Sigh. Urban expectations. Come live in the sticks where I do and pay £35/m for about 15Mb. Actually had to go Starlink to be able to work from home properly. Swish fibre came round a few years ago and dug up all our roads and put fibre to all the phone poles but then vanished and nothing has happened since.
The US is so far out of line with the rest of the mostly civilised west it astonishes me. We know how this will go. Officer claims felt life was in danger (it wasn’t, and well over by the time he shot), investigation will drag to drop from popular consciousness, DA will say nothing to answer, civil prosecution, private settlement, nothing changes.
I think if you want the benefits of living in a country then you should be willing to defend it. This attitude of entitlement without responsibility is exactly what gives migrants a bad name.
I'm not getting any benefits. I was raised and educated elsewhere. I have no access to most social services. I have no kids. I'm here to pay taxes and get the bare minimum back. The services I've been getting were really nothing to write home about.
Ever since I moved here, the law made it very clear that this was a transactional relationship. That cuts both ways.
I uphold German values in my everyday behaviour. Killing for Germany was never on the table.
You are getting downvoted, but it is true that young people are getting a very rough deal, and a lot of the people in my circle are looking to emgirate. Friends from other countries and students (mostly know them through academia), are also not looking for long-term opportunities here anymore, which was different 15 years ago.
I would be far less annoyed with paying very high taxes and social contributions (around 50% of my income), if the services provided worked. But this just hasn't been the case for me. The healthcare system is close to breaking apart, and after moving to a new city 6 months ago I have been unable to find doctors willing to take me in. Childcare is constantly closing down due to staff shortages, buying a house is unrealistic unless both partners have good jobs or you inherit, and the jobs market is incredibly rigid and inflexible.
Every single one of these points are worse for young people then for older ones, and the only thing the government seems to get done is giving weapons training to young people and gifting pensioners 180b$/year extra.
Yes, the problem is the boomers who keep getting richer for no good reason, under the premise that they are entitled to massive pensions because they have been promised that much by politicians.
Of course, logically it makes no sense, since the whole point of a socialized system is to adjust the wealth of everybody depending on current situation (economic output).
But it was obviously a lie and our social democracy are deeply flawed because they allow anyone to vote regardless of stakes.
Sending young people to military service/war make for a nice distraction because meanwhile they don't get to think about taking the stuff of the elders by force.
I can only explain the downvotes by people who assume I'm somehow against immigrants since I used the term or who actually think that Germany is still worth living in. I have long given up on HN culture anyways.
To add to what nicbou said, I would like to question the idea that the best way to defend a country is to enlist and fight a war. At the contrary, many are of the opinion that to defend Europe we have to oppose this recent trend of spending billions into the unproductive war machine.
When was the last time germans lined up to enlist in the army? How much good was it for their country?
>At the contrary, many are of the opinion that to defend Europe we have to oppose this recent trend of spending billions into the unproductive war machine.
We've tried that after the end of the cold war, now there is an active war in Europe. You can not unilaterally stop military spending if there are other countries ready to take advantage of it.
>When was the last time germans lined up to enlist in the army?
That would have been during the height of the Cold War, the resulting Reunification does have its drawbacks, but certainly beats getting overrun by the Soviet Union.
Before the magic combi covid and trump, at least here no one would say these things out loud, now I have at least one conversation a week, usually with someone fairly normal looking, who, after a while into the conversation, will start saying something about the gov holding things back and then I only have to lean in a little bit to get them to go full chemtrails, flat earth, moon landing hoax, anti vaxx, young earth creationist on me. Usually they are indeed recent converts (few years) and often (most I speak to) had some sort of loneliness mental breakdown during the covid lockdowns.
Chemtrails definitely not a hoax. Perhaps the effects on anything breathing their remains are unknown, and probably not for widespread mind control but governments do not shy away from mentioning in their reports the use of chemtrails for weather modification. A more know example was at the Beijing Olympics where they used cloud seeding techniques: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Weather_Modification_O...
Fun signal processing project and all the sampling problems sound typical. Unless this is just for your bike, given that some of the pokey fours run up to 15k rpm ~ 250Hz primary, I think it would be a lot easier to use a significantly higher sample rate and then treat in the digital domain. If you can recognise the engine speed and signal as a reliable pattern (use a digital PLL?) you might be able to subtract it and get more of the chassis signal left. As another poster pointed out, if you could do a motorway run with a high sample rate you have a good dataset to experiment with, including seeing how far you could downsample and still get appropriate sensitivity and selectivity.
Interrupting narrative/consensus construction must be exceedingly rare in America then, since there hasn't been a conviction for treason in the US since the 1950's.
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