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by choeger 5y ago
... fill a spreadsheet.
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by choeger 5y ago
German highways are safer than most highways of most neighboring countries anduch safer than German country roads. They are also getting safer every year. And any speed limit will reduce CO2 emissions, that much should be clear. The real
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by choeger 5y ago
Well, for a truly carbon-free society, everyone has to do their parts. So no pasta for you anymore after 2030 ;).
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by choeger 5y ago
I have the feeling that technologies like this (including these kites and also Flettner sails) are too little too late. While a 20% saving on fuel is great news for the operators of these ships (if the sails themselves are low-maintenance),
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by choeger 5y ago
I absolutely agree with your point about diversity. But us advocates need to understand this "pragmatic" view and counter it properly. Normally, the argument that works is: "Do you monitor the thread stack size on $POPULAR_PL
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by choeger 5y ago
Usable for what, though? If the criterion is correctness, I'd bet good money that Haskell would beat python in any fair comparison. Just because there are languages that let you forget the complexities of your domain doesn't mean
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by choeger 5y ago
I think the author(s) of the article is(are) just a tad sloppy. They also claim cobalt makes up to 20% of a lithium ion battery when the article they cite for that claim only speaks about the cathode.
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by choeger 5y ago
Planes. It is actually rather simple. Airports are extremely expensive of course, but if you build three airports you have three connections. Four airports give six. Five airports ten... Each of these connections require dedicated tracks if
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by choeger 5y ago
That hotel night might not be necessary when you take a plane, though. Maybe you just safe a day of vacation instead? In that case, how much money does the plane trip safe you ?
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by choeger 5y ago
> If we correctly price externalities (i.e. environmental cost) then the train should win hands down! I would not be so certain on that one. The downside of trains is the massive infrastructure requirements. I don't think there ar
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by choeger 5y ago
Yeah, that's an interesting find. Some clandestine operation, maybe?
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by choeger 5y ago
Then your relatives did not tell you the whole story or should go to court over their taxation. German courts have made it pretty clear that pension income that was taxed when paying must not be taxed again. The decision is from May so you
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by choeger 5y ago
> Suddenly they were told they would need to pay tax on their pensions and oh btw. you should really have started paying into private pension like a decade or so ago. That's not true. The taxation of pensions in Germany is a gradual
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by choeger 5y ago
I don't think so. At least every insurance I ever bought had very precise definitions of the monetary obligations for each party. I think the highest would be my car's mandatory insurance (capped at, I think 20M€ per damaged perso
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by choeger 5y ago
But health care is, or rather shouldn't be, an insurance. Otherwise the company would say: "Sorry to hear you got cancer, here's your cheque. Please don't bother us anymore, as we terminate our contract. All the best.&qu
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by choeger 5y ago
Did you consider that the OCD could get worse due to the negative effects of the OCD, e.g., bad performance in the job or problems with the patient's relationships to friends and family? If such a feedback loop exists, breaking it can
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by choeger 5y ago
Well, banks do not hold cash. Cash is always held by the central bank (that's where the other banks have their accounts). Nowadays, this can easily involve negative interest rates. So if a bank now buys some security back from the cent
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by choeger 5y ago
Well, technically, that's right. Fusion is a chain reaction. (albeit, "chain" might be a stretch here. Let's say it is a continuous process in stars.) But it's driven by gravity, not neutrons. You just need to bri
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by choeger 5y ago
So all we need to do is to get these pesky 0.3% out of our atmosphere, right? Let me do a few quick calculations ... Ok, ..., thats, ..., 520 trillion watt years. So, if we create 5.2 10^6 sqkm of photovoltaics farms, say by covering half o
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by choeger 5y ago
Hmm, good luck trying this with scrum: Planning meeting for sprint 23. "I think we're done." "How can we be done?" "All agreed-upon features have been implemented." "Aha, but this user story here, tha
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by choeger 5y ago
Interestingly, such a law does nothing against proper criminals. People that know they have incriminating evidence will either not carry it on their phones or uses some form of steganography to hide it perfectly. In the worst case, they wil
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by choeger 5y ago
Density. Renewables use an insane amount of space (arguably wind energy can leave some space literally below it). (I leave mining operations out for simplification because such operations are necessary for both renewables and fission energy
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by choeger 5y ago
The EU has decided to be carbon neutral by 2050. That doesn't mean they will succeed, of course, but it's still somewhat bold to claim "no country will". Also the USA have reentered the Paris climate accords. So at least
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by choeger 5y ago
Shouldn't you be able to test an IC?
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by choeger 5y ago
Underrated comment. While this shows how stupid it is to be radical in a country like Switzerland, it also implies a huge problem for the US to fulfill the Paris goal. Switzerland (and to some degree the rest of Europe) have mostly only the
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by choeger 5y ago
If the problem really comes from incorrect code in Firefox then I don't think that backwards compatibility is even possible. Consider the possibility that it was actually a bug in the Rust compiler that let this code pass. What should
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by choeger 5y ago
There is a very similar situation in Germany. The reason behind this is that you can use older POS systems for tax fraud (I never fully understood the details), which apparently was quite a thing amongst smaller businesses. The tax authorit
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by choeger 5y ago
GCC specifically has bootstrapping as a feature in the build system. They take care to document which older version of GCC is required to build a newer versions. If you pick a version that doesn't rely on C++ (4.x IIRC) you can compile
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by choeger 5y ago
That happens quite often, indeed. My theory for this works as follows: 1. People do not have the time (or think they do not have the time) to read documentation for more than 5min by default. They need to consciously allocated that time. 2.
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by choeger 5y ago
I don't think this is about human readability (albeit it might be to some extent during the design phase). Instead, I think this was the sensible thing to do when byte order was way more variable across a network. If you only send sing

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