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In Switzerland E-bikes are very common for that purpose, especially in cities and towns.
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The crux of it is that they are not anti-democratic. German law tries to protect against anti-democratic groups and categorizes them as extremists (including left wing extremists) if they a threatening democracy. In practice that means that
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Alcohol reduces fear.
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There are more women in my friends circle who do this than not.
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I agree but there are certain types of unnecessary stupidity, which feel more easy at at first, but hurt more than they help very quickly (measured in amount of code): The first one that comes to mind relates closely to naming. If we think
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That's why passive index funds and a hands off approach are so often recommended. You cannot really mess up much by buying the whole market and then sitting on it long enough.
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I live in Switzerland and commute mainly via public transport. We're very privileged here. Because of decades to centuries of investment, holistic planning and expertise, we have one of the best networks in terms of quality, punctualit
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PHP overloads operators in other ways though.
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I'm also a slow thinker and can relate with the author. But something stands out to me here: The article doesn't mention making music, drawing or similar. I started drawing a bit this year with a book that focuses on how it feels
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I'm also a slow thinker, but I'm doing well on these types of tests, because they are very contained and small, plus I have partly learned to sort of relax my brain and let it work more intuitively. For me at least, the slow think
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Or they would enforce it via the (unfortunately deprecated) do not track header.
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That’s a strawman. They didn’t say the answer is violence, but that calling someone a threat to democracy can be justified.
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I remember when the tone started to shift. The onslaught of lies, hate and hyperbole. It only got worse since then, and things that are acceptable politically today were unthinkable then. There have been no consequences, no corrections, no
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by dgb23 1y ago
It was always like that or worse. Social media just surfaces it.
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The country I live in is democratic. I can elect representatives and I have a direct vote multiple times a year to shape national policy. The banks and corporations are not. I trust them purely based on their reputation and trust in followi
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Depends on the implementation. Switzerland owns its energy companies and its public transport company. Hugely successful.
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Fossil fuels come to mind.
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Switzerland and Germany have very good systems for apprenticeships. However, one of the challenges is to find them as you said. Apprentices typically start at a young age (16) and you have wildly different levels of maturity there. Another
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It’s not a coalition in the true sense. It’s a consensus based executive branch that includes all major parties. Coalitions are a thing in competitive democracies where you might need it to form a government. The council members are also ty
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The scale is certainly a challenging factor. But in terms of trust: I think that's earned over time. Swiss people believe in decentralization of power, direct democracy and steady improvement, because it has proven to be stable. Inhere
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There's some truth in what you say, but unfortunately there are also NIMBY regulations in place that delay/prevent infrastructure projects. I would prefer if our direct votes would shield _better_ against those mechanisms. However
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That's very reductive. Famously Switzerland has difficult terrain and many of the large infrastructure projects happen in the alpine region. Some of those projects are quite challenging and require international effort and coordination
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I didn’t eat the sandwich, I just expressed its transformation into energy.
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Only sector targeted tariffs paired with long term investment and commitment do that.
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From online discourse and talking to people in different sectors that are impacted by "AI", I feel like there is great uncertainty, incredible hype and doomerism at the same time. My intuition is that we're in a huge tech bub
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There's some truth in that, and I support the idea of shifting the tax burden from work to wealth. But I also think this is too simplistic. Remember that Gary was a financial trader, so he has a zero sum game perspective. The UK had a
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> Mamdani - rent control Mamdani wants to freeze rents of housing that is already under rent stabilization. He is also an advocate for reform and deregulation, and working backwards from outcomes. He has been talking to people from the c
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Let‘s not call people „animals“ in this negative sense. Dehumanization is at the root of these problems.
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I think the example is just not very useful, because it illustrates a domain separation instead of a computational one, which is almost always the wrong approach. It is however useful to return a UUID type, instead of a [16]byte, or a HTMLN
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In the dynamic world being able to redefine variables is a feature not a bug (unfortunately JS has broken this), even if they are strongly typed. The point of strong typing is that the language doesn't do implicit conversions and other

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