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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 wro…

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 …

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 dire…

Apparently WhatsApp at some point handled 2M connections per server: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/3/31/how-whatsapp-grew-...

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 yo…

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…

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'…

That sounds like a cool side project/business! Would you mind elaborating how you got started this business and how you acquired clients?

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 acc…

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…

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 b…

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 Amazo…

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

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 en…

> 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…

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 (…

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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 h…

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.

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 l…