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>Anyone that advocates for increasing democracy generally I find this take fascinating. In my model, increasing democracy correlates negatively with increasing long term planning, …

This just holds when you are b2b. If you’re serving end users, they don’t care about the contract, they care about their UX.

Not just FAANG! Smaller vendors are a very significant threat vector, too, precisely because they are smaller. More owners with smaller margins, looking to squeeze the last bit of …

[citation needed]

>Why isn’t there more central EU coordination in case there actually will be a gas shortage, and we need to divide the gas? Look no further than back to early Covid again, remember…

When covid hit, governments across Germany realized wait, we need videoconferencing for students! . For the prime ministers and their ministers of education, this meant they could …

This asserts that Russian aggression would transcend across NATO-borders. Is that a given? 1. Party Z invades Country U. 2. Continent C denounces the invasion of U and sanctions Z.…

I smugly commented "Dang" on one of the status updates on twitter and spent time with my girlfriend. Now HN is up again and I spend time consuming meta-content regarding the outage…

The US manages to be the reigning empire and a failed state at the same time. Internationally, it's the empire, internally, it's failed beyond repair.

fyi, I get a `page not found` for [3].

can't speak for op because I don't know what layout his country has. For Germany, vim is not usable beyond basic movements, because for example [ and ] have no dedicated keys. Typi…

My m1 air with us layout was shipped to Germany from Poland within one month, right after M1s were released. The US-layout is faily common in the EU among programmers etc.

"Charitable reading" is something I should definitely lean more towards. Out of habit I usually assume the worst, maybe I should reflect on that.

I simply wasn't sure what to make of your comment. I probably shouldn't have assumed the worst in the face of ambiguity. The sentiment that science needs to be newsworthy wrt actua…

The "news" are the findings of the paper. Not sure why beliefs should matter for the value of scientific work

>Roadworthiness or streetworthiness is a property or ability of a car, bus, truck or any kind of automobile to be in a suitable operating condition or meeting acceptable standards …

I am. Berlin and Germany are in a special relationship, I'll leave colorful elaborations to others :-)

I was told so from a credible source a couple years ago. What I can recall: legalisation would entail complex legal work, to a degree where that option is essentially not on the ta…

The SPD brands itself as social, pro worker, peaceful, pragmatic and economically-focused all at the same time. They woo young voters, while their core clientel is >65. They active…

advocatus diaboli: the FDP has a long track record of advocating for legalisation and then voting against it or abstain in parliamentary elections. Their core clientel are small bu…

Not with respect to the country as a whole. 'broad' is the key term in the sentence you quoted.

Wording: Germany will not legalise Cannabis. Maybe it will be decriminalized, but there is basically no chance of legalisation (too complex/expensive of a process). I have no reaso…

>people want to buy it, and people also want to sell it. That means there's a market and therefore a value to it for those people. People don't want to sell it, they have to , in o…

Scarcity isn't 100% important for value - leverage is. Leverage can be tied to scarcity, but doesn't have to, it all depends on the goods which are being exchanged. Artworks exist …