Hacker News: blackmoon42

New comment by blackmoon42 in "Ditching Obsidian and building my own"

blackmoon42 — Sun, 18 May 2025 18:41:58 +0000

Or you setup a Couchdb and the self hosted live sync plugin. Although the data will reside on a remote server in this case.

New comment by blackmoon42 in "Ask HN: Is wind power financially viable without subsidies?"

blackmoon42 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:36:06 +0000

In fact, it did. Russia told, there was a broken turbine involved, but even after repairs didn't take it back. Later it said, the unfriendly behaviour (sanctions, because of the Ukraine invasion) was the cause of stopping gas delivery.

New comment by blackmoon42 in "Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?"

blackmoon42 — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 22:33:35 +0000

And if you have your 18th birthday, you might apply to discover EU. An EU lottery to give interrail passes to young adults for free.

New comment by blackmoon42 in "German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation"

blackmoon42 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:45:15 +0000

Cheaper, when you are young and single. Get a family and pay for every member. Get older and see your rates increasing. Also the rates won't drop if you're a pensioner.

You need to know your future, as it's more or less a decision for life.

New comment by blackmoon42 in "Show HN: Software Developer salaries in Germany by technology and city"

blackmoon42 — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 20:28:31 +0000

But the 42% is the max tax-rate. As the tax itself is increasing dynamically, you are paying less for the income before the limit. So the average tax for your income is usually lower. For example: A single will pay 42% for income above 60k, but the tax for the 60k income is more like 26%.

New comment by blackmoon42 in "I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018)"

blackmoon42 — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 10:28:26 +0000

These video ID verifications were just shown last month to be unsafe by the CCC. Public health insurances in Germany aren't allowed to use it anymore. Instructions how to fake your ID on these systems can be found in the net.

New comment by blackmoon42 in "Periodex – Elegant Periodic Table (158 kb page)"

blackmoon42 — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 06:26:19 +0000

Looks nice, but I'm puzzled that for a scientific table the temperatures are given in Fahrenheit and Celsius instead of Kelvin. I understand, that it's easier for the non-scientific reader, but in this case it should be adjusted to the language as well. E.g. most non-english readers are probably not familiar with Fahrenheit.

New comment by blackmoon42 in "Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV"

blackmoon42 — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 08:01:45 +0000

Which explains how I can cheat sometimes... When I go to the lockscreen on my phone I can see the title of the video.

New comment by blackmoon42 in "Single Payer Is Not a Principle- the Principle Is Universal Coverage"

blackmoon42 — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:11:01 +0000

OTOH the drug Shkreli hiked the price at was already out of patent. So you can see the "free market" issues. Nobody cared about bringing competition as the price was too low.