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by ascar 4y ago
Isn't it fair for restaurants to ask you to clear the table if you haven't ordered anything for a while and they need the space for new customers? Why shouldn't cafés do they same?
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by ascar 4y ago
What kind of law would prohibit you to block out cell signal in your own building?
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by ascar 5y ago
Your point was valid. The way you framed it wasn't. You could take from that to better provide constructive rather condescending criticism.
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by ascar 5y ago
"the hacker[/journalist] decoded the HTML source code" and must be prosecuted. I can't believe what I just watched.
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by ascar 5y ago
Our tastebuds have to learn to appreciate new tastes. So if you grew up on a very sugary taste palate, having dark bread for the first time will be tough. If you were unlucky enough to pick one with added caraway I'm not surprised at a
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by ascar 5y ago
Well, we Germans are known for our baked goods and at a bakery you will find a wide variety including French croissants, baguette or Italian ciabatta. But at least in Bavaria "bread" is the one I linked and you refer to everything
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by ascar 5y ago
> That's a sourdough bread, right? Yes, the one I linked is made out of sourdough, which is a sign of quality here. Though, we do also have the same style of bread without sourdough.
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by ascar 5y ago
As a German the cultural differences around bread are really interesting. Already the cartoon picture of the half loaf of bread is so fundamentally different to what I am expecting it to look like. Also people in the comments saying they ra
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by ascar 5y ago
> us being able to replicate creation of a living cell from non living material and then endow that organism with consciousness. Afaik we are very close to artificially creating living cells. This is one recent example [1]. The conscious
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by ascar 5y ago
The largest Pterosaur are estimated to have had wingspans of more than 9m and weigh up to 250kg (550 pounds) and we believe they were able to fly. [1] But that's not the most relevant point here. The fact that humans did achieve to fly
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by ascar 5y ago
> I've since changed my mind and currently do not believe we can achieve AGI (ever). Considering we (as in humans) developed general intelligence, isn't that already in contradiction with your statement? If it happened for us a
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by ascar 5y ago
> Whenever I’m on windows I feel hampered by the lack of virtual workspaces Windows 10 actually has workspaces built-in. But I don't think workspaces are a replacement for window-snapping and a "superior alternative". It&#
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by ascar 5y ago
My point wasn't to dismiss your anecdotal evidence, but just to highlight that the number per capita can be easily misleading. Yes Amtrak doesn't serve a lot of the US and IIRC has effectively only a single high-speed line. But th
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by ascar 5y ago
City train systems are not offered by Deutsche Bahn AG, but by local city carriers, so they are not part of that statistic. E.g. Munich is mostly run by MVG and had 596 million passengers in 2018 [1], which aren't included in the numbe
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by ascar 5y ago
The relevant point is that there are no (or very few) international ICE trains. Cross-border are usually slower Euro-city trains that shouldn't be included in the ICE statistics.
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by ascar 5y ago
> I'm a little surprised to learn that I take Amtrak more in the US than the average German citizen takes DB Amtrak had 31.3 million passengers in 2016 [1]. That's 0.095 passengers per capita. And that's on all Amtrak tra
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by ascar 5y ago
Also all international trips are irrelevant for comparison as the ICE traffic is national.
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by ascar 5y ago
> The numbers seem large when they're in absolutes, but per capita... Which is still an absolute number. Just in another context. It's a relative improvement of 32% which is approximately 3% per year. Not ground breaking, but a
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by ascar 5y ago
> Berlin politics Berlin citizens. It's a public referendum. > seizing landlords' properties with 3000 or more units. > defending against an illegal law It's not a law and it will very likely never be one as it'
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by ascar 5y ago
These numbers are actually surprising considering that natural breast feeding has health benefits for the baby. Although it says "only breastmilk" which can also mean formula is used as a supplement.
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by ascar 5y ago
I don't see how that has anything to do with the rent control regulation? What would your expectation be without that regulation? Doppelte Haushaltsführung is a tax relief for people needing a 2nd place close to work. Also the work of
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by ascar 5y ago
What you're referencing is not a law it's a referendum that most likely will never be adopted as it's illegal. On top of that, how does that referendum affect your friends unless they run a giant business with thousands of ap
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by ascar 5y ago
Would be so much better if you post a reference that's actually accessible without an account or even subscription.
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by ascar 5y ago
> That other woman would need to eat something to make milk too. Well, eating something is much easier than replicating the composition of baby milk (i.e. making formula). I already answered your second point in a sibling comment. Thou
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by ascar 5y ago
From GP comment it sounded like there are multiple mom's with infants in the building and statistically most of them should be breastfeeding. So if I run out of formula another mom is probably the best solution to not let my baby starv
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by ascar 5y ago
Can you make formula from other ingredients? You can let a baby drink from another women's breast though. That's how they did it in the past, when a mother wasn't producing enough milk. It was an actual job called wet nurse [
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by ascar 5y ago
I wasn't talking about real estate prices. I was literally talking about construction costs. Having just been involved in building a small/medium 3 story + basement house for over 1 million Euros (we already owned the land), I agr
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by ascar 5y ago
Building houses in Germany (and Austria should be the same) is pretty expensive. Houses here are built to last 100+ years out of mostly stone-based materials with expensive wiring, insulation and heating. Wooden houses with electrical HVAC
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by ascar 5y ago
I would really like to see a reference for that. Just to state one potential counter argument: as far as I know most road damage is caused by trucks (I don't remember exactly but IIRC there is a quadratic or even cubic relation between
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by ascar 5y ago
> "Our results suggest that some sexually transmitted parasites, such as T. gondii, may be correlated with appearance and behavior of the human host." But that is a different statement. They say that they found correlation and

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