holgerschurig

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by holgerschurig 3y ago
"Sehnsucht" is however more general than the seeked word "Fernweh". See my other post on "Heimweh" vs. "Fernweh" here.
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by holgerschurig 3y ago
In German language we have two compound works: * "Heimweh" (what the articles names as "Nostalgia") * "Fernweh" The common part, "weh", means something like the english "hurt". "Heim&qu
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by holgerschurig 3y ago
> German politicians should have taken their energy security more seriously back in the 2010s Well, any country. Did you know that Poland imported most of their fossil fuels from Russia also? Or, that today, Bulgaria still imports all (t
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by holgerschurig 3y ago
> and their per capita figures are in a grim state - and Germany is one of the european countries with okayish inflation rate, most other european countries are far worse https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/in
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by holgerschurig 3y ago
> It's nobody's fault, it was inevitable given how things work. Then the video stream vendors must find a different way to make things work. If their goal is to be user-friendly, which I highly doubt. Only in marketing-speak
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by holgerschurig 3y ago
Agreed. I actually don't think that Piracy was difficult to compete against. Actually there was a time when video streaming platforms competed against it --- and very successful. For normal people, it was cheap enough to make a contrac
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by holgerschurig 3y ago
> is that modern German is mostly High (Southern) German Absolutely not. South german is for me Badisch, Schwäbisch, Bayrisch und Alemannisch (Badian, Swabian, Bavarian and Alemmannian --- similar to Swabian, but with lots of differences
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by holgerschurig 3y ago
Well, in most sane countries "surprise bills" are illegal. If I bring my car for maintenance and we agree on checking brake fluid and air filters, they cannot decide "Oh, the profiles of the tires are off, we'll change t
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by holgerschurig 3y ago
I had totally not your experience. I got this book when I was at the first semester of IT. Back in my university town, most students of IT or physics had this book, or lented it from a friend. And we discussed a lot about what was inside. S
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by holgerschurig 3y ago
> So why would you abuse your reader by making it a pain in the ass to figure out what you mean? I think this statement is both wrong and irrelevant. Wrong: if you look into GEB, you notice that is has many chapters. And each chapter wor
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by holgerschurig 3y ago
Well, that is totally wrong. And I deduct that you're rather young. You think Ethernet is 10BaseT, 100BaseT and similar, i.E. Twisted Pair. But original Ethernet was designed for Coax cable, for 1:many connections. Basically you had on
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by holgerschurig 3y ago
Well, even today, using heat pumps is cheaper on the long run (like on a 10 year horizont). Especially if you have solar on your roof and can use your own solar electricy, at least partially. Besides the "big heat pump" outside th
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by holgerschurig 3y ago
I read a statistics before the COVID pandemic (and Russia's invasion) and that boiled down to two things: * electricity is half as expensive in the USA * but median US households use double the electric power than their european counte
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by holgerschurig 3y ago
> due to the German-corruption-made dependence on Russian gas You have a source for this? Corruption is a criminal offence under both german and EU laws. So if there was corruption ... where are the court cases, where are the conviction
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by holgerschurig 3y ago
Well, then you completely misunderstanding things. It's not about joining, not at all. Actually what they ask for changes things for all employees of an industry (e.g. cars, or generally metal), not just for unionized workers. So let m
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by holgerschurig 3y ago
German news media clearly say that it's not about DIRECT asking for more money. In Europe a lot of countries have a system of "Tarifvertrag" ("tarrif contract", but really "collective agreement"). In such
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by holgerschurig 4y ago
> During the Holocaust, the Swiss "neutrality" And they saved 25000 domestic and 21000 immigrated Jews. Not much ... but compared to their country size, this was more than Vichy France. In any case, why is reaching back more th
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by holgerschurig 4y ago
> Switzerland is instead clearly picking Russia's side by ... implementing all EU sanction packets against Russia? ... by providing financial and civilian aid to Ukraine, like money for the government, generators, medical aid, winte
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by holgerschurig 4y ago
In this risk-of-poverty statistics, usually the people are compared to their peers. Like how much are other people earning on average? If you are under a certain level below this, you have a risk of poverty. Many people regularly oppose th
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by holgerschurig 4y ago
> you and your money are safe here Okay. But ... isn't "me and my money" not save in Malta? Or in Ireland? Or in Austria? Or used to be it unsave in Belgium, Portugal, Sweden? All mentioned countries are (or were) neu
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by holgerschurig 4y ago
I know that the banking sector in Switzerland only employs 89'000 people. So the statement a bit above "banking doesn't contribute as much as people think" seems to be believable to me.
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by holgerschurig 4y ago
> How did they get so rich? I don't know exactly, maybe you tell me? If it were because of Neutrality, then surely Ireland, Austria, Malta must have become equally rich. But ... they aren't. So certainly other factors than just
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by holgerschurig 4y ago
> I's been some correlation between "neutrality" and "money" for centuries. You state still this falsehoods after I pointed out that * other swiss pecularities (e.g. their banking laws about anonymous number acco
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by holgerschurig 4y ago
I clearly is/was directed at you. Wasn't it you that stated the hypothesis "neutrality is to appease the rich"? Can't you see that I tried to refute this hypothesis? But maybe you have arguments to back this hypoth
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by holgerschurig 4y ago
Not even that. Swiss neutrality started during/after Vienna Congress, 1814/1815. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutralit%C3%A4t_der_Schweiz
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by holgerschurig 4y ago
> No, I don't buy it. Well, we can read it up. The "hundred years war" date is of course wrong, they have neutrality since 1814/1815. If you cannot read german, use google-translate or DeepL: https://de.wik
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by holgerschurig 4y ago
> Neutrality is to appease all the rich that have stashed their fortunes. How did you get to this conclusion? * Switzerland has neutrality since the Vienna Congress 1814/1815, more than 200 years * they weren't really rich back
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by holgerschurig 4y ago
Well, if you wonder, I can help you. What you think might be plausible on first sight, but really isn't. * the neutrality isn't "newfound", they have it since the Vienna Congress 1814/1815 * back then the big powers