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by foepys 4y ago
While true, how long can the car heat the batteries before it's practically unusable because the battery has depleted so much you need to charge it again before driving to work? Not everybody has a charging port at home, especially in
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by foepys 4y ago
You only talk about fatalities but people can get hit by cars without dying and be still in urgent need of an ambulance (often so they don't die later).
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by foepys 4y ago
I have stayed at multiple hotels where a machine hands out key cards or numeric access codes when you enter your name and date of birth. When you leave you just throw the key card into a box or feed it back into the machine. No smartphone n
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by foepys 4y ago
> The claim that “accessible public transportation” can produce greater equality ignores the fact that mass transit, whether private or public, has generally been used mainly by an elite. In 2019, the median income of people who commuted
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by foepys 4y ago
Murdoch has little to no influence in the non-English speaking world. "The West" is a lot more than just USA, UK, and Australia.
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by foepys 4y ago
There is no "public domain" in the EU. Did he cross-license it with CC0 or similar? Otherwise his works are still protected in the EU and he or his estate can still sue for copyright infringement.
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by foepys 4y ago
The person buying is usually on planet earth and inside a country. This country is where the profit was made.
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by foepys 4y ago
Germany was quite advanced when it came to technology but then the drive to make more of it somehow stopped. It has always been incredibly sad to me that the German ID card (Personalausweis) has an RFID chip inside with trust zones, certifi
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by foepys 4y ago
In Europe there is regulatory pressure to open all publicly accessible charging stations to be open to all vehicles. If superchargers are Tesla's main advantage, they are not only in competition with auto makers but with all electricit
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by foepys 4y ago
All laws also apply to EU companies plus EU companies have to adhere to EU laws from the start while non-EU companies can focus on more lenient regulations until they are ready to move into the EU market. If anything this kind of legislatio
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by foepys 4y ago
Where? Quite a few towns and smaller cities don't have any LGBTQ+ friendly places to meet, some are even actively hostile.
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by foepys 4y ago
> I hope we will spend more people talking to each other in real life, which actually makes me happy that dead internet is happening. This is certainly true for the majority of people but will be very bad for people who don't fit in
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by foepys 4y ago
This is not correct. A major of a town activated the town's sirens but because the only state-wide protocol in place was for citizens to return home or stay inside and turn on radio or TV, this was counterproductive. Plus, public radio
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by foepys 4y ago
France guarantees its citizens a price by subsidizing the difference to market price with state funds.
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by foepys 4y ago
France (which built out nuclear power like no other country) is a big importer of this electricity because their nuclear power plants are largely shut down due to urgent maintenance work. Paris is in the process of doing exercises to prepar
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by foepys 4y ago
This wasn't done because of a failed test. Only after over 100 people drowned in their homes in July 2021 because every single layer of the government failed to warn people about flooding they decided to do something .
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by foepys 4y ago
Cell Broadcast is part of GSM since 1995. It's the phone manufacturers' fault that it doesn't work properly. Other countries have been using it for years now. SMS also gets ignored all the time since spam and fraud over it is
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by foepys 4y ago
In times of worker shortages, if your workers hate your equipment, they will simply leave for a competitor who values them more.
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by foepys 4y ago
To elaborate: The scammer rents an Airbnb (or similar) and makes an excuse why they aren't present for a tour but gives you a pin/code for a key box. Then they tell you that all furniture (it's an Airbnb after all) can be put
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by foepys 4y ago
Both can be true at the same time. You can have a very slow program startup time but once it is up, it's very responsive to inputs.
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by foepys 4y ago
But you cannot change the reference itself which is possible in languages like C, C++, C#, and many more.
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by foepys 4y ago
This was a thing in the 1970s in parts of Germany. Busses used those battery trailers and swapped them out at charging stations. Diesel got too cheap and batteries where not good enough back then to make it worth the effort.
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by foepys 4y ago
The myth that young people know more about the internet just because they grew up with it needs to die. It's just not true. The average teen doesn't know more about technology than the average boomer does. Even a 2 y/o knows
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by foepys 4y ago
They probably are peering locally, just not publicly. In Germany the largest ISP Deutsche Telekom is not peering publicly in any meaningful manner. To get access to their customers you need to pay them a lot of money and connect to their ne
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by foepys 4y ago
You can download one right now, for free at lineageos.org. So I don't get your point
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by foepys 4y ago
Is it? With the Android Open Source Project you can create your own completely Google-free Android distribution that you can install on quite a lot of devices. Not that I like Google, I actually actively dislike it and hate all the anti-com
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by foepys 4y ago
It could lead to billions in fines for Microsoft. Up to 4% global revenue - for each EU country.
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by foepys 4y ago
How can you be so sure that the popular dating platforms behave ethically? On all the most popular platforms the match algorithms are determining who you get to see. You cannot simply browse all profiles anymore and make a decision for your
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by foepys 4y ago
> Why would exchanging numbers […] with someone be a goal? Because it is the next step on the way to exclusivity. On the dating platform you are one of potentially hundreds (or thousands) of message chains and easily overlooked. In their
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by foepys 4y ago
Some people cannot write well and rather chat in person.

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