thomasz

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by thomasz 8y ago
This is not how it works. If there is a number of people who really really really care about a single issue, it might be advisable for a politician to pander to their particular interests on the expense of the majority who cares only mild
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I had the same problem and then quit with the first round of chemo treatment for Hodgkin's Disease, and certainly not because I had an epiphany. It must have been one, or a combination of the many drugs against nausea, vertigo etc. I s
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by thomasz 8y ago
It's just one additional thing that requires brain cycles which would be better spent on situational awareness.
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It is absurd to describe rhe magazines political stance as „left leaning“. If anything, It is neoliberal. It had destroyed the campaigns of left leaning politicians at least as as those of conservatives.
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It worked so well because it rhymed perfectly with widespread stereotypes about America. It looks like he did this in almost all of his articles. He always wrote a compelling story that just happened to perfectly fit into the worldview of
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Conflicting ideas means believing that princess Diana was murdered by MI6 and that she was kidnapped by another shadowy party. Or that migrants will simultaneously take all the jobs and that they all just come to leech our welfare system dr
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It was so absurd that only a windiv power play against devdiv can adequately explain it.
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> It was definitely democratic. Every office except senator was decided by majority vote with universal male suffrage. That's very, very wrong. First of all, the Roman Republic was an oligarchy . Political power was monopolized in
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by thomasz 8y ago
The anti trust case against Microsoft was built on the fact that they bundled IE with windows. For free.
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There is zero evidence that the EU is trying to push out US technology companies or that there is any plan to run some form of import substitution. These fines are not arbitrary, and they do not hit "tech", they hit tech monopolie
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There is zero evidence for this accusation. The regulations against monopolies are neither new, nor are they enforced in a discriminatory manner against foreign companies. The EU administration is just doing a better job than it’s American
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I’m dead certain that the physical location of the servers is irrelevant. As long as google is taking money from European companies for showing ads to European users, the EU will assert its authority to regulate commerce. Therefore, a hypot
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The best move would be to start following the laws and regulations governing that market.
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Yes, definitely. There would be unrest, rioting, insurrection, and finally, civil war. Europe would be torn apart, the economy reduced to primitive agriculture. The European people will offer their prettiest daughters to Page and Brin, dra
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The mandate is to regulate monopolies. Regulation is always easier if the company isn't a key player in your own economy - just compare the fines against Volkswagen in the US and Germany. And honestly, I don't think this is ridicu
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by thomasz 8y ago
Are you taking lessons in German? Besides teaching you important skills, those are great opportunities to meet a huge variety of people in a somewhat similar situation.
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You can be part of a something and still realize that it is a problem.
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He became the villain when he became highly selective with the material he releases, which turned him from being a provider for whistle-blowers to a propagandist.
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It's only slow because you are not used to paying with cash. Most payments are done with cash here, and the few people paying with cards cause small but noticeable delays. Counting cash is usually faster than handling a card reader, en
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You have never experienced real pain.
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CSS is incredibly hard to learn and master. Everything is extremely unintuitive and subjected to subtle inconsistencies between browsers and browser versions. It’s just that we’ve been living with this insanity for so long that we fail to s
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Or too old to interpret the world in terms of heroes and villains.
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I have sunk an absurd number of hours into games in my life, Diablo in particular. I still remember some of the goddamn uniques on my sorcerer from the first one (Dreamflange, Thinking Cap and Najs Plate or Cape). And while I'm totally
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by thomasz 8y ago
I double dare anybody to show me an even remotely comparable example of people getting so angry about fishing gear or woodworking tools.
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The comments in these links are downright tame compared to r/diablo right now, while the stakes are way higher. The decisions of tech giants like Google, Microsoft and Apple have real, tangible impacts on our careers. Diablo is just a
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by thomasz 8y ago
Jesus Christ... It's almost certainly worse subjectively (seriously, how many stockbrokers would describe their line of work as degrading, compared to prostitutes!?) and objectively in terms of massively increased risks in terms of men
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> I find this interesting.. I wonder why people would still go to an illegal worker over a legal one. Is it that the consumers don't know they're illegal or they have some other advantage like cheaper price or a different exper
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Git is way more complicated than VMware.
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Containers may be a bit difficult, but every researcher should be capable of using a VM and distributing it.
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You can be negatively impacted if you do not have an account, even if you do not read tweets at all.

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