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by sveme 8y ago
EU for another 11 days, unfortunately. But this is not the place for Brexshitting, so I'm just celebrating this regardless of any politics.
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by sveme 8y ago
Subdivide it into economies that are broadly similar and the conclusion does not hold anymore. Germany‘s unemployment is smaller than the US despite having a much more regulated job market. Problem is, the EU isn‘t really one homogeneous en
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by sveme 8y ago
Yes! When I head to docs.microsoft.com they show me a really bad machine-translated site of the C# API. And it is hard to change to the original English site. I am a software developer; I know English, thank you very much!
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by sveme 8y ago
What are you trying to say? Do you have evidence that the guy is pedophilic?
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by sveme 8y ago
Why can‘t ads (again) be targeted to content and not users? If I‘m reading an article on a Tesla I might be interested in what VW is offering instead - and might not be interested in that headset I looked at a week ago.
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by sveme 8y ago
If you switch off GPS for Google Maps on your iPhone, you should be save. Did that and only use Google Maps now to sanity-check Apple Maps traffic conditions.
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by sveme 8y ago
Really impressive and wide ranging work that he has done, in my previous life as a biophysicist I actually worked with his theory of hypercycles - pretty influential work on the origins of life.
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by sveme 8y ago
Anecdotes should not form the basis of lawmaking.
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by sveme 8y ago
Have the 2.3 billion MAU been independently verified and checked for duplicates/triplicates etc? Considering the number of people in the world, the number of people older than 13 and younger than 75, the number of active internet users
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by sveme 8y ago
Something's wrong with a society if that is the case. You can't imagine how much this statement shocks me. Not doubting it in any way, just a considerable shock.
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by sveme 8y ago
Why is that foolish? What‘s foolish about replacing light bulbs, reducing energy consumption of your appliances or reducing the energy consumption of your transport system?
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by sveme 8y ago
The VW Neo is coming out this year, and that‘s a far more relevant market segment than any of Tesla‘s offerings so far.
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by sveme 8y ago
I agree, the world will carry on. It's just a very heavy systemic shock switching your economic system from one set of conditions to a completely different set of conditions, from one day to another. So the question is: is the benefit
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by sveme 8y ago
What brings you to this assessment? Your gut feeling? Just came across this: https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1087425506931294209 today, that would be pretty serious indeed for a country that relies on so mu
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by sveme 8y ago
"Representative democracy". The power to accept or deny things like the treaty of lisbon lies with the members of parliament that represent the people, not with the people itself. Why should it be different for things like the tre
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by sveme 8y ago
Crap for Munich at least. Just tried it, couldn‘t even find the route between home and work - and both are along major public transport routes. However, I typically use the DB Navigator app for these purposes in Germany. Highly recommended.
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by sveme 8y ago
What‘s your country? Using Apple Maps all the time in Germany and found it to be actually better than Google Maps (though with a tendency to reroute around traffic more often than Google Maps used to do).
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by sveme 8y ago
In Germany you are not allowed to put up a speed cam just about anywhere. It needs to be an accident-prone site or one where it has been demonstrated before that it's prone to speeding.
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by sveme 8y ago
> The EU is co-ruled by an opaque system of non elected bodies, under the table deals, and backroom diplomacy. So just like any other democracy in the world. Do you really believe things are different in the House of Commons or the senat
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by sveme 8y ago
In some countries, if there's no dedicated bike lane you have to cycle on the road. Germany, for example.
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by sveme 8y ago
When I last installed Chrome in a fresh installation of Windows (so no saved settings from previous installations), it defaulted to an empty startpage. Might just have been me, mind.
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by sveme 8y ago
That's a setting in both browsers. Default is "Start with Startpage or empty page" in both browsers as well. You can always select "Restore last session" in both browsers.
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by sveme 8y ago
Saw him in a talk just last week - he actually mentioned that typescript would have been an alternative, but considered it less well known yet.
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by sveme 8y ago
Out of curiosity: do you use winter tires, is that a thing in the US?
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by sveme 8y ago
When I submitted my webextension-based extension, there was an automatic review followed by a human review. But obviously it's unclear what the quality of that review was and I'm not sure whether any update triggers another round
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by sveme 8y ago
Admittedly haven't explored this myself, but I would expect some insert in my shoes to significantly alter my gait. When I received orthopedic soles, these changed my whole stance and gait. Heck, if there's some twist in my socks,
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by sveme 8y ago
Someone that does not want to be tracked by facial or gait recognition, either because he's a criminal or a political activist, will always be able to do that. There might be a race between the recognition software and the circumventio
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by sveme 8y ago
I actually changed careers three times in my 30s. No issues whatsoever. Sounds like the proverbial Germans downtalking Germany And all the Germans agreeing. Then again, why would a society change for the better if there would not be all t
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by sveme 8y ago
I actually don‘t believe those numbers without an independent audit.
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by sveme 8y ago
Interestingly, this is exactly the process used in Andy Weir's new novel Artemis and makes oxygen the least of the problems of the moon city that the novel is named after.

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