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> your landlord can tell you tomorrow than the next time your contract is up to renewal (usually yearly), the price will be 2x the current one and if you don't like that you have t…

Real estate prices all over the world have gone up as a consequence of zero-interest monetary policy. Berlin is still on the cheap end, so it's still attractive to buy there even n…

Like I said, there's a demand for affordable housing and in Berlin that means very affordable . Lots of students, lots of artistans, and also lots of unemployed people. > Either wa…

> This is a thinking that comes from the economic class you are in. I'm not in an economics class, I'm following local developments. > If they had zero opportunity in x country, th…

You can increase the rent up to 15% (Berlin) within three years, well above the rate of inflation. This forces some people to move out, as well. Rents in Berlin are a joke compared…

Affordable housing is actually quite scarce inside the city right now, people on average don't really earn that much. The rent controls had no actual effect on price increases. It …

What are you contradicting? You are supporting my point. You are sitting in NYC because you're not getting enough money in SF. High rents didn't make wages rise enough to make SF a…

> I'm explaining that the tax-cost can be a very cost-effective tax investment for the state, so it can be sensible policy, regardless of ideology. Not as cost-effective as simply …

Wages don't naturally rise just because rent is higher, if anything the converse is true. You'd end up paying 25$ for a coffee just so that the barista can afford their overpriced …

You're special pleading for those fleeing from war-torn countries. Your original argument however is that everyone should be able to move freely. There were migrants coming in from…

I'm sorry to break your bubble, but it's just not true. Let's take this apart: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/... Quote: "In other words, the typical G…

Meanwhile, if healthcare is profit-driven, suddenly it makes sense to recommend pointless treatments for revenue reasons. Obamacare is basically the worst of both worlds.

Hello from Germany. We effectively have "free" movement of people from Africa to Europe. Once they're ashore, we can't readily send them back. We also used to have movement from Ir…

In other words, the typical German was more likely to engage in crime than the average migrant. Sorry, but that's complete nonsense. The crime rate among immigrants (and their desc…

Counting in crimes like drug sales is misleading. Selling drugs is really just a business opportunity, albeit illegal. Native Germans tend to have much better opportunities and mor…

To a very good degree of approximation, nobody uses Sailfish OS. I'm not ruling out that there exist other pointless mobile operating systems with 0.0% market share that use Waylan…

>> By not treating Linux end user devices as first class citizens, I don't see how Nvidia intends to have a viable business long term. Who wants a tablet, phone or desktop GPU with…

Small providers pay the most for traffic to their ISPs, because they get smaller volume discounts. What Google/AWS/Azure charge is a different topic entirely, they themselves pay m…

I'm comparing just storage prices, because I have no idea how Sia works in terms of latency/bandwidth/access. Being distributed, I suppose it will fare worse in most (if not all) t…

I don't know how using Sia works in practice, but comparing it with regular S3, which is connected to the entire AWS ecosystem (including EC2), is absurd. Amazon S3 also offers "gl…

What I'm saying is that these are not actually big selling points for a general audience. I'm not saying it's not viable at all , but the distributed aspect alone requires a certai…

I believe the market right now tells you that people value neither redundancy (creating business for file recovery services) nor privacy all that much. They do value simplicity of …

>> Filecoin miners can do the same by (a) registering as service providers and (b) complying with blacklists and takedown notices as mandated by their legal jurisdiction. That woul…

Bittorrent at least has has much higher latency than a protocol like HTTP with simple auth. As for price, AWS has some of the cheapest operating costs due to scale, something which…

You're moving the goalpost. The article is referring to "Duale Ausbildung", which works as I described and has nothing to do with university education. "Duales Studium" in the mode…