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by chki 6y ago
But this is also not the case for all the other countries in Europe which (according to the author) have taken the wrong approach to COVID. The more I think about it the more this article confuses and worries me. It's a thinkpiece that
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by chki 6y ago
The official numbers from the statistic agency in sweden https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subje...
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Even taking the claims in the article at face value (which is most likely not a good idea), we prevented 40,000 people from dying. That's a lot.
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>the german gdp is down over 10 percent. A decade of growth is gone because of this failed policy. The swedish GDP is down 9% despite them (according to the article which is misrepresenting a lot of things) not locking down at all. Even
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by chki 6y ago
>Trump doesn't want to reopen too fast because it won't be clear by the election (October, when mail-in voting happens) that this was a good strategy. >Democrats don't want to reopen too fast because keeping the economy
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by chki 6y ago
> proud to see my fellow germans rise up: That is (luckily imo) only a tiny minority of Germans. I would be very interested: are the current restrictions really that bad? You need to wear a mask in supermarkets, do you think that's
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by chki 6y ago
There are a lot of highly problematic claims in the article. This one stood out to me: >Shutting down completely in order to decrease the total number of deaths only makes sense if you are willing to stay shut down until a vaccine is ava
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>"We appreciate the opportunity to work with the European Commission on an approach that addresses consumers' expectations of their wearable devices" I mean, there is "corporate talk" but this is on another level
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>Empathy’s gotta be one of the most important skills for an experimental social psychologist. Or maybe the exact opposite? I would find it very hard to do research and empathize with the subject of my research at the same time. This has
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by chki 6y ago
Yes you are correct, that is an example except for this part >If there is any replacement within that time, the same law, formulated differently, is passed Which is not accurate. Actually the new laws are substantially different, in the
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I can see where you're coming from but this analogy does not hold up. The German Constitutional Court (GCC) does exercise its powers, but it tries not to break anything, therefore it gives the responsible actors some time to change the
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by chki 6y ago
That's not true at all. The rulings of the German Constitutional Court are extremely important (at the very least compared to almost all other Constitutional Courts in the world) and have very real consequences. Just one example: The r
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by chki 6y ago
You are correct regarding the BER, apparently there have been some corruption accusations I didn't know about!
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Bribery isn't "hard to prove" but instead there are no credible bribery accusations at all. Missmanagement in massive infrastructure projects are a much more reasonable explanation. It also makes a lot of sense because the ac
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by chki 6y ago
>Stuttgart 21 or the Berlin Airport, Hamburg Elb Philharmonic, Battleship Gorch Fock None of those are examples of corruption, unless you have an almost unlimited understanding of what constitutes corruption.
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>If you're on the DAX or a politician, you're untouchable in Germany and lots of people inside and outside of Germany have no idea of how insanely corrupt the German government and their corporate buddies are. This is obviously
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I think the point was that a malicious actor might have power (via blackmail) over a famous/powerful person.
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Reminder: macrumors.com/2017/11/28/macos-high-sierra-bug-admin-access/ Not all serious bugs are difficult to find.
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But remember: you'll also need to sell the stock after having committed the crime, with all the attention drawn to those getting a big payout.
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Yep, that won't be a coincidence. Also a bit relieving because this means that probably there was no access to DMs etc. before the rollout of this feature.
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Wouldn't it be possible to block this attack by flagging all tweets containing the Bitcoin address in question? I would've assumed that Twitter could do something like this, maybe even already set up an automated system.
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But in Germany courts have basically no relationship to "their constituents" because judges aren't elected but appointed (lifetime appointment). Of course you might argue that promotion chances are higher if your decisions ar
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> I'm sure the fact that BMW/Daimler/VW have completely botched their EV/Autonomous vehicle strategy and the automotive industry is Germany's cash cow has nothing at all to do with the court's decision. What
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Ventilators are definitely not ineffective. Obviously it's not a treatment but a measure to keep the patient alive and prolong the time for the patients own immune response to fight the virus. Studies show a 30% mortality rate among IC
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I think it also depends a lot on your level of chess and what you're looking for. I think the chess24 team (Gustafson, Svidler, sometimes Magnus) is maybe less accessible but more interesting for higher rated players.
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Legally speaking there is a big difference between technical fraud (using fake identities etc) and so called tax loopholes, because those often refer to clever tax avoidance. Tax evasion is illegal obviously. But the usage of tax avoidance
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by chki 6y ago
How do you deal with the fact that pirating is not sustainable? Expecially right now when cinemas aren't even open, how can films be made if nobody's paying?
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If you speak German you might be interested in this article regarding the very similar case of the US Base Rammstein located in Germany, which is used for drone strikes in the middle east https://verfassungsblog.de/ramstein-
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I think I was not specific enough, what you're saying is of course correct. The BVerfG (GCC) uses other fundamental rights issued to German citizens as an aid to interpret Art. 2 I GG. I guess we could argue whether that means that the
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by chki 6y ago
See also my other comment but to add something: Actually a lot of fundamental rights in the German constitution are also granted to non-EU nationals via Art. 2 I GG. It's not always clear how far these rights go, but it's definite

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