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by pgeorgi 3y ago
It's moving from "paying the bills plus ..." to "paying the bills". Since the latter is _kinda_ important, it's difficult to let go when the "plus ..." part has left the building (and stopping that fr
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
It's a lowest level court, they're known to have wildly absurd legal opinions at times. Having stupid laws on the book (like the one in question) doesn't help. The curious bit is that this law is from 2007, so apparently this
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
There's some correlation, and while Trump tried to take credit for Operation Warp Speed for a while[0], he distanced himself from everything related to "Covid is a threat" (including "it needs vaccines") when the ti
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
One manages the books the other cooks the books. I can see how that could be confused...
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Proving plagiarism is hard work. In general that's only done when there are suspicions already, or if there's some serious (office) politics going on. Otherwise there's a basic trust among scientists that their peers work pro
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
To quote the exchange (taken from https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/gay-apology-con... ): “At Harvard, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s rules of bullying and harassment?”
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
So something like NeWS
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
One look at OP's account would give you "ardour" as a hint to what product this might be. 5 minutes of scanning ardour's webpage would tell you that the "O'Rly? school of Open Source business" blueprint do
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
"suddenly", except that there was a lawsuit about iMessage[1] in 2014 which AT&T and Google joined[2] in 2015, and ad campaigns about the Blue Bubble/Green Bubble thing specifically in 2019, e.g. by Samsung[3] This has be
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
I wouldn't be too surprised if any other "sphere" also has its Swiss front to sell neutral tech that totally doesn't support the mothership. Switzerland is relatively consistent in offering equal treatment, so maybe it&#
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The "look how Swiss we are" meme died when Crypto AG was exposed as a BND/CIA front shipping deliberately weakened crypto to "bloc-free" countries. That doesn't mean that they're (plural, because Threema i
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The "help out the French" thing was a temporary situation due to France's power plant maintenance issues but on an annual basis Germany has been a net electricity exporter since 2003: https://www.statista.com/
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Germany's location means that it's a logistics hub. Gas, electricity, goods - large percentages of each are going into Germany on one end and leave it on another.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-xdf-diskette-format/ has tons of details on IBM's contemporary and somewhat similar format.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
In the small: Those space heaters Germans think about when talking electric heating tend to be night storage heaters. So they consume electricity at night (when the grid is free) to heat up, then radiate the heat until the next evening. Tha
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
It's a bunch of stuff all coming together: Electric heating is still memetically coupled with resistive heating in Germany, which isn't very efficient (and can't beat subsidized fossils anyway). Post-war era houses in regions
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> What does make the houses suited for heat pumps is the fact that Nordic houses are designed to keep the weather out. So when you heat/cool the inside, the house doesn't leak it all outside. Alright, my bad. Consider "des
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Nothing convenient. Bits and pieces here and there, tons of forums, a few videos, a bunch of books, a few specialists who gave good advice. The inbound temperature into the radiator network took a dive from about 70°C to about 40°C here (I
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
A charitable reading of the parent comment is to focus on "converting". The Nordics tend to have their buildings designed for heat pumps from the start, or converted (and fixed up) a long time ago. I'm in a house in Germany a
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> Extrapolate this to 36 months or to twenty years to compare. Extrapolating like that is a great way to achieve amazing numbers with little relation to reality: wars don't keep up the pressure throughout their duration. For example
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> for 2 years already ... All that has happened is they launched a very mid GPU Hardware development cycles are closer to 5 years. So while he might have gotten some adjustments done on the designs so far, if he turned the ship around it
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Abbas is no Lee Kuan Yew, and that comparison is already way more charitable than Abbas deserves... Wikipedia describes Lee as such: "Lee oversaw Singapore's transformation into a developed country with a high-income economy withi
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> If Palestinians leave Gaza to Egypt, then Egypt will be complicit with Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine. But at least it guarantees that there are Palestinians who can seek redress, e.g. at the ICJ. But I suppose when there'
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> it's the picture of a fight against the entire civilian population Israel could have been done with that 6 weeks ago, if they didn't care about making the distinction. It's a pretty small region, after all. Are they doin
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> 1. It has to happen in the same time as the agression There are still rockets flying out of Gaza into Israel. > 2. Its only purpose is to defend against the agression The people sending those rockets are in Gaza, so to stop them, Is
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Egypt prefers dead Palestinians within Gaza over Palestinians living elsewhere and Israel, maybe, controlling the Gaza strip. Al-Sisi, as reported in https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2023/10&#x2F
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
There are enough other social norms that US companies can bloody their nose on in other European countries. As for strikes in particular: France doesn't require a union vote to engage in a strike to do so with far-reaching protections
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I'd fully expect other car makers to move to an exclusive 48V setup at some point. They just do it gradually: For the new model a part is replaced by its next-gen successor that is incompatible anyway? Put it on the 48V bus. Repeat unt
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordnetz#48-Volt-Bordnetz_im_A... explains (a bit) why German car makers are using 48V since ~2016 (in addition to the still existing 12V system, which seems to be the difference with Tesl
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> The "Meat shield" disinfo https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2023/10/12/Ga... cites al-Sisi: > On Thursday, he said that Egypt was already hosting “nine million guests,

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