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by fundatus 5y ago
If "payout per stream" is an important metric to you, then Apple Music is still the wrong choice though. Just like Spotify their payout per stream is still only mediocre. Tidal pays about twice as much per stream compared to Apple
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TSMC in Early-Stage Contact with Germany About Potential Plant(bloomberg.com)
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by fundatus 5y ago
It's not a token, but similar: Europe has Direct Debit mandates, which you give to the biller and they can be revoked. https://gocardless.com/guides/sepa/mandates/
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by fundatus 5y ago
EU basically said to manufacturers: Find a common ground for charging cables / chargers, otherwise we will simply regulate it. So all manufacturers apart from Apple agreed to use microUSB (at the time). Apple was still part of this, bu
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by fundatus 5y ago
> Building more nuclear helps de-risk wind droughts. No, not at all. Nuclear is used for base loads, not to compensate fluctuating electricity production of other sources.
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by fundatus 5y ago
Might be, but in total Germany is a net exporter of electricity.
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by fundatus 5y ago
The most interesting takeaway for me from this article is that Apple Music doesn't actually pay 1ct per stream unlike what is often suggested. Also that it is closer to Spotify than it is to Napster or Tidal when it comes to payouts pe
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by fundatus 5y ago
> Rebuilding a modern generation of modular nuclear power plants would be a good idea. Never gonna happen in Germany. The last nuclear power plant in Germany will shut down for good at the end of next year. Last year the share of electri
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by fundatus 5y ago
Germany's largest mobile network (45m customers) has been phasing in IPv6 over the past couple of weeks. Wondering if that already made an impact in this chart.
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by fundatus 5y ago
> by having signed the contract first Vaccines aren't distributed to countries one after another until each order is completed. Instead, the production is divided up and goes towards different orders. What the UK did was to force AZ
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by fundatus 5y ago
Because it's now two things to care of. Which will diverge eventually, even if only ever so slightly. If not, what's the point of the whole exercise? It just adds additional friction. Whereas when you set out your supply chains wi
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by fundatus 5y ago
lmao, how is that not an export ban in all but name. AZ literally wasn't allowed to export vaccines from Oxford/Keele until the quota set in the contracts was reached.
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by fundatus 5y ago
@detritus To quote Matt Hancock directly: "I wasn't going to settle for a contract that allowed the Oxford vaccine to be delivered to others around the world before us. I was insisting we could keep all of the British public safe
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by fundatus 5y ago
It's not misinformation at all. The UK was just clever enough to hide the export ban in their contracts with AZ (unlike the US which did it more bluntly). The first xx million doses of vaccines manufactured in Oxford/Keele had to
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by fundatus 5y ago
My point is that UK politicians are obsessed with tariffs and free trade agreements, while in reality those play a minor role (as EU tariffs are generally very low). What really matters to companies though are non-tariff-barriers (regulatio
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by fundatus 5y ago
> My point around export restrictions was in reference to the EU blocking vaccine exports this year because it suited them. LMAO The EU blocks ONE vaccine shipment - while the UK and the US had export bans in place for months and now the
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by fundatus 5y ago
No one (apart from Brexiters) cares that much about tariffs. EU tariffs are some of the lowest in the world - the average applied tariff for imports into the EU in 2019 was just 1.88%. Compare that to 6% for India or 13% for the US. What re
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by fundatus 5y ago
Well, the UK just willingly put up giant trade barriers with their biggest trading partner. Doesn't really scream "free trade" to most people outside the UK. There is a reason why annual foreign direct investment into the UK
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by fundatus 5y ago
Not sure if the cost and the "lidar bump" will still be arguments in the future. Heck, the latest iPhone has a lidar sensor integrated! Surely with a lot less capabilities than what you would need in a car - but it proves that it
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by fundatus 6y ago
I mean, McDonnell Douglas had a working prototype already in the 90s: https://youtu.be/JzXcTFfV3Ls?t=76
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by fundatus 6y ago
This feels like one of those things where Post-Brexit-Britain simply HAS to do something different. Just for the sake of it. Sovereignty and all that. The fact that many online businesses will probably still cater to EU citizens and will th
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by fundatus 6y ago
humans also have brains with an amount of computing power thats far greater than whats currently available, let alone in a tesla car.
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by fundatus 6y ago
Netscape for example: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
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by fundatus 6y ago
BTW: You can disable the "I forgot my password" thing completely on the login screen by setting this registry key to 0: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\NgcPin