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Stuttgart, Germany
Joined September 2009
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Me escribe un amigo sobre el gráfico del @ft describiendo el resultado de 112 estudios sobre las leyes de control de alquileres, , apuntando al impacto de las leyes de control de alquileres sobre la movilidad social:
"Los de rojo son los chavales de mi pueblo que tienen que quedarse allí porque en Madrid no se construyen casas y en las que hay se tiene que quedar Maricarmen. No entiendo cómo esto puede ser progresista."
Simon retweeted
You can just do things (genetically sequence your dog’s tumors and design a bespoke mRNA cancer vaccine to save her life)
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KABOOM:
Der BGH hat die Beförderungsbedingungen der Lutfthansa zerschossen, was die sogenannte #Couponreihenfolge angeht.
Was ich schon seit Jahren predige (und vor Gericht durchsetze) hat nun auch der BGH entschieden. Die neuen ABB der Lufthansa sehen vor, dass Segmente ohne Nachberechnung ausgelassen werden können, wenn sich nach Buchung die Reisepläne des Reisenden ändern.
drboese.de/blog/bundesgerich…
Danke an die Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband, die dieses Verfahren anstieß!
Wer in den letzten Jahren stehen gelassen wurde, dürfte sich nun sein Geld für teure Ersatzflüge und teils auch die Ausgleichsleistung mit sehr guten Erfolgsaussichten holen können.
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Der Europat will beim Thema #Fluggastrechte nicht nur an die Entschädigung bei Verspätungen ran. Sogar die Kosten für Ersatzflüge sollen begrenzt werden auf 400% der Kosten der Ausgangsbuchung.
Wer frühzeitig seinen Flug nach Mallorca für 20 € mit Ryanair gebucht hat, wird sich freuen.
Hoffen wir, dass das Parlament auf breiter Front merkt, wie krass dort Rechte von (meistens) Verbrauchern beschnitten werden sollen.
consilium.europa.eu/en/press…
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It's a good time to listen to our episode from last month about how one of the world's first betting markets was betting on Papal selection, and how it became so widespread that the Catholic church had to do a massive crackdown on the practice
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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If you want to know more about how Google Flights works, airline tickets, and why it is super complicated to deal with all the constraints and the combinatorial combinations, I highly recommend this set of slides by Carl de Marcken, one of the co-founders of ITA software, which Google acquired and became one of the underpinnings of Google Flights.
(Sorry for the http rather than https Link: Carl's domain doesn't appear to support https)
demarcken.org/carl/papers/IT…
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Yesterday, I traveled onboard the last train of the season for the #EspressoRiviera, operated by Treni Turistici Italiani, between Nice 🇫🇷 and Milan 🇮🇹
Folks, you’re not ready for how amazing this train is… 🤯
Here’s a thread 🧵
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Grenzenlos freie Fahrt mit der #Bahn im Sommer! Das #Deutschlandticket gilt dann auch in der @regiongrandest in Frankreich. Für alle unter 28 Jahren aus #BaWü; auch Rheinland-Pfalz und das Saarland machen mit. Weitersagen!
ALT Zug auf Gleisen mit Frankreich-Flagge im Hintergrund. Text: D-Ticket gilt von Juli bis August für junge Leute auch in Teilen Frankreichs.
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This is what happens when an HTTP client raises $225M at a $5.6B valuation.
It’s just awful…
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A sneak peek at @vygruppen PlusNight - aeroplane ✈️ business class on a train 🚆😉!
The seat converts to the bed at a push of a button and a blanket is provided. Of course the sleeper 🛌👆trumps this for comfort and privacy - good luck finding that on a plane 😉
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The politics of America’s housing issues in one chart:
• People and politicians in blue states say they care deeply about the housing crisis and homelessness but keep blocking housing so both get worse
• Red states simply permit loads of new homes and have no housing crisis
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Sunday trading laws are bad for…
1. Busy families who get no time in the week
2. The economy
3. The four people who believe Sunday is sacred and nothing should be open at all.
Can **ANYBODY** defend Sunday trading laws in their current form?
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As I always say, it’s just incredible how high rents are purely a policy choice and we could just absolutely crush rents by allowing more building. Every few months a new city in the world discovers this magic and gets double digit rent falls.
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The political economy of housing is so screwed.
1) If a politician promised to raise the price of bread, no one would vote for him; but people will if he promises to "keep up home values."
2) Voters who want lower housing prices don't understand how to bring them about AT ALL.
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I don’t understand why everyone’s saying that this rate is low; the cash comp is basically a rounding error compared to the value of giving you physical access to a casino’s core IT infrastructure.
The MGM Grand is looking to hire a Red Hat Linux System Admin willing to work 10 hours per day 7 days a week to completely rebuild its IT environment from the ground up and get the slot machines working again. (h/t @zero04013437)
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The Power of Operating Your Own Infrastructure:
50% discount at LIDL (fast) chargers in Germany this week ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Up to 180 kW charging nationwide, 600+ 🔌!
This is much cheaper than any public network in Deutschland right now.
h/t @SomeMatAnderson
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Holy shit Microsoft figured out how their signing key was leaked
msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023…