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It’s not! Currency fluctuations don’t allow for global trade. That’s why after WW2, the Bretton-Woods system was established with fixed exchange rates. After that came to its end, …

Electronic voting is a bad idea. Almost no upside, but lot of downside. Nobody can proof that the system works, nobody can keep it secure (noone cares about estionian elections, im…

For totally fungible assets (e.g. stocks) that’s true. Not so much for gas, where it is sold and bought with a regional restriction. Exchange rates are transparent to the market si…

Day to day? Not at all. Everything is denoted in EUR anyway and imports are hedged. Oil and gas are expensive, but the strong dollar isn’t the main factor.

Recognize that energy and utilities have both real value and real costs and discard the initial assumption.

On the contrary! Almost all books you buy are printed with ink. Companies buy ink for offset printing in bulk anyway and can use the same for jet printing. Ink is cheaper, faster a…

There was some communication (forum,discord) that this would change in the future. Apparently the plan was or is to hide the IP from pages on Cloudflare as well. But no idea if tha…

I can recommend the app ColdTurkey, if you use Mac or Windows. You can block sites permanently, in blocks or give yourself an allowance. It’s a lot tougher than /etc/hosts: Disabli…

I do use a smartphone, for calls, chats, camera, navigation and sometimes music. But I deactivated Safari and uninstalled all other distracting apps. I lived a few years without on…

Statement from Meta: Nothing in the valid warrants we received from local law enforcement in early June, prior to the Supreme Court decision, mentioned abortion. The warrants conce…

European stockbrokers may not lend out your shares. I don’t think US brokers do that either. Where are you from?

He may sound arrogant, but he’s not wrong. I imagine the difference in standard deviations is a good metric for cognitive distance. Mentally retarded people (-2) to ordinary people…

I think Spiegel and Telegram use different definitions of "user data" here: Telegram says with the E2E chats they had no data to share, but that only refers to the content of the c…

The growth of the internet may well compensate the decreased pricing of compute. Hosting Google of 1999 is much much cheaper now. But hosting contemporary Google ist much much more…

There are cities, rivers, companies, people named Massa in Europe. A people and it’s language in Africa. A unit in India… even in medicine: Massa lateralis. Using a TikTok trend in…

Loved it! Some chapters are sadly outdated by now, more than 20 years are a lot in this space :/

No. A "Privatverkauf" is tax free after one year. If you sell before that it is taxed as income. Crypto is never taxed as capital gains in Germany.

No it hasn’t, it never will, und you reveal yourself as an illiterate if you write that way. The exception may be „Eigennamen“, but only because strictly speaking there are no orth…