My hobby: voting "Other (specify in comments)" and never specifying in comments. Goes very well with my other hobby, which is replying to a completely unrelated comment, in hope of having my comment higher up on the page.
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"The largest share of participants came from one country -- Germany -- where the time switch has been a somewhat odd front-page topic for years. But any E.U. decision would also impact the 27 other member states.")
So what if a majority comes from the largest country? Looking at the results by country reveals that abolishing the switch is the more popular choice in all but two countries: Greece and Cyprus. In the rest of the EU, the preference was to ditch the switch, mostly by overwheling majorities, up to 95%.
Credit where credit is due: This wasn't Germany's idea, but Finland's.
Nope. Some rules, CoCs and laws (not referring to any in particular) are simply bad or wrong and should not be enforced. Some legislation, for example, is simply despicable. Mandatory minimums, anyone?
Nope, even worse is a code of conduct that shouldn't be enforced but is.
Here I was thinking that there are twelve distinct personality types! Then along came the sixteen Meyers-Briggs Personality Types.... And I was all like "whaa..." And now this... I thought there'd be more, not less!
Twelve was wrong. Sixteen was wrong...
But hang on a sec... What do Twelve and Sixteen have in common?
THE FACTOR FOUR!!! Yes!!! It all makes sense now! Yes!!! I've been so blind all my life!
And looking around, thinking about my family, friends, colleagues, relatives... Indeed, they are essentially four personalities. Yup, this explains EVERYTHING!
Please stop this now!
Coming from a relatively small country that produces only boring dramas and cheap, cheesy wannabe-hollywoodesque crap, this would be the end of all decent programming. Since my country is so small, there isn't enough titles to form the 30%, so Netflix and HBO would have to make up for it by removing existing titles and replacing it with utter shite.
NOOO!!!!
Don't believe short sellers FUD.
And global warming is hoax because it's colder today than yesterday. Don't believe the alarmists.
How is bitcoin different to gold?
Gold has a much longer history as a store of value, so it may have a much longer future as well.
AND gold is actually usable for stuff other than as a currency. People like and buy gold jewelry. Gold also has industrial applications, so there will be a market for it. You will always find a buyer. The usability of bitcoin other than as a currency? Hmm... I just can't think of anything.
Historically, gold has been a poor investment. A century ago, gold was worth $20 per ounce, which was enough to buy a nice tailored suit. Today, gold is worth $1200 per ounce, which is enough to buy a nice tailored suit. Correcting for inflation, the ROI has been roughly 0%.
I would not call that a poor investment. I call that a stable saving strategy. Will it make you rich quick? No, but it won't make you poor either.
When they say Uranus smells like that, who's exactly?
Well, I am exactly. Aren't you?
...except that baking chocolate is pretty tasty if you like dark chocolate.
Shame because a lot of British people looking to retain EU citizenship would have jumped at that. Maybe that's why they limited it, they don't want waves of British e-refugees flooding them like the Irish have seen.
Close, but no cigar. Estonia's e-residency has been around for quite some time before the Brits took leave of their senses.
No matter what anyone says, when power goes out and communications infrastructure goes to shit or gets attacked, regular hard currency will still work until the human race forgets how to add and subtract.
...or until the human race wakes up to realise that those pieces of paper are just pieces of paper.
Cash transactions are also slower than just waving your phone
I can just wave my phone? Do I have to flip it open, or can I leave it shut?
Flip open? You know, there hasn't been a phone you can (or need to) "flip open" on the Swedish market for ten years.
And how do I pay to refill the phone with the phone?
You don't need to refill your phone. The money does not reside in your phone, it's on your bank account.
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in "Oath of Fealty"
