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by fundatus 2y ago
Energy consumption has been surprisingly stable in "the west" over the past decades. See the US for example: 2002: 2,256 MTOE 2012: 2,152 MTOE 2022: 2,182 MTOE (MTOE = Tonne of oil equivalent) Source: https://yearbook.e
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by fundatus 2y ago
It's actually pretty simple: Nuclear is very expensive, takes ages to build, and is very inflexible. That's why the share of nuclear energy is declining globally. It has nothing to do with safety concerns or "treehuggers&quot
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by fundatus 3y ago
Nuclear energy was phased down because of emotional / ideological decisions (by all parties!) and it will not come back because it can't compete economically with renewables nowadays. It's as simple as that.
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by fundatus 3y ago
Obviously, but as I said it's much more complex and therefore more expensive to do. With a negligible effect.
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by fundatus 3y ago
How? The current system is super simple: revenue * 0.7 = total payout total payout / no. of streams = payout per stream payout per stream * streams of an artist = payout for artist In the proposed system you'd have to calculate th
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by fundatus 3y ago
Seriously, if you're a small artist with less than 1,000 streams per YEAR on your tracks, Spotify (or any streaming service for that matter) is already today not a relevant income stream at all.
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by fundatus 3y ago
Because that would be extremely complex and expensive to do for a negligible effect.
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by fundatus 3y ago
Well, since Mozilla will have to pay 50ct per year per install to Apple to actually bring Firefox to iOS, I doubt it will happen unfortunately.
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by fundatus 3y ago
Unfortunately fines are a net zero from the EU's perspective, as fines are simply deducted from the EU contributions paid by its members.
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by fundatus 3y ago
Ahem, you do realize that Safari on iOS exists right? Only thing Apple is doing here is exposing the same APIs they used to implement Safari to non-Apple devs. Probably with some adjustments, but certainly not millions of lines of code.
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by fundatus 3y ago
The EU's single market is the second largest economy (GDP nominal) in the world after the US and before China.
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by fundatus 3y ago
> Building modernized VoIP-based landlines that still offer the 48V analog POTS interface would be phenomenally expensive Not sure about that, this was done for the whole German phone network a couple of years ago. People can still have
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by fundatus 3y ago
It already exists: https://www.alternativeairlines.com/airlines-not-flying-boei...
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by fundatus 3y ago
Not comparable at all. Airplanes are flown by trained professionals who know exactly what Autopilot can and cannot do. Regular consumers don't know these differences though and Tesla deliberately uses this ambiguity to deceive their ow
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by fundatus 3y ago
> remembering my spot in a playlist Can you elaborate? Seriously curious how that exactly would look like.
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by fundatus 3y ago
Accidents/breakdowns per 1.000 cars is obviously not the same thing as number of failed inspections. Also: All new cars in that price range have excellent stats in the statistic you mentioned.
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by fundatus 3y ago
Yeah, I was wondering if that could be the full dump. I know how far compression algorithms have come, but 318MB for all the subtitles of the world ? Would be interesting to know though how large a full dump would be.
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by fundatus 3y ago
Last time I tried to encode a video from H.264 to HEVC (hw-accelerated) on Linux it was such a pain to get to work that I eventually gave up and simply accepted the performance hit. I'm sorry, but I'm not gonna recompile ffmpeg so
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by fundatus 3y ago
I guess their focus was to actually solve the issue. Now once everything is stable the people that were involved in fixing this will have the time and capacity to share what they found. I'm sure we'll see a blogpost with more deta
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by fundatus 3y ago
> EU might have geopolitical aims, but not much capability, so I see Horizon as not very strong in that area, if at all. The EU has quite some capacity to project power worldwide. Especially when it comes to trade and regulation. Surely
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by fundatus 3y ago
This analogy doesn't work, because it assumes that "roads any vehicle can drive on" is the default position outside the EU. But that's precisely not the case here - the default position in the Non-EU world is that cross-
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by fundatus 3y ago
Last time I went to China (2018) you could simply get a China Unicom Hong Kong SIM card and then use that to roam in mainland China. With that you'd get the Hong Kong censorship level, which is much much less restrictive. No VPN or any
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by fundatus 3y ago
Any inflexible source of electricity will be a huge burden in the future (and already is today to some extent). Mark my words.
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by fundatus 3y ago
> they used to have fossil free nuclear power. fossil-free, but not emission-free and also not independent from other countries. I am not against nuclear at all, but I am convinced that the future belongs to renewables for a multitude of
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by fundatus 3y ago
> While I agree with everything else you said, this is only technically true, last I checked. Only small island nations had more expensive electricity. That's probably right if you take last year's prices (these were insane, th
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by fundatus 3y ago
Last year France imported more electricity from Germany than it exported.
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by fundatus 3y ago
Your claims are wildy misleading. Last winter, renewables contributed almost 50% to the German electricity mix. You're using the value for overall _energy_ though, which includes heating which is of course still using fossil fuels for
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by fundatus 3y ago
Would I prefer if we would have kept the nuclear plants running for longer? Yes! Is that the reality? No. So instead of crying after an energy source of the last century (nuclear) I'm all for now building a 100% emission-free, decentra
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by fundatus 3y ago
The decision to phase all of them out has already been made, the next plant will be turned off in a couple of weeks. Also, massive storage capacity is being installed already: 1 GWh of small-scale home storage was added in the first quarter
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by fundatus 3y ago
For sure, but the negative prices indicate quite clearly that the storage capacity is way too low (unfortunately). In case our storage capacity would be just right, prices would never be negative.

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