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In my country people are being forced into the stock market by having to pay interests to the bank for already small amounts of savings. Also politicians are pushing for building p…

My CV not just prominently states my GitHub account - the CV's PDF even features links to repos to back up statements about my competences. Nonetheless - nobody looks at it and the…

This strategy would only work if "bad employers" (in this context those who will lie during the hiring process) are in the minority. Even a lying employer can still end up being a …

> Wealthy, powerful women with a broad spectrum of choices do not typically choose prostitution. Wealthy, powerful men with a broad spectrum of choices do not typically choose clea…

Parkinson's Law states that work is expanded to fill the available time. The law I refer to is that the time itself with work to be filled is expanded - for the purpose of requirin…

Maybe HR tends to complicate the process to expand its power and justify its existence. There is this "law" that proclaims this is what happens in bureaucratic organisations - hier…

"Congratulations, Herr Schmidt, your 2014 taxes have just been spent on a chandelier for the rebuilt Berlin city palace!"

But ... would the right reaction really be to call it "terrorism"? The question arises in context of every bearded muslim killing somebody will be referred to as "terrorism" while …

Taking half a litre blood from somebody suffering hypertension obviously solves that problem ... ... so great - now we have the solution to social phobia!

Germany for example

This report is characteristic especially when considered in contrast to the (overly?) thoughtful justification of the sentence given by a German court in the recent case around the…

Seems to be a great project - but it is intimidating being required to be awesome . Evokes pictures of myself stuck in a group of awesome people making it obvious to myself how not…

"Now I'm a believer ..." [1] Sources: [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfuBREMXxts

Schneier's Password Safe is the real deal: http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ I use it on: - Ubuntu - Windows - Android Synchronisation of the password db files is accomplished b…

How do we know if that is true? I'd trust the article's diffing history, though. But that is gone - just as the text of the article is nowhere to be found.

Is there any proof that this Wikipedia page actually existed for a significant time? https://web.archive.org/web/20130321015446/http://en.wikiped...

Just watching documentation on people in none-1st-world-countries or even on wildlife animals clearly shows that we are eating wayyyyyyyyyyyy to much for the energy we are losing -…

> When you hover your mouse over a title, you will now see a slideshow of images from that movie or show. We hope this slideshow will give you a better feel for what the show is ab…

Stanford study finds eating reduces hunger (2016)

Not just interesting and relevant and well written ... ... also plaesently concise

so all the husbands in the world have weak muscles and mental fog ... ? :D that's why I wrote my comment precisely as I did. the article is not about low T levels but comparatively…

I second this ... I actually even encourage my gf to flirt with other men - it keeps you mentally fresh and vital

It's odd that "low Testosterone levels" (as in "lower T levels compared to ...") is automatically considered to be something bad (by male readers). High T-levels are connected with…

> ... names of neighbors and close friends. Why for christs sake do they even collect this data in the first place? This is not a database on felons or potential terrorists ... why…

That would be true if at all times meant 100% all times. But I doubt that this rule exists and is assumed to exist to keep the pilot himself from causing harm. But rather to notice…