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by wheels 3y ago
I think with the references to "promoters" a few times it's clear you're talking about a different metric than I am. Clubs in Tirana and Zagreb feel gltizier, more what one would expect from Balkan clubbing (which obvio
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by wheels 3y ago
There wasn't actually a minimum wage back then. That was introduced in 2015 in Germany.
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by wheels 3y ago
Hate's not the right word. A lot of clubs have a community around them -- they have their regulars; people go there to see their friends. If there are too many tourists, there's less space for regulars. There are always some to
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by wheels 3y ago
I was trying to make a comparison to the €100 rooms from 20 years ago. That would be a single room in a 4-6 person shared flat. Those are still €500-ish. (In places just outside the ring like Treptow, Britz, Wedding, Lichtenberg.) In my
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by wheels 3y ago
Tourism definitely wasn't a major drag on the techno scene. There's always been the tourist clubs and the clubs that were more underground. Berliners usually don't go to Berlin's best known clubs. (Who the hell goes t
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by wheels 3y ago
Those are both options, but there is a third. There are international payroll companies that handle local taxes and compliance. They're not cheap (a couple hundred per employee per month, plus usually a base fee of $1-2k/month),
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by wheels 3y ago
Ditto. Price doubled while the service declined. Amazon used to offer a credit card in Germany that offered more cashback with Prime, and they pulled that too. I mostly only care about the fast shipping, and that doesn't seem to be
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by wheels 3y ago
> Something is clearly better than nothing. That's not a major component of venture backed startups. For a company that has already been written off as a failure, often the board members that represent the VC would rather not hav
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by wheels 3y ago
They're also common in Germany, particularly on the ground floor of apartments.
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by wheels 3y ago
Most of what humans talk about isn't science or religion, and to reduce the world to just that is pretty weird to say the least. Most things can't be resolved by appeals to objective truth. It sounds like you're working on
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by wheels 3y ago
Yeah, probably should have left the religion analogy out. It wasn't essential to the point you were making and was based on a false model of religion. There's actually a pretty complex matrix in religious disagreement with or wit
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by wheels 3y ago
And the 40% of the city that are Desi immigrants also enjoy that improvement? There were very nice things in the city 20 years ago (and all of the cities I listed); they just weren't available to a major chunk of the population. I&#x
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by wheels 3y ago
I stayed in the Al Bat'ha district when I was there, where there were virtually no short-term visitors (can't say "tourists" since Saudi Arabia didn't have tourist visas; I was speaking at a conference, but stayed f
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by wheels 3y ago
Romania is actually the least corrupt Balkan country (if one counts them as Balkan). In my experience, former east-block countries tend to have high corruption, but relatively good infrastructure and relatively low inequality. They'r
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by wheels 3y ago
Haven't been, but would have expected such from things I've heard. But corruption and inequality to a large extent vary independently. There's some correlation, but not as much as one might expect. Case in point: the Balka
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by wheels 3y ago
Nothing. To be clear, I wasn't talking about actual danger, as much as the felt gradients in rich and poor between the places, often in a small distance. And the gap between, say, the Infosys campus, and bits of Bangalore only a coup
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by wheels 3y ago
I think the counterintuitive thing about bringing up Brazilian cities here is that central Sao Paolo (where just the central part has about 3x the population of San Francisco) feels richer than San Francisco. And the favelas on the edges
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by wheels 3y ago
Yeah, was looking to see if this comment existed. Sao Paolo feels like one of the richest cities in the world surrounded by one of the poorest cities in the world. I've been to more than 50 countries and hundreds of big cities, and S
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by wheels 3y ago
Your point isn't completely invalid, but there are two major counterarguments: - Most land animals do fly. Most insects fly, and most land animals are insects. - Almost all (90%+) of animals live in the top 200 meters of the ocean. T
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by wheels 3y ago
That's not a good analogy. Trusting an LLM right now is more akin to trusting a compulsive liar. (Another approximation would be assuming historical fiction was true.) Humans usually try not to lie, and there's a particular shap
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by wheels 3y ago
There are a lot of data structures where doubling the size of the struct would be a big deal. I've worked on big graphs, where I used similar tricks, because most of the storage of a graph is pointers, and limits of what can be quickl
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by wheels 3y ago
Other people had already responded with what I'd have said. There was no need for me to chime in too.
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by wheels 3y ago
€200k is not a normal developer salary in Berlin. In fact, it's more like 3x a normal salary. It doesn't make sense applying Silicon Valley salaries to other places.
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by wheels 3y ago
Just to provide some counterpoint to this: I regularly go with my kids in the winter weekends, and aside from the Wellenbad ("wave pool") in Görlitzer Park, which had a plumbing problem once when I went, I've never run acros
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by wheels 3y ago
Normally I'd have the sense that I was seeing things in my periphery that weren't there. It was almost like having the fear that a deer was running into the road, except the deer was never there. It was distracting enough to be
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by wheels 3y ago
I'm from Texas but went to college in Michigan. I used to sometimes drive it straight through (20 hours, with stops every 6 hours for fuel, food and toilet). The times I'd stop were because I'd start hallucinating, not beca
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by wheels 3y ago
> One joined floor for the shower and rest of the bathroom is a weird non-North American thing that is absolutely wrong and I sure hope isn't catching on here. I live in Berlin. One of the two bathrooms in my new apartment (desig
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by wheels 3y ago
Since nobody's chimed in here from Germany yet: Germany's broadly a hold-out. Particularly a lot of restaurants, bars and clubs are still cash-only, and some smaller shops definitely prefer cash. Used cars are, interestingly, al
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by wheels 3y ago
This feels too dogmatic to be very useful. I'll ofter a softer version that I think everyone can agree to? - Don't mix rewriting code and adding features in the same commits - If you're squashing commits on a feature branch,
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by wheels 3y ago
I wonder how much of this is that ADHD is also linked with higher alcohol consumption, which is itself linked with higher dementia.

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