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by jonp888 2y ago
Until 2020 the you could book a stay in a backpacker hostel in Berlin that was actually located inside the North Korean embassy. Eventually the German government got fed up with them running a business out of their embassy and they had to s
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by jonp888 2y ago
I've heard this often and I don't understand it at all. Every government in the world has a permanent set of employees which enact policy and turn political intentions into legislation. Usually these are split into departments, ea
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by jonp888 2y ago
A film was made about his life a few years after the war, which is now something of a classic, if only due to how often it is shown on British Television. It was a flop in the US though.
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by jonp888 2y ago
In Britain the first high school graduation happens after 11th grade; attending sixth form is optional and is primarily done by students intending to study at University. In these years you specialise in a couple of subjects relevant to you
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by jonp888 2y ago
In Germany lifelong renting is seen as a normal and acceptable thing to do, not a temporary stepping stone which will hinder you from achieving your life goals.
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by jonp888 2y ago
Why is Hacker News OBSESSED with Germany no longer getting 13% of it's power from nuclear? Of course you can disagree with it, but the way people frame it as as some sort of doomsday decision is just utterly, totally, ludicrous. If thi
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by jonp888 2y ago
HN is for some reason utterly obsessed with the Germany decision to close it's nuclear power plants, even though they only ever contributed a small percentage and were replaced with about the same amount of renewables. If there is any
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by jonp888 2y ago
> Training only goes so far Compared to other countries American cops aren't really trained at all. In Germany the training period for a police officer is 2 to 3 years, in the US it's usually less then 6 months.
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by jonp888 2y ago
No-one is forcing you to stop using Windows 7 if you don't want to. It's just no longer suitable for this specific use case(running the latest steam client). If you apply the same test to other things you mentioned then often they
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by jonp888 2y ago
> The DB Navigator is so terrible that I try to book the German leg of my international travels from one of the other countries apps whenever possible. > For a counter example look at the French SNCF Connect app. It is not perfect but
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by jonp888 2y ago
> Didn’t this start as unlimited anywhere for 9 euros no strings attached? The €9 ticket was a 3 month temporary offer, which was not originally intended to continue permanently at all. > I LOVE the German transit system (although Den
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by jonp888 2y ago
In Germany children are required to go to school(although not necessarily a state-run school) so I guess it would be harder for a family to be "off grid".
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by jonp888 2y ago
The conservative party of 2010 was very different to that of today Back then it had hardliners like John Redwood and Bill Cash, but also pragmatic moderates such as William Hague, Ken Clarke and Rory Stewart. Brexit destroyed the party from
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by jonp888 2y ago
So you travelled 11 hours to Berlin in order to spend 9 hours there, then 12 hours to Vienna in order spend 14 hours there, then 11 hours to Venice? You would have been exhausted whatever mode of transport used. For some reason Americans ha
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by jonp888 2y ago
For a full long distance train pausing between two multi-hour trips it's reasonable. 5 Minutes for disembarking, 10 minutes cleaning, 10 minutes for boarding and you have 25 minutes platform occupancy. But on top of that the tracks wil
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by jonp888 2y ago
His "speaking out" achieved nothing getting him on TV. He's no whistleblower with inside information. His engineering role is to design track geometry and nothing to do with stations or passengers so he has no professional au
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by jonp888 2y ago
If you're trying to compare Britain unfavourably to the US with this comment then that doesn't really hold up. People are sacked all the time in the US for bringing their employer into disrepute, and it doesn't even matter w
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by jonp888 2y ago
> he’s only been in the job a month or so, so replacing wouldn’t be a huge deal He's way, way than more than just some guy who has been rail minister for a month, he's one of the most respected, perhaps the most respected trans
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by jonp888 2y ago
> the idea of all wagon individually powered is ancient, very ancient, like monorails. Both ideas never get spread simply because they are too expensive instead of cheap, in practice. > it sound extra added complexity for little to no
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by jonp888 2y ago
25kV is the standard for all new mainline railroads these days. Modern electrical technology means there's no reason not to use high voltage AC unless there are issues with clearance(streetcars).
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by jonp888 2y ago
You are mixing up SOCs and devboards. RP2040 is a chip, there has never been version with onboard communication. Raspberry Pi Foundation released a RP2040 based dev board(Pico W) with an additional external wireless chip, as have others(inc
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by jonp888 2y ago
Pimoroni has a range of products. Here is a generic batter management board with simultaneous charging: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/lipo-amigo?variant=397793... You can also get version to fit the Pico, or even
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by jonp888 2y ago
Since he mentions a "token", I don't think he means the recycling system, but rather than whenver you visit a festival/sports events etc., you typically have to pay a deposit of €2 for the cup your drink is served in. Be
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by jonp888 2y ago
That's a completely different situation. It's measurable biological certainty that reaction times as measured in milliseconds and fine motor control degrade with age. Vision and hearing also degrade. The nature of hands on control
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by jonp888 2y ago
The way these things work(so far as I know) is that for the data to be passed along the chain the gap between transmissions can't be greater than 50 microseconds. Of course a skilled engineer could write a tight output loop that comput
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by jonp888 2y ago
A while ago they made a change to an existing law to increase the minimum sentence from 6 months to 1 year, probably mostly for reasons of political posturing rather than any deep analysis. They were warned it would have absurd consequenc
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by jonp888 2y ago
No other railway has to deal with with so much traffic on infrastructure that is so old and out of step with the demands placed on it. People tend to obsess over DB and it's management, but they only control maintenance. All decisions
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by jonp888 2y ago
I don't see any point in even trying to change any more. There is too much damage already, international cooperation has always been primarily driven by national interests, and I don't see there ever being a global movement signif
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by jonp888 2y ago
Side note, but I'm amazed that anyone that is not a journalist or a politician still actively uses X/twitter. Everyone I used to follow has stopped.
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by jonp888 2y ago
Erm, what? Your statement makes no sense whatsoever. It's perfectly reasonable for the default setting of a phone to forbid sideloading apps. And anyone who doesn't want to can leave it that way. That's the 'option of sa

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