thesimon

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by thesimon 8y ago
>Once that's rolled out everywhere it is really going to challenge the established online payment systems in Europe Disagree. Most of the German banks that have just announced SEPA Instant are charging 0.50€-2€/transaction. No
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by thesimon 8y ago
Revolut allows you to get a prepaid Maestro that you can topup with your credit card. Exchange rates are quite good.
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by thesimon 8y ago
Amex is 0.5-1% cashback in Germany which is quite good. SME Visa/MasterCards still give around 1% in airline miles.
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by thesimon 8y ago
>or they charge a king’s ransom to see the work on their walls, like the Louvre (seventeen euros) Partially true, European visitors under 25 years get free access. As a not-so-rich-student this is what made me visit the Louvre. I'm
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by thesimon 8y ago
Is it easy to get a regular loan of >$25k with no securities though?
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by thesimon 8y ago
>As the phone periodically reports the signal strengths of surrounding cells for the purposes of handover just taking a glimpse of this is enough to triangulate well. Not when the phone is idle and is not leaving a location area though.
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by thesimon 8y ago
WebCrypto?
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by thesimon 8y ago
>Smart computer scientists go to silicon valley Is it really that easy though for the rest of the world? As an european developer AFIAK there a basically two visas * H-1B: Hard to get the quota as some big companies abuse it for cheap wo
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by thesimon 8y ago
>Tons of "artisan burger" restaurants and burrito/taco shops popping up. US-style food trucks, with all kinds of different offerings, also have become very popular. More upmarket segment and pricing though, not really in t
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by thesimon 8y ago
>A few things can be done on the upper levels of the network stack. On DNS, you can use DNSSEC to sign your records. The IPs returned by the fake DNS would not have been signed as they do not have the private keys. Would this have helped
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by thesimon 8y ago
Ridesharing could also include long-distance ride-sharing like BlaBlaCar. Since Uber-for-X has become a thing, I don't think including Uber in the title is a bad thing.
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by thesimon 8y ago
HBCI is mostly a German standard though. It is a huge PITA to work with as well, clearly showing its age. The most promising thing seems to be the API standard developed by the "Berlin Group" https://www.berlin-group.or
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by thesimon 9y ago
And this makes the pharmacy give you the brand name drug? That's surprising. Over here (Germany) the doctor can fill in the name of the brand in the prescription, but unless he ticks a special box you'll automatically get the gene
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by thesimon 9y ago
Sort of agree, but I don't think if (err) { handleError(err) return } and if (err) return handleError(err) are equally good. The second one doesn't really make it clear wether handleError returns
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by thesimon 9y ago
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-s... No specific age limits.
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by thesimon 9y ago
Probably this case: http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/14/nyregion/toddler-left-outs... She was Danish and left her child in the stroller outside while dining inside. Doesn't seem like a big issue to me
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by thesimon 9y ago
>If however, you are choking to death, there is no obligation for me to help you. TIL: There is no concept of "Duty to rescue" in most Common Law countries such as the US. Seems really strange. ( https://en.wikipedia.
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by thesimon 9y ago
They also claim >Pay Court costs, assessed at 50% of total costs. This is estimated to be at least 50,000 Euros, but is not yet assessed. which seems false. The court set the amount involved in this case to 100k€, which would incurr abou
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by thesimon 9y ago
IPv6?
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by thesimon 9y ago
It's false though. The court says German law applies because German users can access the site. German language is only briefly mentioned, but not the argument of the court.
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by thesimon 9y ago
Partially, the parent company is part of the SpringerNature joint venture.
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by thesimon 9y ago
>Reading the decision one learns that some of the volunteers involved in running PG and posting these materials were residents of Germany. It is only mentioned in the plaintiff's complaint though, not in the reasoning by the court.
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by thesimon 9y ago
>Edit: Individual books are blocked. Vodafone?
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by thesimon 9y ago
>Can someone who is in Germany actually confirm this block is in place? Cannot confirm it, Gutenberg.org works fine for me. Edit: tried 3 different ISPs, no issues. Edit 2: Tried accessing books, this was blocked for 1/3.
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by thesimon 9y ago
Because you need money to cover fixed costs.
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by thesimon 9y ago
>> became “contribution margin positive” in the last year, which means that it’s profitable on a per-order basis. >Congrats you aren't losing money on every order! Seems like an overstatement as fixed costs are still not cover
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by thesimon 9y ago
>Now we will have to wait and see if the cities will actually be sued into having to implement such bans. They already have been forced to implement such bans by the lower court. The cities appealed, but as decided today were unsuccessfu
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by thesimon 9y ago
>EU law mandates doing something to reduce pollution if it's too high And it mandates that for around 15 years now. One of the cities (Stuttgart) has been exceeding the pollution limits for at least 8 years now. It's quite stra
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by thesimon 9y ago
What would an average salary for a medium-level dev look like? I've seen 40k GBP a few times, but that seems quite low.
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by thesimon 9y ago
Do you think the salary level reflects the high cost of living? 45k SEK pre-tax seems like a common figure, but appartments e.g. in Stockholm are around 12k SEK.

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