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by looping__lui 1y ago
Industrialized countries generally need stability when it comes to electricity. People also want to watch TV whenever they like and take a hot shower whenever they feel like it.
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by looping__lui 1y ago
What are you going to do at night, or in Germany when it’s cloudy and rainy for a month straight? I can show you my electricity consumption from my heat pump in the winter compared to the electricity my PV system produced. Hint: it doesn’t
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by looping__lui 1y ago
You are aware that the EU must choose between nuclear or gas to produce electricity when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine. That backup capacity needs to be equal to the entire electricity demand. Renewables need to exceed that
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by looping__lui 1y ago
I am no authority to speak about this - but I believe expanding sensors and improving on data gathering is a continuous and on-going effort (e.g., weather station on ships, airplanes, stations deployed on sea etc.). Better weather satellite
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by looping__lui 1y ago
As a fan of a sport that greatly relies on accurate weather forecasts with an interest in weather models my impression is that more supercomputer budget isn’t necessarily the issue (eg., more granular models can be less accurate) but the la
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by looping__lui 1y ago
I would never again found a company in Germany - not because of the super high tax or these arbitrary rules like you need to pay insane amounts to the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) or the GEZ for radios you don’t have; but: dealing
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by looping__lui 1y ago
If you ever had to deal with German tax authorities - assume the actual worst case scenario.
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by looping__lui 1y ago
The comment was not AI generated. I had grammar spelling and language fixed because english is not my first language and culturally the way I express myself does come across as harsh to sensitive American audiences. Do you believe anything
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by looping__lui 1y ago
I do not know how widespread Rotax engines are in Australia and how large the GA is there. Also, I do not track standardized failure rates of engine models around the world - but shared anecdotal evidence. Except two instances, ALL reports
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by looping__lui 1y ago
GA engines use low compression ratios and high displacement to generate power at lower RPMs, reducing mechanical stress and heat buildup that would be catastrophic during sustained high-power operations like climb and cruise. The need for l
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by looping__lui 1y ago
FLARM as the “uncertified predecessor” in the gliding community was a game changer for safety. Game changer. Completely agree with you.
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by looping__lui 1y ago
I hear you in general, but GA engines need to work more reliably and go through way more intense operational challenges than automotive engines. Picture this: you take off at 100°F on the ground at full throttle with only air cooling to sav
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by looping__lui 1y ago
You might be in for a bad awakening when comparing the reliability and safety statistics of Lycomings to the Rotax engines in Flight Design planes. Even though I entirely share your enthusiasm in general - these “old technologically outdate
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by looping__lui 1y ago
I don’t think that comment makes sense in context of the original comment I replied to.
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by looping__lui 1y ago
Totally get where you’re coming from—German can feel like a surgical tool when it comes to precision, especially in law or certain engineering domains where it’s still dominant. But from my (very subjective) experience, that sharpness doesn
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by looping__lui 1y ago
In most countries it is not. In the country with the highest GDP per capita it may appear to be prevalent more because people seem to make VOLUNTARY choices with respect to their diet and exercise regime that do not tend to go well with the
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by looping__lui 1y ago
Do you know how to grow vegetables, how to produce antibiotics, how to diagnose and treat diabetes, how to operate a farm, how to build up and run an electrical power grid, how to build a fridge, a TV, a car or a motorcycle? No? The “econom
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by looping__lui 2y ago
Fastspring was amazing for exactly that. We loved em for most part.
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by looping__lui 2y ago
Maybe those were just artificial constructs that cost everyone a lot of money and we just started to realize now? “Hey let’s support these 30$ lunches at the food truck downtown.” Maybe we are as a society better off without these massive
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by looping__lui 2y ago
They burn it :-)
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by looping__lui 2y ago
I’d recommend to switch dentists maybe. Philips Sonicare is such an improvement for teeth hygiene - how could I live without? Also: floss and mouthwash. Like floss is really important…
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by looping__lui 2y ago
… didn’t Apple switch away from Nvidia, push for OpenCL and keep Adobe in the rain when their new release was all super optimized for Nvidia? And I think heavily push for their proprietary video and image editing software? But Adobe rewrote
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by looping__lui 2y ago
One of the fee startups I am genuinely impressed: skysight. https://magazine.weglide.org/skysight-interview-matthew-scut... Freakingly accurate weather forecasts for the niche sport of gliding. Builds on top of ECMWF and in
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by looping__lui 2y ago
Abitur is 30% of students roughly which was the point of my discussion: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiturientenquote This should include the students who do Abitur via FOS.
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by looping__lui 2y ago
I do not disagree with that stance; but now we are comparing a population of 1 B people and a country the size of US+Europe+more with the US or a European country. E.g., it would sound a bit like comparing all of the opportunities and prosp
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by looping__lui 2y ago
There are additional paths people can beyond high schools and we have different tiers (allgemeine Hochschulreife; Fachhochschulreife) for different tiers of universities (academic further qualifying for a PhD career / practitioner); as
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by looping__lui 2y ago
Ok, the point being though (it seems): advantages are not universal geographically across China; I agree, that I also observed that.
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by looping__lui 2y ago
Thanks! That’s a lot of additional information. I appreciate the effort!
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by looping__lui 2y ago
Thanks for the additional details. In Germany only about 30% of high-school kids qualify academic high-school (merit-based) and are eligible to apply for university after two-years of exams that determine your final grade (and chances). The
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by looping__lui 2y ago
Kid’s ability to make it through the ranks of academia in my personal anecdotal evidence depends less on financial ability or social standing in China compared to the US or India. I agree that it is merit driven above anything else - not su

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