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Comment · 1 month ago
If it definitely had to be market value, then the law probably would've been worded differently?

It says the compensation is determined as a balance of public good and the interests of those affected, so to me it does read like the compensation can be lower than market value so it'd all come down the courts to determine how much below the market value the state can get away with.

Comment · 1 month ago
The constitutional court revoked the "Mietendeckel" law which is a different one (rental cap for all apartments in the city).

This sort of nationalisation has never been to trial.

Comment · 1 month ago
Correction: It's a reflection of demand from people who already live in Berlin. That's who were allowed to vote in the referendum.

They don't care about the elasticity of the market, or the demand from people who would want to live in Berlin in the future.

They already have an apartment, and at pretty low prices because nearly everything built before 2014 is subject to rent control,

I'd guess most people just voted for it because in their eyes "government promised to take apartment from my landlord and lower my rent even more".

Comment · 1 month ago
Berlin already has fines against letting an apartment sit empty without reason, if they're empty, they're empty for a reason or eating the fine is cheaper than the cost of renting it out.
Comment · 1 month ago
Still the same companies Deutsche Wohnen and Vonovia but I agree with the second part.

Their yearly profits are capped because of the Mietpreisbremse (rent control) law since all the old buildings that they bought would fall under it, so it would've been better to put the money towards either building new state-owned housing or helping the tenants enforce their rights.

The laws are there to protect tenants against neglect from the landlord but enforcement takes multiple months which is not a reasonable timeline if you have a problem in your apartment and the consequences for landlord are mostly just reducing the rent for that time by a certain percentage which doesn't make a difference if the rents are already cheap because of the Mietpreisbremse, so it would also be good to introduce fines but not sure if Germany's legal framework allows for that.

Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
50% reduction in cost charged to customers, inference cost may as well be the same, we don't know.
Comment · 7 months ago
*Naamche Bazaar
Comment · 7 months ago
In Nepal, my parents always warned me before eating at some rest stops because they said the food was doctored with baking soda to make you feel fuller, guess it was true after all and not just an urban legend heh.
Comment · 7 months ago
Can apps detect whether the advanced flow for sideloading is enabled or not?
Comment · 7 months ago
Why'd the battery be related to the keyboard issue?
Comment · 7 months ago
That looks neat although your package is missing a link to the source repository.
Comment · 10 months ago
If you don't have the original executable on hand:

localStorage.setItem('vcsky.haveOriginalGame', "true")

I haven't checked further than the third mission

Comment · 1 year ago
Calling someone an asshole, or calling them a racist if they seem to discriminate you based on your race, saying a restaurant isn't good etc. can very easily get you sued in Germany.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think the breadth vs depth thing applies here as well, the PhD will know more about the topic they're researching of course.

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