leonhandreke

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by leonhandreke 8mo ago
I agree that it got appallingly little press, as do many large-scale human rights violations around the world. However, I feel like pitting it against "the rhetoric in Gaza" is wrong. Gaza is much more our war (where "we&quot
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by leonhandreke 4y ago
Maybe the whole networked thought/Zettelkasten thing is just something that's only useful for a small subset of endeavours, and more of a hindrance for most. Niklas Luhmann became one of the most productive sociologists of the 20t
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by leonhandreke 5y ago
Whether or not he was insured against this particular damage doesn't make the cost of the repair less outrageous. In the end, drivers will be paying for these repairs, whether directly or through "cheap" monthly insurance pay
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by leonhandreke 8y ago
Apparently WhatsApp at some point handled 2M connections per server: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/3/31/how-whatsapp-grew-...
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by leonhandreke 9y ago
I'm sorry that you're feeling this way - having to compromise on health for a job is never fun :(. I don't know anything about your specific circumstances, but depending on what your daily route to work looks like, you might
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by leonhandreke 9y ago
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop HEADLINE: A non-dangerous and fast release upgrade mechanism Currently, the upgrade (as in do-release-upgrade) process takes long, very long if not on an SSD. In my experience, apps can crash during the upgrade. Durin
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by leonhandreke 10y ago
Maybe many people would not develop the wish to buy fashionable clothes, a bigger car or a faster smartphone if there weren't adverts and people all around us suggesting that that's the right thing to do. I hope that humans aren&#
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by leonhandreke 10y ago
That sounds like a cool side project/business! Would you mind elaborating how you got started this business and how you acquired clients?
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by leonhandreke 10y ago
I have read the link you posted and I'm still not clear on how you would end up paying ~50% and not be able to get it back. If your ETF is "ausländisch thesaurierend" ("foreign accumulating"), declaring it will be a
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by leonhandreke 10y ago
I got my license in Germany and was never required to go that fast during any driving lessons or my test. My driving instructor told me to go roughly the recommended speed of 130km/h to practice some real-world Autobahn driving. That s
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by leonhandreke 10y ago
I disagree that this is a non-problem. In our household, we store ingredients that we need rarely under our bed. Weird chinese noodles, some exotic spice that I've never heard of but is only sold in huge packages in Turkish stores, red
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by leonhandreke 10y ago
I can't really comment on any of the courses, but taking a few months off to learn and recharge sounds like a great idea if you can afford it. However, the problems solved at Amazon, Google and Facebook aren't necessarily more &qu
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by leonhandreke 10y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that, but yes, it seems that that's how it works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
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by leonhandreke 11y ago
Why incentivize spamming my friends with links before I've even seen the app, only to refer them to a waiting line? Sure, launch day momentum and all that, but I wish that as an entity that wants to be "the good guys", they c
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by leonhandreke 11y ago
> It was clear when I travelled back from Marseille that many passengers hadn't realised they would be required to leave the train at the northern city of Lille for passport checks. When I travelled to/from Romania by train two
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by leonhandreke 12y ago
I briefly looked at Firefox OS a few months ago and my conclusion was that the primary issue was neither JS nor HTML but rather that there is no canonical UI framework for the OS (please correct me if I'm wrong here). This means that t
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by leonhandreke 12y ago
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by leonhandreke 12y ago
I wish bicycle theft was tackled in a similar fashion. A combination of factors seems to be at play here: Photo ID required to sell the car and technological hurdles that are too hard to overcome for small criminals. With embedded computer
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by leonhandreke 12y ago
In my experience, the camera takes too long to focus to really be practical for scanning many items. Also, it's marketed as a multi-user device, which a smartphone is not.
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by leonhandreke 13y ago
As was already said, any webhosting package with email will do. Here is a selection of hosters in Germany that I find have a clean website an pricing structure and therefore feel less cheap and more trustworthy to me. Hetzner: One of the bi