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by flakeoil 4y ago
Exactly this. Per capita 42.1MWh for Germany vs 76.6MWh for USA in 2021 (before the war and any special energy savings) [1]. The living standard is comparable and the output per GDP is 0.98kWh for Germany vs 1.48kWh for the USA (in 2018) [2
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by flakeoil 4y ago
What an attitude. Apart from that, Romania's energy consumption comes 75% from coal, oil and gas. THAT is something that does not makes sense and something that is SUPER SAD. And to walk around in shorts and t-shirt in the winter when
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by flakeoil 4y ago
It might be worth using hardware that is more adapted and tested for use with Linux such as Framework, System76, Starlabs, Tuxedo etc. Typically these computers have better HW driver support than some others and also a HW company with an in
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Maybe so, but 30-40% is often enough to be a market leader. And within the IT segment as a whole they for sure are dominant. And in such a large segment the market share limit should definitely be much lower than in a narrow segment for it
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Also a dictator can be overthrown.
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Yes, Microsoft should be broken up. It's scary how they have their tentacles everywhere. Both Consumer and Business focused. OS, PCs, Browser, search engine, Ad network, professional social network, news outlet, cloud infra, cloud tool
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Should Einstein not be allowed to use a calculator and instead waste his time on performing the calculations by hand?
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Well, isn't that what this plugin system is meant to solve? You can get up to date information into ChatGPT.
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by flakeoil 4y ago
What would that help? Counter mad-men with too powerful weapons is difficult and often lead to war. Classic wars or software/DDoS/virus wars or robot wars or whatever.
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by flakeoil 4y ago
> Either way, It's not hard to see that this kind of instrument is not something that an unsophisticated retail investor should be buying, ever. It's something that no-one should buy and something that should not exist at all.
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by flakeoil 4y ago
What's good for banking is not good for the people.
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by flakeoil 4y ago
For reference, around the year 2000 the interest rates were around 5% (the fed rate). So, no, in general terms there were no easy money then compared to today (or the years up to today). But sure, a lot of the money that was around at that
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by flakeoil 4y ago
The magazines you can read on Readly are the full prints at least. Like a pdf-version of the hard copy magazine. I tried it for a couple of months and I did not see any difference or pages missing.
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by flakeoil 4y ago
It's at least the most likely option. The US had most to win from this. This removed Putin having the pipeline as a negotiation tactic. Putin could already turn it on and off as he pleased. For the US there were no big consequences eit
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Why should Norway of all countries notice it if it was happening within Swedish and Danish waters? And how to expect a Navy/Army/Air-force to notice and study in detail what every little boat is doing. And even more difficult to n
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Merkel is probably the worst German politician since...you know that guy. Japan has a nuclear accident, caused by a tsunami and partly due to known issues in the power plant. Merkel: "Oh no, let's close down all our nuclear power
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by flakeoil 4y ago
You could try readly.com. It's around 12 USD/month for a huge amount of magazines and news papers.
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Whatever the number, relatively speaking, it's basically peanuts compared to the number and value of the wafers and chips they are spitting out. It's advanced machines doing most of it, and there is an operator handling each machi
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by flakeoil 4y ago
This thread with NPV is confusing the liquidity issue with the profit of the bond investment. The issue for this bank was not if this was a good or bad investment in the long run (these bonds might very well turn out to be a good investment
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by flakeoil 4y ago
A semiconductor fab does not require that many people so the wages should not matter that much. And the relative amount invested is probably not that important. For the US it's important that there is at least some fairly high volume p
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Well, Kuka for one, is not German anymore. It's owned by a Chinese company.
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by flakeoil 4y ago
> IMO where Philips went wrong is selling off their name for everything they weren't interested in to cheap brands, totally undermining their name. I'm curious, to which companies/products has Philips sold their name to?
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by flakeoil 4y ago
> China is low end manufacture and has not moved meaningfully out of that niche at all. Eh, just about everything is manufactured in China. It's hard to find anything that cannot be manufactured there. It's however easy to find
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by flakeoil 4y ago
It's kind of similar to audio vs video. Although audio requires less data and processing than video, it's much more difficult to get the audio good than the video and if the audio is bad or even missing for some time, it's us
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by flakeoil 4y ago
If you have a family and your family uses all this self-hosted stuff (backup, file storage, email etc), what would happen when you die or get a serious health issue? Do you think your spouse or kids can get the data out themselves? No-one w
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by flakeoil 4y ago
That's worse and confusing for the end user in the long run. It's also difficult and costly to keep two development lines in parallel. And confusing when giving support. My bank still has an old and a new site (or at least design)
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by flakeoil 4y ago
I have the same issue with "finish setting up your device". I don't understand how this can be legal. In the early 2000 MS got fined for bundling IE as default, but I seriously think they have even more evil patterns now bake
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Yes, it's funny how a huge amount of listed companies in the US have lawsuits against them because their stocks have gone down. Lawyers looking for clients who lost some money and then they sue. The lawyer earns money no matter what, a
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Parent commenter here. Actually, as someone above answered in the thread above, the slow Snap startup seems to be fixed.
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by flakeoil 4y ago
> Apparently this is fixed Thanks, good to know. I had this issue with Bitwarden. I'm testing it now and it seems to be much faster than some weeks ago so that's nice.

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