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Comment · 29 days ago
I think that the third parties who have been granted access to the civil registry should be audited on a regular basis for the “best practices” of the day. Similar to the participants of the payment systems like VISA or MC that are regularly audited for PCI standards.
Comment · 1 month ago
A Fabulous Debt by Robin Wigglesworth
Comment · 5 months ago
To use Python/Java you have to download and install an OS. (Though some versions might run on bare metal)
Comment · 5 months ago
Yes, because when you sell it, you get cash and profit. Profit is taxable, in Germany they tax it with 25% + Solidarity Tax + Church Tax (if you are a member of a church). After, you can go ahead and buy another fund, but in between you "shed" a significant amount of money.
Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
Albanian, managed to understand till 1300. Then it gets more germanic i think, though I speak a bit of German as well, the characters make it a bit difficult to parse.

“Swie!” is interesting, I understood it somehow naturally. In Gheg Albanian we say “Shuj!”, which means “Be silent!”.

Comment · 9 months ago
> but if cancer were easy for the immune system to deal with nobody would die of it.

This made me think, whether it would somehow make sense that cancer cells on another host would be detected by the immune system of that host. Theoretically, these immune cells have different “initialization parameters” so to say and maybe they could show affinity to the foreign cancer cells.

But then again I am not an expert and this is just a pure speculation.

Comment · 10 months ago
It’s the other way around, DHL is owned by Deutsche Post AG.
Comment · 1 year ago
Pileus (plis) can be found amongst older Albanians (especially on the north) to this day.
Comment · 1 year ago
The same way they calculate the VAT for Germany.

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