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> The travel time between, e.g., Berlin and Paris is something like four to five times as long as by plane.

I think your estimate is quite off here: Train connections from Berlin to Paris take about 8.5 hours. Flights take 1 hour and 50 minutes plus the overhead time for traveling to and from the airport, security and taxiing. Just let's suppose that this will be 2.5 hours in total, which would be very fast. So we are comparing 8.5 hours with 4.5 hours. So, the factor is less than two rather than the four to five you suggested.

I can only speak for the use in the German language:

The German language allows you to compose several words into one long word, which is no longer structured by spaces. This can lead to ambiguities, especially where a sub-word ends with an S. Due to the rule that words always end with a round S, these ambiguities were resolved.

Examples from German wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langes_s

Kreiſchen (Krei·schen, shouting) vs Kreischen (Kreis·chen, a small circle)

Verſendung (Ver·sen·dung, posting) und Versendung (Vers·en·dung, end of a verse)

Yes, the train rides were in the night programme of ARD during the 90s [1]. Meanwhile, the other public German TV channel ZDF did the contrast program with a different mode of transportation: They had dash cam views of car rides [2].

[1] https://youtu.be/7ycjaWRnETU [2] https://youtu.be/2jI-Sn_X7x4?t=213

Elasticsearch is actually using SecurityManager with quite thoroughly locked down policies; and it seems that this actually saved ES from being vulnerable to the RCE.

The irony is now that OpenJDK just recently decided to deprecate the SecurityManager in Java 17 and remove it in Java 18.

See also this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/rcmuir/status/1469730949810339843

Trust would also include to consider that there might be a reason for why the code is the way it is, even if it is not directly obvious.

A brief chat can then help to clarify things.

The official commemoration ceremony with all German top politicians took place at Bernauer Straße. That was probably the reason why the street was blocked by police.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/gedenken-an-mauerbau-steinmei...

The border between West and East Germany was already heavily fortified in 1952. So, during the nine years until 1961, West Berlin was indeed a kind of porthole to the west.

The reasons why the East German government did not close the border within Berlin are complex. For example the Sowjets first had the goal to make Berlin an independent but unified city. But there were also economical and logistical issues: The border would cut important railway transport routes for East Berlin, for which a replacement was only completed in 1961.

People just will worry about apps which suddenly appear on their phones without their action. And this is totally justified, as the chance that this could be something malicious is much higher than being something non-malicious.

Having said that, I totally agree that German government should have done more to push the Corona Warn App - but only in public relation terms. I totally think Corona Warn App does not live to its full potential in Germany because it is not installed widely enough. But you just cannot do this by force.

IMHO, especially housing on the southern strip would massively influence the character of the space.

If you ask people, what makes the space special, you will very often get the answer, that it is the space's openness and breadth.

This impression is especially created by the southern strip, as open space continues also beyond of it: first, the railway (Ringbahn), after that the city highway and after that relatively low-rise industrial buildings.

If you would build on the southern part, this view would be cut off much earlier.

IMHO, if one wants to build housing on the field while keeping its character, one needs to build on the south-west corner - kind of as a continuation of the terminal building - or in the north-east corner.

The main Tegel terminal buildings will be converted to house research institutes; this will be the core of a project with the fancy name "Urban Tech Republic".

The eastern part of the airfield will be used to build new residential housing ("Schumacher Quartier").

These are quite ambitious plans, construction is expected to complete not before 2027.

See here for more details:

https://www.tegelprojekt.de/en.html https://www.schumacher-quartier.de/