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3y ago
Where I live there are also plenty of free options, I play beach volleyball at a public field, meet at the local lake to swim, meet in the local park to play disc golf, meet at the Pumptrack meet at the skatepark and in the winter go backco
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wow... for me gyms (or sports in general) was the #1 place to meet new people, here where I live and in my bubble (germany) it's quite common to spend a few hours in the local boulder gym, or climbing gym, drinking coffee, grep a pizza
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i'm no economist... but didn't externalizing a lot of production offset the missing population growth? So germany just externalized raw material extraction and production but still kept the profits?
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3y ago
In germany we have active politicians rallying for "so called technology openness" and "net zero e fuels"... sponsored by the gas lobby... it's a shitshow :(
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3y ago
In a lot of "traditional" industries, because you "can't touch" or put it into inventory software is not seen as important "it is just there at the end". Furthermore there is a huge disconnect, because the
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I don't know if I may misunderstand you, but from personal experience this approach is quite risky, all these little "get up" fights will compound, wear you off and lead to a hard collapse in the end, small patching will just
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No statistical correlation between new construction and rent decrease (German)
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The Price Developers Pay for Loving Their Tools Too Much
(remotesynthesis.com)
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yeah it was meant in this direction... I lived and worked in Minneapolis and Boston and I don't get all the discussions why this segregation for livability, walkability etc is so prominent and by choice in the US compared to the cities
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4y ago
this is a very US centric view and problem... in other countries lower income does not correlate with no access to local grocery shopping school etc... a german newspaper did a great income analysis of german cities [1]. You really see the
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Actually, I'm wondering why not more houses are build out of a metal-insulation sandwich contruction, one downside, no nails on the outside walls (but this can also be solved with a regular installation zone out of plywood, here is an
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in my case (also commuting within the city) a 14minute no traffic car drive is a 8minute (cycle expressways) ebike commute, it can also be the other way around :) heck, even with no traffic i'm often faster by bike nearly everywhere in
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there are some great concepts (hopper mobility for example) but the infrastructure has to be planned accordingly, even in the us, there are some nice liveable "golf cart" communities. We also use our ebikes for everything in at le
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In most walkable cities in Europe I also think things like this: https://hopper-mobility.com/ and cargobikes are a viable alternative (I mean even in the US there are some "golf cart" communities and these communi
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where do you live? At least here in germany there are some sites selling B- and I- Type (Bosch/Item) compatible aluminium profiles for ~15eur/m with custom lengths (the heavy duty B-Type 45x45) I personally build most of the stuff
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with my gen11 i5 framework laptop I did run my mantiz venus enclosure with a gtx980 TI under WIN11 without problems (even hotplug worked) same now with a Radeon 6750XT and Fedora 36 in my gen11 framework (only hotplug does not work, I need
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yeahh I see or just preload the washing machine and trigger it if the spupply is high .. but that means a lot of interconnected appliances. I'm also planning to add one or two small 800Wp PV systems "Balkonsolar" to our flat
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are daily tiers and dynamic pricing really needed for consumers, shoudn't it even out on the long term? Until recently it worked quite well for a energy supplier to supply me with a fixed rate for a year and still making profit (when I
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just out of curiosity because I have no clue :D why is it regarded as complicated? For waste you already have a basic tarif + extra for every member in the household, and the "progression" is that you have to buy really expensive
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isn't it much "easier" to implement some kind of progressive price on energy? first 1000kw/h are "cheaper" than market (per person in household), next 500kw/h double the price, next 500kw/h doubles ag
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How to Fix the Internet – Ethics in CS
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as another poster already pointed out, most brands are certified by the UIAA the stuff to look for: ropes (EN 892:+A1:2016) in Europe carabiners/express sets: EN 12275: 2013, UIAA 121: 2018 "schlingen" (don't know the en
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second that... the climbing partner/belayer is very important as for ropes.. just by from the "big" companies, beal, tendon, edelrid, mammut, pezel, they're all certified by the UIAA, just be careful and buy a "sing
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Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (2012)
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Visualization of Changes in Vegetation and Land Use
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I'm also interested in their train designs, the planned capsule trains from the austrian railways are quite interesting capacity wise ( https://www.railtech.com/rolling-stock/2019/12/04/obb-will-i...
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Cool, together with the planned offerings of the austrian railway it seems the Europe wide night lines will finally be reality... I really hope they will also finally tackle the complicated mess of buying cross boarder train tickets within
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Hi, most of them yes, but they are und er pressure to good people and in a lot of companies a generation change happens with new ideas. But you're right for every innovative company there are dozen quite old fashioned :(. The big ones
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The 35h workweek is quite common in companies with an "IG Metal Tarifvertrag" in place, most companies in the automotive industry and their supplying industries provide such contracts, but also a lot of medium size companies... D
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you're right, depending on the country/company there are some additional implications, in my case it helps that we have a subsidiary in most EU countries, so it can work via an "entsendung". I really hope that these thin
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