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 Discussion on answer by ohwilleke: Am…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Jan 15 21:38
@oldtechaa But would it require more than a law passed by congress (+ signed by the president) to change this?
 

 Discussion on answer by Barmar: Can a…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Nov 18, 2024 20:21
@NuclearHoagie To me, a low bus factor just means mis-management, not undervaluing people. It could be that they have enough employees for everything, but somehow distributed the work in a way that for every task only one person knows how to do it. It often doesn't need hiring more people to avoid this (though it can help).
 

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Apr 23, 2024 09:06
Since I got a work phone, I often use it during my (public transit) commute to check chats and emails. Not quite as productive as using the same time on a real screen, but better than nothing. Don't do this if you are driving a car, though.
 

 Discussion on answer by Philipp: Why …

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Mar 18, 2024 10:03
Nowadays often postal votes from oversea are not even counted "if they can't affect the outcome" (i.e. the electors of that state). So I'm not sure what could force a state not participating to now start counting them.
 

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Jan 19, 2024 13:22
Why does a speace elevator have higher energy cost than a rocket? Is the rocket fuel so cheap compared to electricity, or does the space elevator do things differently?
 

 Discussion on question by feldentm: S…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Dec 11, 2023 20:55
In Java, all integer types are signed, including shorts. Or did this change in the recent years?
 

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Nov 20, 2023 19:24
Of course, the best solution is to just not get drunk.
 

 Discussion on question by Schezuk: Di…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Feb 12, 2023 18:03
I was in school during that time. We first learned Pascal, then Java. When I then got to university, they were in the process of switching from Fortran to Java.
 

 Discussion on answer by Joe W: Is an …

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Jan 9, 2023 23:39
Hmm, mixing Celsius-temperatures and pound-per-square-inch pressures?
 

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Oct 19, 2022 04:35
@MonsterMushroom I meant something like "maybe he heard about the dangers of drinking destilled water, and then associated it with tap water too". I'm a German drinking mostly tap water (and tea brewed from tap water), so that seemed the only reasonable explanation to me. (I also don't like bubbles in my drinks, so I usually deny carbonated water, or will shake it heavily to get most of the gas out.)
Paŭlo Ebermann
Oct 19, 2022 04:35
@MonsterMushroom Maybe he mixed this up with destilled water?
 

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Sep 20, 2022 03:31
The "This doesn't" in the second paragraph seems to be a bit lost?
 

 Discussion on answer by AlexP: How fe…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Sep 19, 2022 16:50
"... women of child-bearing age, who are busy making children, educating them, washing and sewing, spinning thread and weaving cloth etc" – I see no reason these jobs (except being pregnant, but the part where you can't do anything else, or need to recover, wouldn't be that long) would have to be done only (or even primarily) by women. [This doesn't change the overall calculation by much, though.]
 

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Apr 27, 2022 12:34
@JohnBollinger the license itself does permit free use. It doesn't force anyone to do anything (like providing the code or the software to others), but I'd argue that the license itself certainly "permits free use" as the OP said. It just doesn't "preserve free use" (in either the beer or speech version).
 

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Feb 27, 2022 10:41
@Wastrel or they would require him to be near his landline phone during on-call time.
 

 Discussion on question by diplo: Why …

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Sep 9, 2021 23:19
If they want to avoid to repeatedly answer the common questions, then they should send the FAQ before the interview (and still allow questions during the interview which are not answered in there).
 

 Discussion on question by Gray Sheep:…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Jun 26, 2021 03:17
For me meetings usually can't take much overtime, because the next meeting is coming soon.
 

 Discussion on answer by Nosajimiki: T…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Mar 10, 2021 19:44
Owning a majority of bitcoins doesn't allow you to break the block chain (you need a majority of the hash rate for double-spending). It might make people suspicious, though.
 

 Discussion on question by Studoku: Is…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Nov 27, 2020 21:30
@Studoku by this logic, you should donate lottery tickets to people you want to win.
 

 Discussion on answer by o.m.: Why do …

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Oct 15, 2020 06:51
@ilkkachu that was not feasible to evaluate when they invented the system.
 

 Discussion on answer by Alan Lewis: D…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Aug 2, 2020 14:05
@anaximander I guess the idea is that the time pattern of the illumination of the room by the television can be matched to what is currently being live transmitted. Assuming you are not watching the same film from a recording which is currently being broadcast live, I can imagine that it gives a quite good matching rate (assuming the television is the main light source in your room).
 

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Jul 25, 2020 03:28
@Fattie in Google Meet every participant can mute every other one (but people can only unmute themselves).
 

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Apr 10, 2020 17:17
He might have confused this with a recommendation to change your password every three months?
 

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Feb 17, 2020 14:56
In German it's easier: The "Dame" is on column "D".
 

 Discussion on question by Dilitante: …

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Sep 27, 2019 13:19
At our place we are not even allowed to bring outside food into the canteen.
 

 Discussion on answer by Harper: How m…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Apr 26, 2019 17:07
@Alexander of course I can do so, but that isn't "using the banking system as I'm using it at home". (I guess there are people using credit cards for everything, but I'm not, and I think many Germans are not.)
Paŭlo Ebermann
Apr 26, 2019 17:07
As a German with some family in the US I know that banking there works quite differently than here (like people are actually still using checks instead of bank transfers?). So I would not want to rely on accessing my German bank account from the US, but instead bring some cash with me.
 

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Dec 4, 2018 05:19
@ThePassenger do you know when the dev teams leave? In my company, we sometimes do releases in the evening when most users are already gone, which works nicely due to the shifted working hours.
 

 Discussion on answer by Laurent S.: H…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Nov 5, 2018 23:58
@ChristianSauer try to go to eastern Germany. We have plenty of Kindergarten places, and usually non-confessional ones, too.
 

 Discussion on question by Matthew: "S…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Oct 18, 2018 14:25
What happens when you increase the speed of the object while pushing it in? Does the last part of the object arrive before the first part?
 

 Discussion on answer by Emilio Pisant…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Oct 5, 2018 03:06
Are the optical tweezers related to this?
 

 Discussion on answer by David Mulder:…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Oct 3, 2018 20:18
@Bregalad if there are very few people living in an area (and those possibly going to different directions), having a train becomes less efficient than a car, because it is bigger, and needs more energy to accelerate. (This does not apply to everywhere, but might apply to where BlackThorn is living.)
 

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Sep 7, 2018 21:11
"But in the US and Canada, nobody can force anyone to be religious, except maybe for your parents until you become old enough to move out." ... but if you allow discrimination, then there will be forces to be (or not to be) religious.
 

 Discussion on answer by Neusser: Fren…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Apr 10, 2018 17:14
Note that Google Maps didn't invent the icons for the german streets – they are used the same way in real-live street signs (without the letters, but in different colors and differently shaped boxes).
 

 Discussion on answer by Giter: Does G…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Mar 22, 2018 11:16
"East and West Germany are no longer at war, because East Germany no longer exists" ... there never was any "war" between East and West Germany. The peace treaty the Reichsbürger want is about the World War II.
 

 Discussion on answer by LangLangC: Do…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Mar 22, 2018 11:16
"Grundgesetz" is just the name of the constitution.
 

 Discussion on question by Jarred Alle…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Feb 16, 2018 15:04
Several videos of the Upward Bound playlist from Isaac Arthur give answers applicable to this problem.
 

 Discussion on question by Mołot: Can …

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Feb 2, 2018 09:37
So this moon is nearly in a geosynchronous orbit, which shifts around every 500 years? (For a real 500 year orbit, you would get the radiation each day.)
 

 Discussion on question by hawkeye: Wh…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Jan 18, 2018 00:50
@JoeStrazzere as we are using the term, stretch goals are just a list of things to do when the sprint goals are done (or blocked by something out of our power) and there is time left, i.e. if we overestimated the complexity. It doesn't mean we are supposed to stretch more to fulfill them too.
 

 Discussion on question by Jason Born:…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Dec 5, 2017 19:13
I would expect a "... for young women", if just women were the target audience.
 

 Discussion on answer by Rory Alsop: W…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Nov 26, 2017 07:52
The type of nuclear reactors used on satellite and on submarines is different. Neither fits good for an airplane.
 

 Discussion on answer by Bookeater: Ho…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Nov 18, 2017 13:03
Instead of saying "no money will come, ever", maybe it would be better to say "no money will come until the existing loans are paid back".
 

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Nov 10, 2017 00:15
@phoog not sure about 60 years, but several people I know here in Germany have drivers licenses with photo and without expiration date.
Paŭlo Ebermann
Nov 10, 2017 00:15
@AlexanderKosubek the problem with the drivers license can be that the photo is 60 years old.
 

 Discussion on answer by Wildcard: Onl…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Oct 23, 2017 14:37
I don't think this applies to the case here, where "knowing a definition" was what was needed.
 

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Oct 17, 2017 21:53
@Rinzwind this is about a local goverment ... do you want to sell your city?
 

 Discussion on question by Charlie: Wa…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Sep 12, 2017 00:43
I would guess that basically everyone currently living in Britain (and not recently migrated) has some amount of roman blood in their veins, but it is not easily measurable, apart from the pure male and pure female lines.
 

 Discussion on answer by Draco18s: For…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Sep 3, 2017 12:55
I just observed a game where black hole made a really long black line (following a yellow line initially, then overwriting it) from its initial square. The initial square was then deleted by the trail eraser, so it continued to just make the black line thicker. Not most efficient (and trail eraser kept messing with it).
 

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Aug 14, 2017 21:00
If you want to breed out the "criminal gene", just sterilize the criminals. (You don't need to marry to have children.)
 

 Discussion on answer by Common Guy: D…

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Paŭlo Ebermann
Jul 29, 2017 07:46
I can confirm this answer. As a person born (and living) in Berlin, I've said on several occasions "Ich bin ein Berliner". And the jelly donut is not called "Berliner" here, maybe except in national bakery chains.