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by sveme 8y ago
The robot that crawls the web doesn‘t have anything to do with whether you are being tracked.
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by sveme 8y ago
Have you bought one? What are your experiences with PureOS as a phone OS, considering the underlying hardware? One issue with Firefox OS was the non-fit between phone hardware and OS hardware requirements...
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by sveme 8y ago
In today's world, we should change it to "... never read reddit/youtube/twitter/newspaper comments before dinner". Most of it is just digestion-disturbing outrage and a repetition of the same narratives over an
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by sveme 8y ago
Shareholders have and should have moral positions as well. Capitalism can and should be tamed, otherwise there is no difference between Mexican cartels and American corporations.
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by sveme 8y ago
If a company uses the tracking data to personalize prizes of stuff that you are interested in, you suddenly might pay much more than you think without ever being aware of it.
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by sveme 8y ago
A yes/no referendum without detailing the actual approach to withdrawal is definitely not an election either.
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by sveme 8y ago
Sync is disabled by Corporate IT by default. Not suggesting any malevolence, just wanted to check whether anyone else experienced a similar suspicious event as well.
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by sveme 8y ago
Just got the update at work, and miraculously my uBlock adblocking extension was removed and DuckDuckGo as the default search engine replaced with Google. Looks like all my customizations were replaced by defaults. Now I'm wondering wh
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by sveme 8y ago
For me, it‘s going through every tiny movement of a special climb, thinking about what worked and what didn‘t. All these things have the same core, focusing on the body and freeing your mind from distressing thoughts about work, life or rel
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by sveme 8y ago
There's a northern German copper plant which can dynamically adjust its energy usage to the availability of renewable energy. If the availability is low, they reduce their production and thereby greatly help the grid. I could imagine p
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by sveme 8y ago
Linear Algebra, Calculus and Assembly for a five year old? You surely must be joking, Sir. Okay, you are joking. Nice one.
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by sveme 8y ago
Really nice tool - is it using traffic conditions right now? To elaborate, I first entered 4 hrs from Munich, then added another half an hour to it and got a counterintuitive map (see oalley.net/map/b3y): I would have expected the
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by sveme 8y ago
Well, I personally am in favour of the way the EU acts as a permanent umbrella to organise cooperation and according to the latest polls, the majority of people in most countries are in favour of that too. Otherwise, with each country actin
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by sveme 8y ago
OT, but what kind of Brexit would you have wanted?
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by sveme 8y ago
Isn't it great that you're heading for a hard brexit, then? If the competition is no level-playing field anymore, how should a local company be successful? Your points have been addressed above already, if Apple had a dominant mar
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by sveme 8y ago
> EU Commission as judge, jury and executioner The executive fines someone (like you are fined for violating parking regulations), then you can appeal that fine in court, in this case most likely the ECJ. Would you argue that it's w
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by sveme 8y ago
Murdoch was in favour of brexit, that‘s a huge resource in the UK.
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by sveme 8y ago
Well, Arizona is far south compared to Northern Germany or Scandinavia and the sun sets at approx. the same time in summer and winter. In my hometown it‘s bright till 11 pm in summer and dark at 3:30pm in winter. DST might make more sense i
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by sveme 8y ago
They do have their own engine.
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by sveme 8y ago
For larger teams, there‘s also Stackoverflow Enterprise and clones of it as Confluence extensions. The former is pretty pricy, but we are currently investigating whether we should get a license.
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by sveme 8y ago
Well, Portugal and Spain were not really affected by the war. They were, however, affected by the isolationist dictatorships that they had to suffer under for another 30 years.
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by sveme 8y ago
Which is what I emphasise below. But it mattered when it came to the development of trade routes, knowledge centers, the industrial revolution and the emergence of large corporations.
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by sveme 8y ago
Hmm? No, that‘s definitely not what I said. Geography is one factor that can influence population density and interconnectedness, among other things, but these parameters have different effects in different times. Rivers are much less impor
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by sveme 8y ago
Germany has massive geographical advantages compared to nearly every other country in Europe, especially compared to Portugal. East-west and north-south navigatable rivers, few mountains, very fertile soils, located in the center of Europe
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by sveme 8y ago
Portugal seems to be very attractive to northern European tech and media freelancer types, know a couple of guys who live and enjoy Portugal and work for German companies remotely. Pretty attractive, would do it myself if it wasn‘t for the
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by sveme 8y ago
But both sides already levy tariffs on the other side, just with different emphasises. Look at US truck tariffs as an example.
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by sveme 8y ago
Regulatory requirements on product safety and environmental standards are not senseless bureaucratic obstacles.
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by sveme 8y ago
The oldest one is the Würzburg - Hannover track which was opened in 1991.
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by sveme 8y ago
Flixbus takes around seven hours, traffic jams on that heavily-travelled route notwithstanding. Another example: Hanover -> Munich is ten hours by bus last I checked and 4.5 hrs by train. Bus is only usable for the price-conscious, i.e.
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by sveme 8y ago
Interesting. Skinming through the comments, very little criticism, everyone in awe. Only way down there is someone stating how hard it is to get regulatory approval. I guess that‘s HN still in full fanboy mode, before all those startups sta

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