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Tomte
162,203karma·32,336submissions·August 23, 2012
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Open Source Compliance, Functional Safety, Education Science.
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I find it hard to believe that the US have anything like "presumption of innocence" in civil court. Are you sure you're not mixing up civil and criminal proceedings?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohmte
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Space_in_Bohmte Some time ago I drove through that town without knowing anything abo…
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Noone knows if it would have worked, because they never implemented it (except for some local levels). There was much party-internal warfare about it. One faction saw Liquid Democracy as the solution …
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Cannot be long until he would have had a better deal by going to the police, confessing everything (even if he didn't do it) and served his time. Sitting in some embassy for years, without any po…
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Take dancing classes. For ballroom dancing you already need to have a partner, more or less, so maybe better look into Salsa. Or Swing dances from the thirties (Lindy Hop etc.). Don't go there wi…
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http://markmhendrickson.com/post/16 is a much better explanation what the IndieWeb is about.
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They are not going after the HN crowd. They are going after professionals who have been spoiled by commercial Lisp implementations for years and decades now. I doubt that Clojure is going anywhere wit…
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Finally a hobbyist edition, but still too pricey for me.
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While I don't have actionable advice for you, on the subject of depression I strongly urge everyone to read this blog post by Wil Wheaton: "Depression Lies", http://wilwheato…
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I don't see the point. Do you expect to improve upon the original, to rewrite it? In the last months I'm seeing more and more projects that seem to amount to using GitHub as dumb file storag…
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People are good disconnecting from what they ought to do, even in the face of their religious leaders. Made men in the Mafia don't care about the church's teachings about murder. The catholi…
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That's why ALARP is such a widely used methodology. Unless you're in the bands "unacceptable risk" or "broadly acceptable risk", economical considerations are valid.
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In Germany? Only villas in very rich residential areas. "Normal houses" very rarely have alarm systems here.
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No, they don't. The laws against cruelty are directed towards humans. They forbid specific behavior of humans which involve animals. In the same way, desecrating a cemetary or destruction of pr…
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They (Subway)don't anymore in the US?
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At least in Germany, Facebook doesn't even comply with court orders. The Facebook Germany office just tells courts to talk to the Irish office, in the knowledge that international judicial assist…
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Honestly, the customer doesn't care if the chip supports it. The out-of-the-box experience of´the vast majority of mobile phones (excluding Lumia and some dumb phones – I forgot those) is simply:…
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Nope, most mobile phones here don't have FM reception. Not the iPhone, not most Android phones. Mostly the Lumia ones and few select others.
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Georgette Tsinguirides started at the Stuttgart ballet in 1945, being paid in Reichsmark. Today she is still at the very same ballet, now as a choreographer, being paid in Euros. In between she was a …
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No, make files are quite often written from scratch. But the linker script for ARM Cortex and the GNU linker is usually copied verbatim. You can find it everywhere. Open source projects, commercial de…