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Yes. Usually you tell the waiter the final round amount including tip you want to pay and then they start the card transaction with that. Paying in cash is still common at German r…

That's not a new question: what if you photograph a sculpture?

Nothing. An acquaintance of mine develops a third-party frontend explicitly marketed as a privacy-friendly alternative and actively looks at lots of user data (which includes the f…

It's clearly in the spirit of the law, namely Article 40 section 12 of the EU Digital Services Act: > Providers of very large online platforms or of very large online search engine…

The usual formal definition for the rational numbers is equivalence classes of pairs of integers . The zero is then the equivalence class of (0, 1) which is not the same as the int…

In buildings with differently owned apartments it's required but in theory (and in some places in practice) you could also setup multiple buildings on a common plot of land with on…

In Germany there is the in some - but not all - aspects similar concept of WEG (Wohneigentumsgemeinschaft).

I can't think of a single example of a former FH having rebranded to "Universität". The closest I can think of is the incorporation of FH Lausitz into BTU Cottbus. In any case, the…

Do we know for a fact that the operators didn't run file hosters as well with links to those hosters being preferred? Because that was the business model of their predecessor.

In Germany, the protected title Ingenieur is still around but most bachelor degrees in a technical field grant you the right to use it. Whether or not you are one doesn't change th…

Yes, it's an EU-wide legal requirement (directive 98/6/EC on consumer protection in the indication of the prices of products offered to consumers).

You have to cleanly separate personal and company taxes. If the managing director makes significant decisions (as in forming the will, not as in executing) while on German soil, th…

A commented translation is available under the title Pythagoras. Legende - Lehre - Lebensgestaltung as a book and as open access here: https://rep.adw-goe.de/handle/11858/00-001S-0…

It's perfectly legal (and common) for a decade now to scan documents and destroy the paper original as long as you follow some guidelines. Keyword is "ersetzendes Scannen". And yes…

Yes, this is correct. All accidents, no matter how minor, have to be documented and the documentation kept for 5 years though.

You already agree to buy such an ticket (at the "erhöhtes Beförderungsentgelt" price) but there is no way to avoid a criminal law specifically designed for that situation by just c…

The linked tender is mostly not about marketing. They tendered basically a pretty large travel agency. Eurail is surely not just a intermediary here. They are in the business of se…

The usual method is by SEPA direct debit (initiated by Paypal) but you can use a SEPA transfer as well to top up your Paypal balance and pay with that.

According to the Bundesbank, Paypal is the most used online payment type in Germany with almost every second transaction using it.

Employees in high salary groups can opt to get a "NetzCard" which allows unlimited travel in all DB operated trains. High management gets a real BahnCard 100 for them and a second …

The monthly payment option is discontinued, you can now only get it by paying a lump sum of 4339 € for a whole year.

But you can (and there are many), it's just called "Beitrag" instead of "Steuer" with the only difference being exactly the binding to a purpose.

My mother would not be able to keep her private key secure.