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I have, but there is a new tenant moving in right after me so there's not much she can do. She offered to store my stuff in the garage for as long as needed thankfully.

Not well, sadly. Trying to stay distracted but all that’s happened to me feels like the perfect storm.

Signed a new contract in January and was supposed to start in April, moving countries. Now my flight is canceled and even if it weren’t I’d be unable to enter the country since all visas have been voided. Moving company canceled on me (no money back also, claiming force majeure). Have to leave my apartment by the end of the month and have absolutely no idea what to do. My family is in another different country as well but it currently seems impossible to get me and my belongings there. Have little savings and after a month in a motel I’d be broke :(

Here's one from Regensburg (Bavaria), AFAIK a compromise between the city (they wanted no modern branding at all) and McDonalds.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/McDonald...

"At the golden M"

Export is not "only possible" due to the Bretton Woods system, and the rest of your thoughts on exports are just pure unfounded speculation. Germany makes sought-after goods and will continue to do so for all of our lifetimes. They will export and sell them one way or another. Of course there will be ups and downs, but really drastic changes? I highly doubt it, even if the Euro(zone) were to implode, which is looking increasingly unlikely.

Post war Germany has never had significant youth unemployment, and worries about "riots and social upheaval" because of that unemployment? That's a pretty outrageous claim.

Not sure why the overall population matters here. Bicycle trips typically do not cover large distances in cities, that's what public transport is for. And when it comes to density, Paris has twice the density of NYC and still has cycling infrastructure that is in a whole different league than that of NYC. NYC could in fact do much much better.

Useless for Germany, since it apparently doesn't have data for states, counties or cities, all of which can (and do) have different public holidays in Germany. I'm sure there's more countries where this means the data is incorrect.

From personal experience I can say that I am certain that both Dieter Zetsche and Harald Krüger know more about basically every aspect of producing cars than Elon Musk ever will. Both are very much hands-on people and have 3-4 decades of experience.

It’s not publicly known who owns how much of FlixBus. It has been reported that General Atlantic holds 35%, but Daimler, Holtzbrinck and the founders most likely hold a significant amount as well.

Pretty much anything in the US is easy. Try Indian cities, Italian villages or the Russian countryside. I’m absolutely certain that not a single one of the so called “self-driving” cars could handle even the most simple challenges in these environments.

Most EVs get ~3.3 mi/kWh.

Not even close. BMW runs electric trucks between production facilities and our 169kWh trucks (Terberg YT202-EV) which haul up to 34,000kg get at most 100km out of that, often less. So you're looking at about 0.6km/kWh or 0.37mi/kWh. It will be more with less stopping (although there isn't a lot of stopping on our routes) but nowhere near your estimate.

The Fraunhofer Society is not and never was a "patent troll". They do actual research and one of their income sources is licensing the resulting patents.

I wondered that too. Pretty ridiculous that they claim "Self-Driving on the Streets of San Francisco Is Really Hard". City driving in the US is pretty much as easy as it gets. These guys are up for a real challenge when they try to make it work in Delhi, Bangkok et al.

What an unbelievably stupid thing to say. Traitors from war-torn, corrupt and authoritarian countries become traitors by risking their (and their families) lives to fight for the right values not because they are cheaters! The countries that are built on these values should support them as much as they can.

For some very limited use cases five years may be realistic. For a car that can do everything and go everywhere a human driver can it's more like 50 years.

No, a minority in the investigation committee dealing with the revelations around NSA and other foreign intelligence services can now (due to a recent court decision) bring forward a motion to summon Snowden for a testimony to Germany. They will bring it forward to the federal government which will deny the request. The minority will then appeal the decision which will then go to the highest court in Germany. So, nothing will happen for at least several months or even years.

I'm pretty sure the people at the WHO are very aware of these facts. If you look at their numbers the US is still significantly worse off than almost all European nations.

The number of immigrants per capita in the US is not especially high. It's lower than in Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Germany and similar to most Western European nations.

You'll find many startups in Berlin, anything else not so much. Try München, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Stuttgart if you want a good wage and interesting work.

Like most people in Germany I pay 7.3% + 0.2% supplemental. I decided against private insurance due to the recent massive premium hikes, even though right now it would be cheaper for me. (It's hard to get out of private insurance and back into statutory insurance)

I wonder what kinds of devices this is intended for? Presumably, they are a very important market for Qt to have implemented this? And these devices have graphics displays but they lack GPUs? What device could that be?

Unfortunately many (mostly Intel) chipsets have terrible drivers and have been blacklisted in Qt 4.6. So if you want to target a large share of all desktop machines the software renderer is a must.

Do the 32kg include the inverter and reduction gear? I highly doubt they do. My guess is that with those included it weighs AT LEAST 100kg, probably closer to 200kg. I can't find any details on what Siemens includes in their weight figure. Even if all the numbers are comparable (I'm pretty sure they are not), the Siemens motor (apart from being flight rated) is able to continuously output 260kw, the Tesla motor isn't even close to that. I've personally tried it a few times on the Autobahn and the Tesla limits the output to about 100kw (displayed) after less than a minute of full throttle.

I wouldn't say it's tragic, I'd say it's negligent misnaming. The people in charge surely were aware that some users would use it in way it shouldn't be used due to the expectations caused by its name. Some of the blame for these accidents is on them.

Compared to the leave propaganda this is exceptionally tame. Anything you read about the future of the UK nowadays is pure speculation anyway. My guess is that the market recovered because right now it looks like the status quo will be mostly retained. We won't know anything until many years after the decisions have been made. Even then it may be difficult to measure the effects.

I seriously doubt that you have. You wouldn't be writing nonsense about a "fresh start" or "finding a new job/wife" otherwise. Even steps much more insignificant than those are simply impossible for a vast amount of people on this planet.

Not to forget Tibia, which was released in January 1997, is still developed and run by the same company and has thousands of concurrent players at any time of the day.

Nowadays no first-world country is capable of being fully self-sustaining without suffering immensely - especially the US, which relies heavily on cheap energy with large amounts being imported.

I wish people would stop taking Iceland as an example for pretty much anything. They basically have two industries (Fishing and aluminium) and only 300 000 people, they are a very special case and comparisons rarely make sense.

Care to explain how that is an open question? I was not speaking specifically about WW2, I guess at that time it 'made sense' that it happened in Germany. My point is that something like the Holocaust can happen anywhere. There is no populace on earth that is somehow 'immune' against supporting regimes with such agendas.

I'm German but spend a lot of time in the US. I don't mind Nazi/WW2 jokes (even though I've heard all of them a hundred times), I don't mind that as soon as I mention that I'm from Germany someone will eventually bring up the Nazis/WW2 in conversation, I don't even mind that (very few) people think I'm a Nazi. What gets me every time though is how many people think that it could have happened only in Germany because the US is somehow different (as you said "genetically"). It's really unsettling.

Not really, "Anglo-Saxon" is the standard term when speaking of the English speaking world in Germany. It has no "tinfoil hat" connotation at all.