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by namdnay 5y ago
haha indeed, poor them :)
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by namdnay 5y ago
So the original rule back in 2011 was for the industry to self-govern itself and align on a common standard (just like the aviation industry will align on how smooth a runway should be or what pressure jet fuel should be injected at). Every
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by namdnay 5y ago
Apple are definitely the bad guys in this, at least in Europe. They were the only ones who fought against the 2011 request to align charging ports (every single other manufacturer agreed to switch to micro-USB). It's a shame that it to
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by namdnay 5y ago
Yeah it drives me crazy that I can't even plug my new iphone into my new macbook without buying additional cables
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by namdnay 5y ago
The rule here is also partly to make life nicer for consumers, which can't really be solved by economical twekas like taxation. In the same way, mandating the abolition of roaming fees across the EU was great for everyone, and it'
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by namdnay 5y ago
So yes in a way, but here we're talking about something that synchronises state between a client and DB over http. The possibilities of weird edge cases seem endless :)
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by namdnay 5y ago
The problem with this type of system in my experience is that it’s great until you hit a bug, and then you realize you have no idea what’s going on under all the automagical stuff and you go crazy
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by namdnay 5y ago
When a wise man points at the moon, an idiot looks at his finger
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by namdnay 5y ago
You can't "measure" a session musician either. And yet some of them take hundreds of dollars an hour to be there for a recording, so clearly there is a way to know
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by namdnay 5y ago
Looking back at it today, the ads are so interesting ! So many different products/solutions out there
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by namdnay 5y ago
> Shops were empty, restaurants were empty. Thats still mostly the case. Thats why there is a shortage. Why is there a shortage of labour if restaurants and shops are still mostly empty? I think the real reason is that people took the o
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by namdnay 5y ago
> If we conclude that the Berlin Wall was bad then surely the walls we see now are also at least bad “If locking someone in your basement is bad, that means locking your front door at night is bad too”
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by namdnay 5y ago
And that’s is the US with absurdly low gas taxes. In Europe, taxes represent more than half the price of gas
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by namdnay 5y ago
public utilities don't usually pay taxes on gas
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by namdnay 5y ago
The salted butter we use today is actually “Demi-sel”, “half-salted”
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by namdnay 5y ago
Ive always heard the small ones called “Lebanese cucumbers” , much nicer indeed than the “Dutch cucumbers” you usually see There are also the provencal cucumbers, which are larger but shorter than Dutch cucumbers, have a thicker rougher ski
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by namdnay 5y ago
What do you mean by "no plan to store it long-term"? We do store it long-term. It's vitrified, then sunk into underground concrete bunkers in geologically stable areas.
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by namdnay 5y ago
at least in france, the tax rules based on horsepower and co2 were strongly favourable to diesel cars (as they emit less co2 and have better performance at similar hp), which led to insane stuff like putting a diesel engine in a smart car..
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by namdnay 5y ago
https://www.sfen.org/rgn/dechets-radioactifs-verite-faits-ex... .
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by namdnay 5y ago
The thing is, they're scared in large part because of the propaganda by greenpeace et al
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by namdnay 5y ago
The same greenpeace that sells green energy contracts in Germany, which use... gas . It's crazy to think that a purported environmental organisation will be the main culprits for tens of thousands of avoidable cancers in Germany :(
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by namdnay 5y ago
> and some always will no? why would they? > And what about the trash The whole of France produces less than 10 tons of long-term radioactive material. Hardly a big issue finding somewhere to safely bury that. > I don't think
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by namdnay 5y ago
Why would France subsidise power it is selling to Germany? The initial research and construction was drvien by the government, but french power is now extremely profitable (EDF even had to artificially increase prices in order to avoid dist
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by namdnay 5y ago
I think the real reason is that the german environmental movement is closely tied to the former nuclear disarmament movement, and nuclear power had become somehow mixed up in it. It's a real tragedy
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by namdnay 5y ago
A coal plant is an ongoing accident all day every day. When do "these accidents" happen again and again? France hasn't had a single nuclear disaster in 50 years of operation Fukushima is a pretty good demonstration that even
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by namdnay 5y ago
The irony is that the German Greens are one of the reasons Germany burns so much coal, instead of using nuclear like France :(
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by namdnay 5y ago
> It seems insanely simplistic to say that "we can grow this phenotype in the lab, so it'll be exactly the same as one raised in a barn or on a pasture." Why would it be exactly the same? We can probably make it better. Pe
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by namdnay 5y ago
That's a good first step, but I feel you're skipping over some of the issues here... At the end of the day, you're still raping and killing animals. I love meat, but I'm pretty sure my grandchildren (or maybe their grand
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by namdnay 5y ago
I agree with some of what you're saying, but I don't think it makes any ecological sense. If you're aiming for a low carbon lifestyle, living in a flat within walking/cycling distance of everything you need is far better
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by namdnay 5y ago
So I'm not saying that website isn't trash (it definitely looks dodgy), but the particles being emitted could mainly come from the asphalt and not the tyres. Though this seems unlikely as tyres are much softer

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