holgerschurig

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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
CoCom was terminated in 1994 and is entirely irrelevant by now (IANAL and all that) What we have now is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement Fun fact 1: Switzerland (a major provider of GPS chips via u-b
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
Yea, like the water in San Diego. Water tastes bad in plenty of USA. Not only due to clornination. In in the fracking counties it isn't even drinkable. Also note that I actually used the term "western europe" in my post. I wa
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
That is because EU is everything ... but not something homogenous entity. Living in Austria is very different to living in Spain, is different to living in Greece. There are countries in EU where it is almost impossible to get out of public
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
That migth be true in some cases, but there are glaring cases there this isn't the case. Look at the conflict on clorinated chickens between USA and EU. The USA insists on not-so-clean production environments and to get rid of the bact
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by holgerschurig 3mo ago
I give you the nature parks. That being out of the way: drinkable water isn't really an achievement, we have it in all of western europe. Maybe even in all of europe. However, in the USA you have these places there the water is heavily
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by holgerschurig 4mo ago
You are both rigth and wrong. First, the EU parliament isn't a "fake" parliament. You just claimed this, without any reasoning, so I'm free to just claim the opposite. The members of this parliament are freely elected an
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by holgerschurig 4mo ago
Bell was not the inventor --- at least not for the telephone itself. Maybe for the telephone exchange. Philipp Reis was the phone inventor. See my other post below for some details.
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by holgerschurig 4mo ago
Well, it's a (usually believed for nationality reasons) myth that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. In reality, it was the German "Philipp Reis" who invented it. In Friedrichsdorf he made the first prototype and a
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by holgerschurig 4mo ago
Oh, and another thing: that only 19.6% "already" have one isn't that much concerning. It is actually quite common that people do a job education (or 2nd job education) at an older age. Examples: you learnt to a nurse (which i
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by holgerschurig 4mo ago
The most important factor however is that many EU countries don't have a US-style college system. E.g. in Germany we have a very different schooling system and a very different job education system. Even the university system is quite
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by holgerschurig 4mo ago
Nah, I'd say that common "americans" (really: US citizens) are perhaps a bit on the dumber site. Not only confuse they constantly a continent (America) with a country (USA), they also have no idea about history. Or logics. Yo
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by holgerschurig 5mo ago
BTW, you cannot compare a country ("USA") with a whole continent ("Europe"). The countries in europe aren't all in EU or EEC and are much, MUCH more different than US' states are. "the environment in the U
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by holgerschurig 5mo ago
If you have a collection of children tales from the Grimm brothers... then this is already watered down. These brothers traveled in Towns and collected the tales that the adult told to each other, e.g. when spinning wool or whatever boring
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by holgerschurig 6mo ago
In Germany it's often not IN cities, but around. Example for Frankfurt: The's a metro ("S-Bahn") going north up to Friedberg/Hessen. Friedberg is the capital of the country. But there's no free "Park &am
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by holgerschurig 6mo ago
Yes, and they are higher due to 2 reasons. And both seem to work. Number 1 reason is that power was quite highly taxed, since it is directly linked with pollution and CO2. All powers, but that also means electrical power. The effect is, tha
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by holgerschurig 7mo ago
Well, some of the non-centralized social media is quite left-wing. If someone favours the SED or other parts of the ex-GDR regime (like FDGB etc) then it's IMHO already bordering on left extremisms. After all these guys enslaved a hugh
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by holgerschurig 7mo ago
Spotted the US-american assuming their law system is used world-wide. If over here a lady buys a hot coffee in a McDrive, drives away, spills the hot coffee on their legs and makes a car accident due to this ... she won't be able to su
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by holgerschurig 7mo ago
Wow, you brought many facts that escaped me so far. That why I still read HN these days.
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by holgerschurig 7mo ago
Are 850000 millions muslim refugees are soooooo many more than over 5 million "Gastarbeiter". I'm not saying those 850.000 millions are negligibe. They increase the scarce housing situation even more. They have antique ideali
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by holgerschurig 7mo ago
"Muslims are in Europe in large numbers because of wars that Europe and the West either started" That's an interesting claim. The biggest muslim community in Germany is from Turkey. They came all here because of economic reas
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by holgerschurig 7mo ago
"and media totally ignore the suffering in Palesine" That is a rather absolute state and easy to falsify. Just 2 days ago I heard a report in "Deutschlandfunk" about how israel settlers killed palestinians (basically: th
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by holgerschurig 7mo ago
Worst acquisition? Bayer buying Monsanto and getting all of the Glyphosat problems?
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by holgerschurig 7mo ago
I am one of ~61300 licensee holders in my country of ~85 million inhabitants. We now have 3 classes, I hold the "highest" class, A, but I'd still suck on the air, mostly because I'm almost never on the air.
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by holgerschurig 8mo ago
You have a very narrow view of the EU. The EU isn't a single body, dictated by some common mind. We have the EU Parliament, the EU Council, the EU Commission. Often they have different views in itself (e.g. factions in EU Parliament, o
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by holgerschurig 8mo ago
Well, Visa and Mastercard are expensive and suck. The shop always has to pay them some percentage for a transaction. That adds up. For decades, european countries like Netherlands or German had cheaper alternatives, e.g. in Germany the old
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by holgerschurig 2y ago
> One describes the policy. Which is what they want to achieve. They want to achieve that a hotel employee checks on every room every 24 hour. I find it puzzling how you (and all the other commenters here) accept this rule like sheeps. N
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by holgerschurig 2y ago
Some completele unrelated nitpick: you wrote "220v". As a rule of thumb: any physical unit derived from a real persons name is not written in lower case. In this case, the unit honors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by holgerschurig 2y ago
That website is cancer. It works only with JS enabled. And when I enable it, I'm pestered with pop-ups.
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by holgerschurig 2y ago
They are compatible. See https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/E2013.html Generally, a lot more Zigbee devices are compatible with Zigbee2MQTT that to HA's own "ZHA" Zigbee implementation. But Zigbee2MQTT a
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by holgerschurig 2y ago
It is compatible, since it is compatible with Zigbee2MQTT. See https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/E2013.html Use a cheap x86 PC, install Proxmoxx, install Zigbee2MQTT, install HA.OS ... done!

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