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If I ask Siri on my iPhone "What time is it in London?" here in Germany, it replies with the time of London, England.

Well, I can tell the Netflix CEO why they have lost me as a subscriber: - Their original content is not terribly appealing to me. - They lack much of the content I want to watch (a…

The first season of Fullmetal Panic was produced by Gonzo. While not bad, the (animation) quality noticeably increased after Kyoto Animation took over. Definitely a great show.

You can do this easily with the json_tree function from SQLite's JSON1 extension. It's given as an example in the documentation: https://sqlite.org/json1.html#jtree SELECT big.rowi…

The super-complicated LIFO example is, unfortunately, a contrived example: “Ich stimme dem Maler, der die Meinung, dass Rot keine Farbe ist, vertritt, zu.” This sentence can be rew…

I guess that depends on your reasons. I took them to treat my depression after reading about patients being given psilocybin in a clinical setting. For me it was absolutely worth i…

So, hypothetically of course, if Microsoft subtly let the new Mayor Dieter Reiter know that they will only build their new headquarter in Munich if Windows was to replace LiMux, th…

It's not clear-cut in the sense that Munich's IT landscape was and is fragmented which made and makes it very easy to blame IT problems on LiMux. But that doesn't make me believe e…

May be of further interest to German-speaking folks in Munich: there will be a discussion about LiMux on 11th June with former Munich mayor Christian Ude and others. https://www.gr…

> What I noticed in Germany though, is that many store clerks insist on taking your card... That's a service. You'd be surprised how many people are unable to insert the card into …

FAZ, like many other German newspapers and magazines, uses ad-blocker blocking. Disable scripts for the site and it works.

> instead of just going to a shop, I now need to go to a bank, and then to a shop - I mean that's pretty obviously and undeniably less convenient for a start On my way to work, bef…

Yes, you could think that old folks are one of the problems, but the extent seems vastly overrated if you look at the most recent study published by Germany's Federal Reserve Bank:…

That's not surprising. Transaction costs for credit card payments in Germany are higher (2 to 4 percent) than for electronic cash payments (0.3 to 0.95 percent). It's simply not fe…

How exactly is it inconvenient? I can't really think of anything. For example, proponents of cashless payments often like to claim that paying with cash takes more time than paying…

Here’s a short video about the Tokyo Metro which shows in a nutshell why Japanese trains are pretty much always on time: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_rtxm30NULU

Usually HyperDia covers these cases with different companies using the same tracks. It never has misdirected me so far. http://www.hyperdia.com/en