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by tjansen 4y ago
No experience of my own, as I am German, but there are idiots everywhere, including Germany. Before I start, I let me emphasize that I do not condone what I am going to describe, I am just describing it from my perspective. I think it'
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by tjansen 4y ago
It’s been a while since I played Titanfall, but I remember it as mostly ground-based FPS. This video gives you an impression of Tribes 2 fights: https://youtu.be/Kj6K_d6Zsuw There were also other roles you can’t see in the
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by tjansen 4y ago
Tribes 2 with modern graphics for modern platforms, and maybe an Apex Legends-like Battle Royale mode. I don't think that there has ever been a better multiplayer FPS. When you're used to jetpacks and skiing, most other FPS feel s
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by tjansen 4y ago
> those who will procure guns for illegal use will always have access That's true for criminals, but what about distressed students? I could imagine that increasing friction would at least result in less deadly weapons being used. S
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by tjansen 4y ago
Thank you, but it looks like this is not available on iOS.
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by tjansen 4y ago
Stations had a super-simple UI. You just start the app and the music starts. Only a single swipe was needed to change the station. It was perfect, especially in the car. The Spotify app is a mess. My stations are supposed to be in there, bu
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by tjansen 4y ago
They have also shut down Spotify Stations this week :( It was the best alternative for Pandora, which still isn't available in Europe.
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by tjansen 4y ago
All these costs are capped and not that important for higher salaries. Health insurance is only paid for the first 58k. The state pension, unemployment insurance etc do not increase for salaries over 85k. I would expect a good benefits pack
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by tjansen 4y ago
Cost of living in the US is weird. When I am in the US, I don't feel poor as long as I do what 'regular Europeans' are doing. I could go to Whole Foods and pay a small fortune for bread, but as long as I go to Aldi prices are
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by tjansen 4y ago
It also makes us Europeans feel underpaid :) I have 20 years of experience and don't even make six figures. $350000 base pay sounds like a different world.
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by tjansen 4y ago
I think people wearing masks for privacy are a very small minority. This is the first time I heard that. People I know just feel uneasy not to wear them, especially indoors, either thinking it will protect them or feel that it's the ri
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by tjansen 4y ago
Germany is currently a good testing ground for mask effectiveness. At the beginning of this month, the mask mandate has been dropped in most states, with some exceptions like public transport and hospitals. However, Mecklenburg Vorpommern a
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by tjansen 4y ago
The 6am data point shows you that simple overprovisioning is not sufficient. DE would have needed about 500 GW wind capacity to replace fossil fuels at 6am. At least without having any other backup.
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by tjansen 4y ago
"overprovisioning goes a far way already" Overprovisioning by how much? The installed capacity is over 60GW for wind and a bit under 60 GW for solar. This morning at 6 am, wind produced 3.9GW (6% of capacity) and solar 0.6GW (1%).
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by tjansen 4y ago
It doesn't really look like an Aldi, but Aldi Nord is selling products with under the Trader Joe label even in Germany! https://www.aldi-nord.de/sortiment/snacks-suessigkeiten/nues...
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by tjansen 5y ago
Maybe that's an idea for a product: find discussions on HN, Twitter, Reddit, FB etc about your blog post and embed them on the blog where you would usually see the comments. Not sure how big the market is, but...
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How to quickly end the war in Ukraine with $10 laser pointers(cringely.com)
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by tjansen 5y ago
I'm looking forward to buy a keyboard without 'Z' key.
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by tjansen 5y ago
I think Unikernels like NanoVMs ( https://nanos.org/ ) will become more important. They are more efficient and more secure than than full operating systems. Right now, I think there are no good monitoring solutions available
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by tjansen 5y ago
Robert X Cringely - Accidental Empires. After reading this I knew what I want, and actually joined a startup a few years later (only to see it fail in the 2000 dotcom crash).
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by tjansen 5y ago
These rates are somewhat useful if you have a flexible fossil backup, as wind and solar are not always available. If you are going 100% wind and solar, you need to factor in the cost of energy storage as well as efficiency of storage. Then
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by tjansen 5y ago
I don't think it sends much of a signal, because it has always been communicated that attacking a NATO member is the red line. That's why Ukraine wanted to join NATO. Attacking Ukraine, without crossing the red line, doesn't
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by tjansen 5y ago
I think even for Putin it's always a cost/benefits analysis. Obviously he wants Ukraine and is willing to pay a high price for it. But what's the price he's willing to pay for Poland or the Baltic states? The price for a
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by tjansen 5y ago
It's just the impression I have, comparing the Montessori school to other schools the neighbour's kids go to. Typically they had several video lessons per day, with tasks for the students in between. Of course it's not easy,
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by tjansen 5y ago
My oldest daughter is going to a public Montessori elementary school, and my youngest daughter will start this summer. To understand the following points, you need to know that German elementary school is grade 1 to 4, usually starting when
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by tjansen 5y ago
> Peertube is the opposite of centralized video hosting; it's a federation of nodes. Like a CDN? :)
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by tjansen 5y ago
I'd be careful with that study, since the insurance's CEO has supported anti-vaxxers in the past: https://twitter.com/AndreasShrugged/status/14965606694156902... (sorry, also only in German and not Googl
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by tjansen 5y ago
There was a referendum in 1991, and a huge majority (92%) voted for independence from Russia. This is a map showing the no-votes per region: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_independence_re... The Crimea r
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by tjansen 5y ago
I don't see how that would have either lowered Putin's desire to annex Ukraine or increased the cost of doing so.
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by tjansen 5y ago
How? Policies regarding Russia haven't changed. It started in the Schroeder-era.

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