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by skrause 13y ago
What's the problem with debit cards? I like to have the money for all purchases withdrawn from my account as soon as possible, it gives me a nice overview of how much I actually have.
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by skrause 13y ago
Credit card usage isn't low here because Germans hate credit, it's because we simply have had better alternatives for ages. Instead of credit cards people use Electronic cash ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ele
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by skrause 13y ago
The drive doesn't have to be blank. Just put on a fresh install of an OS and don't put on any personal files. Then reimage after reaching your destination.
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by skrause 13y ago
For me the end of Google Reader meant that I could finally stop using my Google account altogether since Reader was their only service I was using. It's a shame that so many of the Google Reader alternatives want me to sign in with my
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by skrause 13y ago
http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/vkw/ivs/oeko... suggests that the total cost of cars in the UK are around £50B per year. Your argument also suggest that all cyclists don't pay taxe
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The Old Reader stays public and has a new team managing it(blog.theoldreader.com)
7 points by skrause 13y ago|0 comments
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by skrause 13y ago
What we need is some form or decentralised certificate authority, i have no idea how that could work though. DNSSEC could be used to distribute certificates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_N
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Reader_archive creates a custom Google Reader archive including all read items(github.com)
1 points by skrause 13y ago|0 comments
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by skrause 13y ago
Using 'A' and 'Z' for up and down is always great fun on a German keyboard where 'Y' and 'Z' are switched.
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by skrause 13y ago
It seems that you haven't traveled to Germany yet. Public Wifi is barely available because of legal risks and hotels still try to charge you something like 10 euro for a day of internet access. When I went to Dublin in Ireland the situ
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by skrause 13y ago
If you can't upgrade anything easily, it's bascially just a very fast Mac Mini.
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by skrause 13y ago
And your point is? His post was pro-nuclear and suddenly you're arguing against coal?
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by skrause 13y ago
What's wrong with canola oil?
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by skrause 13y ago
and you don't have to back up, you always have your documents Until Google closes your account for whatever reason.
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by skrause 14y ago
Thinking of the first content I published on the web as a teenager some 15 years ago, I'm happy it's gone now.
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by skrause 14y ago
It also supports IPv6. whatismyip.akamai.com is IPv4 only.
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by skrause 14y ago
Where can I find those $8 certificate? https://www.positivessl.com/ only shows me "from €49.00/ year".
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by skrause 14y ago
In Firefox you have to first bookmark the link, then go to the atrocious bookmark manager and move the bookmark where you want it to go. In Firefox you can click the star in the URL bar to set a bookbar. When you click the star for a seco
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by skrause 14y ago
Whenever I hear the word "supercapacitor" I'm reminded of EEStor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEStor ), one of the biggest vapor wares a few years back. It sounded too good to be true and it was.
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Discounting Data Access to Messaging on Mobile(facebook.com)
2 points by skrause 14y ago|0 comments
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by skrause 14y ago
It has been a major annoyance for years in Germany. I've recently started using an IPv6 tunnel with an endpoint in the UK to route around this problem: http://realpath.org/blog/2013/02/10/youtube-ipv6-tunnel/
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by skrause 14y ago
> Retina is great, but it depends on the price. But still, what next after the retina? An LTE/3G connection would be nice.
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by skrause 14y ago
Unfortunately then I would have to disable f.lux every time in the morning because otherwise it wouldn't transition back until noon.
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by skrause 14y ago
My main issue with f.lux (and the reason I don't use it) is that you can't configure it to wait until a certain time to start with the transition. When I go to bed at 11 pm, I would like f.lux to start its one hour transition at 9 pm so tha
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by skrause 14y ago
I've always thought that people in very expensive cities would generally earn much more so that after substracting the cost of living you would end up with more or less the same. I live in an economically weak city in the western region of
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by skrause 14y ago
Note that Germany is a federal republic with multiple states just like the USA, where each state has different voting laws. It just happened that our constitutional court declared that all current voting machines are inherently unsafe. This
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by skrause 14y ago
I never understand the population argument. Counting votes is perfectly scalable, if one in a thousand people volunteers to count votes it doesn't matter if your population is 1000 or one billion. In Germany voting machines have been banned
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by skrause 14y ago
It actually belonged to Hamburg first. Now it's back home.
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by skrause 14y ago
The heat could be used to heat up houses or provide warm water: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating
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by skrause 14y ago
Unfortunately even the (supposedly international) GSM iPhone 5 is mostly tuned to LTE frequencies commonly used in the USA. In Germany we have multiple 4G frequencies and the new iPhone 5 supports exactly one of them (by T-Mobile, the oth

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