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Yes, there are good rule and bad rules (and rules that were once reasonable but changes in technology or society rendered them suboptimal). As an immigrant to Germany, I wish the a…

salary cost to the company is a lot higher than gross salary (which itself is a lot higher than net salary). you can guestimate total salary cost to be about 1.5x gross salary, so …

I disagree with both your points. As an individual you have a very limited ability to change a whole country, and I see his saying as flowery exaggeration to make a point and not r…

It's usually a company owned by the city or the state, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Verkehrsbetriebe

My opinion (immigrant for the 2nd time, currently in Germany since 2013- so I've lived in 3 countries when counting my native one): Basically, all rich/"western" countries are pret…

To be pedantic “BSD” is the name of the original distribution that FreeBSD is based on, and the license is also named after it (rather than FreeBSD being named after the license).

The following anecdote doesn’t contradict what you wrote but maybe you’ll find it interesting- I worked for a daughter company of Phillips in the 00s (as an embedded programmer). I…

To be clear I don't think the government of China is as bad as the Nazis were. I'm just saying "the average Chinese in China thinks it's fine" doesn't mean it's fine.

The average German in Nazi Germany probably didnt think the Nazis were too bad either (of course the average citizen wasn't Jewish, gay, communist or other undesirables). That the …

Sounds like you dodged a bullet and the coworker did you a favor.

Some places don't get much rain (and these are the places that tend to get even more dust - e.g. deserts).

Would be helpful if they'd define what a "mag" is. I'm assuming it's short of "magnitude"?

Now? It's just a plain wordpress theme.

In the 70s it was offshoring to Japan. China’s market opened to the west in the late 80s/90s.

The best parody tends to converge with reality (see The Onion).

I was super into vim in college (20 years ago now, jeez). I started off like that but then transitioned to basically using “default vim” (plus support for a few external tools like…

Neat idea, very distracting with the incessant meme clips constantly inserted into the youtube video.

That isn't worth the effort Maybe I'm too unambitious as a small indie, but "porting" my game to mac merely requires building that target (I use unity & have both mac and windows a…

Thank you for the through answer! I hope I remember what to ask if/when the time ever comes.

I don't know, that's why I'm asking! If I'm in that situation I hope this option is available to me, and want to know what to ask for. If the answer is that it's illegal I'd know I…

> administered to my mother opioid to accelerate death Isn't that illegal is most countries? Does it not count as doctor assisted suicide?

He did, as is stated in the article.

8-10pm for the supermarkets near me & well later than that is night not evening :) It's certainly not 5pm is what I meant.

Supermarket opening times are definitely not that restrictive (these days, but I don't recall it ever being like you mentioned & I moved to Berlin in 2013). The ones near me are us…

The results of that election were thrown out the window Might be good to mention the result of that election were Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood (the originator of many ji…