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Same in Germany, but universities don't always share records. You are supposed to fill in a form on immatriculation where you state previous universities and why/how you left there, and you will get expelled if you lie on that for
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Depends on country, university and professor. In Germany, the general rule is that grading on a curve isn't allowed or at least strongly discouraged. There was a short while when such a system was acceptable, called ECTS grades (not to
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That definitely is an option, but viability depends on what your environment is doing: "Sorry, we lost 10% of your bank transfers due to an update" just won't be acceptable, but "we delivered 10% less catpics today"
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One of the big mistakes I see here is that the testing environment A doesn't look and work the same as the prod environment B. The closer both are, the surer you can be that you can catch such mistakes by testing in A. The bigger the d
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Well, of course it can. You just crush a little extra for the fuel you burnt. And an astonishing lot of mining equipment is electric anyways, so just buy "green electricity" and all is good. Just as a comparison, we do mine, crush
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If you have to wait for old people to die off and young people to take over, you are looking at a timeline of at least one generation, maybe two. So 30 to 60 years. Climate change temperature goals of 1.5 or 2 degrees are unattainable if th
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The paris agreement isn't really binding. There are no mechanism to punish non-compliance and the aims and means of limiting global warming are poorly defined in any case. The only real consequence of failing paris is looking bad. Booh
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Because EVs are quite expensive and need lots of infrastructure. We basically have to double our electricity production when we are still struggling to just get the current load without EVs on renewables. We need to upgrade our power grid w
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That are projections with a very unclear reasoning. It is thought that most of the world will follow Europe in population decline, but even North America isn't there yet. And if the reason is something temporary, like current western c
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To me, critics of carbon removal are engaging in their own agenda as well. Usually they advocate for the abolishment of individual transport, deindustrialisation and lower standards of living. Since those will only be had if there was no al
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CO₂ will react with certain minerals (like Olivine) over time. Also, when CO₂ is dissolved in the ocean, it will form an acid that reacts with lime. So there will be an equilibrium again, but it will take quite some time. However, especiall
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Well, that is basically the "back to the stone age" strategy. While I applaud your efforts, I don't think that this would gain any traction in a sufficient part of the population.
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Yes, but currently, attribution is hard. And the press cried "wolf!" far too often with each and every lightning storm that was a little more severe than average. So currently there is no credibility in that future cost projection
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Most nations won't bother lowering their emissions. So the question is not whether CCS is cheaper than not emitting, the question is whether CCS is cheaper than taking action to force the issue. Which would include abandoning several i
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Of course the theory is used that way, it fits nicely into various political arguments. But that doesn't influence the veracity of the lab leak theory either way. Looking at the article, it also uses weak arguments to support its thesi
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Amantadine and certain antidepressants are said to help some people affected by AD(H)D as well. But talk to your doctor before you go "oh, amantadine is cheap otc flu med...". And it depends on a lot of factors, like your exact sy
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There is an exception paragraph for various kinds of archives in GDPR: https://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/article-89-safeguards-a...
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Maybe that is step 2. I agree that this would be hugely beneficial e.g. for databases where a low number of very fat replicas is preferable.
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Yes. It is a nice natural experiment as to Moxies motivations and principles, because only a very select set of circumstances has changed: Software authors can no longer control their signatures on Android. That time has passed is not relev
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BER isn't really an expansion, it is replacing the two other airports in Berlin that were more central and had to close down (because they were old and too central to not be a major noise problem), Tegel (TXL) and Tempelhof (THF) and p
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Moxie complained about F-Droid recompiling and resigning his stuff. And cited this as his reason to use only the Playstore. But I guess things were more about analytics and control after all.
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Rural infrastructure is nonexistent. Where you can reach any settled area by public transport in Switzerland, in Germany public transport exists only in the cities and their surroundings. Maybe a few tourist spots. So to be reachable by pat
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Not quite. AfD is pro-nuclear, CDU/CSU is opportunistically pro/con, FDP the same (i guess). Only the left is firmly opposed. The thing is that the anti-nuclear public sentiment is strong enough that any pro-nuclear movement or po
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There goes Moxies justification for using only the Playstore for Signal... And I'm waiting for the first supply-chain attack resulting from Google signing a rootkit, Microsoft-style...
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https://www.nzz.ch/international/das-herz-des-deutschen-jour... I must in turn question your literacy: Have you ever opened a newspaper? They all have their obvious bias. Seen TV? obvious bias. Famously the ZDF was fou
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The election is also far less influential, because there will always be a coalition in power, where sometimes single-seat differences (often resulting from weird specialties of the election system like Ueberhangmandate and Ausgleichsmandate
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Very much agree on Germans wanting to be left alone: I'm always annoyed at waiters abroad, because they keep asking and bugging me if I want anything else, if everything is OK, if the food was adequate. If I need anything I'll bec
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Even if that were correct (which I would doubt, German public broadcasters are very much pro-Green), it would in consequence mean that there is no copyright on any of Wikipedia or any non-opinion factual press piece. Which is obviously ridi
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Given current EU and German legislation protects products of the press down to "smallest snippets" (generally thought to be less than 7 words), courts will quite certainly find it illegal, at least when pertaining to copying from
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I think Baerbock looks quite on paar with Laschet, problem-wise: Where Laschet had his invented grades because he misplaced some tests during his time as a professor, Baerbock plagiarized in her book. Both have had "problems" in t

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