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> Ask Grandma whether she needs a chemical engineering degree to bake apple pie. Grandma doesn't bake with "common sense", she is using the specialized knowledge of cooking & bakin…

Yes, it can. Many public services in Germany are legally private companies, which just happen to be owned by public entities. Main reason seems to be that they can act more flexibl…

I think the main problem is to see Berlin as a city. Even the official city is more a bunch of divided, but connected middle-sized cities. For example, the City Berlin has ~3.7 Mil…

> a lot of German natives complain and some are even leaving the country (around 100k left last year) It's actually 300k, but 200k also returned. The "funny" part is, there is even…

The plans also include that you have to have some relevant personal relation with the data. This will make it unlikely that an NGO can just request any random data under their staf…

Yes, it's his job now doing this. But as long as he doesn't directly say it, we can only assume his personal motivation for taking this job and making this proposal, as also the mo…

The problem is not to restrict it to German citizens, but removing it for everything which is not a citizen, like civil rights organizations, environment organizations, and everyon…

Rumour goes that too many high ranking fraudulent CDU-politicians were exposed with this (Philipp Amthor and Jens Spahn for example).

I don't use threads, because people in my business are very active in sending the whole history in EACH mail, and others communications have a web-frontend. But if you need threadi…

Thunderbird has a folder-based organization, so out of the box can it only group mails per folder. What you want is a GMail-view/organization, where all mails are in one folder. Bu…

We do have some degree of it, but it's more on the realistic side of performance. The remaining body has to handle them after all, so it's hard to enhance performance beyond human …

The focus being here: community. Gaming is an option, not the sole purpose, and community is always adding games to everything, but that's not the designers fault.

Cyberpunk specifically has also been outdated fast by real world developments, and other genres emerging with similar topics, but different design(?)-language. The whole cyberspace…

> If upvotes alone mattered I did not say upvotes alone matter, but they should be the final say after all other mechanisms. > The bar is whether "good hackers" would find this int…

Death notices of famous artists are regularly on HN. If people upvote it, it should be worthy.

RIP legend. I'm curious now when this was announced. Yesterday, out of nowhere, TikTok showed me a video about someone praising "Total Eclipse of the Heart", despite not having thi…

Can this be a necessary legal framing for technical purposes, to allow converting of pictures to different resolutions, or adapt the content to mobile views, and such things?

> I actually don't even think the US should have given the internet to the world. Then European countries would have continued using their own networks. > It's basically been one g…

EU can live fine without US cloud services, and it's not very dependent on AI at the moment. If access would be cut off, companies would just switch to other solutions, which BTW a…

They track what you lend, not what you read. Many people just read on location.

Maybe, that's why they want Greenland so bad. Low temperature, many free spaces, no significant nature and if there is one, not enough citizen who can complain. And if they still n…

Policies change or have subtle context-specific details. Even after 7 years, people can lack basic knowledge for certain situations.

> But on the last day they announced that they were moving the day-to-day conversations from IRC (an open protocol) to Yahoo Messenger (a closed protocol). IIRC they had a partners…