My experience is different. Sensitive camera with a fast lens feels sort of like a night vision. In my case sony a7iii + 1.4 24mm lens can see so much more stars in Berlin. And that's on relatively fast shutter speed (hand handled) with no processing. Yes longer shutter speeds, contrast boosting, stacking etc then multiple this effect to another level.
Oh you can see many more starts, milky way is more clear etc that was not the point. I don't have much different setup (Nikon D750 + 20mm 1.8 which is actually a bit bigger glass than yours), but when you take picture from camera, its completely different from what you typically find presented from amateurs and pros alike.
The difference is that ridiculous amount over-processing, literally re-painting parts of picture ie to add more contrast to milky way. Once you know what goes inside making of such a picture, as a photographer you can't have much respect there, I know I can't.
Its same as celebrities with unnaturally smooth plasticky skin - when you know how they look like in real life even with tons of makeup, those shots over-processed on top of that look just cheap and bad taste.
The regulation gives absolutely insane incentives. In my case (old contract in hip mitte area), it was easier to keep it and for my gf to rent another apartment on the outskirt where her work is as she can deduct the full rent from tax. Effective price for renting two apartments is lower than one in between the center and suburb.
I don't see how that has anything to do with the rent control regulation? What would your expectation be without that regulation?
Doppelte Haushaltsführung is a tax relief for people needing a 2nd place close to work. Also the work of your gf needs to be at least 1 hour away from the main apartment [1], she has to pay at least 10% of the cost of the main apartment to be allowed to deduct it (and maybe more requirements that I'm forgetting right now). She also has to pay 15% additional Zweitwohnungssteuer on the rent of the 2nd apartment.
The situation was quite bizarre in Berlin last month as well. There was a march in Neukolln (hip/leftist neighbourhood with strong middle eastern immigrant population). Muslims and leftists openly screaming extremist anti-jewish slogans, claiming to fight the racial oppression.
While AFD (the right wing anti-immigration party labeled as fascist) opportunistically warned of raising antisemitism.
I used to argue with Iyad on Minekey (a place to have a twitter like arguments before twitter) 10+ years ago. We disagreed frequently. I always learnt something from his arguments so I befriended him on fb. Never would have I imagined how quickly can his innocent activism escalate to have an actual hit team dispatched to have him silenced.
I was the same, the only difference is my passport and government I criticize. Yet I live a normal life, never felt threatened or in danger. It made me realize how important and fragile are those values.
If they feel entitled to murder a US person like Khashoggi (and Trump did shield them, so that is not an irrational calculation on their part), no one is safe, whatever their passport.
The big inconvenience of encrypted netflix content is that I cannot run it through madvr for better upscale 1080p->4k, the paradox is that a free torrent content might in the end take less size and look better. And let's not forget about some phones (poco f1) where netflix only allows lq because of missing Widevine L1.
Moved to Berlin 4 years ago as a software developer under similar conditions like yours.
Things I like:
- Berlin is nice city to live in, cheap to transport (bike, shared bikes/cars, nice public transport)
- very cheap and good quality basic groceries - meat, dairies, pastry is really cheap with great basic quality and you can always go for organic and more expensive variants, cheap restaurants and bars, relatively inexpensive housing
- Berlin has decent flight connections around Europe + easily reachable Amsterdam, Prague, Copenhagen by car
- No crazy workaholic culture (nothing compared to the US), lot of holidays and taking a sick leave is easy and covered by law, 8 hours of work per day
- Nice engineering meetups and community
Things I dislike:
- getting a decent apartment might be really difficult now days, even more difficult than getting a job
- Berlin is not so visually pleasing
- sometimes it's difficult if you dont speak german well
There is no fanatism involved. The no deal scenario is optimal for the EU while not so much for the UK. WTO forbids cherry picked tariffs on other WTO members and the EU export to the UK consists mostly of capital goods and final goods (machinery, cars, foods). The UK exports services which Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam lobby to get a slice of. Cross-border financial services are easier to restrict.
Juncker was a leader of the party that won European Parliament elections. The rest of the commission is appointed by the elected Parliament as well. Let's compare this to let's say House of Lords.
Germany was the main opponent of lowering the interest rate to 0 and launching QE, they obviously failed, no Germany is not suddenly in control of the Euro.
I am myself not a big proponent of the EU, but let's keep criticism where it's due and don't raise conspiracies about sudden german control of the Euro.
> "Let's compare this to let's say House of Lords."
Yes, lets.
For the most part, the role of the House of Lords is to refine the work that is done by the House of Commons. In other words, they act as an advisory body. It's the House of Commons that makes the decisions on what laws to propose, that sets the political direction for the country. The House of Lords proposes no laws themselves, and aside from exceptional circumstances they cannot block legislation that is proposed by the House of Commons.
Compare that to the EU. The European Parliament, where the bulk of the elected representatives sit, cannot propose new laws, they can only refine what gets proposed by the European Commission. In other words, it's the inverse of the UK system.
Well, yes it is possible and there are development stacks that support it (Este). You will not be able to reuse visual components as native renderers to native components and react to html, but you can go around it by abstracting your UI and implementing two UI libraries (native, web) with the same API. Then you will be able to reuse most of your code.
Technically I think it is possible to achieve a decent amount of code reuse, but I feel product requirements usually require different functionalities that might make code reuse more difficult, ie. user input touch/swipe vs click.
