lampenrad

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by lampenrad 4y ago
If Germany is a "corrupt country", than what‘s the rest of Europe?: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/koyyv5/european_pub...
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by lampenrad 4y ago
That is not the case. Otherwise, with regards to the war in Ukraine, Germany wouldn’t get this singled out when it comes to criticism. In fact, one of the biggest domestic criticisms of the government right now is their terrible communicati
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by lampenrad 4y ago
The whole argument hinges on the claim that 35% of electricity in Germany is generated by gas. This seems very high and I couldn‘t find a source for this claim in the article. According to [1], it‘s 14% (for consumers). This includes a larg
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by lampenrad 4y ago
In 2021, Germany got 55% of its gas from Russia (the rest from other European countries). Depending on how much overall consumption can be reduced, European suppliers might be able to cover most/all of it.
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by lampenrad 5y ago
Previous discussion from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22247292
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by lampenrad 6y ago
>As of October 2020 Tesla comprised 18% of 2020's global market [1]. Still the clear leader, and almost the only contender in the US, but globally other automakers are threatening their lead. Worth noting that VW owns Audi and Porsc
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by lampenrad 6y ago
This article is very US-centric and self congratulatory. The vaccine is called BNT162b2, because it was fundamentally developed at Biontech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tozinameran >Tozinameran[1] (INN), codenamed
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by lampenrad 6y ago
Thank you for the correction. I trusted a news article without carefully reading the source myself. My bad. I added a different survey.
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by lampenrad 6y ago
Edit: Someone corrected me, I quoted the survey wrong. But here‘s another source (YouGov survey, 2012), saying that 43% had a real tree and 17% an artificial one: https://statistik-dresden.de/archives/5195 > Also, I
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by lampenrad 7y ago
I went through this today. In German there‘s a really great Podcast „Coronavirus-Update“: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/podcast4684.html 30 min/weekday a science journalist talks to Christian Drosten, a
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by lampenrad 7y ago
Very neat design, but there are highly advanced toasters nowadays. There just doesn‘t seem a market for them in the West (yet?). Bloomberg recently covered high-end Japanese toasters: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti
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TeamViewer has the biggest German tech IPO since dot-com crash(dw.com)
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by lampenrad 7y ago
If you google gates belt drive snapped you‘ll find plenty of anecdata of belts lasting only a couple thousand kilometers (and others who ride them for tens of thousands of kilometers with no issues). Here‘s a (German) Video from a guy wit
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by lampenrad 7y ago
Another disadvantage is repairability. If your chain snaps you can fix it with a quick link or a pin and a little multitool with chain tool functionality. If your belt snaps you‘re screwed, unless you carry a spare belt everywhere.
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by lampenrad 7y ago
Do you have an accent (preferably from the Anglosphere) that gives you away as an expat? The stigma (at least in Germany) basically doesn‘t apply to native English speakers (or at least much, much less so). Nobody here makes fun of Kevin Co
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by lampenrad 7y ago
>I'd imagine having kids will have a similar effect (probably 100x stronger). Sure, but putting the burden of existence on another human to alleviate one‘s existential pain doesn‘t make the problem go away, it only puts it on others
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by lampenrad 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial... In 1999, Enercon, a German company and leading manufacturer of wind energy equipment, developed a breakthrough generator for wind turbines. After applyin
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by lampenrad 8y ago
>I definitely don't want to mess them up too much You‘re actively trying to get other people to boycott them, which would eventually put them out of business. It‘s the first time I’ve heard about them and I don‘t care one way or the
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by lampenrad 9y ago
Genital mutalation of a child is fine (assuming here it wasn‘t a medical necessity. Maybe it was in this case, hence why I didn‘t downvote), but taking a completely non-sexual photograph of a healing wound is considered weird. Sums up moder
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by lampenrad 9y ago
Here are the labor costs compared to other nations from '00 to '11: https://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imageca... They might've grown above EU average since then, but they ce
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by lampenrad 9y ago
No, for a long time Germany was the only significant solar market in the world. German tax payers and individuals spent billions when it was still far from economical, jump starting the whole industry: https://www.scientificameri
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by lampenrad 9y ago
Close to another 100!: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/elon-musk-goals/ The proportion of time Musk devotes to each company is derived from a description he gave at Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting in June 2
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by lampenrad 9y ago
It doesn't stop at the German border, though. And if you look at this map, the distinction between S and N is much less clear: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gross_domestic_pro... Southern Germany, West
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by lampenrad 9y ago
DHL has been operating Packstationen in Germany since 2001: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation >There are 3,000 Packstation machines in Germany[1] and 90 percent of the people living in Germany were within
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by lampenrad 9y ago
Sorry for questioning the legitimacy of your revenue claim, but according to Similarweb your site gets less than 5000 visitors a month. [1] Alexa's estimates seem similar, putting the global rank at 6.5 mio. [2] Wouldn't you need