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Believe me, there are worse topics. The best way to get yelled at or down-voted on HN is having a basic understanding of how EU regulations and the EU legislative process work.

You are comparing the best the US has to offer with the standard for European employees. Here in Germany, you have health insurance, no student debt, multi-month paid maternity/pat…

Pickup trucks indeed have their advantages over the vehicles I listed. However, I would disagree somewhat regarding where the advantages are. I'd say that the vehicles I listed and…

Given the use case you describe, a Citroën Jumpy would probably be the most sensible car: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_Jumpy If you want a car that looks slightly bet…

> The article claims that they're doing it to protect themselves from future lawsuits, not as "revenge": Then the article is disingenuous, because the same copyright period and lia…

I'd like to point out two things regarding the size of Frankfurt. Frankfurt is no London and no Paris, this is clear. However, that's also related to the way in which Germany as a …

I'd say that the explanation is actually less contentious than it might seem. He has mastered the art of going viral. Right now, even the people that hate him are promoting him by …

Drain it. Seriously. Any other response is either unrealistically expensive/complicated or reckless. Sure, the Italian company could maintain it if they aren't attacked by ISIS, bu…

You don't even need humans for safety features to become a problem: Every day, I drive on a road that goes through the German woods. The road is barely wide enough for two average-…

It is easy to lie to oneself that sleeping less is great if the activities done throughout the day are interesting. However, if all that added time is used for mind-numbing tasks, …

It also used to be about retaining mobility once you get old. When you can't run around outside for more than a few minutes and can't ride a bike any more, a car becomes you sole c…

I actually teach a German course to a group of recognized refugees, including Syrians and Eritreans. From what I've seen, the ability to handle the culture shock varies wildly from…

I do the same with the added twist of using another browser for Facebook. That way, the tracking via the ubiquitous buttons doesn't work and the barrier for "just checking Facebook…

> no one's forcing you to be connected Well, from my experience, that is simply not true. I held out until December of 2014 before joining Facebook. Before then I found (and still …

As far as I know, the NOX problems that were masked by the VW software cheating are not the kind of problems that everybody driving behind the car in question can smell. As somebod…

They closed down due to financial reasons[1], this has literally nothing to do with immigration or HN. [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2015/08/31/le-gorafi-fini-site-...

If that is the case, then it really doesn't belong to HN. In the background information it says that they closed down due to financial reasons. There is no free speech angle here. …

Here's some info that might be interesting to you, altbeit it is not helpful for the original poster: I used to work at GSI (center for heavy ion research in Germany) and the heavy…

Also, what about Slashdot? The Jargon file? Usenet? I've been on the Internet since the mid-90s and have purposefully avoided 4chan since I first heared of it. At no point has it b…

This thread reads more like reddit than it does like HN. So probably somebody behind the scenes sent it on its path downwards. Might even be the right thing to do, since the whole …

I think I have a plausible explanation (please beware, this is 100% conjecture). Hypothesis 1: Jackson's AMA went badly, he/his team was specifically pissed at Victoria and demande…

Well then consider yourself lucky that your favourite subreddits weren't targets. I spend way too much time on reddit and I have had to retreat from a few subreddits because of the…

Wait. Shouldn't a more dense city mean more usage of public transportation? Because a) the financial viability of public transportation increases with population density and b) mor…

Amen. I'm currently walking around telling fellow parents that "The kids are better with computers than we are" was a transient phase and is not the case any more at all. Many of u…

Honestly, this is not a thing exclusive to governments. I wonder what would have been different, had this been a FIFA event. I guess they probably would have sued her parents on to…