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chrido

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    Comment #22588218

    Standing tickets (no seats) are still just 10€. (80 min before begin at the Stehplatzkasse in Operngasse).

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    Comment #22252323

    In Germany it's not restricted to just parents. Could also be the new grandmother taking a few month off.

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    Comment #21927624

    I've been experimenting with this idea too. The idea is to drive a fan, which blows on metal heatsink attached on the cool side of the TEC. The air stream further accelerates the f…

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    Comment #19586046

    Langtool[1] is Open Source and can be either used with a subscription or selfhosted. Works well when used in combination with a few gb of n-grams [2]. There is also a Libreoffice p…

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    Comment #18622507

    I'm not sure if costs of cells are the dominating factor. My gut feeling would be that the power electronics/inverters and transformers are at least 50% off the cost off such a sys…

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    Comment #18161010

    As a side note, since the article also mentions that: Since 1/10 Austria and Germany are not in the same energy zone anymore, the pricing zone was split up. This was done because t…

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    Comment #17564229

    There are many other regional competitors too. e.g. https://www.willhaben.at is very popular in Austria, mostly private sellers.

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    Comment #17479860

    2) This is incorrect. Plants are not efficient, photosynthesis needs only a tiny part of the spectrum. Just he numbers, the efficiency of photosynthesis is 3-6% while the majority …

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    Comment #16936299

    The "rent-brake" in Germany does not apply to newly built apartments.

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    Comment #15675781

    My 3 year old loves excavator and robot videos. Suddenly all this strange videos were recommended. Search "bad baby" to see what I mean. They also pop up in youtube for kids and th…

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    Comment #15626276

    Some are controlled remote using unidirectional long range radio, called "Funkrundsteuertechnik".

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    Comment #14724319

    An alternativ would be that the weather "oracle" has something on stake, e.g. if it lies or is hacked, it looses a deposit. But then it goes further, maybe you need a voting mechan…

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    Comment #14182476

    This is plain disgusting. My wifes employer (not Amazon) has a similar concept to reward bonuses for teams and this causes a lot of mobbing against her and her colleague (also moth…

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    Comment #14003234

    Some concrete pain points I came accross in the last several weeks: Better thermal management - Thermald should become the default, but it needs many improvements. Zombie processes…

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    Comment #13747690

    I have similar concerns. I really used Pocket a lot. Two times I got an e-mail at the end of the year that I'm in the top 1% of their users. That was nice! I want distraction free …

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    Comment #13158879

    Ceph should get a separate network which is only used for re-replication in case something happens. Consider a node goes down. Another thing I might recommend is a third network (j…

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    Comment #10619729

    That's not so surprising, the base rate is negative since more than a year. Because of fear in EUR, many people instead of buying Gold, people bought CHF. One of my friends said: i…

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    Comment #9309532

    Other European countries are similiar, e.g., Austria € 726,72 per semester for students outside the EU, for EU citizen its free, as long as they are in minimum time http://www.stud…

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    Comment #2930157

    like it, but can't use it emotionally, probably other german speakers also name reminds to much at the cruelty the stasi has done. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi

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    Comment #2473866

    I'm from Vienna, I would say it's quite average. To calculate taxes and to put it into perspective you can use this online-calculator of the federal ministry of finance: http://www…

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    Comment #2060882

    attention, yet another hho-gas scam!!! but tata isn't the first one who believed that crap. hho-gas scam has a long history, try googling for hho-gas, rhodes gas, browns gas, free …

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    Comment #1962703

    http://vimeo.com/channels/galois http://clojure.blip.tv/

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    Comment #423817

    use xul + xpcom (powers firefox, songbird, miro, thunderbird, activestate commodo ....)