amurmann

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by amurmann 10y ago
Maybe the solution would be to not elect these people directly and instead have the parliament/city council elect these? That way a coalition can form organically. It's working quite nicely in most European countries.
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by amurmann 11y ago
That shouldn't be a insurmountable issue though. When I buy a house all the carpets come out and get replaced with wood floors and everything gets repainted. Otherwise it's just gross.
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by amurmann 12y ago
I just started learning R and am still in the phase of learning a new language where I feel insecure that I picked the tight language to learn. Can anyone say anything about how R relates to the examples we have seen here for Python and Jul
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by amurmann 13y ago
Helping poor people is extremely hard. I am pretty confident that going to Mars is solvable by just throwing enough money at it. Solving poverty for more than a very breve period is much harder. There was an episode about the problems the M
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by amurmann 13y ago
The same thing happened to me in China when I tried to speak Mandarin. Fortunately, however, there were many people who couldn't switch to English because they didn't speak it.
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by amurmann 13y ago
Also brings up the question why they are so big and not competing? Maybe the deal should be rejected and investigated why they aren't competing for customers. They should be at each other's throats and not making nice nice!
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by amurmann 13y ago
I can't stand it anymore! Why are we prosecuting these people instead of Comcast who is on a course to destroy our infrastructure? Of course I know the answer. I just can't deal with it anymore. I will just stop reading any news.
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by amurmann 13y ago
Can we get a god damn amendment to the constitution that enforced net neutrality and prohibits ISPs from doing anything but being ISPs, already?! The net is part of the infrastructure of our country and needs to be neutral! Anyone who fucks
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by amurmann 13y ago
To me the solution is clear: tear down the shitty Victorians and build skyscrapers instead. It made me terribly upset to see that the new buildings in Mission Bay are only 5-6 stories. Nothing that gets build in SF should be under 30 storie
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by amurmann 13y ago
Well, I understand why the Russian government is doing this. I don't have much confidence in the Ruble and am pretty sure I am not the only one. So BTC might be a viable alternative. An alternative that the Russian government has no co
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by amurmann 13y ago
Interesting how many buildings were clearly hit by bombs, burned out and still didn't collapse into their own footprint as tall buildings are known to do.
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by amurmann 13y ago
I wish we could amend the constitution that they are not allowed to do anything at all but sell bits to consumers. No selling of content, access to consumers, devices or ice cream or whatever other scheme they come up with. Their sole inter
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by amurmann 13y ago
Yes! There are so many amazing IPs in the gaming space that are just sitting there or get mutilated by the holder.
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by amurmann 13y ago
I actually like the idea of franchises becoming public domain. In many cases it seems that the holder either doesn't care about the IP (Sega properties like Skies of Arcadia, Landstalker or the Oasis series come to mind. Cap com has a
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by amurmann 13y ago
Regardless who is in the right here, I don't understand why all the protesters keep going to that square where all the cops are. One of those Molotov cocktails they keep throwing could probably be used more efficiently anywhere else in
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by amurmann 13y ago
Thank you for calling out actual people! That seems to happen less and less. You always only hear company names these days.
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by amurmann 13y ago
In fact institutions should never carry the blame alone. In every case may it be police officers or company employees, the actual people who did something should always be prosecuted as well. Institutions eating up all the punishment and in
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by amurmann 13y ago
I actually was faced with the same problem a little while ago. I started making my own Greek yoghurt once a week at home. So I started having to throw out these big amounts of whey. That felt very wasteful, so I started to do some research
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by amurmann 14y ago
I agree. Frontier has a fiber and a DSL offering. Seeing both mixed together (I can just guess that that is what is oing on) is pretty useless.
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by amurmann 14y ago
I recently updated my PC that I only use for gaming. Since my MacBook Air that I work on is getting a little slow I thought it would be time to give Ubuntu another shot on my PC. Well, installing Ubuntu from a USB stick didn't only give mr
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by amurmann 14y ago
As someone who uses Rubymind all day I have to agree with the speed issues. However, there are some optimizations that can easily be made to make it less painful. Removing big files (like log files) from the project index is one thing. Remo
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by amurmann 14y ago
I live in the US since five years and I never understood that zoning obsession. Can anyone explain why that's so different than it is in Europe for example? I really don't understand what the issue with mixed use is from an American perspec
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by amurmann 14y ago
It's not only the use of antibiotics for livestock. In Russian prisons for example TB is a big problem, but there isn't enough money to give every patient the full antibiotic treatment. This results in a patient getting antibiotics for a fe
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by amurmann 14y ago
I don't think it's ironic at all. Big corporations spend more on lobbying and only want a free marked where it helps them. Big corporations are the biggest threat to a functioning and free market.
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by amurmann 14y ago
It's expensive because the journals are leaches sucking money and IP out of the system. The research was funded by the people, so why should the journals get the rights? The same institutions that are paying big bugs are also the ones contr
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by amurmann 14y ago
It still wouldn't make sense. The whole time system comenly in use is just a big ball of garbage. 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes per hour and 60 seconds per minute??? Are you kidding me?! What inconsistent collection of rubbish ist that? 60
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by amurmann 14y ago
I wish you couldn't sue anyone for anything they say or any information they distribute. May it be a bullshit opinion or nuclear launch codes. Free speech is under attack enough. We don't need to start suing people because they voice their
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by amurmann 14y ago
Yay, a bunch of people took a photo of themselves! I am so glad it made it to the top on HN!
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by amurmann 14y ago
Why is it stupid? Some people value their privacy and that's something that's more wide spread in Germany.
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by amurmann 14y ago
To get the best form both fixtures and factories, I can strongly recommend http://github.com/rdy/fixture_builder It utilizes factories to build up your fixtures. This way you only need to specify what you actually care about in you r fixt

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