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by wheels 10y ago
If we're talking about the class of people who will use a flying car to get to work, airlifting containers via helicopter to construct their home is probably within reach.
512.
by wheels 10y ago
Two related things that first jump out to me as interesting: - Opens up a lot of potential living space which is geographically close, but not practically connected via transit arteries - Opens up living space in areas which are not passabl
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by wheels 10y ago
The Blue Card doesn't require more paperwork via mail. My wife switched to it from an academic visa (postdoc) directly at the Ausländerbehörde. It does have two very useful features though: - It allows you to switch jobs without an a
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by wheels 10y ago
I do, but having spent virtually all of my adult life in Germany (36 now, moved here at 21), my sense of what's normal is the way that things are here. My son was born here and is a German citizen (which isn't automatic just by b
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by wheels 10y ago
Well done on the guide. I'm used to being the crotchety Berlin emigration pedant on HN, and this actually gets almost everything right. The process you described is still probably the most common (and the one that I took around 15 yea
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by wheels 10y ago
After a few years, if you practice quite a bit, you get to where if you can hear it in your head, you can more or less automatically translate that to finger movements. A seasoned player doesn't really have to think much about the mec
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by wheels 10y ago
Former music teacher here (and present software developer). When I was teaching bass lessons, I'd often have friends, usually also in their mid-20s ask me, "Could I still start learning to play an instrument?" My answer was,
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by wheels 10y ago
That's because he's exaggerating: You can still make an appointment at the Ausländerbehörde (foreigner's office) a couple months in advance, and then you just have to show up on time. And as recently as a year ago, the last
519.
by wheels 10y ago
"Existenz grundung" just means "founding a company". It doesn't imply anything about grants being taken. What you're probably referring to is a "Gründerzuschuss", which is a form of unemployment pay
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by wheels 10y ago
Above 10k lines is where statically typed languages really begin to justify their overhead. I work primarily in Ruby, C++ and Java, and while for smaller projects, Ruby is far more of a joy to use, for large projects (I've worked on C
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by wheels 10y ago
Peppers aren't that hard to find in Germany. You appear to also live in Berlin. As a Texan and significant cooking hobbyist (I ordered Kengi's book from the US before it was available in Germany), here are some tips: Major gro
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by wheels 11y ago
I don't find "seeing how the sausage was made" simply of interest . It's often very instructive . Often there will be counter-intuitive bits of code that make sense in "git blame" if you see the original, sm
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by wheels 11y ago
Being a little pedantic, but I think the usage is important: Profit is not counted before wages. Wages are the primary expense in a software company. This means that the company is sort of break-even, but only when paying below market r
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by wheels 11y ago
It's more than the annual budgets of about 2/3rds of the world's countries, including places like Croatia, or the Philippines. I'd call that politically significant.
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by wheels 11y ago
As noted, the church in question was left that way to serve as a memorial. The "courthouse" you mention was destroyed in World War 2, however the "rebuilding" is something that just started in the last few years. Durin
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Why I won’t run another startup(medium.com)
4 points by wheels 11y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 11y ago
Or you could live in the East Bay or San Jose, both within a half hour drive: http://rentheatmap.com/sanfrancisco.html
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by wheels 12y ago
It seems like for a lot of products a less gaudy solution would be a recycling bin with a barcode scanner. Combined with reorder thresholds, that would seem to also have a seamless process without the fugly.
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by wheels 12y ago
That's impressive. But I think we're working with different notions of suburban. For a suburban high school to have a graduating class of 500, you were presumably around a large population center? Where I grew up, that was the
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by wheels 12y ago
> This is a huge problem that, in retrospect, was rampant where I came from. A pretty typical middle-class suburban high school, but one which rarely to essentially never sent any graduates to Ivy League schools. Why? Because it wasn&#x
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by wheels 12y ago
My guess: the power brick will have ports on it. That would solve several problems nicely.
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by wheels 12y ago
They're both American citizens. At the end of the day, they have to be let in. They could, potentially, be charged with a crime, but not turned away.
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by wheels 12y ago
> this would be a good time to start the cold calls The post mentions that this is only for new YC startups, i.e. folks that won't have anything (or very little) to migrate.
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by wheels 12y ago
I agree. But sometimes thought experiments can be useful in sussing out why we hold certain values. Torture I don't actually consider to be one of those that's particularly opaque, but asking "Why do I think this is wrong?&
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by wheels 12y ago
Can we construct a situation where that would be appropriate? Well, let's get as close as we can, factoring out as many moral variables as possible, to make the question more concrete. Let's imagine that it's the 1980s, duri
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by wheels 12y ago
I agree with the basic thrust of the argument, but there are a couple of sticking points: The first thing that caught me reading through the comments section here is that a lot of folks complain about immigrants pushing down wages. While t
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by wheels 12y ago
There are a couple of things that have pushed me towards buying more vinyl: - Increased prevalence of bundling high quality MP3 downloads with a vinyl purchase. Independent artists often do this and (at least in Germany) Amazon's auto
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by wheels 12y ago
That organization isn't intrinsic to Uber or a taxi system though. In Berlin there's a popular app called MyTaxi that's used by taxi drivers and end-users which builds all of that on top of the city's licensed cabs. (It
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by wheels 12y ago
That's fairly common. German prices include 19% sales tax.
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by wheels 12y ago
That seems naive. Current connections are encrypted. Those with the desire and means to break crypto aren't going to be deterred by line-of-sight issues.

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