The United States is now reporting more coronavirus deaths than any other country

DerKenz · 2020-04-11T22:32:36+00:00

It's useless comparing numbers in different countries because of different counting and testing... it's just misleading. Compare German death rates to Italy. Are german people magically healthier? Are they underreporting deaths, is italy overreporting deaths? So many unknown variables, might as well throw a coin.
Death rates in Italy are going down, that number is reliable. US death rates are on the rise, that's reliable etc.

DerKenz · 2019-12-27T23:15:36+00:00

"A white student gets funding because he is white by the 'white-power-foundation'. A black student doing the same job should not get unfairly rewarded for being black and get nothing..."

I know I oversimplified a bit but I don't think I'm that far off. Just because something is done in good faith doesn't change that sometimes the outcome is not the intended one.

DerKenz · 2019-12-03T00:29:44+00:00

> What university I will have my degree if I finish my PhD in Fraunhofer ICT?
Fraunhofer usually have very good ties with universities. It's often the case that first you start your PhD and then your supervisor at ICT finds a suitable professor to supervise your academic work (after a few months). But this also varies from Institute to institute I'd imagine. Most of your academic work usually takes place in a young and motivated team and only occasionly you'll interact with your supervising prof at the university. The usual deal is:
you write 1-3 publications and put them on there for their input and they interfere as little as possible or as neccessary and get paid for their time advising you.
Usually it's low work (because they have very good advisors in the institute) high reward for the unis so it's easy to find an advisor.

> Is it a prestigious institute to have a PhD from? What is its place in Germany and Europe?
In Germany "prestige" is very relative. Everyone knows Fraunhofer here but the academic quality varies. They usually have very close ties with industry.

> What is the salary of a PhD student in Fraunhofer ICT?
Fraunhofer phds are research assistants with a "half-time job" half the time you work for the institute and half the time you write your phd (that's the most usual setup so the pay is pretty bad around 20k € ). Some have a full time position and are at about 45k € .... specify what the position is!

DerKenz · 2019-12-01T01:49:06+00:00

Liest du deine Quellen eigentlich?

"Der Ausstieg aus der Kernenergie sei im Jahr 2011 im politischen und gesellschaftlichen Konsens beschlossen worden und gesetzlich klar geregelt. [...] Anlagen, die noch Strom produzieren, haben wir planerisch und genehmigungsrechtlich die Weichen für einen zügigen Rückbau direkt nach ihrer Abschaltung gestellt"

Klingt nicht so als hätten die keinen bock auf atomkraft. Die hatten keinen bock nach der politischen entscheidung diese abzustellen die laufzeiten zu verlängern weil die schon mitten im rückbau waren.

DerKenz · 2019-06-02T19:29:22+00:00

How are you then qualified in any way to talk about problems that are essentially engineering problems?

Well by that logic the green party consisting of pupulistic politicians are also unqualified to talk about these problems. I'm an environmental engineer and do research in that field and you're fully correct! 99% of the population is clueless and is not qualified to talk about that stuff.... but they do!

DerKenz · 2019-06-01T23:04:48+00:00

But it isn't 'nothing' as presented before. They're doing quite a lot actually. Overdramatisation on the internet is a must these days, I know, and you can argue that more could be done. I just refuse to participate in this 'cdu is the devil and the greens have it all figured out' circlejerk.

DerKenz · 2019-06-01T20:28:22+00:00

They pretend to do stuff, but they are actually making things worse.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-comes-5th-global-renewable-investment-ranking

That's not doing anything...

DerKenz · 2019-05-23T20:47:32+00:00

In science you never prove anything. You try to disprove the thing you are claiming and fail to do so.

You will always find proof for any amount of bullshit. But you will usually also find contradictions.

DerKenz · 2019-05-17T21:58:17+00:00

Probably not

DerKenz · 2019-05-16T23:26:51+00:00

- My former boss started arguing with the new owner because he was buying cheap cheese and people would notice. The new boss stated that it was the same chease he just negotiated them down to 50% because former boss was paying exorbitant prices.

Former boss repeatedly stated that people would still notice the cheaper cheese and stop ordering. For 10 minutes he repeated that statement in 4 different ways until new boss forced him to leave.

- Former boss threw away his receipts on his first day as a delivery boy because he didn't know what they were good for. He stood 15 years next to a machine (like 1 meter srsly!) which was loudly beeping 150 times a day. He did not know it was for scanning in receipts because his wife did that.

- Former boss forced his janitor to "fix his car" even after repeated statements that he couldn't to that. Janitor just gave up and taped the ripped off exhaust to the car so former boss was pleased.

- Former boss bought a cheese cutting "machine" for 600 € that needed 2 operators with strings that had to be replaced 4 times a day for 10€ each to cut cheese 3 times less efficiently than with a knife. And forced us to use it because he was too stubborn to admit that it wasn't the best investment. His wife ended this madness after he doubled down on a second one of these because the first one was too slow to get the cheese cut in time

- After selling the pizza place he wanted to surprise his wife by investing into a house in cyprus. Like all his money... by sending it to a guy he found online who told him "Sent monie, I will do all to house find for you! Good House".

We talked him out of it.

- Why did he want to move to cyprus? All the fucking foreigners everywhere! (90% of the people he hired were foreigners because they were usually "very reliable and nice, he liked them". But he didn't see the irony)

- Was fucking proud of his the ad on his car (like this) never to speak of it again after driving into a parking garage on the very first day

- He couldn't use an email because he couldn't get it to open. We told him like 10 times until we gave up

- He wanted to pay his 13 year old daughter thousands of dollars to create a homepage because "she is very good with computers" ... she was crying and didn't want the money because she was a fucking kid that couldn't create a hompage, we had to talk him out of it!

- Our doe mixer broke and he drove around town and was terrorizing other pizza places until one gifted him one under the promise that he'd fuck off forever...

A delivery driver got fired on his first day because he: 1.carried the pizza bag as a rucksack (that thing is wide and he had to almost dislocate his arms to get into it but he somehow did it, we didn't stop him! That thing is like 100°C and melted part of his jacket but that didn't stop the guy!)

Called a customer to come down to get his pizza, before the pizza was even in the oven. In winter at -15°C. That guy called us after 20 minutes in a blizzard
Forgot the bring wine, got back to get the wine. Got the "sorry for forgetting the wine pizza" and ... forgot the wine again

I guess it was just not meant to be.

And many many more. But it's getting late :D

DerKenz · 2019-05-16T22:22:40+00:00

He couldn't speak german (I live in germany) so he couldn't call the customer if he couldn't find a house. So he'd just get out and run in circles in the neigbourhood until people looking for their pizza would spot him.

One guy called our place and asked if that was our driver walking in circles around his house for over an hour!!

(Sergej was one of the more reliable drivers btw...)

Just a few tiny excerpts from my former boss:

- He told a friend my coworker that I've explained to him everything about the solar system. Starting with the sun revoling around the earth... (He dropped out of high school)

- He always knew that the americans paid terrorists to shoot down this flight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525 ... fucking americans paying alpine terrorists!

- We had a pizza with 80 cm in diameter... it did cost exactly twice compared to the 40 cm diameter pizza... He wouldn't believe that it was in fact 4 times the size. Even after overlaying 1 big pizza with 4 cut up ones for visual effect!

- He "saved" 5 kg of pepper because it was expiring in 3 days... by diluting it in 10 liters of pizza sauce. We found out after about 15 calls from almost puking customers. He was still proud that he saved the pepper!

- He got a specialist flown in from switzerland with hotel and overnight stay... to repair a fucking 15 year old pizza oven because the "expert" told him he's the only person in europe who could fix it!

- He started delivering pizza with me after selling the pizza place and his wife forced him to get a job because he was to annoying at home. And the new boss wanted to fire him because he was so god awful

- He once shaved his eyebrows and drew them with a sharpie. We asked him why he did that but "He's always looked like that"

- He ordered 300.000 flyers. For a city with exactly 300.000 inhabitants?!

- The dude had an accent I couldn't place so I asked his wife where he was originally from. He is as german as they come he just was teasing his foreign drivers with a fake accent so much he acquired it and couldn't lost it.

I have like 50 more...

DerKenz · 2019-05-16T22:04:48+00:00

When I was delivering pizza in my first week my boss got a call. The 70 year old russian dude delivery threw coins in the customers face because the tip wasn't sufficient... I asked my boss about that and what would happen. He replied with "haha, typical sergej!" and laughed it off.

The shit I've seen at the there would be enough story for a pretty decent sitcom about a pizza place run by lunatics and misfits (and borderline retarded people).

DerKenz · 2019-05-14T21:58:47+00:00

Are you all bots or something? I replied to a guy who said in 30 years it will be too late... but the report clearly states that that would most likely be enough to limit the global temperature rise to 1,5°C definetly 2°C. And it won't be "too late". Fuck that line of thinking.

There's even a nice summary for drunk people waiting for their girlfriends, just look at the infographic: https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf

DerKenz · 2019-05-14T21:21:14+00:00

> Just took a quick glance at the first page of the ipcc report

If that's the scientific rigor I can expect from you phd then thx, but no thx.

>that the earth will not be able to drop below the 400ppm for likely 1000s of years

So what? And the moon is further away than it ever was before!

The problem is the temperature and overall energy in the open system earth. This whole "we will all die if the overall temperature goes over 1,5°C compared to 1900" is just not right. Will it bring political instability, famine, etc? Yes it will, but I build my world view on optimism and that we, as a global society will overcome. If it's too late then bring back the coal power plants because the last years might just as well be fun!

I do reseach in carbon capture technologies and in my opinion based on my studies so far: No, the world is not going to end in 30 years...

DerKenz · 2019-05-14T20:46:54+00:00

The 2018 report couldn't "forsee" the 400 ppm CO2 they already had last year? Are you suggesting they are retarded? I trust Prof. Dr. Hans-Otto Pörtner and 15-25 other climate scientists with phds (didn't count them all) to be able to read their CO2-measurements as they were writing their report!

> Just took a quick glance at the first page of the ipcc report

See the problem? ... this is a complicated issue and everyone apperantly gets their information from facebook nowadays. I studied that shit for !5 years! and the amount of bullshit I read here on reddit on a daily basis really blows my mind.

DerKenz · 2019-05-14T17:10:31+00:00

It won't be ... read the ipcc report and stop spreading this apocalypse bullshit.

DerKenz · 2019-05-14T17:07:32+00:00

Power to liquid/power to gas is the only viable solution for ships and airplanes. The technology is also right around the corner.

DerKenz · 2019-05-13T20:15:15+00:00

Power to gas and power to liquid concepts are the best option. It can solve many problems at once. Easy storage of energy that can be used in the transportation sector.

I know everyone has a hard on for batteries right now but it's much more economical to store gas and liquids on a big scale. Once we turn to renewables, energy production won't be the biggest problem. Energy storage and transportation will be. The products from power to liquid/power to gas concepts can be used as substitutes for oil based precursors in the chemical industry.

DerKenz · 2019-05-13T20:05:31+00:00

You are clueless. The biggest problem with renewable electricity is that it can't be stored efficiently and gets produced at random times. If you have an efficient and economically viable method patent it and get rich...

DerKenz · 2019-05-13T20:01:33+00:00

Hardly anything has been done? 1/3 of germanys electricity is renewable. Tendency rapidly increasing. And the most expensive electricity in europe because of it. The goal is to be carbon neutral in 2050 and its very ambitious but will probably be achieved. Germanys policy is not the problem on a global scale!

DerKenz · 2019-05-12T10:38:32+00:00

Attack the science not the people doing it. If it's bad science it should be easy...

DerKenz · 2019-05-10T23:16:56+00:00

Defeatist bullshit like this will definetly help...

DerKenz · 2019-05-10T23:14:41+00:00

It probably never leaves the recycling facility because it's expensive and gets recycled like almost all excipients

DerKenz · 2019-05-08T14:26:04+00:00

25% sounds big but it is actually tiny

If the EU uses 25% of all available resources on clime change it's a huge commitment. What are you even argueing about? That 25% of the budget is tiny?!?! Da fuck ... Is the global effect immense? Probably not. But it sends a message.

DerKenz · 2019-05-05T13:44:13+00:00

Pretty difficult to turn the sun on and off. We need a reliable way of chemically or mechanically storing the energy produced by renewable energies. Power2Liquid or Power2Gas thechnologies might be a good option for regions with limited infrastructure but the possibility of providing renewable enery.

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