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by germanier 8y ago
The first month after getting unemployed is free, after that either the unemployment insurance or the government takes over your payment. If you have to pay the fee on your own and miss at least two months (which can't really happen fo
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by germanier 8y ago
I'm member of a German public health fund (for political reasons, I could instead opt for cheaper private health insurance which many people argue is better, this option is not even available to most of the population). Last year, I we
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by germanier 8y ago
Google search results are absolutely littered with fake review sites that have never actually have tested the products they claim, usually just reiterating the Amazon product pages (which is only obvious once you know that this is a thing).
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by germanier 8y ago
I'm not sure about the US situation but you can't be sure even with books: The scientific publisher Springer switched to a print on demand model. This is generally fine but Amazon apparently prints those books themselves after ord
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by germanier 8y ago
Amazon mixes their own inventory with the third-party sellers. Even if says "Sold and shipped by Amazon" on the checkout page they will ship whatever item they find most convenient. It could be sourced by them or added to their wa
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by germanier 8y ago
As I said, the portion they don't pay is taken from companies using creative work. Not from you and not from me. It is only available to freelancers. People working in those fields usually don't have the option of regular employme
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by germanier 8y ago
The Künstlersozialkasse is funded by companies which utilize creative work such as publishers, media, ad agencies, museums, etc.
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by germanier 8y ago
German public insurance is pretty transparent about what happens with their money. Why exactly do you feel it's a black hole?
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by germanier 8y ago
Some public insurances tried giving benefits for going to a gym or having reduced membership fees at partners but this has been shut down by the regulator. You might be interested in their bonus programme: https://www.tk.de/
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by germanier 8y ago
The basics of house searches are regulated in federal law. Criminal law itself is federal only (i.e. everything that is a crime in Bavaria is also one in Berlin). In a criminal investigation any German judge can order a search wherever they
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by germanier 8y ago
There still is a Berlin-Stockholm nigh train, just not so frequent. https://www.snalltaget.se/en/destinations/berlin There are also still a few other overnight trains within Germany, just by a different operator.
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by germanier 8y ago
Deutsche Bahn operates their own grid and gets about two thirds of their energy from power plants directly connected to that on long-term contracts (the rest is fed in from the public grid with some inverters).
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by germanier 8y ago
It's hard to concieve a case were you could be liable for anything by simply putting up code online (except for cases where you don't have the rights, e.g. copyright, to do that in the first case or including a death threat in the
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by germanier 8y ago
> in Germany if you take a photograph of the building the architect has some copyrights to that photo FWIW that is the case i'm almost every country (by the Berne Convention) and some are even more restrictive. See e.g. https:&#x
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by germanier 8y ago
> in germany the ard has tons of data about everybody Your name, address, move-in date, and whether you paid them. Additionally – if you don't to pay twice – who you live with. Am I missing anything? In any case, they are still boun
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by germanier 8y ago
It should be noted that nowadays that pretty much every German retail chain takes credit cards (MasterCard, Visa at least). Lidl, Aldi, Rewe, Kaufland, many Edekas, Media Markt, Ikea, Rossmann, DM, Obi, etc. all take them.
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by germanier 8y ago
The first one was handed out by a court based on criminal law. This is not comparable to administrative fines. He got fined 260 days of his income (which is the basis on which such fines are assessed). He had two previous, very recent convi
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by germanier 8y ago
The title and article body claim that they hold a bank license but as far as I can see[0] they only have a license as a financial service provider ( FDI ) for investment brokering ( Anlagevermittlung ) and proprietary trading ( Eigengeschäf
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by germanier 8y ago
As soon as you start working on German soil, German employment laws apply fully. Citizenship, prior residence, etc. are almost completely irrelevant. There is a social security agreement between the US and Germany which might exempt the per
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by germanier 8y ago
The text of the GDPR is not the whole body of law. It exists within an old and large legal framework. You can't take just the GDPR and ignore all context around it. And yes, it's much different that what people from other legal tr
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by germanier 8y ago
No, Germany could not issue such a fine for a minor single violation. "Proportionate" is a so-called indeterminate legal term that is open to full judicial review with no interpretative power left to the administration. Our law is
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by germanier 8y ago
The first letter you got after a birth in Germany used to read something like this and is addressed to the newborn (hopefully they have changed it by now): Regarding: Assignment of the Tax ID according to § 139b of the tax code Dear <
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by germanier 8y ago
You can now get unlimited data for 80€ in Germany (Telekom Magenta Mobil XL) which is still expensive. If you can live with 1 MBit/s you can use O2 Free for about 20€.
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by germanier 9y ago
Copying ID cards in Germany has been made explicitly legal in July 2017 through a change of the relevant law.
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by germanier 9y ago
While there is a law (to be precise: one in each state) mandating to pay this fee it is levied by the broadcasters themselves and the money is at no point touching accounts controlled by the government. (As a sidenote because it's conf
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by germanier 9y ago
We have 12 public broadcasters that are independent of each other each with their own board (and on top working under the laws of different states ensuring that no one political institution has power over all them, the federal government is
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by germanier 9y ago
It's on https://www.bmf-steuerrechner.de/interface/pap.jsp However, this is the calculation for the monthly (pay as you go) wage tax and other deductions and not the yearly income tax.
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by germanier 9y ago
The fee is a bit higher than 0.3% (which only is the regulated interchange – there are a few other costs as well) but the rate was decided upon after evaluating the cost of cash transactions (which aren't actually free – consider insur
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by germanier 9y ago
It should be noted that it can be contractually waived in most cases, e.g. by a poster saying "no cash accepted" in a store. And it's not like this law is actually enforced as anyone who has ever tried paying with cash at Ber
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by germanier 9y ago
Yes, but "We put extra in effort into breaking the law." is among the worst possible things you can say to a court. That one is unable to fulfill their obligations because it's impossible by their own choice of technology i

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