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by sgift 7y ago
> In 2018, 36.5% of the newly registered cars in Germany were small or compact[0] To quote your first source: > Mehr als die Hälfte aller Neuzulassungen entfielen auf die Segmente Kompaktklasse (22,0 %), SUVs (18,3 %), Kleinwagen (14,
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by sgift 7y ago
Moore's law is dead right now. Maybe there will be a successor, maybe not, but at the moment one does well to not assume that we will get another free lunch of processing power soon.
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by sgift 7y ago
> No, no, and no. Cars are getting more and more efficient, and there are many affordable efficient cars today. Which people don't buy most of the time. By your explanation many people seem to be either rich or the price of cars (ov
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by sgift 7y ago
Oracles lawyers and Githubs lawyers then disagree cause Githubs CEO stated the same thing as the GP: They block people based on location, not on nationality. If you are banned but not in one of the banned locations you can fill out a form t
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by sgift 7y ago
> Turned out people are dependent on cars. And they really are, to a degree that cannot be satisfied by public transport. It turned out the taxes are not high enough. If people really were depended on cars, but were hurt by the high taxe
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by sgift 7y ago
When people stop buying it.
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by sgift 7y ago
The point is that it's usually pretty easy to say "here, I give you 15 categories, tell me 3 which are important to you" while "find the one most important" is not. The order between top picks is mostly arbitrary.
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by sgift 7y ago
> Only 15% of women ranked inclusion as a top priority, which is telling. The problem with top rank only is that the top spot is basically a dice roll between various things which are important for people. A "top 3" (or anothe
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by sgift 7y ago
> A programmer that is competent enough to write spamscripts is competent enough to work as a programmer. Only if competence were the only measure you'd need to get a job. In reality, there are various other factors like: Where one
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by sgift 7y ago
> I'd much rather work under a brilliant jerk than a hypocritical fool. Good news: There are people who are neither. I prefer to work for competent non-jerks. A team of good people will always outperform a brilliant jerk that drives
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by sgift 7y ago
Amazon is not a person, it's a company. Attributing moral to a transaction with non-person entities is frail itself. Does moral even apply here? What does it mean?
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by sgift 7y ago
Amazon is a professional seller, they should know better. Buyers are not professionals, they shouldn't have to. Depending on the country this is even enshrined in law (e.g. customer protection laws against accidental buying).
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by sgift 7y ago
Only the person who does the job can do the estimate. Estimation by third-party is no better than rolling a dice.
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by sgift 7y ago
And many as necessary to defend the way of life people enjoy in USA and comparable countries. Defense work = bad is not a universal position.
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by sgift 7y ago
Amusing. That's the data protection agency responsible for Schufa ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schufa ), which 15 of 16 German data protection agencies agree is breaking every relevant German data protection law.
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by sgift 7y ago
Yes, if we ignore all the other effects (e.g.: financing of organized crime, bringing people in contact with said organized crime) then sure, the prohibition was a sounding success. If we include all of these it doesn't look so great a
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by sgift 7y ago
> Because being homeless does not mean that you are suffering from mental issues. A relevant part of them do, or we wouldn't have this discussion. That all sounds like "we have good help systems for some homeless" at most,
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by sgift 7y ago
It sounds like the reason here is that unlike your home staying somewhere else has a pretty high chance of not being permanent. It's probably a good idea to not state "we have zero homelessness" and a month later people run a
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by sgift 7y ago
> actually demonstrably committed crimes Which obviously would never veer into "there was some crime .. it probably was this guy over there" "We have no real proof" "Yeah, but who needs that? Let's spin a fe
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by sgift 7y ago
> is there an obligation to give them housing in that city center, or even in the city limits? Obligation? No. A good idea? Yes. Support services are in cities, especially centers. Half of this comment page is full with "housing alo
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by sgift 7y ago
> was a retrospective on how it had gone wrong in notable cases. > highlighting that even sympathetic coverage thinks the approach is a mixed bag in practice. You mean "how a statistically non-significant number of cases lead to
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by sgift 7y ago
And even if you find one: If you only have sandpaper then sandpaper is still better then looking at the wood log and "sorry, I know this has to be worked on, but I don't have the right tools - and I know I probably won't get
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by sgift 7y ago
> The fact of the matter is that there is only one environmental problem here on earth, and that is an overabundance of humans. But saying that is taboo, even here on HN. Because it is wrong, or rather: Only correct if you say humans can
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by sgift 7y ago
Can you proof that they would have gone under without "letting go" of 20k people? The usual reason is "we need to look better to the stock market" and that's simply not a valid reason. The reality is that there&#x27
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by sgift 7y ago
> A lot of people don't realize how hard these things can be. Having nothing to do or only meaningless tasks makes you depressed really quickly. Having suffered it for 2 years, I think most people don't understand how difficult
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by sgift 7y ago
> Interestingly, this is one of my Dad's main complaints about unions these days: That our city trains great carpenters, but then they are recruited away to non-union areas. Why do they take the offers? I don't want to write an
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by sgift 7y ago
> And as CT scans are private information, why would you assume it would be Ok to make them available through a public server and send them over the internet? Encryption. A magical tool to make sure things are not available to anyone jus
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by sgift 7y ago
It is. Cars are by far the biggest danger to all other participants in traffic, including bicycles. There's a reason pedestrians have their own space separated from cars. Bikes have the same requirement, then we get drastically less ri
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by sgift 7y ago
> GraphQL parsing and interpretation is considerably slower than RESTful JSON. I'm talking an order of magnitude difference in .NET Core. Looks like an implementation problem. I couldn't measure a significant difference between
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If you don't ship it you don't know if it is good or bad.

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