Klassiker.
"Es ist jetzt ganz wichtig, sich gegen links abzugrenzen ..."
Then null will be returned, as the value of b.
Technically schools close every night, and kids already sleep at home.
Yes, there are non-deterministic parts in physics. For example atomic decay. While we can measure and work with half-life times for large amounts of radioactive atoms, the decay of a single, individual atom is unpredictable. So in a way, you can get your desired dose of vagueness by controlling how many atoms you monitor. The less, the more.
Or another example from the same field: There are atoms for which we believe they are stable, although they theoretically could decay. But we never observed it. So maybe they are in fact stable, or maybe they decay just slower than we have time. Or only when we don't look. Examples would be Helium-4 or Lead-208.
I also like the idea, inspired by Douglas Adams, that the universe itself could be a weird and random fluctuation, which just happens to behave as if it was a predictable, rationally conceivable thing. That actually, it's all a random chain of junk events, and we're fooled into spottings some patterns. This apparence could last forever or vanish the very next moment, who knows. Maybe it's all just correlation and there is zero causation. As far as I know, we'll never be able to tell. So fundamentally, all of it is a vague guess, supported by mountains of lucky evidence.
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Instead Europe had a more recent and a more devastating Great War, and then another so called "World War". The former belligerents went on to form the nucleus of the later European Union, and are still the most powerful parties. Except for the UK, sadly.
I would also say, if a war from 150 years ago explains why your current day politics fail, there are most likely bigger flaws with that system than that war.
Wichtig für Integration und gegen Kriminalität.
Not necessarily take, but a demilitarized zone might make sense, and that has to be put somewhere.
Like prevent troops amassing in "peaceful exercise" so they cannot surprise invade again.
I live about 100m away from a city metro station and I love it. On my way to the station, I walk past:
Now I could have this walkable neighborhood or I could walk past six lanes of high speed traffic. And up and down the street I have more destinations to visit or I could count SUVs zooming by on a freeway!
The moon is essential for life on Earth.
Yes, but mostly by it's mass, and maybe by it's albedo. Is there anything else about the moon of relevance for life on Earth?
It's mass of 7 * 10^22^ kg is so enormous, it wouldn't make a dent if we add or remove hundreds of gigatons, which is far beyond our lifting capabilities at least for the next decades.
It's surface is so huge, we cannot affect it's albedo significantly.
So even if we approached the moon as a mere profit to be exploited, maximizing output and disregarding any concerns, how could this be detrimental to life on Earth?
Konkret müssen Brandmauern errichtet werden, die man nicht wieder einreißen darf. Wenn die Junge Union Sonneberg dem AfD-Kandidaten gratuliert und sagt, wir brauchen jetzt ideologiefreie Sacharbeit, ist es das Einreißen der Brandmauer – genau das, was die Faschisten wollen. Alle Demokrat*innen müssen zusammen stehen und sagen: Na gut, wenn die 30, 40 oder 50 Prozent haben, müssen wir die andere Seite sein. Wir müssen sie ausschließen. [...]
-- Tja, und wer erklärt das jetzt der CDU, die weiter rechten Kulturkampf betreibt?
Wenn Merz als Schlussfolgerung aus dem Sonneberg-Desaster die Grünen als Hauptfeind in den Mittelpunkt stellt, bestätigt das genau das Treiben der AfD. Es ist, ganz nüchtern betrachtet, politisch-strategisch ein absoluter Fehler. Hat der keine Berater?
Haha.
I'm in favor of simplifying the signup process with auto-assigning an instance. [Edit: For users coming from https://join-lemmy.org/]
For people who start using the fediverse or lemmy, the concept of federated instances is hard to understand. It also does not matter that much at this part of their journey. How about randomly assigning new users to instances which are open? This could also help with load balancing between instances.
The idea is to make entry as quick and easy as possible. Once users familiarized themselves with content and communities, they can reevaluate their 'decision' which instance they want to make their home. At this point, they have a better idea what this is all about.
Choosing an instance right from the start should still be possible, just not be the default mode. Make it a small link at the bottom 'advanced mode' or whatever, just don't scare or burden newcomers with unecessary complexity.
To answer the question directly: I think each instance can make that decision for themselves, and open or close registration accordingly. Both is fine.
FYI you can self-host GitLab, for example in a Docker container.