As if that would matter. Heck, what is even "israel friendly"? No one speaks about "french friendly" or "lithuania friendly". In any case, you must first demonstrate that numbers from an organization you allege of being…
The thing is: today (!) there is no such thing as a "german critique on Pennsylvania Dutch". Most germans aren't even aware that such a thing exists. Also, this one citation is just anecdotal. You cannot conclude of any…
Na, there aren't "~350,000,000 of us". You are just assuming that the whole readership of Hacker News are US-citizens. I, for example, are from an EU country. So "there are 450,000,000 of us" if I'd had a similar…
It's really fun: I read so many propaganda on Lisp here that by now we should all be coding in it. Don't we get perhaps weekly posts like this? But ... somehow almost everyone simply ignores this propaganda --- that's…
CoCom was terminated in 1994 and is entirely irrelevant by now (IANAL and all that) What we have now is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement Fun fact 1: Switzerland (a major provider of GPS chips via…
Yea, like the water in San Diego. Water tastes bad in plenty of USA. Not only due to clornination. In in the fracking counties it isn't even drinkable. Also note that I actually used the term "western europe" in my…
That is because EU is everything ... but not something homogenous entity. Living in Austria is very different to living in Spain, is different to living in Greece. There are countries in EU where it is almost impossible…
That migth be true in some cases, but there are glaring cases there this isn't the case. Look at the conflict on clorinated chickens between USA and EU. The USA insists on not-so-clean production environments and to get…
I give you the nature parks. That being out of the way: drinkable water isn't really an achievement, we have it in all of western europe. Maybe even in all of europe. However, in the USA you have these places there the…
You are both rigth and wrong. First, the EU parliament isn't a "fake" parliament. You just claimed this, without any reasoning, so I'm free to just claim the opposite. The members of this parliament are freely elected…
Bell was not the inventor --- at least not for the telephone itself. Maybe for the telephone exchange. Philipp Reis was the phone inventor. See my other post below for some details.
Well, it's a (usually believed for nationality reasons) myth that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. In reality, it was the German "Philipp Reis" who invented it. In Friedrichsdorf he made the first prototype…
Oh, and another thing: that only 19.6% "already" have one isn't that much concerning. It is actually quite common that people do a job education (or 2nd job education) at an older age. Examples: you learnt to a nurse…
The most important factor however is that many EU countries don't have a US-style college system. E.g. in Germany we have a very different schooling system and a very different job education system. Even the university…
Nah, I'd say that common "americans" (really: US citizens) are perhaps a bit on the dumber site. Not only confuse they constantly a continent (America) with a country (USA), they also have no idea about history. Or…
BTW, you cannot compare a country ("USA") with a whole continent ("Europe"). The countries in europe aren't all in EU or EEC and are much, MUCH more different than US' states are. "the environment in the U.S." ... and…
If you have a collection of children tales from the Grimm brothers... then this is already watered down. These brothers traveled in Towns and collected the tales that the adult told to each other, e.g. when spinning…
In Germany it's often not IN cities, but around. Example for Frankfurt: The's a metro ("S-Bahn") going north up to Friedberg/Hessen. Friedberg is the capital of the country. But there's no free "Park & Ride" there. Two…
Yes, and they are higher due to 2 reasons. And both seem to work. Number 1 reason is that power was quite highly taxed, since it is directly linked with pollution and CO2. All powers, but that also means electrical…
Well, some of the non-centralized social media is quite left-wing. If someone favours the SED or other parts of the ex-GDR regime (like FDGB etc) then it's IMHO already bordering on left extremisms. After all these guys…
Spotted the US-american assuming their law system is used world-wide. If over here a lady buys a hot coffee in a McDrive, drives away, spills the hot coffee on their legs and makes a car accident due to this ... she…
Wow, you brought many facts that escaped me so far. That why I still read HN these days.
Are 850000 millions muslim refugees are soooooo many more than over 5 million "Gastarbeiter". I'm not saying those 850.000 millions are negligibe. They increase the scarce housing situation even more. They have antique…
"Muslims are in Europe in large numbers because of wars that Europe and the West either started" That's an interesting claim. The biggest muslim community in Germany is from Turkey. They came all here because of…
"and media totally ignore the suffering in Palesine" That is a rather absolute state and easy to falsify. Just 2 days ago I heard a report in "Deutschlandfunk" about how israel settlers killed palestinians (basically:…
As if that would matter. Heck, what is even "israel friendly"? No one speaks about "french friendly" or "lithuania friendly". In any case, you must first demonstrate that numbers from an organization you allege of being…
The thing is: today (!) there is no such thing as a "german critique on Pennsylvania Dutch". Most germans aren't even aware that such a thing exists. Also, this one citation is just anecdotal. You cannot conclude of any…
Na, there aren't "~350,000,000 of us". You are just assuming that the whole readership of Hacker News are US-citizens. I, for example, are from an EU country. So "there are 450,000,000 of us" if I'd had a similar…
It's really fun: I read so many propaganda on Lisp here that by now we should all be coding in it. Don't we get perhaps weekly posts like this? But ... somehow almost everyone simply ignores this propaganda --- that's…
CoCom was terminated in 1994 and is entirely irrelevant by now (IANAL and all that) What we have now is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement Fun fact 1: Switzerland (a major provider of GPS chips via…
Yea, like the water in San Diego. Water tastes bad in plenty of USA. Not only due to clornination. In in the fracking counties it isn't even drinkable. Also note that I actually used the term "western europe" in my…
That is because EU is everything ... but not something homogenous entity. Living in Austria is very different to living in Spain, is different to living in Greece. There are countries in EU where it is almost impossible…
That migth be true in some cases, but there are glaring cases there this isn't the case. Look at the conflict on clorinated chickens between USA and EU. The USA insists on not-so-clean production environments and to get…
I give you the nature parks. That being out of the way: drinkable water isn't really an achievement, we have it in all of western europe. Maybe even in all of europe. However, in the USA you have these places there the…
You are both rigth and wrong. First, the EU parliament isn't a "fake" parliament. You just claimed this, without any reasoning, so I'm free to just claim the opposite. The members of this parliament are freely elected…
Bell was not the inventor --- at least not for the telephone itself. Maybe for the telephone exchange. Philipp Reis was the phone inventor. See my other post below for some details.
Well, it's a (usually believed for nationality reasons) myth that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. In reality, it was the German "Philipp Reis" who invented it. In Friedrichsdorf he made the first prototype…
Oh, and another thing: that only 19.6% "already" have one isn't that much concerning. It is actually quite common that people do a job education (or 2nd job education) at an older age. Examples: you learnt to a nurse…
The most important factor however is that many EU countries don't have a US-style college system. E.g. in Germany we have a very different schooling system and a very different job education system. Even the university…
Nah, I'd say that common "americans" (really: US citizens) are perhaps a bit on the dumber site. Not only confuse they constantly a continent (America) with a country (USA), they also have no idea about history. Or…
BTW, you cannot compare a country ("USA") with a whole continent ("Europe"). The countries in europe aren't all in EU or EEC and are much, MUCH more different than US' states are. "the environment in the U.S." ... and…
If you have a collection of children tales from the Grimm brothers... then this is already watered down. These brothers traveled in Towns and collected the tales that the adult told to each other, e.g. when spinning…
In Germany it's often not IN cities, but around. Example for Frankfurt: The's a metro ("S-Bahn") going north up to Friedberg/Hessen. Friedberg is the capital of the country. But there's no free "Park & Ride" there. Two…
Yes, and they are higher due to 2 reasons. And both seem to work. Number 1 reason is that power was quite highly taxed, since it is directly linked with pollution and CO2. All powers, but that also means electrical…
Well, some of the non-centralized social media is quite left-wing. If someone favours the SED or other parts of the ex-GDR regime (like FDGB etc) then it's IMHO already bordering on left extremisms. After all these guys…
Spotted the US-american assuming their law system is used world-wide. If over here a lady buys a hot coffee in a McDrive, drives away, spills the hot coffee on their legs and makes a car accident due to this ... she…
Wow, you brought many facts that escaped me so far. That why I still read HN these days.
Are 850000 millions muslim refugees are soooooo many more than over 5 million "Gastarbeiter". I'm not saying those 850.000 millions are negligibe. They increase the scarce housing situation even more. They have antique…
"Muslims are in Europe in large numbers because of wars that Europe and the West either started" That's an interesting claim. The biggest muslim community in Germany is from Turkey. They came all here because of…
"and media totally ignore the suffering in Palesine" That is a rather absolute state and easy to falsify. Just 2 days ago I heard a report in "Deutschlandfunk" about how israel settlers killed palestinians (basically:…