Did they ban car alarms?
I honestly can't remember the last time I heard a car alarm going off for seemingly no reason. I live in a car choked European town.
Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers
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Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers
#142I live in a very leafy area with a lot of deciduous forest cover, so we're no stranger to leaves. I have never understood leafblowing. It seems like such busy work. It's not hugely common here but I have seen people carefully shepherding leaves into little piles on pathways, battling against the entropy of a light breeze. I'm sure there's a good reason but it always just seems like the ultimate expression of man tryi…
They ruin the look of the lawn you have put 1,000 hours of work into this season.
Well maybe that's the issue, I don't spend 1000 hours on my lawn
Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers
#143I live in a very leafy area with a lot of deciduous forest cover, so we're no stranger to leaves. I have never understood leafblowing. It seems like such busy work. It's not hugely common here but I have seen people carefully shepherding leaves into little piles on pathways, battling against the entropy of a light breeze. I'm sure there's a good reason but it always just seems like the ultimate expression of man tryi…
Raking requires more back work and they are moving the leaves onto the street for collection. But some people seem to get obsessed with it and do it almost every day instead of the minimum number of times required to accomplish the purpose. Around here if you simply let the leaves stay on your lawn you’re going to have a moldy mess and dead grass the next spring.
Grass can survive leaves, I don't see dead patches on my lawn because I didn't move the leaves around
Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
Raking requires more back work and they are moving the leaves onto the street for collection. But some people seem to get obsessed with it and do it almost every day instead of the minimum number of times required to accomplish the purpose. Around here if you simply let the leaves stay on your lawn you’re going to have a moldy mess and dead grass the next spring.
Grass can survive leaves, I don't see dead patches on my lawn because I didn't move the leaves around
I have the opposite anecdote. I left a lot of leaves on our lawn last winter (by pure laziness) and it definitely damaged the lawn. Edit: it was a rather young lawn, I guess (less than 2 years).
Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Raking requires more back work and they are moving the leaves onto the street for collection. But some people seem to get obsessed with it and do it almost every day instead of the minimum number of times required to accomplish the purpose. Around here if you simply let the leaves stay on your lawn you’re going to have a moldy mess and dead grass the next spring.
Grass can survive leaves, I don't see dead patches on my lawn because I didn't move the leaves around
This is directly contradicted by a lifetime of witnessing dead grass under regions of leaves which were missed the previous fall.
Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is that why some YouTubers started to make ads for a "sue your motorcycle speeding tickets invalid" company as if this is really working, because it is? Germany has such a specific way of making laws with holes.
I'm not so sure that's actually true, because when you get a speeding ticket, the owner absolutely is fined. He has a right to identify the driver or just take it on himself.
The owner also has the right to refuse saying anything, in which case it is on the police to prove who the driver was. For cars, that's usually easy, because they just compare the ticket photo to your drivers license photo or passport photo on file. For motorcycles, the ticket photo is usually useless, so if the owner refuses to identify himself or someone else, and the police cannot prove anything, the motorcycle owner goes unticketed.
Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
While Zurich is definitely an important IT hub, but "Bay Area of Europe" stretches things a lot.
Name one other place on the continent that has: 1) At least token engineering presence by every major tech company 2) Tech-savvy VC, legal, audit and tax services you can get on a short notice 3) A pool of talent to fill any engineering position 4) A funnel from a big engineering university to the industry that generates startups 5) Tax authorities willing to work through complicated situations like acquihires, IP ri…
Berlin?
>>A pool of talent to fill any engineering position
Is it true for Zurich? Due to extremely high cost of living I guess there is small amount of unemployed IT people there.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Name one other place on the continent that has: 1) At least token engineering presence by every major tech company 2) Tech-savvy VC, legal, audit and tax services you can get on a short notice 3) A pool of talent to fill any engineering position 4) A funnel from a big engineering university to the industry that generates startups 5) Tax authorities willing to work through complicated situations like acquihires, IP ri…
Dublin competes on almost all these bullets, except maybe #4, even though there are a few universities in the area with prestige.
I’ve done hiring in tech, and the availability of broad spectrum talent in Europe really only exists in London and Zurich. There are hubs for different fields, but only those two places have everything, IME.
Re: Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Name one other place on the continent that has: 1) At least token engineering presence by every major tech company 2) Tech-savvy VC, legal, audit and tax services you can get on a short notice 3) A pool of talent to fill any engineering position 4) A funnel from a big engineering university to the industry that generates startups 5) Tax authorities willing to work through complicated situations like acquihires, IP ri…
Berlin? >>A pool of talent to fill any engineering position Is it true for Zurich? Due to extremely high cost of living I guess there is small amount of unemployed IT people there.
Berlin’s tech industry is to Zurich and London as Berlin’s art scene is to New York or Paris.
And yes, Switzerland, but especially Zurich, is on another level compared to the rest of Europe. (Except maybe London.) I’ve been a hiring manager at multiple large tech companies: Europe in general has less tech talent than the US, but in London and Zurich you can fill any role, from kernel, through ML, computer vision, hardware, manufacturing, robots, quantum computing, etc.