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A German, living in Spain. Learning about and working a little bit in IT.

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Where did you get the idea about what I know and what I don't know about Africa? Is Malaria really mainly a problem for the city dwellers with high living standards? Brasil is destroying their rain forrest. And one reason why they can is because they don't have the same problem with Malaria.

What's it with the bank accounts? You can transfer money within the EU without any problems. I pay my rent in Spain from a German bank account. Though, getting wired internet is another thing, these companies seem to ignore European law.

Civilized societys resepect property. They are entitled to it, because it's theirs.

Besides, who would invest in a country where people have such a mindset? And what is with companies owned by local and international shareholders?

Opus 1.2 Released 9 years ago

I really hope every Linux distro and all these other OSs will support it from now on, right from the start. Including recognicing .opus files. It's the perfect format for podcasts, because it's great with voices even if the bitrate is low.

The term 'racism' should be socially banned, because of it's misuse and because it can mean so many things. Basicly racism only exists as an combat term.

But without the need for pseudo-anonymity why would anyone ever use it? Why would your grocery store use bitcoin over dollars?

Because the want the money from people which have bitcoins? Because creditcard fees are to high? (just forget about the BTC fees or the nearly fictional double spending problem) Another reason could be that the owner has Bitcoins and wants to support them. There might be more reasons.

What is the intrinsic value of ETH or Bitcoin? It literally has nothing to back it.

The brand and the places where you can pay or donate with it, or exchange it. The fact that it can't be seized by the authorities, the limit on inflation wired into the software and system. And thats most likely not all of it.

What does he or most people use bitcoin for?

Bitcoin was ment to be money which is good in the store of value part. Etherum has a higher inflation for all I know, and it is not primarily meant to be money.

If the Canadian system works like the German one than you can come back to the public system even when you are already ill. At least if you've been insured before for a while and you are not to old. If you are broke then it works even then. Sorry, if that might drive some people nuts now.

I often wanted a tag system, but this is not what I was picturing, I think. I'll rather like to have a database and an entry in the context menue to tag files without moving them. It should also be able to identify the file if is being moved or renamed.

Socialism is about distribution of wealth. This is mainly about distribution of risk. It is also a more fundamental thing than creating a more equal society. It is also simply a fact that many people outside US don't call their country socialist just because they have a public healthcare system. So this might cause confusion.

Short question: What were the downsides to use Plan9 or Inferno as the fundament of a distro insted of Linux? Of course with Linux programms where it would be necessary.

[dead] 9 years ago

They only need to do a part of the work. The other part is the repo maintainors job. These many distros also boil down to a few fundamental distros.