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abliefern··on Some common geographic mental misplacements
That last one broke my brain, thanks
abliefern··on Random ScotRail Apology Generator
Thank God they differentiate between "A fire near the railway involving gas cylinders" and "A fire near the railway suspected to involve gas cylinders" how else would I be able to sleep at night.
abliefern··on On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage
I generally would agree that touristy city centers tend to feel similar to each other, be polished and therefore boring. However, your example of Hanoi couldn't be more hilariously misguided. Your characterisation of touristy areas ("places of quaint storefronts mobbed with American retirees, hip bars filled with plastered 25 year old Brits, and a few monuments with millions of Instagram posts. Despite being in very different cities, they all feel the same. You have your five star hotels. Your restaurants that everyone says you have to go to. Your buildings plastered with historic plaques") is completely off the mark. The old town of Hanoi is precisely where locals go in the evenings for a cheap beer on the streets - it doesn't get more typically Vietnamese than that. And the old town of Hanoi definitely does not feel the same as anywhere else, even just within South East Asia, Hanoi is known as a very special place.

Don't get me wrong, exploring other areas of Hanoi is a wonderful experience as well.

abliefern··on Alex Jones told to pay $965M damages to Sandy Hook victims' families
Five minutes of research shows that this isn't true and that he knew.

I'm not sure anyone is seriously attributing the conspiracy theory to him, they are attributing to him that he spread it, publicly attacking the families while making money doing so.

abliefern··on Wizz Air now charging some travellers a strange extra fee (2020)
Adblockers do that already. uBlock has special filter lists for that purpose.
abliefern··on Mullvad is now available on Amazon
The point is that typically privacy-first VPN providers promise not to store your IP but have to store your payment details for practical reasons.
abliefern··on Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom to introduce persistent user tracking
Well what the article is saying is that the ISP would also hand out data on your previous interactions with any other websites. Which is completely insane of course.
abliefern··on Elderly Florida couple killed after their Tesla crashes into semi
> deaths by people driving normal cars/normal cars on the road vs. deaths in automatic cars/automatic cars on the road, by the hour on the road

These are not qualitatively the same. Drivers have a lot of control over their individual accident rate, by driving more dangerously or more safely. I want to know if the automatic system is safer than me, not just safer than the average.

And to state the obvious: the appropriate regulatory reaction to a death caused by AI is not "charge on" but investigation and improvement.

abliefern··on I need to find an apartment
In Berlin, 100k will get you less than 20m2 somewhere on the outskirts of Spandau
abliefern··on TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack
How do you find these? I've given up on the app multiple times. Never got beyond being shown teenagers doing teenage things.
abliefern··on Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
Amazing, OP asks for help removing this information from the internet and you replicate it here for safekeeping.
abliefern··on Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
Differences matter. Details matter. Stop constructing false equivalence.
abliefern··on How the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel is being built [video]
The new train line is going to be 160km shorter while also allowing higher speeds. Trains between Hamburg and Copenhagen are projected to take less than 2:30h, down from 4:40h today.
abliefern··on The race to reconnect Tonga
It's in the article. About the diameter of a garden hose.
abliefern··on Sci-Hub statistics and database
The answer is right there on the page: the database covers >95% of publications among major publishers.
abliefern··on Peloton – A call for action [pdf]
Well sure that's what analysts at these funds do, continuously keeping a very close eye on portfolio companies. Also: entire teams of interns.
abliefern··on Mysterious aircraft spotted at Area 51 in satellite image
This is addressed in the article. This could be a standardized military hangar with the back wall put in but no roof tarp installed
abliefern··on Lighthouse Map
Then add it on open street maps, that's where this data is from.
abliefern··on Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'
> everyone knows that just because it says in the paper that a new gov't wants to do something does not mean they do it.

That's a common misconception. 80% of the commitments in the previous coalition agreement were fully or partially implemented:

https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/de/unsere-projekte/monit...

abliefern··on Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart
There's a large used market, especially for these super expensive sets. Many people will resell sets after having them on display for a few months or years. For some like me 90% of the enjoyment is in putting huge sets together, so it'll be sold on after just a few weeks. But even then, a few pieces being stuck together permanently doesn't matter much.

But there is a small monitory of people who absolutely do break up sets to add to their brick collection in order to build custom models.

abliefern··on Ask HN: Connect to the Internet the old way during next Ethiopian lockdown?
You've probably considered this but would it be an option to reach out to friends in the city who have satellite phones or work places with sat internet? Thinking NGO and foreign businesses.
abliefern··on Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords
> Instead of buying what they sold two decades ago for practically nothing, they should have built more supply.

"Instead"? It's not an either-or choice.

abliefern··on Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords
> spending public money on overpriced real estate

What gave you that idea? The transaction is explicitly budget neutral, this is entirely financed by loans that will be covered by rental income.

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