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yes but what if my location is not determined correctly by the browser (eg when connected via a VPN with entry point in another city/country)? I must be able to specify my location…

It seems that the site requires location information and cannot cope with location blocking. Also, I get an error "Location information is unavailable."

Sorry, but that's a total overshoot. I definitivly won't sit next to my pan, monitoring its temperature on my smartphone to find the "perfect" moment when to stir the chopped onion…

Lucky guy who got a baby who respects schedules. I admit it's really tempting: carry around a sleeping baby while doing some programming work. From my own experience, it IS possibl…

I'm a customer of a local bank in the village where I grew up (in Germany). They offer of course online banking etc like any decent bank, but the really good thing is: they know me…

Keep it simple! Moving from academics to industry can be difficult. My experience: several of my applications were rejected even though I considered me as a perfect match. I analyz…

and where's UberROCKETS where I can offer rides on my private space ship??

hmmm ... I'd say: have something to show

My personal experience in the Middle East: expect everyone to be at least half an hour late (you're stuck in a huge traffic jam anyway), don't be surprised if someone is 2 hours la…

Wonderful article, and quite insightful. While reading I was asking myself if it wouldn't be a good idea to provide tools to enlarge our possibilities of time perception: The domin…

... and I did think SF is expensive ... average semidetached house with small garden in a suburb of Munich, Germany (1h commuting): 950k USD, quite an average price here. And the s…

Scientist here who managed to get out of the science trap: Prof Katz is totally right. I started a great career as string theorist, postoc at several elite universities, internatio…

When I was still working in science I got into this state regularly (I called it "the Flow" since I felt like surfing on some kind of mental wave). When I joined a company I lost t…

We live in a globalized world, and especially for internet aficionados there seem to exist no borders. But one should always remember that the world is not homogeneous mass of mind…

I consider it an enormously antiquated idea to bind nations to a piece of land. We should try to arrive at a more abstract definition. And yes, of such nations we need many more.

If you as a hacker would build a house, what kind of home automation system would you choose? Would you go for a wireless (WLAN/radio/bluetooth ...) solution, the KNX bus system, e…

The "art of summing up divergent series" is a well established technique in quantum field theory (not only in string theory). Briefly, the underlying mathematical description of qu…

I see quite some discussion about UIs and whether they should be audio based or rather visually oriented etc. For a really futuristic intelligent device (call it OS, robot ...) I w…

I'd say most of the predictions are sound. No 10 goes a bit too far though. Anyway, what I can't understand is why this rumor of bitcoin being anonymous (No 4) is so persistent (ma…

I must say I find this fascinating, esp two aspects: First, great idea to train on number sequences instead of single characters. That's certainly a lesson which is applicable in m…

http://www.yandex.com is a real competitor

I'd say you should shift your point of view. You say: you made an app and now you need the community for it. That's the wrong order. In your case, the community is the most importa…

Interesting to see the tools used to make the book. It wouldn't come to my mind using anything but LaTeX.

Maybe I should expand about why LaTeX is so important to me. I use it as my main text processor, not only because it produces nice maths. It allows to abstractly structure a docume…