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You might want to try getting out of the HN/SV bubble more often.

It's pretty meaningless to me and I've lived in North Carolina. I have no idea what it would be like for another Raleigh to spring up there, plus North Carolina is not a nation state.

I think it's just hard to come up with useful analogies for huge-scale events like this. But yeah, it seems pretty phoned in.

Try this: imagine the crowds you have to deal with going to a major mass-market sporting event, now imagine 8 of those, now make it last for three years, and now set the end date to "indefinite".

No, not really. If you can manipulate the price on one exchange, it will drag the prices in the other exchanges along with it.

MtGox's high BTC rates were too close to arbitrage until it was clear you wouldn't get your money out.

> Thanks for using non-free music.

You're putting a lot of faith in GEMA's judgement on the matter, aren't you?

Insulting a cop is actually a crime in Germany. But ironically, you're probably in less danger for doing it than you would be in the US, where it's technically your right, but effectively not.

In Germany, you'd get a citation and a fine. In the US you roll the dice on a beating, a night or two in jail, and/or a thought-up charge as retaliation.

I've had this problem for years, and I think it's because I often switch my apple account between countries. The update notifications and the updates themselves come through on two different channels, which are usually out of sync.

1. One app will think my account is "in" the U.S., sends me to the App Store for an update. 2. App Store checks and sees that, oh, nope, this is a German account, but maybe try back in few days.

I think if you replace 'hackers' with 'guys' you get the basic definition of government: at some point, a nation picks its 'biggest meanest' (i.e. most capable) guy(s) to protect it and maintain order. Democracy just tries to institutionalize this decision and allow a peaceful reëvaluation every so often.

So maybe GP means he wants a well-designed democracy with a strong military, including infosec. Yeah, good idea.

Every day, thousands of people smuggle improperly-packed liquids and gels through TSA security screening for completely benign reasons.

Wouldn't front running as a broker be illegal anyway, or is bitcoin somehow different? IIRC the SEC has already showed that it won't ignore financial crimes just because they're done with bitcoin.

It's not their own explicit policies that prohibit traditional brokers from front running or through trading, it's regulation.

Netflix will face no competition in Germany as long as they choose to offer the content in its original language. Those other services insist mostly on showing the ruined/dubbed versions.

For this specific problem though, "settings" -> "privacy" -> "location services" allows you to turn off location tracking per app in iOS, or turn it off altogether.

He claims to have notified Criticker in 2010, and links to a post on their forum (username teario):

http://www.criticker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2063#p188...

I was curious too, so I tried to look it up. According to the DOT, it looks like driving mileage has trended downward slightly since a peak in 2007, FWIW.

http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...

There is hope. I ordered a SEPA withdrawal around New Year's Day, and received the deposit a few days ago. It was a very pleasant surprise to see the funds actually show up.

They use your public PGP key to encrypt mails sent to you, before storing them on their server.

This is an optional feature, and turning it on will make webmail and smartphone mail unusable.

Edit, source: (even if you read German it was tricky to find what exactly differentiates their encryption feature.) https://mailbox.org/im-stiftfilm-erklaert-das-vollstaendig-v...

> Definitely makes it clear where the real power lies in our society.

It does? I don't think the logic follows. Just because Wall Streeters are paranoid and sensitive about their public image doesn't mean they are not invincible.

This will hardly be a blip in the news, because of apathy, and because anyone who would be mad about Wall Street guys acting like this is already mad and can't do anything about it anyway. I don't think a few more Rachel Maddow rants are really going to bring the system crashing down.

We already know their behavior at work is pretty terrible. The article just highlights that, deep down, they're not actually great guys once you get to know them.

Well physically speaking, sine waves ARE the only thing you can put through dell speakers, or any speakers.

Dell would have to set an upper limit on the wave superposition, or set a top frequency.

German healthcare is clearly superior by any measure not thought up by a Koch-Brothers think-tank. It covers 100% of treatment, and even if it didn't, list prices for treatment are not off-the-wall absurd. I'm not arguing that the ACA fixed US health care, nor would I.

My point was that the cost of living here is also very high. Sure, there are EU/US trade-offs all over the place, but they are not anywhere near big enough for you (or the GP, or anyone) to just wave away a factor-of-three pay difference.

Btw, yes, last I checked my monthly premium is over 400€, so it cleanly weighs in within the range you name. I switched to private insurance because public 'Krankenkasse' charges a percentage of gross income, which would turn out to be even more. Not complaining, just answering your question in case you really wanted to know.

From what I've heard from colleagues, and seen while working on projects there, Munich sucks precisely because it's so expensive and the pay does not track the cost of living. Working in Frankfurt pays better, and living there is just slightly cheaper. Berlin's cost of living is catching up fast.

You're right that 90k USD (~65-70k EUR) for a dev is not unheard of, but it appears to be the final stop on the salary train for that profession, unfortunately.

Not to go too deep into the weeds, but there are comparable trade-offs, such as premiums being a percentage of pay instead of a flat fee. The German system is without a doubt better, but I think (and hope) that the US is closing this gap with the ACA and a general awareness of the problem.

But we don't need to compare ledgers to show that 80k USD in Berlin, Munich or Frankfurt won't go nearly as far as 200k in SV or SF. That's what exchange rates and the big mac index are for, and that's why I converted the currency to USD in my original comment. You can argue the rate is maybe 10 or 15% off, and I can argue for 10-15% the other way, but no way is a dollar (0.82 EUR) 2-3 times as powerful in Germany.

It doesn't. Germany is having its own little housing price explosion in every major city where there is employment. Prices are being driven up by wealthy non-tech investors throughout the EU thinking German (and London) real estate is the only safe place to hold onto their fortunes. Consumer goods prices are also significantly higher than in the US.

Healthcare is approximately the same cost now from what I've seen with ACA prices in the US. Education is still cheaper, but only if you assume an American student will have zero financial aid. I also doubt this lower price tag offsets the prices and regressive taxation elsewhere throughout the economy.

And in Germany I'd be hard-pressed to find you a non-management tech job that makes north of 90k USD/year.

It would be great if someone could prove me wrong.

> The large investment banks actually have a code they can append to their orders so they can jump to the top of the order cue.

Source? I believe you but I'd like to be able to quote an authority if I'm telling someone else about this. I've gotten into this HFT debate with colleagues, and I'm pretty sure none of us knew about this nifty trick.

Pandoc does this well. It's what I use.

One of the biggest problems with disability pay is the barrier it creates to joining the workforce. Losing payments when you get employed is a huge disincentive to looking for employment. That's the opposite of what UBI is trying to do.