holgerschurig

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by holgerschurig 9d ago
Well, socialism died out in Europe around 1989. When the iron curtain fell. Currently there is not a single country that has socialism in it's constitution. In the EU, but also in exactly zero non-EU european countries. To educate: soc
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by holgerschurig 12d ago
In West-Germany we used a plethora of names: * "SBZ" -> Sowjetisch besetzte Zone -> sowjet occupied zone * "Ost-Zone" * "DDR" * "Ost-Deutschland" Almost no one spelled out "DDR" with &
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by holgerschurig 12d ago
Fun thing: some people here in Germany act like there is no East Germany. For them it is "Middle Germany". As if we still had Schlesien and Pommern ... Look at radio stations. We have SWR: Süd-West Rundfunk (south west) in Baden-W
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by holgerschurig 12d ago
> West Germany attempted to isolate East Germany with the so-called Hallstein Doctrine, which amounted to a pretty solid trade embargo. The first sentence is true, and is what I know. The second economical leg of this sentence is new to
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by holgerschurig 13d ago
"is Socialism" ... not it's not. I'm always puzzled how bad education must have been to those people putting the stamp "socialism" on everything they don't like. Socialism is a political ideology centered
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by holgerschurig 13d ago
Human traits? The AI will be a cruel as humans. Just yesterday news and TV was full of what happened at 9/11, something that was truly horrible. I'm from Germany, and why 3 to 4 generations ago happened here was truly horrible. Al
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by holgerschurig 16d ago
If we look at this in a non US-centric view, then many other areas have solved this, partially since decades. For example, in Germany we used to have a bank card, "EC Karte", it is now called "Girocard". So, if you are a
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by holgerschurig 16d ago
Weird title. Cargography constantly challenged itself. Look at some of the possible projections at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projections They all compromise on something to enhance something else. You simply
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by holgerschurig 16d ago
Mercator already did compromise on area and length to have "rhumb lines" (used for navigation, but also direction finding) be straight. Other map projections (we have hundreds!) compromise on other things to improve on others. See
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by holgerschurig 16d ago
This question is nonsensical. Canada is not ONE identity. It's millions of people, hundred thousands of companies and organizations. Go and ask them individually. Also, the UN voted to use this map for itself and suggested (!) that oth
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by holgerschurig 16d ago
Well, the underlying thinking "only people I directly voted for can do things" is wrong. I guess you never directly voted for your minister of economy, or? In many countries people don't directly vote for the prime minister,
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by holgerschurig 16d ago
And people have no idea how diverse the cultures in Africa are.
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by holgerschurig 16d ago
> Mercator useful for sailing+ It is also used by the military (or at least NATO). They use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_... While most of that system is a way to tag coordinates that
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by holgerschurig 16d ago
That's such a weird statement. The word "equal" has been used in maths since centuries without any baggage at all. And since a projection (how to project the surface of a sphere onto a flat surface) is a mathematical undertak
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by holgerschurig 21d ago
Well, the poster wrote in the tone that "federal money" is used in europe for health. And that is clearly wrong. Fun fact: few countries in europe are even a federation. So I guess the poster was exceptionally uninformed.
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by holgerschurig 21d ago
Well, that impression is wrong. The german word for "Taxes" is "Steuer". And they go to one of the 3 levels of our government: Federal level, the 16 states, municipalities / communes. And yes, we pay VAT (19%) and e
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by holgerschurig 21d ago
It's so cute the US readers throw all of europe into one basket. The economically biggest european nation, Germany, has a health system where the federal government spent almost no money on health care. We have insurances, lots of them
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by holgerschurig 23d ago
The very sad state of the US democracy, especially how they do elections, was even fodder to a german language book "König von Deutschland" (King of Germany) by Andreas Eschbach. In the fictive story, it is the year 2000. Some get
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by holgerschurig 23d ago
"If it's a mistake, it should course-correct" Maybe, or maybe not. The thing is, that "mistake" isn't something that is generally valid. For example, the enshittification of Google Search through the last 15 ye
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by holgerschurig 24d ago
"The anti-nuclear crowd" well, that is needlessly inflammatory. Did you ever realize that -- at least a part -- of their arguments might have a stance? We have tons of political decisions to do in every country where the answer is
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by holgerschurig 24d ago
Fine, I do this since several decades. I use an editor-construction kit named "Emacs" to build my own Editor, and IDE, and git porcelain, and organizer, and wiki. And many things more. IDE with e.g. LSP integration, rustix and man
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by holgerschurig 28d ago
OsmAnd already can store an unlimited amount of POIs locally. With text, icon, color, coordinates of corse.
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by holgerschurig 28d ago
StreetComplete has a but of gamification. Only internal, for you. But still. It works by giving you points and achievements. And as you progress, the achievement give you popups with links to interesing OSM-data-using size. Or to add one mo
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by holgerschurig 28d ago
Well, California is 423'970 km². And Germany is 357' 684 km². I only use OsmAnd, not CoMaps. So almost the same size. The street card of Germany is 2848 MB, so even larger than the number you gave. We also have cards for the place
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by holgerschurig 28d ago
On Android an application can register a custom URL scheme. And the OS has a way for you to select which app should work with a clicked custom URL if several of them registered to e.g. "geo:"
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by holgerschurig 28d ago
Related your point 1: I even want local notes. Once I walked around with SCEE or Streetcomplete ... and I added a note. And then the note was public on OpenStreetMap. I meant it as a note to me, so that I later could fix the thing at my des
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by holgerschurig 28d ago
So it is in principle similar to the many maps that show data from ADS-B (beacons the planes send). Or to aprs.fi that display beacons ham radio enthusiasts send. Unfortunately, the vehicles sending C-ITS send them not from very high (like
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by holgerschurig 28d ago
But it DOES work better in the app. Binding the user in endless loops. Tracking his exact behavior. Avoiding pesky thinks like uBlock. All of that works way better in an app than on a website.
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by holgerschurig 28d ago
That is what people use for the Alt key. I mean, I use Emacs daily, and I (mostly) like it. But the terminology *) is really fucked up inside Emacs. Almost no one realizes that perhaps since 35 years no keyboard in mass-use had an "Met
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by holgerschurig 1mo ago
Unlikely. The EU is first and foremost a business club. So the majority of EU rules are there to create a common market. If one participant is trying to be dodgy, then oftentimes a rule valid for all market participants is created, to re-

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