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The court order is here:

http://docs.dpaq.de/7814-beschluss-landgericht-ffm_uber-taxi...

It's (obviously) in German.

The fines are 250K per violation, Uber has already announced they will fight this.

Uber is looking for a communications lead in Germany: https://www.uber.com/jobs/18835 , they'll definitely be needing that and more.

Deutsche Welle has it here (in English):

http://www.dw.de/smartphone-app-uber-ordered-to-halt-transpo...

edit: thanks!
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Even if "some of the healthiest people on earth eat vegetable heavy diets" is both true and the health is a consequence of the vegetable heavy diet, that's not countering a point the parent made. Parent was advocating an optimal protein, low carbohydrate diet. Parent didn't say how many vegetables are in said diet.

(I am on a low carb diet with plenty of veg.)
SZ has more hardware jobs. My wife wanted to me to consider it (many UX design jobs for her), but at my level BJ and maybe shanghai are the only options.
I remember when I used my ZX Spectrum to study multiplication tables with a program that I made on Basic that show me the tables and then ask me random multiplications of a table. Funny times...
One possible conclusion I drew from your anecdote is fascinating me : that if governments formulate the right policies to create powerful new industries and demand for them, even those who aren't formally educated in those industries are capable of making themselves just as skilled, if not more, simply by repeatedly practising those skills and driven by the profit motive (I'm assuming that this shop owner is not formally educated in EE).
> What do you propose?

For starters, rational discourse. I don't see much point in being cynical.

If there is demand for those overtime hours and people willing to supply them .. and society as a whole is better off for it in the end, but our rules prohibit it, then clearly there's adequate reason to question the rules.

We need to conduct research on how both alternatives - i.e. either enforcing the rules or changing them - would affect everyday life, and then, as a democratic society, let people make a deliberate decision as to which alternative they prefer.
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It is possible to make big bucks at Chinese companies, at least in Beijing. You need management or specialty skills, 100K/month is not unheard of. You might not last more than a few months though, those positions can be brutal, especially if you are the only foreigner.
There is also the thing that cabs in Germany always _have_ to provide service, regardless of vacation, weather and so on. A private might decide to operate only at those times of the day with a lot of potential customers but that is not possible for official cab companies. The same goes for heavy rain and snow and so on.
Fiber is actually 'absorbed' and if you count it for calories, it is around 2.7Kcal per gram. Quick article http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/ask-the-macro-manager-does-f...
Perhaps the plants should be replacing the management team in that case?
I know plenty of foreigner engineers, most of my friends actually. It's not that rare at all, at least in zhongguancun.
In Germany in the 90s is was still common place. And I see myself carefully avoiding the first, singular personal pronoun.
> "None of these can be answered, because these precisely are the questions that can be answered only by the mechanism of a free market."

By that logic, we should happily accept monopolies, cartels and huge conglomerates.

The notion that the free market is beneficial to society as a whole was a cute idea, but the slave workers of Foxconn are probably not quite in agreement.
I am very bad at these things when put in a spot. OTOH if you would let me pace around for a bit and stay invisible for a few minutes then its not too bad.

Havent checked for correctness, but my off the cuff attempt would be to sort the left and right edges, then use a variable for the height and a stack. Proceed left to right. If I encounter a left edge and current height is lower than stack, push height on stack and update current height. If left edge lower than current, just push its value on the stack. If I encounter a right edge that matches current height pop height from stack in to current height. If right edge lower than current height, just pop the stack. The awkward case is when the left and right edges coincide.
nitpick: dw is "Deutsche Welle".
In the past few months I've been trying to find strong arguments against free-market beliefs. Here's what I have so far:

1) Saying that some businesses ought to disappear due to the invisible hand of the market, is just like saying that things ought to stay down due to the invisible hand of gravity. The market is a powerful force, but that doesn't mean its outcome is always what we want.

2) It's a feature of the free market that firms go out of business all the time. But from a market point of view, people are like small firms that sell labor. We don't want a system where people can "go out of business" and be unable to survive, because that's inhumane.

It looks like (1) proves that we need some restrictions on competition, and (2) proves that we need some redistribution. We may quibble about how much, but taking a Strong Principled Stance against these things seems wrong.
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Just a bunch of JS script libraries listed. Where are the other front-end technologies? Welcome to the "open" web, I guess!
There are several real world examples where regulation was needed for a market (in contrast to a monopoly) to be created.
Perhaps The Republic would have been even better in tweet form, because all the bits where someone says "yes, Socrates" could have been replaced by simply favouriting a tweet.
I agree that it's terrible in theory, but it I've rarely had a memory bug slip into the App Store. Would love to see statistics from HockeyApp or others on reasons for app to crash.

I've only found statistics about the number of crashes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/02/02/does-ios-c...
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I also wrote a blog post about these numbers recently. http://ianopolous.github.io/maths/surreal/
Sugar, potatoes, properly prepared white flour, and white rice are excellent food choices.

All mentioned, except probably potatoes, have very low nutrient density (also called "empty calories"). That alone makes them horrible food choices, even not considering the effects on metabolism.

Potatoes are ok though, I was surprised to find out that they contain complete protein. There were also some studies that recorded benefits from "potato diet".
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for me, it does. is there a solution right now? it does not seem to be configurable, or I just cant see it
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Indeed, I'd also love to know what these "improvements" are. What I see look more like removing features, or hiding them, making harder to find and access.

There used to be a "Map" link, where I'd instantly send my search text into Google Maps. Where is it, and what was wrong with it?
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> There is also the thing that cabs in Germany always _have_ to provide service, regardless of vacation, weather and so on. A private might decide to operate only at those times of the day with a lot of potential customers but that is not possible for official cab companies.

In my experience as a German waiting for a taxi after midnight in a suburban area (but with a major road going through), this is a merely theoretical construct. I've called 3 taxi providers in the rough area; the result was a brisk 1.5 hour walk home because they did not seem all to interested in dispatching a driver to that location at that time. I might have a theoretical legal handle on this behavior, but I doubt this has ever been successfully challenged in court (since the providers can always weasel out by claiming the did not have and free drivers at this moment).
Just checked Munich, and no black cars are displaying but Uber Pop's are. I wonder how much notice you would get about such an action.

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There's still positions like that- but yup, brutal.
It's not just about weight, but also about composition. From the article:

While the low-fat group did lose weight, they appeared to lose more muscle than fat.

“They actually lost lean muscle mass, which is a bad thing,” Dr. Mozaffarian said. “Your balance of lean mass versus fat mass is much more important than weight. And that’s a very important finding that shows why the low-carb, high-fat group did so metabolically well.”

> learning about caloric content and restricting yourself in calories is much easier than following a diet

Apart from cutting out certain foods, the low carb high fat group was allowed to eat how much they pleased. Sounds way easier than counting calories all the time.
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> I really hate when my code doesn't compile. If my code is wrong, the compiler should just figure out what to do.

There's something you're overlooking in the above. If a compiler was smart enough to know what to do with your erroneous code and compile in spite of the errors, that would be the end of programming and programmers.
Free market can destroy itself, for instance by the creation of a monopoly. How to apply the mechanism of the free market, as good as it can be, if it disappears ?

Anyway here, it's not about competition (that's what they want you to believe it is), it's about regulations (e.g. ensure some safety rules).
Careful now. It's daytime in Europe, so the more Laisser faire (US-free-market-style) arguments have a higher change of getting down voted. This will correct a bit in about 6 hours when the East Coast wakes up. I'm not judging it, it's just the way us europeans are 'wired'.
The taxi market is one ripe thats ripe for disruption. There's lots of demand and low, all-the-same companies offering a low quality/high cost service. It's also one thats build a lot of rules around it, some for the clients protection and a lot to prevent competition. Large established companies always prefer more rules because it absolutely kills new companies trying to enter a market.
imho not really a nitpick, it's just plain wrong. As 'Die Welle' refers to a completely different thing ;-)

So yes it is 'Deutsche Welle'
> 1) Unless they seed with physical/unpredictable randomness.

They do.
>> We can't expect people to use password managers (they're complicated and then centralize everything into a single point of failure).

> What about you load a site, get an HTTP 401 response, your browser sends back an auth header with a password generated for that domain name, based on some secret global key/password.

You essentially describe a password manager with deterministic password generation. It has all the upsides and downsides of a regular one, except migrating passwords is harder (you need to change them instead of storing them).
True enough, life span was often short until fairly recent times. In the distant past there were many factors affecting life span, e.g., diseases, accidents, predation (by large feline species in particular), childbirth to name a few.

However there is evidence of populations in pre-agricultural times which had favorable environments and consequently better health.

In fact there was just published by the Smithsonian an interesting article describing findings in the 9000 year old Kennewick Man specimen. Of particular interest was a comment about the condition of the teeth: all intact, no cavities attributed to low CHO diet. Age at time of death was estimated to be 40 years old. Not bad for 9000 years ago.

BTW I'd appreciate references you have to the differences in pre- and early post-agricultural health in human populations. Isolating dietary effects on health is difficult to be sure and a subject I'm always eager to learn more about.

As far as my diet is concerned, vegetables are emphasized, especially the green, leafy kind. (Foods that are relatively high in protein, low in CHO.) I recommend, and practice myself, reducing grains to a minimum.

As you no doubt know, protein, certain fats, a bunch of minerals and vitamins are essential to humans because we can't synthesize certain molecules--we must get them in our diet. Curiously, there is no essential carbohydrate. Our bodies can produce all the CHO it needs from non-CHO sources.

That's not to say CHO intake is not useful, and it is useful as a source of calories. In the past when calories were expensive, less costly CHO sources of calories were valuable, in essence to prevent starvation. In the current era when calories are extremely cheap, high CHO intake is positively dangerous--it's easy to consume a surplus of calories.

Interestingly, the data shows over the last 30 years there has been very little change in dietary fat intake in the USA, but sugars have increased dramatically. The rise in obesity has been attributed to inclusion of sugars in manufactured foods. The idea of decreasing dietary CHO intake, especially sugars, is logical.

Gluten and corn intolerance is common according to reports. Wheat, corn and many other grain products are grass seeds. Grass and its seeds are frequently allergenic to humans, which supports the idea humans are not native grass eaters, hence the advice to minimize it.
I do kind of get a kick out of that, but at the same time I also just want a safe system for storing data. If I end up building something like this I will take a look at FreeNAS! Thanks!
The irony of this, with regards to their brand name, is delicious.
Does this require a lightning connection? My iPad 3rd gen (beta 5) doesn't show up in Yosemite (beta 6).
If I had to, I would stake money on a Woolly Mammoth* being brought back in my lifetime. I'm 43.

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Other than maintaining liability insurance like any other driver, I don't see the need for any of these added protections. IMO consumers do not want to pay the cost of these protections and they should be able to make their own well-informed choices instead of being forced to buy them by the state.

The cynic in me thinks this is less about consumer protection and more about well-funded taxi lobbies which benefit from the regulatory capture.
I do this. I have stacks of Apple PowerPC machines (lamstand imac, 5 mac minis, G5 Mac desktop) and honestly, it's not worth wasting time on. Linux on PowerPC is really a second-tier architecture. 3D acceleration is subpar and there's no Flash, so you're really limited for a browsing experience.
The workers in south china queue round the block for hours to apply for jobs at Foxxcon and other high tech manufacturers. They're some of the best paying manufacturing jobs in the area and are lifting hundreds of thousands of families out of rural poverty.Some become team leaders, get involved in negotiating wages and working conditions, or take classes and move up to secretarial and administrative positions. Many of these workers are women and are returning to the countryside with experience, training and even line workers often have the capital to start their own businesses. As a result it's also leading to a sea change in the position of women in rural society.

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I live in Berlin and this is extremely disappointing. I'm beginning to doubt European cities in general have any clue what makes startups in US work. Here's what pg tweeted when there were protests in London:

Lots of cities say they want to be the Silicon Valley of Europe. Uber tests whether they mean it. (https://twitter.com/paulg/status/477428094530121728)

Talk all you want about Uber being evil, predatory and not really the One True Sharing Economy - this right here is why Europe won't catch up to US in terms of startups, despite all the nice talk about being friendly to them.
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As web dev, I am aware of a pain to work with old browsers. However, as user/customer, I perfectly feel for people who have better things to do with their lives, then download, upgrade, update, sometimes spending hours, breaking things, spending more hours to repair them, and so on.

In the ideal world, upgrading should be easy and fast, and provide an easy reverse if the user is not happy. As we know, this is not the case, so how can we blame the user for getting stuck with the old system that reliably worked?
Agreed. Killed the e-mails with toplists from Quora some time ago. Too much bs.
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I guess that's one part of "the Silicon Valley" that I don't want to catch up with.
You don't have to challenge this in court. There's a regulation authority that you can report the case to. That's unlikely to help in an individual case, but if there's multiple cases it will trigger a reaction.
> I’d suggest working online as a freelancer or for a foreign company. Chinese companies pay programmers very poorly.

Well, how would you be allowed to stay in China then?
The article mentioned the problem with this approach: Your browser loads the HTML, CSS, JS simultaneously with the images on the start of the page load - so when you find out what size you need at runtime (via JS), and then put in the right img-src, it will be slower than loading a higher-res version right from the start.

Another option would be to "guess" the right size to serve based on the User Agent String (maybe you meant this and I misunderstood?). This could work, although the server may very well guess wrong.
I live in Germany and i am happy that some things are more regulated here.

I like that Taxi companies need to have extra insurance and the cars and drivers are checked on a regular basis. Just like the TÜV (a mandatory checkup every two years for every vehicle) makes sure all vehicles have functioning lights, brakes, proper tires etc.

This ruling only makes sure Uber follows those same rules other transportation businesses follow as well. There is competition in the transportation business here but there is no room for people sidestepping completely sane rules everybody should agree on.

I am in no way affiliated with the taxi business and i like lower fares too. But not at the cost of safety and less checks for cars and drivers.

Once Uber agrees to comply i am happy to use their app and their drivers. I doubt they will be able to operate much cheaper though - i am fine with that.
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Well, than the Germans have to vote for a more liberal government. But they did the opposite, the liberals just lost their parliament seats.