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Pretty much agreed.

My rather simple (and completely argumentative) explanation is that Germans generally are less enthusiastic about taking on debt to finance things. Psychologically I'd say it's rooted in the fact that the results of hyperinflation are very much in the minds of people and there's a tendency of "don't borrow if you can save for it". Since the only realistic option for buying houses is taking on debt, less people do it. I feel this mindset is slowly going away though. Another point in favor of this "theory": credit cards are relatively uncommon compared to other countries (that's also changing imo).

I feel like home ownership is even less of a useful concept these days with ever shifting jobs so I think we accidentally stumbled upon the right strategy.

Edit: There's also quite a few buildings that are owned by a "Wohnungsbaugenossenschaften" (basically a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative for housing)
German renters have a _lot_ more rights than UK ones do.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/11417359/Germany-...
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It's fully programmable. You can probably make it verify the user token and URL against a database.
The Germans seem to be far ahead of the curve here. From a financial planning perspective, buying a home results in:

1) The vast majority of your assets becoming concentrated in a single plot of land, in a single neighborhood, in a single city

2) Your future mobility to pursue jobs in other cities, becoming significantly constrained

If you want to invest your savings, then invest them in the stock/bond markets. If you really love real estate investments for some reason, invest in a REIT fund where your assets will be diversified across thousands of properties, and fully managed by others on your behalf. Pursuing a national policy of home-ownership makes little sense.
Bingo. Unfortunately the common assumption is that you're not paying it off monthly and paying high interest.
It's 4999RMB on JD and Taobao, which is 737USD or 677EUR.
It could be a chicken-and-egg problem though, no? Do we know how Linear A / B were pronounced? I'd be surprised at that actually. I always thought that much of the Japanese pronunciation is an effect of Hiragana, not the cause of it.
Rent can be increased, of course, but only within limits. Limits that the tenant must enforce “manually” by going to court.
(HN won't let me edit ^^ for some reason, so adding this here)

I also try to get the client to put some "skin in the game" by way of connecting me to whatever software they use that is relevant to the project (GA, intercom, etc.). This goes a little way in creating mutual trust. (That said, the one client who screwed me over STILL has me as admin on a bunch of their services.)
What have you read and seen about Clinton? Because the bad things she actually has done are not remotely in the same league as those of Trump. She gets accused a lot by conservatives who clearly have a chip on their shoulder about her, but none of those accusations turned up anything serious. There have been 7 congressional hearing on Benghazi to try to bring her down, but nobody could find anything she's actually done wrong. The email server was certainly sloppy, but hardly worse than anything other government officials have gotten away with.

The things Trump has done wrong, like the Trump University scam, not paying his contractors, opportunistic bankruptcies to get out of paying his debts, while he still gets to keep his own profits, and the rape case with a 13 year old victim against him, get barely any attention at all. Most of the attention he gets, is about things that he personally has actually said. And that's already bad enough for most people.
Ah, this explains why he doesn't have Echo OS/Alexa...
Users are finicky (I am) :) That adds more work to it.
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The Chromecast protocol specification (CASTV2) itself is sort of open. To implement it on macOS I did a little bit of reverse engineering and used a description of the protocol I found here: https://github.com/thibauts/node-castv2
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For those that need more convincing about Upwork, there's also:

- You’re good. Way too good to be on UpWork [http://dalsass.mobi/blog/your-good-upwork/]
- Upwork vs Freelancer.com: Why It’s a Battle YOU Won’t Win [http://launchastartup.com/odesk-vs-elance/]
It's an interesting article.
I'm from Belgium, one of the highest house owners countries. Even though it's true it's a life-long debt and it might be risky (in case of crisis), housing is still considered as a Long Term Investment so that you can pass that investment to your children (after heavy tax deduction :)). I find interesting the article does not mention who actually owns all these houses and who benefits in the long term. After all, renting has a guaranteed zero ROI.

Also, recently, I've been looking at housing market in Munich and it's very very expensive. Renting is ~20% more expensive than in Brussels and acquisition is +100% more expensive. So, although I admit I do not know rest of Germany housing market, I have some troubles thinking why Munich would be more expensive than Brussels. And I certainly miss, from that perspective, why German system would be more interesting.
Most people aren't paying for the extra functionality of ebooks though. Most people are still buying physical books: http://authorearnings.com/report/print-vs-digital-report/

Also, your reasoning for selling a book at a higher price is not correlated to supply vs. demand. What you are talking about is a pricing strategy. There is a near unlimited supply of an ebook, so it's not supply vs. demand, it's a pricing strategy that's setting the price. A pricing strategy could also be used to sell the ebook at a cost below production costs to drive sales. Again, the ebook supply remains constant.
And what percentage of the users have javascript disabled? Objectively you have bigger concerns when you run a site than 10 people who have js disabled.
The assumption is we haven't implemented both, resulting in failure. All the criminals are sent to segregated inner cities yet most of the residents are not criminals, leading to all kinds of injustice when the prison guard slash cops shoot to kill inappropriately. Meanwhile the war on drugs has done the usual ineffective civil war thing of making essentially infinite opiate supplies available to anyone who wants that way out. So yeah we're been trying those two ideas for a couple decades and its pretty much sucked for everyone involved.
I don't think it's that clear cut. Germany had multiparty system before turning fascist. But in early 30's elections in Germany, the communist and the fascist had combined popularity of over 50% on two elections. These parties could have been under same flag in two party system. It's completely possible that similar autocratic popular vote in USA would have resulted similar shit-show.

Alternatively fascist could have sided with SDP if the communist are too bad. And this time we have over 50% popularity in all of the elections in early 30's.
I've always been the opposite. I can't stand coming home to an apartment filled with people. After dealing with chaos all day, I want to know there's a quiet, tidy place where I can relax. I dislike coming back and having to interact with people.
This is pretty popular in the US. Most recent college graduates I know live in a shared house or apartment.
Reading this on mine right now!

The good:

- Cheap as anything!

- Internal build quality seems decent.

- Decent screen for the money.

- Keyboard is nice.

- Touchpad is better than most Dell, HP etc... laptops I've tried, not as nice as a Macbook though.

- Runs well, very snappy, I boot to to my linux (Solus) desktop in about 2.5 seconds on average with full disk encryption (excluding me entering the password).

- Very standard hardware, Intel everything pretty much except the additional nvidia graphics card I'm yet to get working in Linux

The bad:

- The aluminium used compared to say the base model Macbook is crap, the slightest thing and it scratches / gets dirty.

- You cant upgrade the RAM.

- It's heavy, it's a lot thicker than the Macbook.

- Two annoying linux problems (regardless of distro, kernel):

1. Switching between integrated intel graphics to nvidia is a pain in the ass, even with bumblebee it's awful.

2. Wifi, looks like it doesn't work, but it does! Just keep enabling it in network-manager it'll take like 5-10 times and then it'll be on and fine.

Otherwise everything in linux such as sound, nvme, trim, etc... all works perfectly.
There are advantages and disadvantages to all systems.

In European PR systems where many parties routinely end up in parliament, the real governing is done by elites stiching up a deal between themselves and all the proportinal voting just slightly alters the barganing chips brought to the table.

The biggest case of this is Germany, which will be ruled by the grand-coalition for the forseeable future, more or less regardless of what happens at elections.

This has worked OK in countries where people mostly trust their elites. But it is still not particularly democratic.
> This requires non-idempotent get requests as you must invalidate the token on get.

I think you should invalidate a token whenever a user enters a new password and submits a form (hence POST).
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For users without JavaScript it's reasonable to include a plain form and send token in plain text as well, so user can copy-paste it into a form and reset his password.
Munich is the most expensive city for property by far, so it's probably not the most representative example.
>> As a comparison, MacBook Pro, the laptop that invented "retina" laptop display, have 2560x1600 on 13"

It's an effective 1280x800 from the factory, and elements on screen are too big to be effective. Adjusting the slider over to an approximated 1440x900 is a must.

2880x1800 (what the 15" comes with) would be perfect for the 13" model, which would give a higher effective resolution with not artifacts.
On the other hand, many Germans believe: renting is paying someone else, buying is paying yourself (which is nonsense). Especially in more rural areas, buying/building a house is considered a big achievement in life. People are even willing to move from a smaller city to little towns just to be home-owners.

Buying a house can be a net loss over the years, if you're not located in a major city. Especially in East Germany, house prices are declining. See this graphic [1]. Everything yellow basically doesn't yield any returns. Housing prices in orange and red areas decline over the years.

But even in green areas, there are so many knobs you can turn to make buying or renting more feasible than the other. It boils down to lifestyle decision: Do you want to live in your own house or not? If you prefer to rent: Are you willing to save money by other means? Because buying a house works for many people simply because they're forced to "save" a certain percentage of their income every month.

I prefer renting, because of the flexibility. I put quite a bit of money in stocks instead.

[1]: http://cdn3.spiegel.de/images/image-726182-galleryV9-uttw-72...
Um, how do you plan to install xposed if you are not root?
>Serious question: Why is it not very popular in other countries?

Very popular at least in London due to high rent prices.
ME TOO. CAPS LOCK IS THE KIND OF KEY YOU REALLY ONLY NEED TO HIT ONCE EVERY TIME YOU RESTART. THE CONTROL KEY IS USED MUCH MORE FREQUENTLY.
They are used all over the world, including in France. Not sure what are you talking about...

Except if you live in some rural area...
Looks like our survival as a species depends on a race between our ingenuity and our ingenuity.
What do you think was so scary about it?
Not so much Protestant tradition as Germanic languages. The German word for debt "Schuld" also means guilt, fault, and blame.
The impression I got from studying the subject is that it is actually rigged, as in deliberately designed like that. Unfortunately I usually don't remember the details, only my takeaway, but I read very good objective treatise on the subject, I think it was in A People's History of the United States. I highly recommend it for a balanced and critical look at American history.
In my experience, that really confuses users. Some just do not understand or read the email too quickly; they click the link, then they get stuck. If everything just works as a result of clicking a link, users are satisfied.

BTW, why would the URL that identifies the reset request need to be unique if the tokens have enough entropy?
I had a pretty negative experience with TopTal, where the first interview/screening thing involved me solving programming puzzles on some sort of code editor. After spending an hour on a puzzle whose solution turned out to pretty much be "return len(A) - A.count(X)", I gave up in frustration.

One of the site's founders emailed me later to tell me that he knew that those questions didn't actually really test programming skills, and that they were trying to improve, but the damage was already done.
Unfortunately they still don't approach those of an owner
If you could somehow encode the value of "PasswordLastUpdatedAt" in your token, you will then could have truly "stateless" tokens.
Insurances, pension funds, and coops, all of whom want a long-term profit and are willing to invest in the buildings to allow for that to happen.
That's all well and good as long as you're a student, or partying your twenties away and as long as everybody in the house gets on .... I've done this, and while it is good fun in parts the downsides become downright tiring.
> more than 93% of German respondents tell pollsters they’re satisfied

You only trust the statistic you created yourself.
That is not a true statement.
Welcome to the cesspool that is online reviews of anything.
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I think that it wasn't really bad but rather the theme is very uncomfortable. It sort of hits close to home. It is over the top but that's also the point.
Popular by choice or financial necessity?
sigh, do I really have to deal with the presence of such lowly rated comments? Can't we get an autoblock feature running here?
I live with a friend for about 8 years now and it's okay, but I wouldn't do it again when we finally part ways some day in the future.
I couldn't agree more. Developers who solve this problem will attract a much larger audience and their game will be more successful.

Maybe we'll finally see an end to the boring, tired and endless repetitive rehash of Murder Simulator 3000.
Germany is a two-class society divided into landlords and renters. A landlord will usually not own only one but ~3-20 houses that total to ~15-100 flats. The landlords often are renters themselves.

When compared with big housing companies, private landlords require bigger profit margins, leading to low quality maintenance of existing houses and ex-orbital rents. Especially in crowded cities, rent regulation is non existent and its a sellers market, inflated by wealthy students that rent expensive micro-flats during university.

You or your parents don’t own houses, and are self sufficient on a regular job? Well, you are shit out of luck then. As much as 70% of your income will go towards your rent, effectively financing the better-off and the further expansion of their inefficient renting businesses.
That should definitely happen anyway but, as the article points out, that leaves a window of time between the user clicking the link in their email and them completing the form. It might be a very brief window, but it's still exploitable (and it won't always be brief - consider a user clicking the link in their email, leaving their desk for 5 minutes or going to make a cup of tea...)
Part of that might be tax incentives for mortgages, which another commenter claims Germany doesn't have
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>After all, renting has a guaranteed zero ROI.

A guaranteed zero ROI is better than a negative ROI which you can get with buying a house (e.g. the house you can resell it drops due to the market and you can't afford the mortgage for some reason...)
That's quite interesting.

I rent cars quite frequently with the boring free VISA debit card from my normal checking account. I never knew that there are restrictions on which cards can be used for renting.
your not forced to share your apartment, but every constellation have their own vibe. Some are quiet and mature (and most of them are not filled with students, i think thats an age thing)
Why can't you use a debit card for that? Isn't having enough money in your checking account to reasonably afford all stuff you need to live basically proof of a good credit history?
Isn't the best credit history one where you never need credit in the first place?
Wetware is unbelievably, ridiculously efficient compared to anything we can make out of silicon and metal. Our most complex artificial neural networks, endless arrays of theoretical neuron-like structures, are much smaller, less complicated, slower, and less energy-efficient than the actual neurons in a brain. Of course, we can make computers as large and energy-consuming as we want, but this limits their potential to escape to the web and doesn't address the speed issue.
4 and 6 were the best and among the top 5 for the series, easily.

1 was my least-favorite episode of the entire series. Flabby editing, could have trimmed a solid 5 minutes, and something about the shot choices and/or the editing made every serious conversation look like watching two people ACTING, which is not a good thing.

5 was a bad episode in an interesting world. If 1 hadn't had technical issues I'd definitely rank this one under it. Story needed more work.

2 and 3 were mid-tier. 2 is pretty much a really great Outer Limits episode and 3 is just... well, Black Mirror. Good, but not amazing like some others in the series.

I'd say that puts its average under either of the other 3-episode seasons, yeah. Still some good stuff in there.
Working long and then coming home into an empty, dead, dark apartment with no one to talk to.

For me that is by far my dream scenario after a day at work.
Not sure if this is case in Germany, but in many european countries there are huge property holdings owned by cities or goverment.

In my case (Brno, Czech rep.) the city is by far largest landlord, holding double digits of available housing. Most of those places have very low rent, but it is hard to get the place.
> Serious question: Why is it not very popular in other countries?

Because some countries have much, much worse tenants rights.

I moved from Ireland to Germany and in Ireland:

* There is basically no protection for rent increases, some people are being told their rent is increasing by 50%

* Can't change your apartment. Not allowed to paint the walls, nearly all come with furniture, better make sure you don't damage any of it.

* Oh the landlord/landlord's relative wants to live in the apartment. Eviction time for you.

* You give your landlord your deposit. Let's hope they can find it again if you move out.

* By default, no pets allowed. And many landlords will say no.

* Did I mention about the rent increases?
Wow. Incredible tips. Thanks for all the detailed information - I'll be sifting through it later tonight. And thanks for the offer to connect - I'd love to get your thoughts on managing the transition for both you and your wife.
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Buying stock on the open market also doesn't create any job for anyone, it just transfers wealth to the hands of the seller.

Basically, unless you are investing in an IPO, the company doesn't see a dime from the ongoing trading of it's stock. So the vast majority of investors are not creating jobs by buying stock. Similarly, most bond investors are not buying new issue bonds, they are buying bonds from the current owner of the bond.
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rightmove.co.uk I lived in a scuzzy part of North London from 97-99 (N15), then a nice area (N8). Looking at rents on rightmove now, you need to pay ~1500GBP/month for an apartment in N8. All decent areas will be similar or more. Cheaper areas carry a higher risk of street crime. I left London in 2010 after three burglaries in the same year, and a knifepoint mugging.
Definitely more than zero. It's not just a case of javascript being disabled, either - there are many other reasons why it might be "unavailable", which is why I used that word.

Of course I'm not suggesting you're not allowed to use any javascript on your site, or even that you should only use it when it's strictly necessary, but if it's entirely unnecessary and you don't engage in best practise by, for example, using progressive enhancement, then that's something that could be improved.
Wow! Thank you for sharing. Learnt a lot.

This is really worth keeping bookmarked. Highly recommended.
There are two way to look at what you are calling "debt" though. In the United States you are allowed to write off the interest on your mortgage from your taxes. This often has the effect of making what you pay for housing every month either cheaper or very close to the same amount you would pay to rent a house.

Housing is a constant expense. If you rent practically speaking you are in debt to your landlord every month. In the US and many other countries on the list where home ownership is prevalent although you are in debt to the bank you are also paying yourself in a round about way in the form of equity(principal) that you have in the house. So you are actually saving rather than spending which is generally financially conservative.

As the poster above you mentioned Germany doesn't incentivize home ownership via tax breaks and I think thats the key difference.
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Europe might be more progressive on abortion. Ever notice the rhetoric on the "rare" part of "safe, legal and rare" is entirely limited to preventing unwanted pregnancies? Presumably abortions should be rare because they are intrinsically bad in some way. We use the tax system to influence all kind of behaviors, many of them health related, but we're not willing to use the tax system to make abortions more rare...
I use Freelancer.com a lot (both as a freelancer and employer) and it's very comparable to Upwork in terms of quality. You can land slightly cheaper projects (as an employer), and the Powers That Be behind the site tend to favor freelancers more than employers in mediation (contrary to Upwork's employers-first paradigm).
To be honest, it's quite similar in the US too. That's why there isn't much difference between the Obama administration and the previous Bush administration - there was a real continuity in most respects. And even if Trump got elected, not much would change either.
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Not to mention the users that will request a reset but then remember, or forget to follow up with the reset (which I myself have been guilty of in the past).
> Or does your logic only apply to humans and not other species?

A lot of things apply to humans and not other species...
Nominally Germany has a balanced budget. I agree it isn't really balanced and the big zero is just achieved via some shifting around of things.

However the fact that the government jumps through all sorts of hoops to be able to say the budget is balanced is at least an interesting indicator that it does seem to matter to enough people.
Yeah I was about to add a note that money is usually more of a motivator than desire for roommates. If you live with Craigslist roommates, it's probably because you couldn't afford not to. But quite a few people live with friends and enjoy it, it's pretty common to not want to live alone.