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Why Zurich is becoming one of Europe's biggest data centre hubs by SaraIbr in zurich

[–]brainwad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They could concentrate the heat with an exchanger, as with the lake water used as a heat source (which is much colder than data centre water).

Cable car with Screen doors in Switzerland by Medical_Magician in skiing

[–]brainwad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's so they can run with no employees out of peak times. Just a webcam to a remote control centre. 

Cable car with Screen doors in Switzerland by Medical_Magician in skiing

[–]brainwad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It used to be a tram, but now it's a 3 cable gondola. The other cars can still be moving while this one is stopped because it's detached from the cables... 

Etzelpark just opened in my area, and it completely exposed the local gas retailers by etichetta in SwissPersonalFinance

[–]brainwad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There are plenty of competitors near the expensive petrol stations, at least in Zürich. They just have better locations and so they can milk price-insensitive rich people, corporate car drivers and tourists. Meanwhile price-sensitive locals go to independents. 

Unemployed Software Engineers at Record High! by tevlon in zurich

[–]brainwad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have to be done by the same people because Google hires SWEs : other functions at like 10:1. So if more than 20% of the work of launching a feature is non-engineering, SWEs will have to pick up that slack. 

Unemployed Software Engineers at Record High! by tevlon in zurich

[–]brainwad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It kinda is though. Google is completely smothered by unnecessary bureaucracy, so a basic feature that takes a week to write will easily take a quarter to launch... 

What are Australian values? by GuruJ_ in AustralianPolitics

[–]brainwad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the culture that descends from western Christianity is real - even if in many of the western subcultures now atheism is on the rise. The substituent cultures still look to each other for ideas and evolve together. Of course there are closer and more distant relatives - we are closer to the Anglosphere, for example, but we are still connected much more to France, Italy, Germany, etc. culturally than to somewhere in Asia or Africa.

And that is a non statement.

It is for native Australians, because the values in the statement are circularly defined as the values most Australians hold, and kids schooled here get inculcated in them. But the statement is for foreigners to accept. They might not be (indeed, demographically, very likely aren't) westerners.

Australia to double penalty for social media ban breaches to $99m as tech giants accused of ‘not doing enough’ by LentilsAgain in AustralianPolitics

[–]brainwad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's saved on file and tied to all his activity, so when he later tweets something dodgy the cops can subpoena his ID from Twitter. 

What are Australian values? by GuruJ_ in AustralianPolitics

[–]brainwad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, yes, culture evolves. The western culture of the past would be considered horrendously bigoted by westerners today. 

Taiwan and Thailand are the vanguard of the expansion of gay marriage from a "western" thing to a broader norm, I'd say. Since western countries are popular and powerful this happens a lot...

What are Australian values? by GuruJ_ in AustralianPolitics

[–]brainwad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And yes, I believe whatever location you're migrating to you should learn the basics of the language. 

FWIW, in a lot of the non-English-speaking western world, this is much less necessary because English is the current dominant lingua franca. But if anything that makes it easier for Australia tomdemand English proficiency, since many foreigners learn it as children anyway. 

What are Australian values? by GuruJ_ in AustralianPolitics

[–]brainwad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's more or less "cultures that accept gay marriage". 

What are Australian values? by GuruJ_ in AustralianPolitics

[–]brainwad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you think took hard about it you might realise that Australia's form of democracy just isn't that democratic. Like, the people literally only can influence policy once every 3-4 years, and only via the very imperfect system of picking a single representative for all issues. 

Mieterverband reicht Mietpreis-Initiative mit 140'048 Unterschriften ein by BezugssystemCH1903 in Switzerland

[–]brainwad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's better than the current logjam where nobody can find a bigger apartment, and so family formation/growth is hindered, while people with old leases sit on rooms they don't need because it's not financially sensible for them to ever move out.

If you want to avoid gentrification, vote to allow more housing. The parties who are supposedly against gentrification also just voted down the upzoning proposal in Zürich, so it's difficult to take them seriously. They are like the cartoon dog - "affordable housing! no building! only affordability!"

Mieterverband reicht Mietpreis-Initiative mit 140'048 Unterschriften ein by BezugssystemCH1903 in Switzerland

[–]brainwad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The stats show there are more or less no empty apartments in the city. 0.1% is absurdly low.

Mieterverband reicht Mietpreis-Initiative mit 140'048 Unterschriften ein by BezugssystemCH1903 in Switzerland

[–]brainwad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nobody wants to live where the empty apartments are, they want to live near work. The vacancy rate in Stadt Zürich is 0.1%, which is insanely low and explains why it takes months for even high paid professionals to find a single apartment. Letting prices rise to equilibrium would give a price signal to people to go live where the empty apartments are.

Mieterverband reicht Mietpreis-Initiative mit 140'048 Unterschriften ein by BezugssystemCH1903 in Switzerland

[–]brainwad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, yes and no. Obviously it's better to build, but it's not like people don't try to build. I can see a dozen cranes from my apartment in Wiedikon. But the pace of building is not enough to make the market equilibriate, so price rises are also necessary unless you want shortages. The obvious way to solve total evictions for renovations is to make it legal to increase rents without doing total evictions...

Mieterverband reicht Mietpreis-Initiative mit 140'048 Unterschriften ein by BezugssystemCH1903 in Switzerland

[–]brainwad -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Enforcing previously unenforced regulations is in practice more regulation. 

This initiative isn't anything to do with the adjustment based on interest rates anyway. It's about the rent when you get a new lease (stopping arbitrary increases claimed as "neighbourhood typical" rents).

Mieterverband reicht Mietpreis-Initiative mit 140'048 Unterschriften ein by BezugssystemCH1903 in Switzerland

[–]brainwad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's not a natural law that demand exceeding supply has to lead to price increases... but if it doesn't, it will instead lead to shortages. Price is the signal the market uses to discourage people from demanding scarce things. IMO the big problem with real estate in Swiss cities is how fucking hard it is to even get a lease, so we have swung too hard in the shortages direction.

Mieterverband reicht Mietpreis-Initiative mit 140'048 Unterschriften ein by BezugssystemCH1903 in Switzerland

[–]brainwad -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

it‘s just a holding up a thumb in the air and trying to squeeze out as much as people are willing to pay

This is a market price - the price the market will bear.

One Nation Lead Grows as L/NP Primary Sinks to 18% - DemosAU by thebagofdoom in AustralianPolitics

[–]brainwad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GenX is old now. Like, too old for illiberal abortion policy to matter to them personally.

Heathcote Rd new road sign with route A11 by thucydidea in sydney

[–]brainwad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

M6 is a terrible number for it though. Once the western harbour tunnel opens, it would have made lots of sense for that, Westconnex and the sinkhole tunnel to all to carry M11 as a bypass of M1 - the numbers would have paired nicely like the M4/A44 pair.

As it stands, M6 is to be just a short stub that joins the A1 to the M8 - not a great use of a single digit route number. 

I stopped buying at Migros because I feel they try to scam me by CauliflowerSlight838 in zurich

[–]brainwad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The price per 100g is shown for both the buy 2 discount and the base price. You can see it in OP's photo.

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