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by skrause 8y ago
If stricter enforcement of jaywalking laws is required for self-driving cars to work, you can already forget about those cars in almost all other countries where jaywalking laws don't even exist and certainly won't be accepted in
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by skrause 8y ago
Podcast players without server-side crawling can get really annoying when you're subscribed to more than just a handful of feeds. When I was using Downcast on iOS refreshing all feeds took ages and a lot of traffic (some feeds with a l
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by skrause 8y ago
1.1.1.1 is a normal IP.
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by skrause 8y ago
> 2. I can get an MRI in the USA within 3-5 days (sometimes next day), virtually anywhere in the country. You can get that in Germany as well and don't even have to pay anything for it. And I'm speaking out of experience beca
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by skrause 9y ago
> no systemd, etc. systemd was very much inspired by macOS's launchd, they're very similar in many ways.
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by skrause 9y ago
You won't see .av1 file extensions, it will still be in a .mkv or .webm container.
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by skrause 9y ago
Fortunately in German we have two different words for "free as in freedom" ("frei") and "free as in free beer" ("kostenlos"), so it's completely unambiguous that the publishers were talking about
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by skrause 9y ago
At least pretty much everything that requires an invitation by another user is doomed to fail.
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by skrause 9y ago
Planes don't suddenly crash into a mountain because you have looked away for two seconds, there is much more time to react in case the autopilot doesn't behave correctly.
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by skrause 9y ago
I can understand why this comment was downvoted without any further context, but yes, the podcaster's name is Clemens Schrimpe and he probably mentioned that fact in the German podcast "Freak Show": https://freaksh
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by skrause 9y ago
A German podcaster who has been working on networks for decades once said that he owns a large chunk of public IP addresses in the 192.68.0.0/16 subnet and it's impossible for him to use it because once he activates it he basicall
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by skrause 9y ago
I wasn't addressing his argument because I actually agree. I was just pointing out that the 2% is far off in Europe.
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by skrause 9y ago
> 2 - Cards are an duopoly, layered onto an oligopoly. Cashless gives this system a 2% tax on all spending (+ fraud, which retailers pay for). Not in the European Union where this fee is capped to 0,3%.
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by skrause 9y ago
And you shouldn't care about noise anymore. When there's a constant stream of self-driving cars at 100 mph on the streets every single place in the city will sound like living next to a major highway. And no, electric engines won&
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by skrause 9y ago
They do on the German site: https://www.certcenter.de/company/imprint
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by skrause 9y ago
> a) bring out regulation gradually instead of in a single big change like GDPR to have companies time to comply GDPR wasn't announced yesterday. The time span between announcement and implementation date is over two years . Of c
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by skrause 9y ago
Just do it like the Germans where there are no more voting machines, just paper ballots, and you have the election result within a few hours. There is really no reason for voting machines at all.
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by skrause 9y ago
Well, other developed countries don't have so many homeless people, so that should be less of a problem there.
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European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannual clock change(breakingnews.ie)
306 points by skrause 9y ago|244 comments
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by skrause 9y ago
> I really don't know why Germans do this to themselves. It's not Germans that do this to themselves, it's people working in financial institutions. I work for a non-financial software company in Germany and nobody wears
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by skrause 9y ago
Seems like the wall of concrete has been replaced by a wall of parked cars.
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by skrause 9y ago
I think self-driving single passenger taxis will look more like the Renault Twizy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Twizy There's really no need that every car is a >1.5 ton vehicle that can fit 5 people o
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by skrause 9y ago
Here is a good overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_survei...
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by skrause 9y ago
Would that be a problem? I think CET is way too big anyway. UTC makes sense for Spain and maybe France, UTC+1 is a perfect fit for Germany and Poland could be UTC+2.
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by skrause 9y ago
> Let's keep it on summer time, having light at 4 pm is more valuable than at 4 am. The vast support for permanent summer-time makes me think that either a lot of people are early birds or people just don't understand that
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by skrause 9y ago
They already have: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15855081
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by skrause 9y ago
> No, it's the fault of the German authorities and the German culture. They've been pushing toward increased speech controls online since the Web became popular. Source? Because as a German I strongly disagree with that state
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by skrause 9y ago
How do cyclists and pedestrians fit into that? Is this your utopia? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/s-kdRdzxdZQ/maxresdefault.jpg
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by skrause 9y ago
Those are not required procedures, so obviously there is much more of a chance for a real market there. But you can't just compare that with e.g. ER or cancer treatment.
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by skrause 9y ago
> Health care costs have spiraled out of control because of the detachment of who is paying from who is receiving the service — much like higher education. No, they have spiralled out of control because health care is something where n

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