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by nforgerit 3y ago
German solo-founder here who just gave up this shitshow and moved to Estonia: > Estimate your revenue at 0€ for now unless you have real reason to believe otherwise (do you have paying customers lined up already? probably not). That way,
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by nforgerit 3y ago
"Ausweis!"
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Here you are: https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/it-open-s...
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by nforgerit 3y ago
German here. It's been blowing my mind for 20ys now how incompetent and naive our leadership (nation-wise but also on EU level) is. The current German gov't silently issued a statement in December 2023 of IT license cost on federa
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by nforgerit 3y ago
German here. I think this rather shows flaws in metrics than a remarkable productivity of Germany. The stats you see are based on: - cheap Russian gas imports - a hidden devaluation of the Euro within the Euro-zone - a gigantic market for u
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by nforgerit 3y ago
No ofc he's not. But it's taught that he introduced social reforms (together with von Metternich) for keeping the (at that time) aspiring social democrats out of power.
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by nforgerit 3y ago
German here. If you ask me, Germany has set up the perfect feudal state.
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Hm no never heard that as part of the farmers protests. They say it's rather the amount of bureaucracy that skyrocketed in the past decades and the recent (rather naively) cut farmer subsidies made them protest.
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by nforgerit 3y ago
German here. I think what we now see is what local nerds always warned about: US Big Tech is strategically making us dependent on them and when they play the end-game, we're fu*ed. Sure, they will disable the data collection and gladly
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by nforgerit 3y ago
> When the network breaks, most software devs are stomped and can't even do the most basic troubleshooting. Not that I'm an expert myself, but I've seen the same patterns and concluded that to be a symptom of a set of tec
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by nforgerit 3y ago
So if I understand correctly, we're (economically) back at the classic model of continuously running a db in a process, right?
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Not sure what web 3.0 will be fought with but web 4.0 will definitely be sticks and stones
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Well you can lie down the phone on the grill without the camera lenses getting covered. Then you build some kinds of pillars (anything; I just used 2 stacks of books on each side) and put the grill with the phone on top. Then with one hand
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by nforgerit 3y ago
With Covid lockdowns I got a bit depressed and decided to give up my flat to travel around. When I looked at my bookshelf it broke my heart to give away/sell all my books, so I remembered the old story about Brin/Mayer (afair) at
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by nforgerit 3y ago
German here. German middle class considers the current political situation (across all federal layers) the least trustworthy in at least 30-50 years. The majority of the people is frustrated AF because of government paralysis for no real re
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by nforgerit 3y ago
captain obvious here: put a pedestrian next to an SUV and you see the heights nicely match the most vulnerable parts of the pedestrian's body. add emotions (due to cultural wars) and significantly worse oversight and you get what we ha
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by nforgerit 3y ago
> They really shouldn't mention the weather until they fix that app. After your edit: What a pity! I thought to have just read a great one-liner about the climate crisis and how tech people want to solve everything applying tech.
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by nforgerit 3y ago
I think there's more fruitful discussions to be had, e.g. which editor is to be preferred or which programming language is best.
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by nforgerit 3y ago
I highly respect your idealism. I really do. I used to think like that around 15 years ago. I'm still some kind of social democrat by heart (not the party but rather the concept). But what I learned in recent couple of years is that Ge
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by nforgerit 3y ago
German here. Congrats to your success. Now run away from Germany as fast as possible. It's not for evading taxes but for evading the crumbling German bureaucracy. I recommend having a look at Estonia's e-residency.
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Ha, that's a very typical answer my compatriots would give. What Germans lack in competence they make up with arrogance. That just seems to be our thing.
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by nforgerit 3y ago
German here. You mean the German education system that has been going down the last 2-3 decades? Are you even aware that the German tax system is redirecting tax income from smaller companies to richer ones (e.g. if they soon introduce &quo
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by nforgerit 3y ago
German here. Germany's economy is mainly based on - 100y old inventions (automobile, chemistry). - Then some more diverse set of so-called "hidden champions" (German name for world-leaders of some very special physical engine
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Keep in mind that the EU is doing other funny things like providing a publicly-paid "DNS4EU" which is (for now) totally voluntary and free-to-use but surely will be enforced eventually on any digital product. It drives them crazy
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by nforgerit 3y ago
That's all I can give you right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc-elFcs96Y It's the 1,5min speech where Sonneborn enumerated some cases, unfortunately in German. AFAIR when he held it, I researched a couple
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by nforgerit 3y ago
That's another absurd point about our public debates: No one cares to share some facts. It feels like it's all based on gut feeling and emotions. As far as I know, we don't have official numbers (at least not shared as part o
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Still flabbergasted how effective the lobbying circles around Thorn have been in recent years. I wish no less than this law getting sent to Spam and Ylva Johansson, the accountable EU commissioner, to be forced to step back. The EU legislat
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Because the bureaucrats (mostly suits and legal professionals) being afraid of making compliance mistakes in their projects, they will only hire certified people who went through all the German (mostly) BS university education. So the overa
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by nforgerit 3y ago
German here. I'll have to dissent on the buddy-business part. That's not how Germany works. It's the opposite, which turns out to be even worse: As a bureaucrat that wants to solve a specific problem, you form a project and a
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by nforgerit 3y ago
No need to disagree. We’re 100% on the same side. However, the argument of “don’t develop carbon capture because it will divert society from changing” is just stupid. We will need it as much as possible.

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