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by woodpanel 2mo ago
Still, better than allowing actual players, which are idols and role models for many young men, to directly promote that filth on-air during and around a match.
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by woodpanel 2mo ago
> small-minded The mother of Karl Lagerfeld once told him that, yes, Hamburg is the „gateway to the world“ but you have to go through it. She meant, being willing to exit through it. One could argue, that this entails a selection bias in
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by woodpanel 2mo ago
Its not just tinyness and poorness of the countries – it is also the indifference of many nations. Just because, say Brunei has the same voice as France, it does not mean that the sport, or the national team's performance is important
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by woodpanel 2mo ago
The text of the law is fine. But then there is the application of it. And the jurisprudence, ie. the stubbornness with which courts are defending it. But anyways, we're not talking about free speech laws, we're talking about an as
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by woodpanel 2mo ago
Being from Hamburg I've heard that a lot. Too often, really, to not have an ounce of truth to it. OTOH there are barely inhabitants of the town who have any deeper roots there (ie. their grandparents grew up there), so I'd argue t
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by woodpanel 2mo ago
This is not a coincidence: City Planner Fritz Schumacher formulated the "Featherplan" [0], which outlay how the city would grow outwards while always maintaining common access to greenery, parks etc. As a result, many quarters of
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by woodpanel 2mo ago
DBeaver can also open/manage SQLite databases. I use it daily (although on a tiny page).
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by woodpanel 2mo ago
And people are wondering why being landlords is often such a bad investment. Imagine the lawsuit if you rent out an apartment that you own, and your „very intelligent“ tenant produces water leak damages, in a nyc high rise with potentially
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by woodpanel 2mo ago
> the one part I moved there for, namely the “freedom” part Being from Germany I wondered from day-one how the project's "freedom"-promise ( "We celebrate free culture, openness" ) would eventually work out, be
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by woodpanel 2mo ago
I think we're good https://www.instagram.com/ahh.gpt/reel/Da12ufvt69B/
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by woodpanel 2mo ago
You realize that food photography for decades essentially did the same thing? No Burger ever served at McDonalds has ever matched the looks of their advertising, nor is the actual prop-thing that was photographed remotely eatable. There exi
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by woodpanel 2mo ago
Most popular boys name, per place: - Warsaw: Nikodem - Oslo: Mohammad - Berlin and Brandenburg: Mohammed - England as a whole: Muhammad Mind you that the names top these lists in spite of usually being present in there in multiple spelling
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by woodpanel 3mo ago
Non-native speaker here: really really hard, never make it past 13/18
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by woodpanel 3mo ago
Honestly, that even highly educated people are complaining about a host country attaching bare minimums to handing out its citizenry (I.e. the right to vote, welfare) is all the more reason to attach them in the first place.
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by woodpanel 3mo ago
once, if ever, the plateauing happens. Until then there is going to be this gap. In other words, superintelligence often referred to as AGI might either be months away or just VC-Money induced cult-speak many fall victim to. It doesn’t matt
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by woodpanel 3mo ago
There is a always going to be the gap of what you can do with LLMs if you know how to code vs if you don’t
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by woodpanel 3mo ago
Kind of transgressive to go from „someone not being ok with something“ to „so that’s totally fine to hack them“.
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by woodpanel 3mo ago
> the French state owns 15% of Renault-Nissan "15% of a distressed key industry player" is a completely different ballgame than being an actual SOE, with insane amounts of subsidies let alone absense of any red-tape for these p
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by woodpanel 3mo ago
The scale is not even remotely comparable though to what China does
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by woodpanel 3mo ago
Granted, it seems inconsistent to treat Volvo different from Polestar. It might be just, that Volvo will get the Axe in a separate process, it might be sheer incompetence of the US admin, or it might be a deliberate negotiation tactic. But
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by woodpanel 3mo ago
It’s a typical holding structure. Mostly chosen in Germany to get tax-efficiency that’s on par internationally, ie for finding and selling shares to investors. > It's a cool legal structure No it’s not cool at all that you have to d
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by woodpanel 3mo ago
As AI makes it feasible to build good things with tiny teams I recently am finding myself repeatedly in discussions with friends about starting a business. It would be the first time in 20 years for me to be founding a GmbH. The thought of
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by woodpanel 3mo ago
Quick, somebody sent them American brothers and sisters some of those Covid era Chinese bodybag scaremongering videos, dubbing it „EurOpOoRs dying from heatwave“
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by woodpanel 3mo ago
No one absolutely no one considers that to be remotely true. Look at French banlieues, German Plattenbauten or British Councils - they are synonymous with Crime and physical as well as cultural despair. And while Vienna or Stockholm are oft
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by woodpanel 3mo ago
> it’s so diverse and humane Opened the page, first entry: „white supremacist dogwhistle“ One can’t make this much diversity and humaneness up. Yes, their frontpage overall seems normal and you probably meant well, but that this is their
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by woodpanel 4mo ago
> that very thing the reader is wondering about Don’t mistake your curiosity for everyone else’s
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by woodpanel 4mo ago
Exactly, it’s why tourists flock to Manhattan, while the city isn’t getting dominated by that industry. Your trip doesn’t outcompete locals, but the local economy makes it a rather expensive trip.
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by woodpanel 4mo ago
well a legend he is, if we are to believe what former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said about what the pardon was for: "one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes" he ever prosecuted as U.S. attorney.
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by woodpanel 4mo ago
Tax revenue, local jobs, and the possiblity for entrepreneurs to build businesses around that possibility of tourists leaving the premise. With all that being said, I still think that overreliance on tourism is bad for a place in principle.
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by woodpanel 4mo ago
Out of curiosity I’ve progressed away from Angular around 2018. My peak spa-ish reduxian state management experience was building an NgRX combo with @ngrx/effects for side effects. Till this day I remember this fondly as it gave me so

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