braabe

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by braabe 6mo ago
I think it varies. I suspect in most common cases the lack of enforcement results from the rest of society not having an appetite to punish it. No harm done, no need to punish. I believe jaywalking (or crossing a red light as a pedestrian)
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by braabe 1y ago
The AfD candidates were in their late-50s to late 70s, some apparently with serious preexisting conditions, all ruled natural deaths (and one suicide). I have no idea how to substantially proof the absence of a conspiracy but I see no evide
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by braabe 1y ago
I have had this experience, but not with healthcare insurers (in Germany). I cannot remember the last time I had to contact them - the last two times they contacted me, was to explain to me, that they have expanded their preventive care o
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by braabe 2y ago
All of these examples are probably in part or fully paid for with some sort of taxes. So it is less "no payments" and more "deferred payments". I would argue that the question of "Is it free?" should not be res
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by braabe 2y ago
The 6th largest Software-Provider in the World (SAP) is probably the most notable global german software firm. Deutsche Telekom, maybe. As far as I am aware, there are some bigger gaming companies as well. But this is, of course, a singula
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by braabe 4y ago
I have a similar story to this: Learnt Delphi (Lazarus) in school, got put on a Delphi project on my first job because I was the only one to "know" the language. The application only had maybe 100k lines of code, but had been star
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by braabe 5y ago
I agree on this, but I believe the comment was aimed more at the "Tinker-Attitude" that many STEM-People have. And I believe many other professions have this to an extend: I'd imagine that many journalists and authors enjoy r
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by braabe 5y ago
I think it is really, really hard to get the scope of a no-code or low-code platform right. If your scope is too narrow, your users will hit a wall where they cannot implement the feature they want ("I like the default search-feature,
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by braabe 5y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. It feels a bit like a debate about speed limits: "I'm really only a couple kph/mph over it. The speed limit here is stupid anyway." I am however glad this issue came up. The author does not appear
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by braabe 8y ago
Some suggestions: - Try finding a sport you can perform together with others. For me this was climbing/bouldering - if you have a climbing hall near you, I can highly recommend this. - Try building a social "net" that will ca