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by sveme 13y ago
Given that Jewishness is 'inherited' maternally, he's actually not Jewish. He is not a follower of the Jewish religion and even Jews would not consider him a Jew. Why would he say otherwise?
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by sveme 13y ago
Sorry, but you Americans need to get rid of that imperial system: 1800 miles ~ 2000 km = 2,000,000 m. Each pair is around a metre. Simple, isn't it? Okay, admittedly, 1800 miles is definitely more than 2000 km...
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by sveme 13y ago
The infographics are dismal. The bars in 'Average Salary by Specialty' indicate that Python developers make twice what Javascript devs earn, while in reality it is around 10%. When you look at Java, an approximate 10% difference
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by sveme 13y ago
According to the article, his ESTA application (an electronic visa waiver program) had been approved before only to nevertheless be blocked. It does not seem to be an administrative error.
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by sveme 13y ago
I guess that is the point: actions leading to a barring of entry seem to have been becoming less and less severe. Anyone knows how these no-entry lists are being compiled?
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by sveme 13y ago
What's worst about this is that this seems way out of proportion. He signed (and co-authored I believe) a petition arguing against NSA surveillance out of concern for its effects on democracy - a move that is absolutely in agreement wi
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NSA critics Ilija Trojanov: German writer must not enter the U.S.(translate.google.com)
199 points by sveme 13y ago|95 comments
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by sveme 13y ago
There have been initiatives to unify the different government services under one account in Germany, however, whenever someone proposes to aggregate all citizen data in one database, a huge outcry ensues. The basic reason is really that no
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by sveme 13y ago
There are some schemes in place that make it easier for non-EU nationals to get a work permit in Germany, it would require you to find an employer that pays a wage above a certain threshold (I believe it's called Blue Card). A really h
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by sveme 13y ago
Wrong: https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/results/sources Don't spread wrongness if you don't know it better.
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by sveme 13y ago
Wow, a Godwin-hole-in-one. Nice coincidence that I just today learned about a brilliant drinking game: "Well, I've got to work tomorrow, which means that unfortunately I can't use this thread for my favorite lonely drinking g
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by sveme 13y ago
There is actually a major difference between the majority of German credit cards and, e.g., US credit cards, which fits nicely into your argument: Most German credit cards are "not-revolving",i.e., at the end of the month the amou
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by sveme 13y ago
Thanks for your answers. I guess I'll proceed like this from now on: (1) if I use only a small snippet of a comment, I'll reference both the comment and the author (2) if I use (nearly) the entire comment, I'll try to contact
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Ask HN: What copyright should I assume for HN comments?
6 points by sveme 13y ago|4 comments
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by sveme 13y ago
A micro statistic (in the languages I can somewhat understand): On which rank is any NSA/Prism?Snowden story currently on the websites, where rank is either "most read" or "most commented"? sueddeutsche.de: no. 1 le
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by sveme 13y ago
That's not what the article says. Rather, keep away from ecosystems at all. If a company tries to bind you to its ecosystem, stay away, as you are bound to be the one suffering from it in the long run. It's a shame that the intern
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by sveme 13y ago
I agree to some extent with your assessment, however, I also had some issues with the original post and could understand the anger of people that delved (much) deeper into the subject. I am not expecting a blog post to be a well-thought and
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by sveme 13y ago
There are actually highly interesting developments at the intersection of philosophy and neuroscience, one of them being the works of Thomas Metzinger (see, e.g., http://www.amazon.com/Being-No-One-Self-Model-Subjectivity&#x
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by sveme 13y ago
Though the reason Walmart failed in Germany is most likely due to the strong competition by ALDI and Lidl and its effects on the competitiveness (and profit margins) of other German supermarket chains.
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by sveme 13y ago
Citation? The OECD says otherwise (figure 4, Gini Coefficients for a number of OECD countries): http://www.oecd.org/els/soc/OECD2013-Inequality-and-Poverty-... The US is on level with Turkey, only Mexico and Chil
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by sveme 13y ago
Wait a second. The whole article is not about the son , it is about his grandson . No where in the article it is said that his grandson was a terrorist or has been associated with terrorism (even then, it would not have been right), qui
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by sveme 13y ago
Just checked the German iOS, the words mentioned in the article - abortion (Abtreibung), rape (Vergewaltigung), virginity (Jungfräulichkeit), ammo (Munition) all work. The correct word is proposed after entering about five letters. Must be
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by sveme 13y ago
If it's prediction time, here's mine: The time of hyper-multitasking, constant broadcasting of minute details to even the most distant acquaintances is over; the big luxury will be being able to spend uninterrupted time on a singl
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by sveme 13y ago
Interesting. DuckDuckGo shows news.ycombinator.com as the featured site, while Google does not show this exact link at all on the first site, neither via g! nor s!. Only the HN jobs site is in the top ten search results. Bing has it correct
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by sveme 13y ago
Wait a second - do you have a trustworthy reference? Are you (or the media) suggesting that the US managed to infiltrate European air traffic control and hoaxed the bolivian plane to land? I would not trust those official announcements, mor
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by sveme 13y ago
There seem to be two major topics governing the front page of hackernews lately - the NSA leaks and Google Glass (though Glass was obviously much earlier). And reading through the comments about these two topics feels like being on two comp
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by sveme 13y ago
True, but due to proportional representation, smaller parties play a much larger role in German politics than, say, the UK or the US. Just a shift of about three percent from the current coalition of CDU and FDP to the SPD and Greens in the
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by sveme 13y ago
Interesting, thanks. Though not having read her book, one of the critiques seem to be that pharma companies spent a disproportionate amount on marketing and sales. And that is something I have to agree with. At the moment it looks like the
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by sveme 13y ago
I'm somewhat familiar with industry practices (worked on software for the pharma industry) and just read 'Bad Pharma' by Ben Goldacre. It is a pretty well sourced and argued description of practices in the pharma industry and I haven't seen