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New comment by ck45 in "The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)"

ck45 — Sat, 16 May 2026 09:54:08 +0000

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

New comment by ck45 in "The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)"

ck45 — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:09:37 +0000

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

New comment by ck45 in "Screw You, Realtek"

ck45 — Mon, 04 May 2026 09:03:04 +0000

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...

Why North Korea Will Never Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons

ck45 — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:04:01 +0000

Article URL: https://spectator.clingendael.org/en/publication/why-north-korea-will-never-give-its-nuclear-weapons

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989939

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by ck45 in "SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin"

ck45 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:32:43 +0000

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

New comment by ck45 in "Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things"

ck45 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:09:18 +0000

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

New comment by ck45 in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"

ck45 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:22:00 +0000

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

New comment by ck45 in "German men 18-45 need military permit to leave country for longer than 3 months"

ck45 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:22:57 +0000

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.

New comment by ck45 in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

ck45 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:18:09 +0000

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.

New comment by ck45 in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

ck45 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:53:57 +0000

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.

New comment by ck45 in "German men 18-45 need military permit to leave country for longer than 3 months"

ck45 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:48:56 +0000

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.

New comment by ck45 in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

ck45 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:36:01 +0000

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...

New comment by ck45 in "Epstein Forensic Finance"

ck45 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:24:29 +0000

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...

The 20-year campaign to rid the world of leaded fuel

ck45 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:13:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/inside-20-year-campaign-rid-world-leaded-fuel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871222

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Mysterious Explosions in Iran Three Cites Rocked by Explosions. Likely Not US [video]

ck45 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:06:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXAyFmmLzKM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837285

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ck45 in "Bill Gates asked Epstein for "antibiotics" for an STD from "Russian girls.""

ck45 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 08:04:21 +0000

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

New comment by ck45 in "Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them"

ck45 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:01:18 +0000

T-shirts from Muji

Russian Ghost Ship Sank Smuggling Nuclear Reactor Parts Likely Bound for N Korea

ck45 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:49:13 +0000

Article URL: https://united24media.com/latest-news/russian-ghost-ship-sank-while-smuggling-nuclear-reactor-parts-likely-bound-to-north-korea-14622

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424694

Points: 46

# Comments: 4

New comment by ck45 in "T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types"

ck45 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 09:53:50 +0000

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.

New comment by ck45 in "Petition to stop Microsoft at government in bavaria"

ck45 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 09:13:06 +0000

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