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Oral exams are --- at least partial -- a thing since "ever" in the german school system. Details matter, over here schooling belongs to culture, and the culture sector is in the ha…

> They’ll mention some pricey cities in Switzerland The thing is that these cities aren't pricy for swiss people, with a swiss pay-cheque (err, direct bank-to-bank money transmit).…

> and obviously wouldn't work in other countries It wouldn't work e.g. in Germany since here we don't have "home owners associations" that reduce the freedom of whole housing areas…

I think your argument starting with > For instance, you cannot use genetic studies to define a race is weak. For millennia we had phenomena that science couldn't describe. For many…

> And the education system is not the only thing that is down in the drain and worsening. Which is simply wrong --- or at least only true if you look at only part of the education …

The question is... what about the german culture do you know? Do you know the "functional" Brother Grimm's tales? Or the "dry" humor of Dieter Hallervorden if you're a bit older? (…

> I never got the German idea of humor. A lot of foreigners say that. Actually mostly english speaking ones. I never heard a turk say this. Perhaps it's linked to the willingness t…

And both have the 4 antenna 2 way MIMO, which not all chips / laptops support yet. And not even all routers. It's surprisingly complex actually.

This are however just records. E.g. "I still have a connection". These records aren't really usable in real-life, e.g. to view a movie. When it rains, or is foggy. Just mounting a …

Well, ham radio is an EXTREMELY diverse field. I mean, some people are using kilowatts and arrays of yagi antenna to transmit earth-moon-earth. Others are using minimal power (e.g.…

> amending the documents That is actually not so good. First, all constitutions that I know of have a process of change, e.g. 2/3 majority in parliament, or in 2 houses or somethin…

At least you can be sure that Germans won't "adopt" them, e.g. you can often read "the german architect Hundertwasser" or "the german author Kafka" :-/ On the other side: most clas…

> This push on every wall is pressure, and we will measure it in atmospheres, multiples of the ordinary pressure of the air around us. No, don't do that. Because the pressure of th…

Well, I don't agree that they have NO idea of what slop is. Basically everyone has some idea, see how often many different people here on HN comment "this is pure slop". Also your …

> There are some levels of censorship Except that here is no censorship to be seen. A censor was a state/government official that approved material before it was allowed to be publ…

The thing is that a society does not always do only ONE thing. You mentioned that there are better ways to protect kids. But maybe they cost more (e.g. banning firearms is dead che…

> I didn’t care to investigate further and > my best guess and > and presumably other things?) and > maybe there’s a bunch of Python code running inside a transaction Basically, th…

> Zigbee Requires no technical understanding. At least not more than e.g. a WIFI router. > devices randomly disconnect for hours even when they are 2ft from the coordinator, You pr…

> I think we should default to "information control is bad" I actually don't. I live in a country that was twice wholly or partially under a dictatorship (Germany, once "3rd Reich"…

Na, it's just that people these days aren't that educated anymore. A censor was a government employed entity where you had to present your text BEFORE you could publish it. Book, n…

As if that would matter. Heck, what is even "israel friendly"? No one speaks about "french friendly" or "lithuania friendly". In any case, you must first demonstrate that numbers f…

The thing is: today (!) there is no such thing as a "german critique on Pennsylvania Dutch". Most germans aren't even aware that such a thing exists. Also, this one citation is jus…

Na, there aren't "~350,000,000 of us". You are just assuming that the whole readership of Hacker News are US-citizens. I, for example, are from an EU country. So "there are 450,000…

It's really fun: I read so many propaganda on Lisp here that by now we should all be coding in it. Don't we get perhaps weekly posts like this? But ... somehow almost everyone simp…

CoCom was terminated in 1994 and is entirely irrelevant by now (IANAL and all that) What we have now is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement Fun fact 1: Switzerland …