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by sveme 10y ago
Can't reply to Zigzag, so I do it here: It's not about lower taxes in general, it is about lower taxes for a single specific company. And that constitutes state aid which is (mostly) forbidden under EU rules, as it is massively un
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by sveme 10y ago
Just as an additional pointer, the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung opened up today with a bit on the ease with which 100 million cars worldwide are exposed to a badly implemented remote car key system: http://www.sueddeut
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On the (In)Security of Automotive Remote Keyless Entry Systems(usenix.org)
2 points by sveme 10y ago|1 comments
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by sveme 10y ago
You misunderstand my point. I wasn't really criticizing the German school system, I am fully aware that there are plenty of examples of people that did not follow in their parent's footsteps. In both ways, by the way. The experien
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by sveme 10y ago
It's not a different view, it's actually reinforcing my quintessentially banal point that parents and social environment are factors that are hard to influence by governmental policies. I'm, by the way, a similar example, hav
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by sveme 10y ago
Governments can only do so much to increase intergenerational social mobility. When I look at my peers and myself, it is obvious that it is extremely difficult to emancipate yourself from the role model that is your parents. They are not ne
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by sveme 10y ago
It's not limited to EU citizens, anyone with the right to work and live in Germany can apply.
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by sveme 10y ago
That's a special coating they put on to keep people from being able to see the car's design before it's being officially presented. Plenty of test cars driving around on my city's streets with these coatings on.
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by sveme 10y ago
Some fault lines seem to accumulate energy, so the longer the waiting period between two earthquakes, the stronger it gets. Is it the same for San Andreas, so that more frequent earthquakes would actually be beneficial as they would be easi
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by sveme 10y ago
> The two year window post-A50 is specifically for such negotiations Actually not, the two years is just for getting the divorce right. Most experts indicate that a new arrangement can only be found after the divorce is complete. Though
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by sveme 10y ago
There are plenty of "old", >50, people on Facebook. Sometimes they actually are the most vocal in the comments section of the newspapers, especially when it comes to topics such as the EU and immigration. I do believe that the
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by sveme 10y ago
As another commenter already noted, the common market covers goods, people and services, including financial services. So in order to sell financial services, you need to be located in the EU. That just changed in the case of London, with o
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by sveme 10y ago
The qualified majority mechanism actually means that the power of the large countries are less than their population numbers imply. Both France and Germany have also capped their numbers of MEPs so that smaller countries have a larger share
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by sveme 10y ago
What I'd really like to see is some sort of business account for Patreon or one of the others. Lots of companies use open source projects as an integral part of their day-to-day work, yet it does not seem straightforward to set up a mo
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by sveme 10y ago
Well, it isn't ISIS alone. In Syria, you have the Kurds fighting against islamists (ISIS and others), the Turks and against Assad, you have the Free Syrian Army fighting against ISIS and Assad, you have Assad, you have Russians, Irania
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by sveme 10y ago
If it weren't for the traffic conditions and satellite images, I would not be using Google Maps anymore - it's been incredibly slow on both the Android app and the web. Takes about 30 secs of loading until I can finally switch on
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by sveme 10y ago
What seems to be happening in the background is an increasing divide between rural and urban areas, where the rural areas vote for populist right-wing politicians (Trump, FPÖ, AfD, Front National) while the urban areas vote for left wing (i
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by sveme 10y ago
No one knows. I believe it would be a mistake for the UK to leave, as everything down that road is totally open, but I'm actually really curious to see what would happen. Interesting times. "May you live in interesting times"
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by sveme 11y ago
OT: Seriously, I cannot read the seekingalpha article without installing their app? No way! Ad-blocking-related or is this the same for everyone?
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by sveme 11y ago
There's a lot of hype and currently little real success for electric cars. But with this hype, I guess real success is just a matter of time. The problem with probably all traditional carmakers is that pivoting to electric simply does
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by sveme 11y ago
Maybe. It is definitely the common-sense thing to do today, five years ago, it would have been smart. From a pre-Nadella perspective, you could have called it revolutionary, but now we're used to Microsoft participating in OSS, so it&#
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by sveme 11y ago
Smart move by Windows. I guess that developer usage of an OS ultimately results in developer developments for the OS, though I don't have any number for this. It seems to me that a lot of developers, especially at startups, have swit
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by sveme 11y ago
The latter. Having been to quite a couple of interviews with hiring managers, most of them interviewed in a way that they would have hired themselves, so case number 1. Case number 2, hiring people that they subconsciously wish themselves t
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by sveme 11y ago
I will not edit it to preserve this statement of my ignorance about the American university system for eternity, but thanks for pointing this out!
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by sveme 11y ago
There have been a number of posts about hiring practices lately. And a lot of them contradict each other. My conclusion is, that people hire people that are similar to themselves or similar to how they would like to see themselves , and
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by sveme 11y ago
I know that HN is not reddit and these sort of remarks are frowned upon, but the URL is hilarious, in a creepy way. (Note to self: when using "talking" URLs in a future web app, use the whole article title, not just a snippet)
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What a difference 400 years makes: the London skyline 1616 v 2016 – interactive(theguardian.com)
4 points by sveme 11y ago|1 comments
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by sveme 11y ago
Public finances are not stretched at all - Germany is currently running a budget surplus. But apparently that does not fit your narrative.
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by sveme 11y ago
Though it would have been fair to point out that this rant was written about his experiences the last time he used Julia, in Oct. 2014 , nearly 18 months ago.
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by sveme 11y ago
Yes, please, that would be very welcomed: me sveme.org thanks! Edit: thanks, highly appreciated!

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