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"Trump has repeatedly spoken of making the neighbouring country the 51st state of America." [0] "Trudeau more recently suggested behind closed doors that Trump’s sustained annexation calls may not be just light talk and appea
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> These are the things people are looking to immigrate towards. In the academic world, I am definitely seeing brain-drain from the EU towards China now. 10-20 years ago, it was almost exclusively the US. I expect this shift to rapidly co
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Also consider that the US is now threatening direct (even neighboring) allies with military intervention (Canada, Denmark). It is very hard to drain brain which considers the US an enemy country. Meanwhile, China is playing the long game
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> I'm surprised we don't see more such projects. The main reason why geothermal drilling has a difficult stand in Germany is the case of Staufen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staufen_im_Breisgau#Geothermal
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There is a lot of planning going on now in Europe, both on international (EU, UK) and national level, that would've been politically impossible just a few months ago.
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> With the US now showing they are not afraid of doing a "rug pull" on agreements, one starts to wonder if the Netherlands shouldn't start development of nuclear weapons again. This discussion is already looming in Germany
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I also struggled with Git many years ago. Then I read the excellent "Version Control with Git" in 2014. Never looked back. It does an excellent job in connecting the Git commands to various basic operation on the commit graph. [0]
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> Bernd is a television presenter who wants nothing to do with TV and can’t wait to go home to stare at the wallpaper. A national treasure. I you visit the Reichstag in Berlin, they have an audio guide spoken by Bernd das Brot! https:&#
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Reading the article, looking at pictures from the Beverly Hills Hotel in the 70ies and 80ies, and considering the fact that Irving V. Link acted in a movie once, I get the strong feeling that an episode of Columbo in which Link played himse
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The 20% are over cars of all ages . 14.2% of 2-3-year old Tesla Model 3s failed the inspection. This is - by a considerable margin - worse than for any other EV of the same age. For the age group of 4-5 years, it was nearly 20%. > Wha
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Yes, and "I will please" is actually the original Latin meaning of "placebo" [0] [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/placebo
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It was surprisingly difficult to get a translation for each of the proverbs, I found one here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/with/27922467233 Top to bottom, left to right: 1. Beware of playing ga
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I write all my tools myself, so I know exactly what I can do without any actual coding, and I know what additional features are easy to implement. I try to avoid projects which require a lot of additional new code. Then I estimate the hours
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> most recognized expert in the world I am certainly not the most recognized expert in the world. > If your tools and data are at all business critical to a real company you are vastly undercharging I make around 90% of my revenue f
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German here. He directly and openly supported the far-right AfD party in the last election by publicly asking people to vote for them, and by holding a video-call audience with the party leadership. I don't care who votes what, but I c
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https://www.carscoops.com/2024/11/tesla-model-3-comes-bottom...
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> It's as if all these news articles are useless... But the news article linked in the post is based on the official ranking of TÜV in Germany. TÜV does a thorough inspection of each car registered in Germany, every 24 months. Rough
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https://sticker-depot.de/products/aufkleber-i-bought-this-be...
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Apart from the political implications, it certainly doesn't help that European news are full of reports that Tesla cars place last in national reliability rankings for EVs. https://www.carscoops.com/2024/11/te
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https://archive.ph/h29YP
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My 2 cents: I do a bit of freelancing on the side, with a yearly income in the lower 5 digits. I have a (very) basic website and a limited, but free data service, and I have created 2-3 opensource tools that are relatively well-known in the
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It's very hard to avoid this. It's mostly a combination of railway noise, throughput of a large number of people who are only travelling through, opportunities for pickpockets and beggars, and historically of soot and air pollutio
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> If nobody eats there, how do they launder money? The laundered money is reported to the tax office as cash payments from customers. Add some fake invoices from meat suppliers to make your books look legit, and you have converted dirty
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> I could've absolutely just routed to every single entrance for every single restaurant to get the nearest... But that would've taken several decades. Hm, this seems like a standard many-to-many routing problem on a relatively
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Why did you include metro stations in your study? The original quote only included train stations. The metro originally largely replaced a tram network, so the metro station density in Paris is higher than for other underground systems. I t
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Very cool, and surprisingly simple. I was always mystified as a kid how these file-sharing protocols actually work, but if you just look at a torrent as a collection of fixed-size pieces you are asking peers managed by a tracker for, it bec
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Here a a few examples, linked in the article: https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~czumaj/PUBLICATIONS/DRAFTS/Dr... Searching in sorted lists is the first example, although they acknowledge that "the assumptio
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In my experience, people mostly tend to hyperbolize the differences between their local dialect and "everything else" for patriotic reasons. Usually, they give some singular words that are vastly different as examples (I suspect y
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There really isn't a single "Swiss German" dialect. It is rather a family of dialects, and this family is again part of the larger family of "Alemannic German" dialects, which are spoken in most of southwestern Germ
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> And it’s not just dialect, but really different words that might not be understood everywhere. If you look at the english part it has at least three different words. Similar in Spanish. I think you cannot really compare the minuscule d

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