jack_tripper

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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
>our industry had a huuuuuuge investment in it Which industry? How 'huuuuuge' was the investment? >We were the most admired country in the world According to who?
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
>> “I was wrong,” the former German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, says, simply. “We were all wrong.” So when are they retroactively giving back their salaries and pensions for having fucked up the livelihoods of their taxpaye
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
>I really felt like Trump’s 2024 election was the moment it became the Chinese century. You must have been asleep at the wheel or living under a rock to have mised China's rise over the last decades. They didn't wait for Tru
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
>but then didn’t look at the fact that lots of people live in rented apartments How would the political class know this obvious fact from the top of their ivory McMansions?
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
You're right! Your eagle eyed diligence caught my mistake. Let's try this again without the mushroom cloud this time.
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
Well yes, not difficult to see why. Germany is quite big and quite sprawled, and given how expensive home ownership is in big metro areas people choose commute longer in exchange for affordable housing. And also the government gives you tax
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
>This is a country with a $2.68 per gallon gas tax, compared to $0.51 in the US. Irrelevant comparison since US is a widely different animal to most European countries. It might be expensive compared to the US, but Germany is still one
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
It's not that Amazon is irreplaceable, but sometimes it's the best option by far depending on where you live and what you're looking for. I'm in Austria (not Australia) and local retail prices are infamous for being 25%
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
BSD, Linux or TempleOS would never lock you out.
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
>A "Sparschiene" ticket from Vienna to Graz typically costs between 10€ and 25€. I've never seen it below 19 Euros. Are Austrian residents excempt from the "full regular price"? Then it's ripping me off to
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
Why isn't this applied to income taxes first? Does the government deserve a percentage with no cap of whatever you make? Your government services don't get better for you the more you pay.
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
By being one of the greatest drivers ever.
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
Then the tracks are shit if cars can go twice as fast on the same terrain.
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
When you google "German politician diamond hands" you get the answer: Angela Merkel
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
I get your point, but looking at it at a glance without any other context, 12% feels like a pretty reasonable amount IMHO. Like, if all major marketplaces only charge 12% from the get-go, we probably would have had much less fuss and lawsui
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
I don't really care what some arbitrary number on Wikipedia tells me about the freedom of a country I know quite well, as long as I am unable to insult my political leaders on the internet for their fuckups or say that 'Israel is
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
>This was a phone which was perfectly good also for average users Not good enough to save it from the iPhone onslaught. People on HN make this mistake to assume that they represent the "average user", the same mistake Steve
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
>Calling it "German authoritarianism" risks thinking it's a localized phenomenon or special case. It very much is though. Plenty of other countries in EU like France or Romania for example but probably many more, don&#x2
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
German history and culture was always about following rules and following a strong figure of authority, whether that be someone with a toothbrush moustache or someone making diamond hands.
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
>Doesn't Flixbus cap their fleet to 100 km/h? And the train is even slower than that. Let that sink in. >Graz–Vienna is admittedly a bit of a special case Special case at being ripped off when flights from London, Paris
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
>Flixbus definitely exists in Austria, but people generally take the train, which is much faster and more comfortable. Not always true. The Graz-Vienna(Airport) trip is often quicker by flixbus than by OBB train. Trains in Austria are
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
>Does anyone know why? Small county with small market monopolized by few politically connected local players in every major sector of the economy who sometimes enjoy regulatory protectionism from the government to keep foreign competit
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
>means that such a device could exist That was never the problem. The problem was how could Nokia stay competitive to Apple and Google when their focus was selling Linux devices aimed power users.
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
Yep, single tickets on Austrian ÖBB is not cheap at all without subscriptions or discounts. Prices are good only if you use it regularly as a commuter via a yearly subscription (Klimaticket), but for one off trips, prices are more expensive
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
Depends on what you classify as useless. They aren't making any laptops or smartphones, but Russia has no problem demolishing Ukraine using weapons powered by domestic 160nm-350nm chips and vacuum tubes. So 5nm should be more than enou
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
The most important part of this news article: "TechInsights has confirmed that SMIC's N+3 node, despite achieving impressive DUV multi-patterning implementation, encounters significant yield challenges, particularly due to the
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
>I installed a BitTorrent client, found the release on Pirate Bay, successfully torrented just the subtitle file, and used an editor to read the subtitles for scenes with a lot of alien. That's probably what I would do but that&#x
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
There's an event bigger number of Indian candidates trying to scam themselves into US jobs, than north Korean ones. Especially when the recruiting process of big companies becomes predictable and well documented online, candidates will
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
>Ironically, the Trump admin proposed a tariff that would help bring VFX back to the US [1] Why ironically? Tarifs to protect some US Industries were part of his campaign promises. We're people living under a rock till now? With t
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by jack_tripper 10mo ago
Same though from me. Like WTF, we're about 4,5 months away from 26.04 LTS and they're just launching 24.04 NOW?! How is this supposed to convince people who are already happy with the KDE or Gnome or other variants of Ubuntu and w

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