eulenteufel's comments

I don't know how it's done in the USA, but in Germany voting by post has to be carried out before the day of the election. The actual postal votes are stored and only opened on the day of the election. After somebody send in their postal vote they can go to the public voting office and declare to invalidate their postal vote. The people counting the postal votes will get a list with invalidated votes and remove these envelopes before the votes are opened. The person who invalidated can then either do another postal vote or vote at the ballot box.

So in Germany postal voting is secured against selling votes.

You (kind of) can by now. Killing male chickens after hatching is outlawed in Germany since the beginning of this year. From [1] it reads like Germany subsised research into preselecting female eggs and only hatching these ones. This is still killing male chickens in some way, but arguably less gruesome than how the industry has dealt with male chickens before.

[1] https://www-bmel-de.translate.goog/DE/themen/tiere/tierschut...

I'm registered on a mastodon instance and I find it quite nice and not at all a dumpster fire.

If you're a conservative or so you will probably have a hard time finding an instace you feel at home at, but the defederation of mastodon instances from instances that allow hate speech, racism, homophobia, etc. are precisely what prevents it from being a dumpster fire.

The Fediverse is not without issues but I think it is an example of fuctioning decentralized social media.

> it's a federal republic rather than a democracy...

Germany is both a federal republic and a democracy and I would argue the the USA are too. Both countries ultimatively derive their legislation from the general populace and are representative democracies.

I've seen the claim you made several times, but every time I try to look it up I fail to understand it.

What is your reason to think a federal republic would exclude democracy?

> Tested by Experts is obviously clickbait; nobody's going to say [Tested by novices].

Nobody would write [Tested by novices] into their headline, but leaving out the part in the brackets would leave it open if it was tested by experts or novices. So in this case the removed bit does provide some information.

About 2/3 to go, whew, that's still a lot of work to do.

I thought I wanted dictionaries with dot notation for a while. After some time I realized I didn't care about dictionary features like iterating over keys at all, I just needed a namespace.

`from types import SimpleNamespace` works for me.

Of course I don't want to say that there's no need for box, just that it's good to consider if you're actually looking for a dictionary.

In a lot of places in Germany public transport was only restricted to using N95 masks. This summer in Berlin all the stores required N95 masks, as did universities. They have relaxed the rules since then and you can see in the recent infection statistics how that worked out for them.

I've tried to learn nix and tried to read various documentation. The problem was that there was always a piece of information missing. That was until I've found the nix pills which are a pretty good and structured introduction on people interested in building packages with nix.

The website respects DNT and informs the user with a small popup that disappears automatically. What a joy! The web could be such a nice place if it was like this everywhere.

Which is exactly the reason most children conform to the "normal" gender stereotypes.

The East German stasi absolutely did turn a lot of normal non-spy people into snitches.

For what it's worth DW is not allowed to broadcast in Germany and therefore relatively unknown amongst Germans.

Apple doesn't have that capabilty though. There are countless ways to get copyrighted material on your phone that are perfectly legal. Apple would have to be able to decide if you're legally owning your files. With how the IP system works currently that's impossible. For CSAM this isn't a problem because we assume that there is no legitimate way to have CSAM files on your phone.

The comment is neither dishonest nor misleading. It is a fact that many people living in dense areas live a normal live without owning a car. GP was just responding to the problem of transporting large objects without owning a car and correctly stating that there is some amount of people getting by without car in the Netherlands. The solution is of course to just rent a transportation car for a few hours when you need it.

I live in a high density area (Berlin) myself with 1.4 Million cars on 3.6 Million cars. Obviously living in Berlin without a car is possible without much hassle for lots of people. Claiming that doesn't mean that nobody in Berlin needs a car. But because most of the 3.6 Million Berliners manage to move and transport furniture sometimes, we can conclude that they definitely do not need it to transport their Ikea purchase.

It's the German state broadcasting agency producing content in many languages for Germans abroad and an international audience. For anti-propaganda reasons they are not allowed to broadcast in Germany. This is in contrast with the German public broadcasting agencies which have a compulsory fee, but are not directly paid by the state. DW have some really good and interesting reporting off the mainstream but should be consumed with care as they are effectively controlled by the German state. Recently they are set to become a sort of counter to Russia Today meant to counter fake news. A friend of mine works at DW and frequently rants about higher-ups revising or canceling reporting because it doesn't fit the desired angle.

> With cash, we don't know who is using the 100 dollar bill today

Some CBDCs like GNU Taler also have that property. Tokens are signed with blind signatures so the exchange doesn't know the identifier of the tokens you got, just how much of it gave you.

This is just a personal anecdote:

In my puberty I had a strong feeling of rather being a girl and this caused significant mental anguish and some self harm. If had known as much about transgender people back then as I do know I would have likely transitioned then.

Today I'm pretty okay with being a man. I still sometimes have problems with it but not in the same order of magnitude.

From these personal experiences I think it is plausible that more people transition because more people are aware of the possibility and knowing other trans people in their age. I have no idea how big that group is however.

The analogy with the useless tree breaks down because gemini still has to be useful to some people. I can understand the tree living as an end in itself, less so for a web protocol. Gemini has a mission and if it's usage is too restricted it will barely be a safe space for anybody because barely anybody will be using it.

It's a tradeoff and I can't judge if gemini got it right, but gemini obviously still wants to be useful in similar aspects in which it wants to be useless enough.

>incredibly unethical to create something similar your previous employer's IP and market it independently.

Can you explain why you think it is unethical? Provided no noncompete clauses or other previous agreements were violated.