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ck45on Lobbying is corruption

Fine, let's take another dataset. There's also https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/political-corruption-inde... Germany is 8th best there, not the worst. I'm not arguing that there's no corruption, the country was a role model, or anything like that. That kind of post-fact accusation is not helpful, it's leading society in a dangerously wrong direction.

ck45on Lobbying is corruption

Most corrupt in the world? Easy to debunk: It ranks on 10 (10th best) as per https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025 Do they need to do better? Absolutely!

ck45on Lobbying is corruption

Who are "they", you mean one commenter you assume is European? You are right that at the beginning of the 20th century, there was still a lack of democratic structures, in Europe, as well as in the United States of America, where the 19th amendment was introduced in 1920 and the Voting Right Act in 1965.

ck45on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

Yes, you are right. There's a comment further above to cover the canal but not with solar panels and have the panels in a solar park. The covered area in that solar park could then be used for agriculture - and maybe irrigated with the water from the covered canal.

ck45on Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform

Does your browser have a reader mode? Looks quite decent in Safari and Brave

ck45on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

The concept of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrivoltaics still sounds more promising than putting solar panels on top of the canal.

ck45on Jemalloc 5.4.0

I just checked whether it's the first release after Jason Evans stepped down as maintainer, but it isn't. That was the previous release, 5.3.1

ck45on There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

Storypoints do not mean "time". Time would be too concrete and measurable and would be bad for selling more agile coachings. Instead storypoints represent "effort". What does it mean and how can it be used to estimate a shipping date? I was told that I just don't understand.

ck45on The curious case of the disappearing Polish S

Lots of common main ingredients like potatoes, beets, cabbage, and sausages. It could also have a different reason, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_eastern_territories_of_...

ck45on Python JIT project was asked to pause development

Not to forget Unladen Swallow Which even tried to merge into CPython: https://peps.python.org/pep-3146/

ck45on Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It

ed2k, nice! That reminds me of this superb piece of software: MLDonkey (https://github.com/ygrek/mldonkey), written in OCaml.

ck45on Greek Alphabet Cards

For me the most clear example (in English and other languages that borrowed from Latin) is "to move" and "mobile".

ck45on The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)

You seem to be confusing the words "Schmerzmittel" (analgesic, pain killer) and "Betäubungsmittel" (narcotic). Those two classes of substances are not the same.

ck45on The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)

It’s not, the BtmG literally means narcotics drugs act. https://www.bfarm.de/EN/Federal-Opium-Agency/Narcotic-drugs/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcotic_Drugs_Act

ck45on Screw You, Realtek

From the company that brought the famous 8139. See this gem of a comment: http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/pci/if_rl.c?v=FREEBSD-7-0#L...

ck45on SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

You either win or you don’t, it’s 50:50

ck45on Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

Do Nabaztags qualify to be added? There seems to be a workaround to make them work again.

ck45on Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud

Well, it's more difficult. The original Volkswagen was designed by Ferdinand Porsche.

ck45on German men 18-45 need military permit to leave country for longer than 3 months

Thanks for clarifying! I did some own research and apparaently in those oral hearings, objectors were often tricked into contradicting themselves with quite absurd scenarios.

ck45on German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad

I don't have intentions to justify an injustice. I'm saying why should we try to make it even harder for a disadvantaged group? It does not help a single German man if women also have to comply to this law. Fixing women's rights on the other hand gives everybody the benefit of living in a society that is more fair. For me, that's a valuable goal.

ck45on German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad

Well, 2 wrongs make one right, don't they?! I wish we'd first fix women's rights and then extend their duties. What the OP does is just egoistically trying to make other groups also suffer.

ck45on German men 18-45 need military permit to leave country for longer than 3 months

What's a reason that is politically and not against one's conscience? I assumed that one's political beliefs would also manifest in conscience.

The cold war has been over for a very long time. The whole process was reformed in 1984 by removing the mandatory oral hearing. Sources say that acceptance rate was above 90% after 1995. That's not good enough (should be 100%), but not terrible either.

ck45on German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad

I'm not sure how credible it is, conscientious objection is literally in the German constitution: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.h...

ck45on Epstein Forensic Finance

Why does Deutsche Bank pop up in every shady financial deal? Cum Ex, business with Russia, Epstein, some shady deals with his Wingman Trump, and many more. Billions paid in fines, penalties, and settlements. How rotten can an institution be?

Edit: dw covers it: https://www.dw.com/en/deutsche-banks-biggest-scandals/a-5497...

ck45on Bill Gates asked Epstein for "antibiotics" for an STD from "Russian girls."

"Womanizer" — or, in legal terms, sexual harassment. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/16/tech/microsoft-bill-gates...

ck45on Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them

T-shirts from Muji

ck45on T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types

Is this based on your experience or is it just an assumption? I only have anecdotes, but it does not reflect your claims, rather the exact opposite. A lot of the boilerplate code doesn’t need to be type annotated, but annotating the main business logic doesn’t take more time and is not more complicated, but instead type annotations help write code that is more clear, more obvious, and it adds some kind of documentation.

ck45on Petition to stop Microsoft at government in bavaria

The HQ of Microsoft Germany is in Munich.

Edit: Compare to LiMux[1] and the rumors about some deal with MS

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

ck45on Implementation of a Java Processor on a FPGA (2016)

I never understood why AOT never took off for Java. The write once run anywhere quickly faded as an argument, the number of platforms that a software package needs to support is rather small.

ck45on The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition (2023)

For me “the problem with software, why smart engineers write bad code” is the prequel. Not as technical, but explains a big problem