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I registered a basic company - but without limited liability - around 5 years ago in Germany. I put my name, address, and the company name onto a 1 page PDF (form GewA1 [0]), sent it via email to town hall and received a confirmation and an
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In Germany, public officials ("Beamte") are paid a bonus depending on (a) their marital status, (b) the number of kids they have and (c) whether their spouse is also a public official (you get less then to avoid receiving the chil
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I recommend reading "The Collapse of Complex Societies" by Joseph Tainter [0]. Complex societies tend to address problems by adding more and more rules and regulations, simply because they have always done so and it has been succe
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> Once I knew I was alone and safely insulated by several layers of steel and concrete, I finally let out the primal scream I had been holding in this whole time. The entire post really reads like an episode of Better Call Saul. And I me
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I know I can't deal with it, and I have tremendous respect for anyone who can. A few years ago, I had a kidney stone and a renal colic [0]. The pain was indescribable. It was surreal. A shrill, hyperbright, screeching, completely hyste
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At least for me, his fictional work (but also his documentaries) always seems to hint at some deeper, universal truth that cannot be put directly into words. But watching his movies (and hearing him talk), I always get this strange feeling
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Werner Herzog talking to Alexander Kluge in 1991 (in German): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDiUaFw909I He certainly has a way of talking that is quite easy to imitate. I like his work, but I am never sure whether he real
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> medieval Londoner The 17th century hardly classifies as "the middle ages".
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Can God Be Proved Mathematically?(scientificamerican.com)
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I also vividly remember the moment I had idea 1 from my list above. It was such a nice warm autumn day in the last months of a very turbulent year: I struggled finding something worth doing a PhD on, and in the 10 weeks before, I got marrie
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This is exactly how my working days looked like in the last 12 months before I quit. Sitting in front of the screen waiting for the next emergency ticket. Why even bother to start some deep work? It will be interrupted, possibly for days, i
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The three fundamental ideas of my PhD came to while: 1.) Sitting in a park sketching solutions on a notebook. 2.) Laying at the beach on vacation. 3.) Playing Legos with my daughter. Without these ideas, I doubt there would've even bee
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I am endlessly fascinated by the effect your birth month may have on you. It begins with trivial things: if you are born in summer, then by the time you are 6 months old and have developed a vague awareness of your world, "going out&qu
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Definitely. I think it is even better than "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (also with Alec Guinness). The execution, the acting, the plot, the screenplay, everything is just marvelous.
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I guess many, if not most, great artists would immediately agree.
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I think you are right. Have you watched "Comedian"? It's a documentary which follows Jerry around as he struggles to re-enter the world of standup comedy. It was released in 2002, so this is just a couple of years after his s
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There are extremely few comedy shows I really enjoy: Arrested Development, Curb you Enthusiasm, Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses, Malcolm in the Middle - and Seinfeld. I think they all have something in common: while they all offer plen
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I think you are reading too much into this sentence. I took it as a sarcastic comment on the (tongue-in-cheek) suggestion that he could've asked McKinsey for advice to streamline the production. Also note that he did not say that his m
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I think Sally Weaver's new show could be for you. Finally a show about some thing!
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Johnny Carson knew it the first time he walked up on the stage of the Tonight Show in 1983. Seinfeld got the O.K. sign [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_4ds9BtQEI [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2005/0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85MZ4c1EWkM
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Highly recommended read, written by someone who narrowly survived eating Amanita Virosa: https://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2006/11/22/i-survived-the-...
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Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33167184
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DART mission successfully altered asteroid's orbit(nasa.gov)
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A sow is a female pig. It has exactly the same meaning as "Sau" in German, and even sounds the same. "Pig" is "Schwein" in German. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig
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Comment under the article: In particular, the geometry of the lottery tickets seems important. It is plausible that 55 numbers are set up in a 7 x 8 matrix pattern, with one wildcard (to produce 56 objects). Imagine that it is done
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One of my favorite authors. If you haven't read anything of him, start with "The Road" and "Child of God", they are quite accessible and highly thrilling (I also strongly suspect that Patrick Süskind read "Chil
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For fun I once send a postcard to my parents from Spain to Germany without a ZIP code, without the country, misspelling the town and street, and writing "the last house on the right" (in German) as a house number. It arrived witho
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The map is based on OpenStreetMap data, so it's quite easy to add the abandoned streetcar and trolley lines if you know their original course.
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To put this in relation, here is a comparison of gas storage capacities in Europe: https://erdgasspeicher.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ines_ga... Here is table from Sunday which also shows the total gas

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