen Apple Pay in Germany so far. In the USA Apple gets 0.15% of each transaction, but that would be pretty difficult in Germany if 0.15% is already the total transaction fee.
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by skrause 10y ago
In the European Union the fee a bank can charge the merchant for a transaction is now capped to 0.3% ( https://www.gov.uk/government/news/credit-and-debit-card-fee... ) and that seems to work fine. Interestingly jus
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by skrause 10y ago
Bicycles also solve all the problems you listed.
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It's actually doing an entry burn to slow down before hitting the atmosphere, you can see it starting here: https://youtu.be/zBYC4f79iXc?t=27m34s Also your calculation is not correct: You add another vertical 4,200 kph

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