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That article makes to common error to only define spent fuel as nuclear waste - fuel is just a subset of that.
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Because nuclear waste is not just spent nuclear fuel: intermediate-level waste and some forms of high-level waste (reprocessing spent nuclear fuel seems to generate new waste) still need storage solutions. The Asse II scandal concerned the
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2y ago
r/Finanzen is the german subreddit for money. Like any subreddit it develops into something of a cult with its own culture and lingo, but it could be helpful.
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You're onto something: Very early blogs around the millennium where often build around very short paragraphs; not big articles. Take a look at these; if one squints those looked far more like later Twitter streams: https://
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2y ago
We take the typical blog url design (/2024/08/14/slug) for granted but back in the very early 2000s pretty much every blog tool had its own URL design. Matthew Thomas back then took an inventory: https://web.a
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2y ago
I remember when the whole OpenID/OAuth stuff started with a simple input field to login with your domain name. You could selfhost OpenID or delegate it from your homepage. Today "distributed login" is "login with you pre
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2y ago
If we only had databases and computers which can track and calculate those advanced math stuff.
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2y ago
Oh, yet another ActiveX.
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The term Mitteldeutschland has a far longer history going back to the 19th century - to define a different collection of region between the big Northern Germany (then prussian dominated) and Southern Germany (then Bavarian and partially Aus
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I spend some time working in a nursing home for the elderly. I never heard that.
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For the author the pandemic clearly was somewhat traumatizing – but even more the realization that the large parts world don’t share her view. https://youngvulgarian.medium.com/hunger-b71db12b8fd7 https://youngvu
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2y ago
The bills are voted in the law by the democratically elected Members of the European Parliament and the democratically elected governments in the Council of the European Union. (And the Commission itself often gets its mandate for writing b
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2y ago
Apropos Rome , there is the other semi-recent roman series, Spartacus , which obviously isn’t on the niveau of Rome , concentrating more on violence and nudity. But it did something very interesting with the language, making it through v
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I'm still using an iPhone 6s from 2015, with one battery replacement. Nominally I wanted to upgrade the last few years, at least since the 12 generation, but each time I couldn’t be bothered and found the prices rather high. Now I’m ag
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2y ago
There are multiple 3rd party window switchers, Witch is a popular one, afair: https://manytricks.com/witch/
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2y ago
Write an GDPR request … and wait.
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2y ago
Back in 1998 a German webtech forum installed its first forum software, if I remember correctly it was WWWBoard out of Matt's Script Archive. They soon got better software over time [1]. But something the community was and is sure abou
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2y ago
At its core a cathedral is just a church where the cathedra (the "throne" of a bishop) stands. Can be any size, take a look at Nin, Croatia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Cross,_Nin
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> > Next, making cloth and sewing it was a major time sink. > You don't have to make clothes all the time. They didn't care for "fast fashion" trends back then. And you can sew while socializing even. Bret Dever
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That is an untrue legend. In 1948 the accounts in Reichsmark, Rentenmark and Besatzungsmark were converted into Deutsche Mark accounts, although in different proportions. Cash was 100 RM to 6,50 DM, stocks in 1:1, other stuff in 10:1. The c
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KImageShop → Krayon → Krita, according to this article from 2009: https://krita.org/en/posts/2009/the-history-of-kimageshop-kr... I googled that because the "long dead German lawyer" in the op'
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I like menus for finding stuff I have not eaten and could be curious about. Taking my past preferences into consideration would be an antifeature.
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Would you’d like to share? The most analogue I can come up with would be ”Danke für Ihren Einkauf” – but that wouldn't be printed on an invoice. The only place where I can see such a sentence would be on thermoprinted receipts from POS
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Back in 2003 I bought my first Mac, an PowerBook 12" which I love(d). Nobody else I knew had a Mac, only a professor at my university. A few month later Apple released Mac OS X 10.3 „Panther“, to be sold still on DVDs in shrink-wrappe
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It isn’t even the European stars – the Flag of Europe always had 12 stars, whereas the embossing has 16 stars. “Ah, 16 stars, because Germany has 16 federal states”, you'd say at first thought. But while the German Red Cross organizati
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A then I seem to have misread. Sorry.
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If I remember correctly that was a result how the fallout was transported via the jetstream - and if it did rain, hence a rather non-uniform distribution. The first fallout cloud went from Ukraine over Poland to Scandinavia but it did not r
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Deja Vu: I wrote a comment here some days ago arguing that while Russian/Soviet influence certainly exists public opinion is majorly homegrown: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40331523 People from the anglosphere
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I find myself fascinated by the forged DRK invoice. At first glance it looks like the shitty desktop formatting common to 2001, its in a German two ring binder, crumpled and yellowed. But then there are multiple things which are obviously a
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In Germany the dot is the most used thousands separator. It is still a fake.
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