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by zeeed 11y ago
> I'm very skeptical of blatantly unenforceable nanny-statism like this. Enforceability is not necessarily a criterion for the usefulness of the law. It only is in western states with an emphasis on individualism so our skepticism c
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by zeeed 11y ago
Is it just my impression or does anyone else think that most statements from US republicans that make it into international news are just a tad bit further from reality as one might reasonably expect in 2015?
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Ghosting – when people just disappear from a relationship(mobile.nytimes.com)
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by zeeed 11y ago
> it was France that one that stopped the Bolivian president's airplane breaking international law, just because US intelligence told them Snowden might be on board you might want to re-read your own article. The plane was grounded
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by zeeed 11y ago
> the US Ambassy is no more than 500 meters from the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères... You make it sounds as if this would undermine the credibility of the statement in the article. I don't see how the physical proximity of an e
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by zeeed 11y ago
Pepper is a French robot developed and built by a company called Aldebaran. The Japanese are only the investors because they were the only ones to realize the potential of it.
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by zeeed 11y ago
while the comment is written with as much passion as the article itself, it sadly misses the point of the article. The commenter interprets the article in a contrived fashion and blames the author of being irresponsible. I don't think
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by zeeed 11y ago
what was the outcome of the class? Can I be sued for a patent violation if I swing the way I swing?
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by zeeed 11y ago
@TheBiv: not even you wanted to at least write about it? :) please add a more self-explanatory headline, it's an important health topic yet with a headline written like this it appears like clickbait
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by zeeed 11y ago
most people I know would find the idea of their living room being streamed to a remote server "creepy" rather than "awesome".
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by zeeed 11y ago
yeah, mod parent up. The proposal is ill-advised if you actually have anything besides work or if you are attempting to approach your life with a mid-term perspective (aka, what am I going to occupy myself with in 5/10/20/30
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by zeeed 11y ago
> I don't see an issue with this (am I supposed to? Do we demand everyone use git or similar now?). That depends on your job. If you are a software developer, -engineer or similar, I would argue that you should. There are good argum
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by zeeed 11y ago
the article is a journalistic shame, it contains typos in the name of Merkel as well as her title. Merkel is Germany's chancellor, not the prime minister. WTF.
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by zeeed 11y ago
Thumbs up on the initiative and result -- but why macros? From the code samples it appears more that the author has created a DSL using C macros than providing a library. Such a bummer.
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by zeeed 11y ago
I think that no matter how close to the truth this particular story is, there are similar ones circulating on the web and the circumstance has also made it to John Oliver's show - which I believe does a lot with regard to credibility.
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by zeeed 11y ago
very handy. but the fact that you need vbscript to do that makes me feel a bit nauseous
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by zeeed 11y ago
the title is slightly incorrect as Merkel, as usual, does not address "Germans" but "business leaders" on a conference for business leaders. It seems for Germans, there a bit of a divide there as the government appear to
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by zeeed 11y ago
obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/386/
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by zeeed 11y ago
sadly, this is actually not new and has riddled many forums before. skype has never allowed that before and, to my knowledge, never communicated why that is. Or if there maybe is a technical reason for it.
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by zeeed 11y ago
... or maybe not (at all)
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by zeeed 11y ago
Sure he can. And besides, Apple won't change course because us devs worrying and they never have in the past. Neither did Microsoft, at least not out of free will. The only power we have is buying power. Ranting and politically complai
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by zeeed 11y ago
which, if you rely on it, defeats at least one "end" in "end-to-end" if you don't know what device your peer is using. So much for end-to-end encryption in Whatsapp...
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by zeeed 11y ago
> What most people want is to stop bad irreversible decisions. Not so sure about this one. Isn't it that, from the point of view of a healthy, well socialized human, it's quite a horrifying thought of someone killing themselve
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by zeeed 11y ago
did you check whether you're free to use the name 'sequel'? https://inventively.com/search/trademarks/79035534
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by zeeed 11y ago
"A part of the great thing of living in this country is that you can enter parliament and the only thing they ask you to do is to turn off your cellphone, so you don't disturb the parliamentarians while they're talking. We do
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by zeeed 11y ago
I see your point and I disagree. I believe that only a very small fraction of people buy the iPhone as a gadget but because you must have it, because it looks sexy and it "just works". My point? The original author I believe didn&
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by zeeed 11y ago
closed my user account after 10+ years. Feels good.
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by zeeed 11y ago
it can very well be disputed whether or not all details of the trade agreement will be made public, I see no reason or evidence to the contrary. Why force making it public? I guess there have been arguments of mistrust - or am I getting thi
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by zeeed 11y ago
is that a reasonable assumption? This is meant as a serious question. Would the details of the agreement be made public, eventually?
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by zeeed 11y ago
looks like someone has some reputation to fix ...

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