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For how long though?

These pills seem hard to swallow.

I once worked for a company that did the same - but with Lotus Notes, in 2013. Modified it into a full-fledged ticketing- and time-tracking tool. Using it took a half hour out of each workday.

@marinakoren's articles on The Atlantic give a good insight, imo.

I'm using Kodi since several years for the family TV. I only had to tinker with the streaming buffer for YouTube, other than that it required no maintenance.

My wife can use it from her mobile. We can play movies for our kids or stream a YouTube-clip. I'm using a Firefox-addon to cast clips from my browser to Kodi. That's about it, no killer app, just convenient digital media on an old, dumb TV.

Only I'd wish Yatse was ported to iOS (Unless my wife's iPhone dies soon).

Typing on my wife's iPhone SE is an ordeal for me, and I don't even have large hands. For me that's a reason why I prefer largish phones (I have a Pixel 3a, which is not that big).

As a parent I can relate...

This law is like having to provide and record ID when entering a concert, restaurant or other public places. It's an authoritarian dream, but will be shot down by courts, that's for sure.

As others have pointed out, the austrian government is populist right/far-right. This is not a law by centrist parties, but by right-wing authoritarian.

The case was never about anonymous hate-postings as the harasser's comments where posted under his real name, he just claimed that other people had access to his facebook-account. The case has been overruled by the higher instance a few weeks ago. I don't agree that this was the trigger for this law, the current gov consists of two right-populist parties/movements and made other irrational decisions in the past.

The first court decision has been overruled by the higher instance. However I don't agree with rmu09 that this was the trigger for this law.

The fun part is that unzensuriert.at is notorious for the dehumanizing and racist comments posted under their articles but still won't be affected by this law. However, they have turned off their forums a few days ago.

I'm sorry you had this experience. I grew up with a stay-at-home-mother who cooked two fresh meals every day (And usually bread or Müsli for breakfast), my grandmothers did this too. I loved helping her in the kitchen and now with my own family I try to do the same, fresh ingredients, diverse meals - and I always prefer home-made meals even over restaurants, which are pretty high quality here in Austria. Homemade, self-cooked still tastes better, has higher quality (Organic and wholefoods) and you can't beat the price of basic ingredients. And cooking is surprisingly easy once you have some basic skills, surely a much flatter learning curve than software development or other professional skills!

Ok, I'm not talking about sandwiches or making your own bread, but "proper" meals, like aspargus-risotto, (store-bought-)pasta with homemade-sugo, cooked beef with homemade-gravy, vegetables and dumplings as a side, diverse soups made from fresh vegetables/beans/meat, vegetable casserole, mixed salad, grilled fish, curry with rice etc. (Just a selection of the stuff we had in the past days). Guess as a european I'm still naive about life in the USA :-)

relegated to preparing all my food from scratch

find a snack incredibly difficult [..] I basically had to eat carrots and hummus

You make it sound as if it was not normal to cook your own food from basic ingredients and not regularly eat processed snacks.

Combine it with your hand and you get clean, even better when there's soap. Then wash your hands properly.

On our bicycle-journey through Asia we had a dedicated squeezable poo-bottle and poo-soap ("Kackflasche" and "Kackseife" in German).

Surprising there's no comment on XMonad yet. Well, it needs a replacement as soon as Wayland is going to become established.

doing rituals is more important than believing.

Erm, catholicism?

Owning a 25,000-acre farm is a modest background and his rise therefore evidence that the American system still works? Rather sounds like he was born into a sufficiently privileged environment and all the benefits that come with it (Mainly an educated background and discipline to work hard). A Jeff Bezos from a "lesser" background might have strayed from this path earlier due to the circumstances of his upbringing.

Of course the status quo is hardly comparable with a feudalist system, but the stark inequality you are born into is very much - and even more so the difference in wealth and power between "regular people" and the super-rich.

If there's constant evaporation which drives the inflow, wouldn't the new sea and the surrounding soil become very salty, like several large-scale dam-projects?

Google and Facebook have learned over the years to take advantage of this.

In what way?

Just trolling or could you argue that?

Makes me wonder how their decision for an open-plan office is related with this...

I'm on a x200s. Except for a brighter screen, I'm not missing anything though.

Quite curious now, give us a hint!

njharman quoted the part about "existing inhabitants" in North America, not conditions on ships. Recommended read: "1491 - New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus; Charles C. Mann"

Well, we have Strache, Le Pen, Farage, Wilders, Orban, Petry,... And we sure aren't as economically depressed as rural USA. Worse - we have unstable times ahead and people will vote for these populists even more. And even worse - a climate change denier as POTUS exactly at the worst possible time.

Kitesurfing is ridiculously hard to learn? That's news to me, learned it last year at 35, was not THAT difficult.

Everybody happy, except the Austrian government

And the population of Europe, who does missing out on taxes from these large corporations. This is not an Austrian issue, but one of the whole EU.

Kern only came into power in May, the social-democrats (SPÖ) have been in a "great coalition" with christian-democrats (ÖVP) since 2007. This coalition has been on rickety legs for many years now and there's not much the two parties agree on. There have been no noteworthy reforms for a decade.

There's also the threat of the populist far-right FPÖ, which has been gaining power again after two failed coalitions with the ÖVP 15 years ago (The FPÖ have been polling at ~30% for several months now, which is the largest approval of all parties).

Several members of the ÖVP-government and regional bodies are actively working against the great coalition and undermining the head of the ÖVP, sympathising with going back in a coalition with the fascists.

For all these reasons, Bundeskanzler Kern is not as powerful in legislature as would be desireable. Also I understand his remark as suggestion for a discussion and possibly a proposal for an EU-wide discussion on unifying tax laws. And he's probably fishing for votes with public statements on popular topics.

Personally I think he's the most promising Bundeskanzler we had in a long time, as he's an intellectual and is charismatic enough to potentially neutralize the threat of a far-right government.