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It is my understanding that in German civil suits it's customary for the loser to pay the cost of the law suit, including lawyer's fees (which are usually coupled to the monetary v…

The thing is, kids are incredibly primed to recognise and cherish brands. I find it shocking, to be honest. They want a Paw Patrol figurine to emerge from the play-doh, for the mil…

Good idea. But judging by my son's behaviour he would just select the next video once the "boring" educational content starts :-(

> You can't practice treating crimes differently based on who the person is, even if they're cops. But isn't that common practice? Someone with prior convictions will get a harsher…

> Can anyone who has been using ZFS long-term at home comment? How do you add more space? My solution is to use RAID1 exclusively. That means that I can keep attaching pairs of dev…

> If you ask someone “Which do you think is safer: artificial vanilla or vanilla extract?” they’ll often prefer the “natural” one. This feels like an accidental trick question :-) …

> usually a more difficult path than gaming on Windows Just to speak against this notion (which absolutely used to be true, no contest there): anecdotally, I don't find that to be …

While you make a good point, the thing is that in my personal observation only the Chinese students (they were probably the largest group, which probably plays a role TBH) kept to …

Since I had kids, I haven't gone climbing natural rock. I still go to climbing gyms (mostly to boulder these days, for unrelated reasons), but not outside. I've discovered that I n…

You're right, I misremembered.

> Surely the copilot can look at a map (when I say map I don't mean a piece of paper -- I mean a digital one with GPS and everything) and see their trajectory while the pilot is la…

SEEKING WORK / remote preferred / based in Germany Experienced (10+ years) embedded software engineer with a mechanical engineering degree is looking for new projects. WHAT I CAN D…

Can't confirm.

> VDSL is certainly not a "dead end". 50Mbit is available in most of Germany, with 100Mbit slowly rolling out. Using increasingly involved techniques to get more speed out of a cen…

For your and any other readers' benefit: On Android, you might try using the app "reddit is fun". It requires no permissions and its style is delightfully basic and compact. It's m…

Absolutely seconded. Decent support for ZFS in general, especially during installation already. Ideally, ZFS root filesystem support (snapshot before upgrade, yay!). I've been usin…

> If you could Free-solo the same wall but with without (or greatly reduced) danger? [...] Does that somehow dampen the feeling of achievement when completed? I've pondered this. F…

I agree. This is why I prefer bouldering these days.

Backblaze b2?

SEEKING WORK / remote preferred / based in Germany Experienced (10+ years) embedded software engineer with a mechanical engineering degree is looking for new projects. WHAT I CAN D…

In 2016, Germany was a net exporter of electrical energy: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/153533/umfrag... However you're right that Germany was a net importer from …

Here's the link: http://www.tab-beim-bundestag.de/de/untersuchungen/u140.html It being a German government publication it's in German unfortunately. As far as I can tell from skimm…

> Wind most certainly isn't base load. The German government's scientific service, for one, disagrees with you.

Reddit as a whole, sure. The front page itself though? I don't know how others use it, but my frontpage is populated by my favourite subreddits, which are luckily mostly free of po…

>> Can we focus on renewables and stop trying to sell people hazardous waste that can last for millenia? > No one I know is opposed to renewable energy, but advocates really do eve…