Zahlmeister

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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
> your landlord can tell you tomorrow than the next time your contract is up to renewal (usually yearly), the price will be 2x the current one and if you don't like that you have to leave. It all depends on your contract. Some contr
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
Real estate prices all over the world have gone up as a consequence of zero-interest monetary policy. Berlin is still on the cheap end, so it's still attractive to buy there even now. Rents don't go up proportionally, simply becau
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
Like I said, there's a demand for affordable housing and in Berlin that means very affordable . Lots of students, lots of artistans, and also lots of unemployed people. > Either way 15% in 3 years is still rent control. ...which
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
> This is a thinking that comes from the economic class you are in. I'm not in an economics class, I'm following local developments. > If they had zero opportunity in x country, they wouldnt go to x country. That's a to
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
You can increase the rent up to 15% (Berlin) within three years, well above the rate of inflation. This forces some people to move out, as well. Rents in Berlin are a joke compared to London. You can actually get cheap and plentyful housing
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
Affordable housing is actually quite scarce inside the city right now, people on average don't really earn that much. The rent controls had no actual effect on price increases. It has been suggested that the rules are simply being igno
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
What are you contradicting? You are supporting my point. You are sitting in NYC because you're not getting enough money in SF. High rents didn't make wages rise enough to make SF attractive even for you, a hot shot software de
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
> I'm explaining that the tax-cost can be a very cost-effective tax investment for the state, so it can be sensible policy, regardless of ideology. Not as cost-effective as simply picking the cherries from other countries. Plus, the
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
Wages don't naturally rise just because rent is higher, if anything the converse is true. You'd end up paying 25$ for a coffee just so that the barista can afford their overpriced housing. If you're just raising the cost of l
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
You're special pleading for those fleeing from war-torn countries. Your original argument however is that everyone should be able to move freely. There were migrants coming in from Africa well before the Syria/Iraq crisis, thoug
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
I'm sorry to break your bubble, but it's just not true. Let's take this apart: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/... Quote: "In other words, the typical Germ
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
Meanwhile, if healthcare is profit-driven, suddenly it makes sense to recommend pointless treatments for revenue reasons. Obamacare is basically the worst of both worlds.
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
Hello from Germany. We effectively have "free" movement of people from Africa to Europe. Once they're ashore, we can't readily send them back. We also used to have movement from Iraq and Syria through Turkey, but that wa
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
In other words, the typical German was more likely to engage in crime than the average migrant. Sorry, but that's complete nonsense. The crime rate among immigrants (and their descendants) is much higher than among "ethnic&quo
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
Counting in crimes like drug sales is misleading. Selling drugs is really just a business opportunity, albeit illegal. Native Germans tend to have much better opportunities and more to lose. To some degree the same is true for robbery/
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
To a very good degree of approximation, nobody uses Sailfish OS. I'm not ruling out that there exist other pointless mobile operating systems with 0.0% market share that use Wayland or even XWayland in some capacity. My point however
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
>> By not treating Linux end user devices as first class citizens, I don't see how Nvidia intends to have a viable business long term. Who wants a tablet, phone or desktop GPU without drivers? Desktop Linux with Wayland has maybe
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
Small providers pay the most for traffic to their ISPs, because they get smaller volume discounts. What Google/AWS/Azure charge is a different topic entirely, they themselves pay much less.
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
I'm comparing just storage prices, because I have no idea how Sia works in terms of latency/bandwidth/access. Being distributed, I suppose it will fare worse in most (if not all) these respects compared to Azure/AWS&#x2F
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
I don't know how using Sia works in practice, but comparing it with regular S3, which is connected to the entire AWS ecosystem (including EC2), is absurd. Amazon S3 also offers "glacier" for longterm storage with few accesses
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
What I'm saying is that these are not actually big selling points for a general audience. I'm not saying it's not viable at all , but the distributed aspect alone requires a certain amount of popularity to sustain it.
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
I believe the market right now tells you that people value neither redundancy (creating business for file recovery services) nor privacy all that much. They do value simplicity of use above all and they do trust large companies (for bette
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
>> Filecoin miners can do the same by (a) registering as service providers and (b) complying with blacklists and takedown notices as mandated by their legal jurisdiction. That would be a huge overhead to be replicated across participa
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
Bittorrent at least has has much higher latency than a protocol like HTTP with simple auth. As for price, AWS has some of the cheapest operating costs due to scale, something which smaller players will have trouble competing with. Moving da
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
You're moving the goalpost. The article is referring to "Duale Ausbildung", which works as I described and has nothing to do with university education. "Duales Studium" in the modern sense is a novelty, clocking i
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
> Have you actually learned a real craft, in germany, or looked at it's curriculum? Because they learn a lot more than could be thought in 6 weeks. You could argue that they won't need it for the things their employer needs the
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
I probably know more than you, or at least I have better reading comprehension: "By contrast, countries like Germany pursue a “dual educational” model that blends classroom education with on-the-job training through apprenticeships, eq
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
It's not just very specific jobs, it's most jobs. You work in sales? You learn to be a "Kaufmann/Kauffrau". You work as a house painter? You learn "Maler/in und Lackierer/in". You work as a cook?
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by Zahlmeister 9y ago
This article is total bullshit and so is the "dual education" model. "Duale Ausbildung" has nothing to do with universities, if you go that route you spend up to four years working at (on average) well below 1000€ whil