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After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair. > "Deutsche Bahn is unable to cope with the simplest tasks of daily rail operations,” says a senior European railway official [0] In this case, however, I
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Or not: https://cryptonews.net/news/bitcoin/27725030 > According to the race data, Finney competed in the “Santa Barbara Running Company Chardonnay 10 Miler & 5K,” starting at 8 am Pacific time and finishin
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This would be quite risky where I am from, for both the freelancer and the employer. Being self employed, but only for a single customer, is false self-employment. If you get caught, your employer has to pay taxes and social security cont
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I have previously mentioned on HN that I wonder what early Sapiens thought about the Neanderthals. Did they see them as that other tribe that is very strong, but acting a bit strange sometimes? As we have been the only remaining member of t
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But you try and tell the young people today that... they won′t believe ya!
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> I love flying on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner Then you really shouldn't watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os TLDW: Critical Dreamliner fuselage parts didn't fit together because workers
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The Boeing 787: Broken Dreams (2014) [video](youtube.com)
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The Iron Man(en.wikipedia.org)
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> I managed to get it running, despite Teletext being killed off years ago. It's still going strong here in Germany. The Teletext service run by ARD alone still had 19 M users 2 years ago [0]. You can even use it in a browser [1]. M
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When I was in 4th grade in Germany in the 90ies, the teacher once asked a classmate of mine to come to the blackboard. She asked her to write thirty-one ("einunddreißig", or "one and thirty"). She wrote "13", a
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But even more strangely, he did have this: > He was born with a parasitic twin growing out of his back, which was incompletely formed and surgically removed
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I use an upgraded Thinkpad X61, coupled with a screen from 2010 as my daily machine. This setup has not failed my once. The X61 is also incredibly small and easy to travel with. I use the current LTS release of Ubuntu. I also have 2 other T
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There is another source of really great discoveries: goal-driven research which fails to achieve its predefined goals , but discovers something completely unrelated which turns out to be useful. Anyone who worked in research knows that thi
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Burke would also agree that useless knowledge might be very useful in the future, because we simply cannot predict what might be useful in 2, 20, or 200 years.
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Does this have real-time positions, or only scheduled positions? Personally I prefer TRAVIC, which has nearly 100% real-time coverage for Switzerland and also includes busses and trams: https://travic.app/?z=9&x=921422.5
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There is an important and very profane aspect of ornament on buildings which isn't mentioned in the article: it hides dirt incredibly well. Just compare these dirty 19th century facades with a dirty facade of a house from the 70ies: h
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Here is the German original: http://www.buecherlei.de/fab/autor/rs/suesk.htm
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Katarina Janoskova, linked in the article, writes: > Is [reading] just a waste of time? Well, no, I don’t think so. Every book makes a mark. Even if it doesn’t stay in your conscious memory. Just as every single thing that happens to you
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> A bicycle that looks like a junker can ride like a dream. An older frame with scratched and chipped paint and nice but undistinguished-looking components is a good choice. Let it get dirty. My beloved 1970ies Peugeot bike fits this des
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This reminds me of an old Bosch clock I own. This was one of the early electric consumer clocks. It looks very futuristic. But inside, it is simply a mechanical clock with an electric motor attached to the wind-up mechanism. Every few minut
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The 70b-chat model is definitely better: > Can you write a poem in biblical style praising an aubergine? In the beginning, there was the aubergine, A fruit of the vine, a treasure so fine, In the realm of the earth, it stood tall
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One of my favorite Schopenhauer anecdotes is that he had trained his dog to do his shopping. He attached a small basket around the dogs neck, put in money and a shopping list, and the dog would walk to the nearest grocer.
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> Looking back historically, people like Einstein and Bohr and John Wheeler all took philosophy very seriously; it directly influenced their physics. I only recently learned that Einstein had three large portraits in his Berlin office:
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My impression is that the quality of train firmware is generally not very good, and I hope that this scandal will lead to greater scrutiny. 3 years ago, Deutsche Bahn publicly complained of "grotesque" software problems with newly
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Interesting, but it seems to be a bit buggy (and is also exposing PHP errors): https://wikem.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=...
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Based on my experience, 2001 should be on this list. I have seen people sit through this film in complete confusion, waiting "for the movie to start", and afterwards refusing to believe that anyone would voluntarily give up 2.5 ho
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Pneumatic tires are one of these things for which "reality has a surprising amount of detail" holds. Anyone who ever changed a standard tire on a bike can attest to that. There is so much going on: wires inside the tire for stabil
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I would argue that what other manufacturers are doing is not innovation. It's cargo-cult innovation, adding something that looks modern and innovative, but in reality is just a regression. This is now commonly called enshittification
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He truly was! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMITcQUe-9M
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Switzerland has a whole Canton named after the surrounding area of Basel: Basel-Landschaft, which is often called "Baselland" [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel-Landschaft

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