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by patrickk 4y ago
I live in Germany, an immigrant myself. Plenty of people from neighbouring countries choose to move here, from France, Spain, Italy, Poland etc. People vote with their feet. If you can’t get a decent career going elsewhere that’s on the loc
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by patrickk 4y ago
Tightening immigration isn’t easy with Schengen and other agreements with EU partners. Unless you exclusively mean non-EU migrants. I haven’t seen any proposal from the current government suggesting they’d clamp down on migration when the p
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by patrickk 4y ago
That’s been going on for far longer than 2008 and isn’t connected with the bank bailout.
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Germany needs the EU to offset their aging population and to import younger, skilled workers from neighbouring countries who share similar values. Without this, they'd be already like Japan, South Korea, etc. that is facing an even wor
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by patrickk 4y ago
Ireland was in the original PIIGS group[1] after the insane bank bailout in 2008, which skyrocketed debt levels. They've fallen since[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIGS_(economics) [2] https://t
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by patrickk 4y ago
> Second, you can’t vote with your feet much, as the market is controlled by a very limited number players who can easily collude to manipulate the market without explicitly doing so. Well said. There are a handful of entities which cont
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by patrickk 4y ago
Boston Dynamics were bought by Hyundai. It seems their tech will be integrated into vehicles rather than domestic robots
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by patrickk 4y ago
A quick Googling turned up a Cities:Skylines map importer for real world terrain: https://www.pcinvasion.com/how-to-import-maps-cities-skyline... One idea I had was to take my home city and improve it with more pedestrian s
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Browser Extension to Bypass Media Sites Paywalls(github.com)
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by patrickk 4y ago
It definitely encourages piracy. IPTV is booming, at least among European sports fans.
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by patrickk 4y ago
Seeing as London has been corrupted by Russian money, numerous Russians have been murdered/attempted to be murdered by the Russian state in the UK, and the current PM is the former mayor of London, it’s more than valid to discuss Rus
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by patrickk 4y ago
If you’re lucky enough to have a model that supports Valetudo, reflashing the firmware with an open source alternative can alleviate some software problems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25856788
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by patrickk 4y ago
> In the long run I hope to see high capacity transcontinental HVDC lines linking continents so we can buy solar power from the other side of the Earth when it's night where we are, and sell our surplus when the sun is shining -- no
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by patrickk 4y ago
Related discussion on how noise hurts the heart(511 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30983274
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by patrickk 4y ago
> I don’t like being stalked by one. They need a little bell or some sort of noise so I know they are coming. Even if it’s just an electric engine whine. Give me something more than just rubber tires over asphalt. In the EU at least ther
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by patrickk 4y ago
> My understanding is that the Irish motherland has always been wary of outright reunification. Yes, there is a lot of concern in the ROI about how the Irish state would fund everything, especially if it would be necessary to deploy mil
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by patrickk 4y ago
Interestingly, the UK and ROI are not in Schengen[1], but jointly have a Common Travel Area[2], which means Irish passport holders can live and work in the EU and in the UK, post Brexit. British and Irish citizens can generally live and w
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by patrickk 4y ago
Another concept involving the cooling of solar panels and how to use the heat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dJixtZdkU0
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by patrickk 4y ago
Nice project! The unknown wires everywhere brought back memories. I did a similar project, hacking an escooter to add Bluetooth functionality in order to control it via a smartphone app: https://ampedcycling.com/e-scooter-ha
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by patrickk 4y ago
Your experience closely matches what I’ve seen in another Korean company, in a different industry. Tedious manual reports (for cover your ass reasons), PowerPoint used for everything, crap internal tools because of a strong ‘not invented he
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by patrickk 4y ago
RTK DIY kits for precision-steering tractors are another amazing application of the technology: https://youtu.be/Kwxpo04AC5Q
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by patrickk 4y ago
Games nowadays are often updated for a long time (e.g. Factorio), so the initial launch date is less relevant. I would argue that indie games are doing really well right now, and the AAA gaming companies' reputations are in the gutter.
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by patrickk 4y ago
Germany too. You can find noise maps[1] with measurements for all kinds of noise, including car noise, aircraft noise, industrial noise, etc. This allows you to make a more informed decision when renting or buying a new home. In the area ar
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by patrickk 4y ago
https://patrickkeane.me/ Basic wordpress + simple theme. Need to keep it updated more often :)
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by patrickk 5y ago
This excludes connecting further to Germany’s neighbours, e.g. using Norway’s hydro exports as a battery. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_super_grid Ireland and Britain has massive offshore wind potential th
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by patrickk 5y ago
Prior discussion, hope it helps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29990910 TL:DR- LG CX tv, never connected to the internet, "smart" functions come from a separate device. It's also behind a pihole for wh
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by patrickk 5y ago
> I feel like I am in a "late-game" stage of gaming. I have sort of an overview of what is going on, but a major percentage of games simply look not interesting (anymore) to me. I feel similar. I usually play slightly older AAA
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by patrickk 5y ago
> You can't even buy appliances designed perform their function well You can't research good appliances either online, because the SERPs are stuffed with SEO-ed blogs and sometimes industry magazines, monetized with Amazon affi
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by patrickk 5y ago
Chinese price dumping from state-sponsored companies also largely wiped out the German solar PV industry[1,2]. Germany was an early innovator in solar, especially in regards to inventing the concept of a feed in tariff when solar PV was sti
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by patrickk 5y ago
Prior discussion on ridiculous ebike battery prices: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29562842

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