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Sure, gaining access to drugs in the Netherlands is easy, but usually people go there to get some of the not-so-deadly drugs, like weed and not heroin or meth, like bavaria.

It just seems like „my“ (the local) logic simply does not apply to Texas. Generalization oftentimes doesn’t work ;) For the bavarian part, there are certainly „Meth Cities“ right at the border.

That’s because Bavaria is close to the Czech republic and the bavarian/czech border is a well known import corridor. Google further info on that, if you’re interested. Also, I invite you to compare the NRW numbers to the Berlin ones.

This is incredibly depressing.

CDN in front of S3, LB in front of Multi-Az EC2 and RDS in background plus Redis for caching... this is basically the infrastructure Hello World of an AWS application. From a security perspective, that might be new for script kiddies but probably any random hacker will assume such a setup.

I’m also kinda frequent flyer and I can tell you I dont give a s* if I’m flying A330, A380, 767, 777, 787. Once inside, I barely see the difference, just immigration is more annoying if you’re flying A380 and sitting back in coach. I would never spend more money to fly A380. I’m working at a company where certain people hop on a plane every 2.2 days and I don’t even know a single colleague that would share your opinion.

In addition, if you think in Asia the A380 works well, then please tell me why Airbus is making so little money also there.

Fighting islamic terrorists afair

> How much effort should Germany really be trying to put into challenging the Russians?

So what are the options? Surrender when russian partisans cross the border?

May I introduce the G36, the main German Assault Rifle, that might be fit for purpose in cold Stalingrad but fails miserably in Afghan temperatures? Or the German Eurocopter Tiger that just falls from the sky when deployed to Mali, due to heat?

If you look at their announcements and blog posts, their company mantra seems to be „overpromise & underdeliver“

Isn’t the White House Air Service or however that is called also an airline?

Not with the current models. They were constructed for long haul flights and frequent takeoffs and landings on rather short haul routes will result in a faster degradation of the airframe, meaning safety concerns and high maintenance costs. That’s why Bowing came up with the 787-3 (which was cancelled)

This is just protectionism at its finest. You better don’t think that would happen if FB was a french company. The industrial-governmental-complex is stronger in France than anywhere else in the western world.

Calling putting money into cryptos “investing” is a bold move.

looks totally like an admin shortcoming to me though

VoIP is my Concord moment. The telco provider forced virtually all customers to do their phone calls through VoIP, instead of the ordinary old phone network. Every other week my router sends me an E-Mail about a call that failed, service unavailabilities and so on. There were even widespread outages that affected whole states. In terms of the plain old phone lines, I cannot think of a single outage in the past 20 years. It even worked when power supply itself failed.

> There seems to be a lot of competition for buses in Germany

Flixbus market share was 90% in January, read just the other day that it raised to 93% recently.

https://www.statista.com/topics/3361/long-distance-bus-marke...

> No exotic carmaker will be able to match it.

Did you fact check that? Actually, Bugatti is pretty close and partially outperforms, although at a way higher price point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Chiron

Reading the Parity claim on Github

> Parity's goal is to be the fastest, lightest, and most secure Ethereum client.

with all the recent past in mind, makes it sound pathetic. I'll continue to use geth, although it didn't board the cool-kids-Rust-train.

remembers me of what I once read in a frequent flyer forum:

„What is the best US carrier? - Lufthansa“

But it can run 1000 NoSQL databases „in parallel“ ;)

Calling it "Apple Pods" gave me enough information to judge the trustworthiness of that guy.

My experience with Hoeffner, XXXL, Moebel Kraft et al tells me that either you go for a premium price point or you will inevitably buy crap. But then, I think Ikea has more experience in producing cheap crap so that you get a better deal with Ikea furniture instead of the cheap stuff from XXXL.

> What problem do you think this would solve?

Exactly. I know a few local shops & bars that accept bitcoin. Although it sounds cool, I‘m always asking myself „why should I?“. It’s way more convenient to just throw some coins or put the Credit card on the reader for about 1 second to pay for my beer, instead of initiating a transaction on the distributed ledger.

I’m not a professional and don’t want to learn Photoshop for ages. Also, oftentimes very basic ones are not sufficient, like most cheap ones from the AppStore. I haven’t found a proper substitute for this niche between super basic ones and Photoshop.

GIMP only always remembers me how much I miss Paint.Net on my Mac. Just last week I had to do some image manipulation. Since pretty much all Paint derivatives for Mac suck hard, I preferred to spin up a Windows EC2 instance, install Paint.Net and get the job done, instead of using this UX clusterfuck named GIMP.

Yes I do. But I also know that if I commit to something, applying for a visa is an effort that's acceptable. Some years ago, I wanted to go to the US for a while and guess what - I got a visa and made it work.

> They have neither vision nor plan (other than "strong and stable", whatever that's supposed to mean)

Sounds exactly what my current government (Merkel) is successfully doing for years now.

Okay. But is The Guardian acceptable in your political view?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/19/marxis...

I'll move to London in about one month from Berlin, because YOLO and they will have a deal anyways.

In addition, those Brexit fears are overblown. UK leaves EU and apparently it's doomsday. Did it ever matter to anyone who considered a move there, that US/Canada/Norway/Israel/Australia/NZ/Switzerland/.. has never been part thereof? Was it a consideration in your decision? I bet it was not.