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Can someone give me some basic principles for post-editing machine translations?

Where to stop?

Mario, I agree to nearly everything in your post. Thank you for sharing your experiences and insights!

On the other hand: I experience that there is still enough work to make a living as a fulltime translator at the moment. 

BTW: Of course this is my personal opinion, but I experience more and more that the only way to make profit in this business is to be super efficient and use the smartest tools.

Hence my commitment to CafeTran Espresso ;).