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631.
by legulere 5y ago
Halfway around the globe is 20 000 km. Which would be (0.97^20)–(0.98^2)) = 54–66% efficiency. Not good, but still better than what I expected.
632.
by legulere 5y ago
Also between the first and the second time you have plenty of opportunity to plan ahead for what you are going to do differently next time.
633.
by legulere 5y ago
The longer you keep a scam running the more you can make out of it.
634.
by legulere 5y ago
Also trains drive around with solid metal tires.
635.
by legulere 5y ago
How is that connected in any way to a vaccine passport?
636.
by legulere 5y ago
That is factually incorrect. Even though politics blocked a faster increase of renewables Germany was able to greatly reduce fossil fuels usage for electricity production even while exiting nuclear: https://de.m.wikipedia.org&#x2
637.
by legulere 5y ago
That would be unwise though, considering that building nuclear power plants is slower and more expensive than wind and solar in Europe.
638.
by legulere 5y ago
The included email client already supports S/MIME though
639.
by legulere 5y ago
There’s still Malta with English as an official language inside the EU and Gibraltar is now part of Schengen area as a result of Brexit. Both are pretty small though.
640.
by legulere 5y ago
That relies on I/O being written as replaceable units of code and not sprinkled throughout all of the code.
641.
by legulere 5y ago
The difference between law and software is that with law you have more disadvantages from churn. Companies depend on stable legal situations, and it's important for people in the law system to keep up with changes.
642.
by legulere 5y ago
You are right that Tesla has some inherent value to fall back to but cryptocurrencies do not. But still Tesla is probably valued several times too high. Tesla has almost three times the market cap of Toyota right now.
643.
by legulere 5y ago
Or depending on where you live horses, cats and dogs.
644.
by legulere 5y ago
I heard the argument, that one reason of the Syrian war is how agriculture becomes less and less possible there. So we already see direct effects on society from climate change.
645.
by legulere 5y ago
There are a lot of people with a truck driving license that work in other fields. With good incentives you could get them to become tricky drivers again.
646.
by legulere 5y ago
I am living in Germany and have not heard about any driver shortage here, but have read about the shortage in the UK.
647.
by legulere 5y ago
Coal plants in Europe are much cleaner than they used to be (still we should work on shutting them down). Nowadays emissions from traffic, industry in general and heating all are in the same order of magnitude: https://ec.europa.
648.
by legulere 5y ago
Most countries in Europe have banned burning coal at home for decades. For heating burning wood is a major source of pollution. Other reasons are cars and the relatively high population density.
649.
by legulere 5y ago
> The _right_ way to ask for a raise is to do your own research on market rates, This only works until some point. I showed my employer that they pay me around 15% less than median for software engineers in general (there’s public data
650.
by legulere 5y ago
Germany is a net-exporter of electricity https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
651.
by legulere 5y ago
That doesn’t make sense. Building new nuclear plants is among the most expensive forms of electricity generation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
652.
by legulere 5y ago
In Germany we had a thorium reactor running in production, that was shit down because of issues: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300
653.
by legulere 5y ago
If you wait for a bit longer you will see prices rise again and then fall again until the market finds back its equilibrium. This is known as the bullwhip effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect
654.
by legulere 5y ago
Talking about how harmless radioactivity is with the radioactivity of bananas is as unscientific as talking about growing a third arm because of radioactivity. No matter how many bananas you eat, your radiation exposure will stay the same a
655.
by legulere 5y ago
Linux is already destroying the environment by making updates for most android phones impossible turning them into throw-away products.
656.
by legulere 5y ago
Another thing to keep in mind is that a lot of bad science manages to get published even in the best journals. Science always is about preliminary information about the best current understanding of things.
657.
by legulere 5y ago
They might not be wrong though. Irrationally high valuations are signs for a bubble, but do not help predict when the bubble will burst.
658.
by legulere 5y ago
Like Latin and then French was? Chinese could very well become the next Lingua Franca.
659.
by legulere 5y ago
How is photovoltaics reliant on fossil fuels? Reducing electricity use sure is important but has its limits. Photovoltaics and wind are the cheapest way to produce that electricity in a clean way.
660.
by legulere 5y ago
You could use the electricity to make hydrogen, ammonia or aluminium and export that.

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