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by _ak 7y ago
In Germany, jet fuel is untaxed, whereas train companies have to pay tax on electricity, in particular renewable energy. Also, VAT is handled differently: if you buy a flight from Germany to another country, only a portion of what you paid
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by _ak 8y ago
I worked in adtech a few years ago, and AdNauseam-style click fraud is a relatively trivial to detect and ignore. It does nothing, and adtech companies don't care about your hate of online advertising the least because that's wha
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by _ak 8y ago
I think it's also worth noting that Iranians have no possibility of renouncing their Iranian citizenship. So even if they wanted to cut any possible connection to Iran, they will never be able to get rid off their citizenship.
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by _ak 8y ago
Militarization of police is happening in Germany, as well: * Police special forces (SEK which are organized on the state level unlike GSG9 which are state police) have switched from blue to military-like green/brown uniforms (which hav
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by _ak 8y ago
"Just" is the wrong word. With the latest legislation in place, witnesses can be forced to make statements to the police under threat of duress, including fines and jail time.
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by _ak 8y ago
The. CSU. Is. Not. Conservative. Call them what they are: a right-wing populist law-and-order party that is only active in the state of Bavaria, but terrorises the rest of Germany with their reactionary and regressive policies.
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by _ak 8y ago
No, why?
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by _ak 8y ago
The Germans used metamphetamine during World War 2. They gave it nicknames Panzerschokolade ("tank chocolate"), Stuka-Tabletten ("Stuka tablets"), Herman-Göring-Pillen, or Flieger-Marzipan ("pilot's marzipan&qu
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by _ak 8y ago
Interesting detail: look at where they authors are working. This is military research. And I'm not surprised. The problem of having to keep soldiers alert during long phases of sleep deprivation has been around since the early days of
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by _ak 8y ago
LOL, what? Spanish "el" is etymologically derived from Latin ille/illa/illud, which became el/la/lo in Spanish.
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by _ak 9y ago
Ironically, Go is a programming language where both an Oberon developer (Robert Griesemer) and the developer of the direct predecessor of C (Ken Thompson) directly took part in the language's inception.
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by _ak 9y ago
You overestimate the amount of impact adnauseam makes. Users that click on many ads on one page within a short time window, but never convert? Obviously fraud that's being filtered, the user will be blacklisted on both the supply and t
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by _ak 9y ago
Go is still a systems programming language, in the original sense of how Rob Pike explained it in the introductory presentation video about Go from 2009.
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by _ak 9y ago
> While Go's official marketing no longer calls it a systems language, the use of that phrase when Go was originally released does indicate that that they envisioned Go to be a "better C" in a sense Rob Pike uses the phras
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by _ak 9y ago
The struggle with bad tooling is real.
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by _ak 9y ago
If they do that, then it would just show that he was right all along. And I say that as someone who doesn't even like Assange.
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by _ak 9y ago
The wonders of modern technology allow witnesses to be interviewed remotely. Many courts actually do that.
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by _ak 9y ago
Funny how you just focus on the existence of the documentary, and not on the contents of it which I paraphrased. I'm not talking about some fringe Extremist Haredi group, I'm talking about a mainstream Israeli film author closely
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by _ak 9y ago
There's actually an Israeli documentary about how American Jewish lobby organizations make comparing genocides a competition (of course insisting that the Holocaust was the worst, no matter what) and that their leaders and members ofte
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by _ak 9y ago
They might be asking for things that they're not really eligible to know, or fishing for a pretext to get rid of him. Employment courts in Germany are very employee-friendly, and most cases (90+ %) are settled. Lawyer fees are strictly
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by _ak 9y ago
> A relative of mine got cancer. The company he was with ended up paying his wages for over half a year, because they had no legal way of finding out what was wrong with him I call BS. If you're off sick for 6 weeks in a row with th
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by _ak 10y ago
> One way you're not getting that is by being the foreigner just off the plane (or even there for a couple of years) that can't speak German So, like most people in the Berlin startup scene?
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by _ak 10y ago
It makes cyclomatic complexity explicit that is otherwise hidden by exceptions.
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by _ak 10y ago
Google started the process of enforcing HTTPS on AdX about 2.5 years ago. Not implementing HTTPS in that large timeframe is rather inexcusable. It's just technical debt that you need to acknowledge, and then get rid of it.
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by _ak 10y ago
Fortunately, even that is changing. Google forced advertisers who want to buy inventory through AdX to switch their creatives to HTTPS in 2015 already. In my experience, any non-compliance to that comes from shitty agencies that haven'
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by _ak 10y ago
He's a software Luddite, he basically wants all computing to be like in the 70's, when he enjoyed hacking on ITS, and people would just share software freely. Everything beyond that is evil to him.
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by _ak 10y ago
FWIW, Go 1.8's GC uses essentially the same techniques as Metronome.
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by _ak 10y ago
Oh, they have acknowledged drawbacks from the very beginning, they just never deemed them nearly as important as the author of this blog post.
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by _ak 10y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=to+compare+definition
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by _ak 10y ago
Not the author, but presumably because 1, I and l are visually hard to distinguish in some fonts. Same goes for O and 0. As for U, I don't know about that, but I recently stumbled upon the issue that Google's OCR software seems to

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