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by sveme 10y ago
This was brought up by the top-voted post: I think Blendle has something going for it, but the individual articles are way too expensive (at least in Germany). Whenever I use Blendle I'm thinking: Do I really find that article worth 79
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by sveme 10y ago
I'm wondering how my company would react if I declined any further traveling to the US on business trips. I hated the experience at the US border controls before, but that goes definitely way beyond anything I would find acceptable. Th
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by sveme 10y ago
Why? Does Chromium support Tree Style Tabs despite using WebExtensions? If that's the case, why would that not be possible for Firefox? Or would you switch to make a statement?
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by sveme 10y ago
Have we reached peak Facebook yet? I started using Facebook quite early in my country and used it mostly as a social network, communicating and exchanging stuff with friends from all over the world. A couple years later I deleted my account
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by sveme 10y ago
Sure. That's why you have to always fill out all forms again and again, because previous forms at one office cannot be shared with the office next door (And because their IT sucks). In all seriousness, as an example, data retention law
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by sveme 10y ago
That's ridiculous, Munich has around 850,000 employees, so 35,000 is nowhere near your 50%. Do you actually know what socialism is?
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by sveme 10y ago
Here's mschuster91, who worked there, take on the issue from a couple of days ago when it first was posted to hackernews: ------------------ > Does anyone have some examples of the practical problems they experience using Linux, whi
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by sveme 10y ago
I was under the impression that Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews derived from that population in Rome? Did the Ashkenazi come directly from Palestine to the Rhine valley?
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by sveme 10y ago
There's the huge issue in Munich that the city cannot pay much more than has been agreed upon country-wide, it's all according to TVL. So in a city as expensive as Munich and with such a low unemployment rate, why would anyone sta
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by sveme 10y ago
> If the EU, designed to be the counterbalance to the United States That was never the reason for the foundation of the EU. If that's the level of your understanding of European politics, I can't take you seriously anymore. If
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by sveme 10y ago
On the contrary, a Trump presidency and the Brexit actually creates the external counterparts that is needed for people to gather around. Adding to that, the US feels like a very alien culture nowadays, reenforcing the feeling of being some
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by sveme 10y ago
If gp thinks a win by Le Pen or her counterpart in Germany is a given, he does not understand the election system in each respective country. Living in the EU, I actually experience quite the opposite to what jerf is predicting: a reemergen
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by sveme 10y ago
Don't know about Berlin, but Munich/Bavaria has a pool of angels and family offices that they could connect you with: http://www.baystartup.de/finanzierungs-netzwerk/finanzierung... I assume there's some
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by sveme 10y ago
Adding to that, a couple of months ago they had to close the KVR, the office where you have to register yourself, your car and basically have all your contacts with German bureaucracy down for a couple of days due to IT issues. As far as I
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by sveme 10y ago
Indeed, they moved five kilometers from Unterschleißheim, a Munich suburb, to the city itself.
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by sveme 10y ago
> More recently, Microsoft last year moved its German company headquarters to Munich." To be fair, the headquarters were in Unterschleißheim before, a suburb of Munich just 5kms from the new location.
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by sveme 10y ago
Some countries do not allow renunciation of their passports.
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by sveme 10y ago
Plenty of cities are starting to introcude regulatory measures against airbnb which will make it much harder to stay profitable and grow. Munich, Berlin and Barcelona are all concerned that flats are often used only for airbnb nowadays, the
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by sveme 10y ago
CellTool | Munich, Germany | Software Developer/Bioinformatician | ONSITE Who we are and what we can offer CellTool, a biomedical startup working on Raman spectroscopy with a functional (and also already sold) device consisting of a di
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by sveme 10y ago
Same here in Germany. A friend bought a MacBook off ebay and wire-transferred some money to his bank account. He never shipped. So she contacted first his bank (which coincidentally was the same as hers) and then the local police. Both were
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by sveme 10y ago
Beer is actually not such an issue as most people prefer to drink their beer from glass bottles. Water and soft drinks are another story. Though I would really like to see an ecological assessment whether the bottle reuse system is more eco
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by sveme 10y ago
Adding to that, a lot of homeless people have to dumpster dive to get out those returnable bottles, which obviously is pretty humiliating. So some guys first developed stickers saying "Bottles belong next to the trashbin" and put
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by sveme 10y ago
And Jodel ( https://jodel-app.com/ ), which is pretty big among German students and surprisingly entertaining as well.
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by sveme 10y ago
Some of it will be dyed with fluorescent markers or some of the cellular pictures will use fluorescent proteins (artificially) expressed by the organism itself. Others are probably composites using several different fluorescent markers - an
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by sveme 10y ago
Yes, Samsung is going to suffer, that's certain. But failing, as in going bankrupt? No. They are simply too important for South Korea to let them go bankrupt. But you backpedalled on that point already as well, and no one, even the big
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by sveme 10y ago
Indeed, I meant "elitist" - elitarian is the false friend of the German "elitär". And I absolutely agree - very often it is just their self-perception as being part of the elite, nothing based on true intellect or capabi
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by sveme 10y ago
Bad management, basically, that's his complaint. I believe the issues with the Berlin startup scene lie somewhere else, though are related: a lot of the startups are started by former elitarian management students, often from WHU, that
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by sveme 10y ago
Serious question: How are asian companies set up when targeting the EU? Does Samsung follow the same approach as Apple and other US companies?
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by sveme 10y ago
Maybe they are talking about their employee's income tax, capital gains tax of shareholders, VAT etc. Smokescreen. Disingenuous.

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