holgerschurig

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by holgerschurig 2mo ago
Cool, writing both "you were brainwashed to believe it" and "when the EU is literally ruled by far left extremists" in the same post. Let me address the 2nd point first: some US people are stupid and/or extreme righ
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by holgerschurig 2mo ago
In the EU they have. Pictures of people, especially once they are identified, are person related data. And there are strict rules on how companies can collect / generate / process / transfer this kind of data.
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by holgerschurig 2mo ago
Almost true. "Siemens & Halske" startet like that (Halske being the mechanical expert). By the time the company or it headquarter came to be known as "Siemens" it was already a "mixed bag" company --- we ca
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by holgerschurig 2mo ago
"They split that" ... Most corporate companies have a (pointless?) 7-year cycle of "we need to diversificate" followed by a "we need to concentrate". That is/was also visible at at Siemens. As a result, th
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by holgerschurig 2mo ago
Because things aren't as simple as you make up. "why can't California just ban the sale of them" -- because that infringes freedom too much? There are probably lots of special machines with tires (e.g. in construction,
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by holgerschurig 2mo ago
LOL, it seems that a lot of your posts get flagged. The one where you startet with "You hate Israel" is where I wanted to answer, but it's gone. And perhaps for good, because the person you claim to do that never said this. I
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by holgerschurig 2mo ago
Oral exams are --- at least partial -- a thing since "ever" in the german school system. Details matter, over here schooling belongs to culture, and the culture sector is in the hands of the 16 federal german states, so things var
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by holgerschurig 2mo ago
> They’ll mention some pricey cities in Switzerland The thing is that these cities aren't pricy for swiss people, with a swiss pay-cheque (err, direct bank-to-bank money transmit). It's all a result of decades long higher infla
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by holgerschurig 2mo ago
> and obviously wouldn't work in other countries It wouldn't work e.g. in Germany since here we don't have "home owners associations" that reduce the freedom of whole housing areas. That is: you are "mostly&
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by holgerschurig 2mo ago
I think your argument starting with > For instance, you cannot use genetic studies to define a race is weak. For millennia we had phenomena that science couldn't describe. For many different reasons. One can now say that due to this
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by holgerschurig 2mo ago
> And the education system is not the only thing that is down in the drain and worsening. Which is simply wrong --- or at least only true if you look at only part of the education system. But in Germany, there is also an education system
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by holgerschurig 2mo ago
The question is... what about the german culture do you know? Do you know the "functional" Brother Grimm's tales? Or the "dry" humor of Dieter Hallervorden if you're a bit older? (okay, Christian Ehring from ex
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by holgerschurig 2mo ago
> I never got the German idea of humor. A lot of foreigners say that. Actually mostly english speaking ones. I never heard a turk say this. Perhaps it's linked to the willingness to learn the language, which is often low with englis
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by holgerschurig 2mo ago
And both have the 4 antenna 2 way MIMO, which not all chips / laptops support yet. And not even all routers. It's surprisingly complex actually.
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by holgerschurig 2mo ago
This are however just records. E.g. "I still have a connection". These records aren't really usable in real-life, e.g. to view a movie. When it rains, or is foggy. Just mounting a maneuvering 3 m dish to your laptop isn'
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by holgerschurig 2mo ago
Well, ham radio is an EXTREMELY diverse field. I mean, some people are using kilowatts and arrays of yagi antenna to transmit earth-moon-earth. Others are using minimal power (e.g. less than a typical bicycle lamp) to reach someone at the o
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
> amending the documents That is actually not so good. First, all constitutions that I know of have a process of change, e.g. 2/3 majority in parliament, or in 2 houses or something. And note that I wrote "change", not &qu
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
At least you can be sure that Germans won't "adopt" them, e.g. you can often read "the german architect Hundertwasser" or "the german author Kafka" :-/ On the other side: most classic composers are fr
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
> This push on every wall is pressure, and we will measure it in atmospheres, multiples of the ordinary pressure of the air around us. No, don't do that. Because the pressure of the atmosphere isn't constant. It varies with wea
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
Well, I don't agree that they have NO idea of what slop is. Basically everyone has some idea, see how often many different people here on HN comment "this is pure slop". Also your claim "they DON'T WANT to have to d
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
> There are some levels of censorship Except that here is no censorship to be seen. A censor was a state/government official that approved material before it was allowed to be published. It started to become a thing after the printi
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
The thing is that a society does not always do only ONE thing. You mentioned that there are better ways to protect kids. But maybe they cost more (e.g. banning firearms is dead cheap, while setting up a structure with lots of psychologists
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
> I didn’t care to investigate further and > my best guess and > and presumably other things?) and > maybe there’s a bunch of Python code running inside a transaction Basically, this article has no substance. The author didn&#x2
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
> Zigbee Requires no technical understanding. At least not more than e.g. a WIFI router. > devices randomly disconnect for hours even when they are 2ft from the coordinator, You present this like a fact. But it is at most an anecdote.
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
> I think we should default to "information control is bad" I actually don't. I live in a country that was twice wholly or partially under a dictatorship (Germany, once "3rd Reich", and once the socialist eastern
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
Na, it's just that people these days aren't that educated anymore. A censor was a government employed entity where you had to present your text BEFORE you could publish it. Book, newspaper articles, things like. It was in heavy us
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
As if that would matter. Heck, what is even "israel friendly"? No one speaks about "french friendly" or "lithuania friendly". In any case, you must first demonstrate that numbers from an organization you alleg
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
The thing is: today (!) there is no such thing as a "german critique on Pennsylvania Dutch". Most germans aren't even aware that such a thing exists. Also, this one citation is just anecdotal. You cannot conclude of any mains
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
Na, there aren't "~350,000,000 of us". You are just assuming that the whole readership of Hacker News are US-citizens. I, for example, are from an EU country. So "there are 450,000,000 of us" if I'd had a simil
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
It's really fun: I read so many propaganda on Lisp here that by now we should all be coding in it. Don't we get perhaps weekly posts like this? But ... somehow almost everyone simply ignores this propaganda --- that's actuall

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