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If Germany is a "corrupt country", than what‘s the rest of Europe?: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/koyyv5/european_pub...

That is not the case. Otherwise, with regards to the war in Ukraine, Germany wouldn’t get this singled out when it comes to criticism. In fact, one of the biggest domestic criticis…

The whole argument hinges on the claim that 35% of electricity in Germany is generated by gas. This seems very high and I couldn‘t find a source for this claim in the article. Acco…

In 2021, Germany got 55% of its gas from Russia (the rest from other European countries). Depending on how much overall consumption can be reduced, European suppliers might be able…

Previous discussion from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22247292

>As of October 2020 Tesla comprised 18% of 2020's global market [1]. Still the clear leader, and almost the only contender in the US, but globally other automakers are threatening …

This article is very US-centric and self congratulatory. The vaccine is called BNT162b2, because it was fundamentally developed at Biontech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tozinamer…

Thank you for the correction. I trusted a news article without carefully reading the source myself. My bad. I added a different survey.

Edit: Someone corrected me, I quoted the survey wrong. But here‘s another source (YouGov survey, 2012), saying that 43% had a real tree and 17% an artificial one: https://statistik…

I went through this today. In German there‘s a really great Podcast „Coronavirus-Update“: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/podcast4684.html 30 min/weekday a science journalist t…

Very neat design, but there are highly advanced toasters nowadays. There just doesn‘t seem a market for them in the West (yet?). Bloomberg recently covered high-end Japanese toaste…

If you google gates belt drive snapped you‘ll find plenty of anecdata of belts lasting only a couple thousand kilometers (and others who ride them for tens of thousands of kilomete…

Another disadvantage is repairability. If your chain snaps you can fix it with a quick link or a pin and a little multitool with chain tool functionality. If your belt snaps you‘re…

Do you have an accent (preferably from the Anglosphere) that gives you away as an expat? The stigma (at least in Germany) basically doesn‘t apply to native English speakers (or at …

>I'd imagine having kids will have a similar effect (probably 100x stronger). Sure, but putting the burden of existence on another human to alleviate one‘s existential pain doesn‘t…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial... In 1999, Enercon, a German company and leading manufacturer of wind energy equipment, developed a breakthrough gener…

>I definitely don't want to mess them up too much You‘re actively trying to get other people to boycott them, which would eventually put them out of business. It‘s the first time I…

Genital mutalation of a child is fine (assuming here it wasn‘t a medical necessity. Maybe it was in this case, hence why I didn‘t downvote), but taking a completely non-sexual phot…

Here are the labor costs compared to other nations from '00 to '11: https://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imageca... They might've grown above EU average since then,…

No, for a long time Germany was the only significant solar market in the world. German tax payers and individuals spent billions when it was still far from economical, jump startin…

Close to another 100!: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/elon-musk-goals/ The proportion of time Musk devotes to each company is derived from a description he gave at Tesla’s annu…

It doesn't stop at the German border, though. And if you look at this map, the distinction between S and N is much less clear: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gross_domes…

DHL has been operating Packstationen in Germany since 2001: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation >There are 3,000 Packstation machines in Germany[1] and 90 percent of the pe…

Sorry for questioning the legitimacy of your revenue claim, but according to Similarweb your site gets less than 5000 visitors a month. [1] Alexa's estimates seem similar, putting …