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by misja111 2y ago
Why in Heaven's name should Switzerland be (heavily!?) taxed to solve EU transportation issues? Should Switzerland then tax the EU as well to pay for its own transportation? Until today I believed that the world had solved these proble
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> Delays of 15 minutes are because of network complexity not uncommon. If the delay is that likely, due to the long distance of the route, isn't the obvious step to take then to adjust the schedule? So that at some stations along th
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by misja111 2y ago
Unbelievable, >9 minutes delay seems to have become the norm ..
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> It’s deflationary by design How is that so? I know that the maximum nr of BitCoins is limited and that generating new ones is designed to become more difficult over time. But how does that make them deflationary? I would say that as lo
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Can anybody perhaps share some insight of what kind of investment opportunity BitCoin represents, except for pure gambling? I have been working in finance for many years, and I've learnt that various types of instruments correlate with
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I think OP was referring to shootings. In France, as in most of Europe, it's not trivial to get access to guns. So the risk of getting shot in Paris is small, but of course you still might get stabbed.
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It's not, at least not where I live, in Switzerland. There are many different varieties to choose from in the supermarket nowadays, from cheap and tasteless to more expensive and tasty. It's the same in the Netherlands by the way.
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I was hoping to read something about a discussion between neuroscientists. Instead I'm just reading one theory from one neuroscientist, without much arguments of proof that it's based on. Let alone any arguments from other scienti
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Can you name one?
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I have no idea what you are talking about. I'm a strong proponent of wind energy. But I also like birds. In my view of the world, we should search for solutions that let windmills kill less birds. The fact that it was Trump who brought
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by misja111 2y ago
Thanks for the link! But, after reading the article, it seems that Trump's assumptions about bird killings were true? Apparently US windmills kill hundreds of thousands of birds every year. Among them hundreds of bald eagles. So over t
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Then the government should make it less attractive for speculators to hold those homes, e.g. by introducing taxes for empty properties. And on the other hand they could make it more attractive for them to rent them out, e.g. by improving ow
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You were downvoted but you're hitting the nail on the head. The housing problem is an issue of supply and demand. Currently demand is bigger than supply and that leads to problems, no matter what you do. Either renting prices go up unt
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I lived in Amsterdam for a long time, and the Dutch government initially took a very liberal stance on squatting exactly for the reasons you mentioned. And initially it seemed to work, the squatters were a mix of idealists, artists and othe
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> I bet you'd see something wrong if I went into your wallet and took some cash, after all you're not using it right now This happens all the time, it's called taxes
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Yes you're right, reducing demand will also work. Which is exactly what capping rents won't do, this will actually increase demand ..
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Ok, thanks for clearing that up. But does the law define a difference between, say, your second home or your 100th?
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You're correct, the competition wouldn't be on rent prices anymore. But since the shortage of houses is not solved, competition would just move to some other area. E.g: which candidate does the landlord like the best, or who was o
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Really that won't help. These kind of regulations have been tried in so many countries before and the result is always the same: cap the rents => landlords will take houses from the markets and sell them instead => there will be
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> if a property is not adequately secured and is left unattended, it becomes vulnerable to occupation. > Spanish law provides for an immediate eviction procedure that can be enacted within 48 hours of illegal occupation So if I unders
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Patched Webex vulnerability exposed German government meetings(securityweek.com)
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> is better for the environment I'm not sure that is always the case. When everybody is in the office, you save on shared resources such as lighting, printing and heating. Also, a certain percentage of remote workers will take the c
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I'm not sure if Germany is the best example for public transport anymore. There are some other European countries that are doing it really well, e.g. Switzerland or the Netherlands.
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I'm having the same problem, my hearing is fine but talking to people in busy clubs or cafe's is next to impossible for me. This feature would be a blessing for me!
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Ehm, we humans need a certain amount of blood sugar to survive. Having such a resistant bacteria living in my stomach seems a terrible idea ..
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Her mother had French-Canadian roots.
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The sponsoring of Hamas by Qatar has happened with approval from Netanyahu. Until October 7th of course. And the reason that Hamas headquarters are in Doha, is because the US government requested that in 2011. See e.g. https://ed
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There is a problem with the notion of 'good architecture', and that is people tend to have strongly different opinions on what a good architecture is. Take a basic web application as an example. In the last 20 years, we went from
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Nope that's what it meant a long time ago. Nowadays, the nm number represents the smallest possible element on the chip, typically the gate length, which is smaller than the size of a transistor. This means that when different manufact
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by misja111 3y ago
Aren't Japan and China very similar? They are all societies where the group is valued as more important than the individual.

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