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SEPA is basically free and instant. There are some shortcomings but even with them there is hardly demand for for any other service (why would consumers decide to use anything but banks transfer and/or credit/debit cards when the
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Not everything people say had an ulterior motive and/or is driven by some ideological beliefs (quite a bit of projection going on here I assume?). Also we were talking about technological progress. Demographics and economic activity we
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I mainly meant economically and demographically (though places like Germany and Northern Gaul probably surpassed their Roman period peak a bit earlier) and not necessarily technologically. And it's also close to 400-500 years since th
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> In Middle Ages Europe people did not develop or implement technology, or even employ existing Roman technology, at nearly the level of the Romans Anything to substantiate this claim? Metallurgy and agriculture were more advanced, water
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> the long Middle Ages when technology went backward What do you mean by that? There was a decline but Europe had more or less rebounded by the 11th century or so. Yes extreme decentralization meant that urbanization levels remained low
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>It would in principle be more efficient to burn oil/gas in a power plant and use some of it to fuel EVs Not coal though. Wouldn't it better to primarily focus on closing every single coal plant first? (also I would assume the
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I'm not talking about income tax but the entire tax burden. Look at the wikipedia article I linked: "46.4% (53.0% including 14.1% social security contribution by employer. All taxes include 8.2% pension fund payments)" Also i
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> longer they will use trains There isn't really any data backing up this claim. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/e... Planes are much popular and this data seems to inc
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No it isn't (an average Norwegian pays close to 40%). There is basically no difference between taxes paid by employee or employer (besides the lack of transparency built into the tax system) all of is is still coming from the same pot.
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To be fair taxes in Norway are not at all low.
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You still have all the people and companies working in the industry paying taxes. And some of the oil revenue still ends up in the government budget directly: https://www.statista.com/statistics/744826/budget-reven
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Oslo to Bergen or Stavanger is still 400-600 km through very mountainous terrain. 1.5 million live in the Oslo metro which is a significant proportion but you're not right at all as far as the rest of the population is concerned.
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> physically small country That's not exactly true at all relative to population. Sure most of the north is very sparsely inhabited so not that relevant but even the southern coast is not at all dense (compare it with the East and W
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For one thing they wouldn't be able to produce 90-100+% of the electricity they need from just from hydro if the population was much higher. Also low population coupled with a lot of revenue from oil/gas means that EVs are much mo
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Doesen't that just reinforce their point? Small population and large area (with a lot of mountains) allows them to generate most of their electricity supply from cheap/clean hydro. Also they have very high revenue per person from
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ATM as far as as datacenter GPUs good the price/performance is the only metric that counts (power costs are almost insignificant relative to how much a H100/etc. costs). So Intel only needs to come up with something relative cheap
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> The whole point of the article is that it's more expensive in Europe. So a policy with a $100k coverage limit is cheaper than one which covers up to €7.5m? Not exactly unexpected regardless of country. Would 7.5 mil insurance in
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> If healthcare is so cheap, Well it's not that cheap... It can be very expensive for serious accidents. You just almost never need to pay anything yourself. I'm not sure the cost for liability insurance is that much (or at all
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> stuck on their old fork of Mono Didn't they switch to .NET Core years ago? Of course for many platforms you have to use their CPP transpiler which complicates some things that might be possible in normal C#.
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> Keeping the network secure isn’t valuable? Relative to the amount of consumed energy? Not, not at all... Bitcoin is extremely exceptionally very inefficient for what it is.
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> Ultimately, if they pay the bills, then what's the fuss about? It's massive waste? How would you feel if someone bought 2 billion gallons of gasoline just to burn it in the middle of a desert biggest fire humanity has ever se
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EVs actually provide real value, you know, like getting people from one place place to another etc. While this is completely useless. Stopping crypto mining is an extremely low hanging fruit if we we are serious at all about climate change
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There is a lot of space for competing on price though. AMD or even Intel could release a datacenter GPU that's 3x slower than the H100 while using 2x more power and still sell it with a very decent margin. Of course that will likely me
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> only really turning around because Jobs was a hard-nosed businessman. Exactly, he knew that the success of the platform relied on third party developers (NeXTSTEP was a huge improvement) > Also: is macOS "perfectly fine now&qu
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> Badly. They very nearly went bankrupt with that model. Like between 2000 and 2007? They did just fine, just like macOS is perfectly fine now.
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> by true French speakers Was that really a thing in the middle ages? Every region had its own dialect and people living in the half of the territory of modern France didn't even speak any form of "French". e.g. Occitan is
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> Apple is providing the whole ecosystem, operating system, security, notarization etc - there are costs to be covered How are they covering it on macOS?
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> they're asking Apple to spend all the engineering time developing APIs, xCode, etc. for free I find such arguments more than absurd, 1. They have no issue doing that on macOS 2. Apple needs third party developers as much as the ot
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> Building and supporting the SDKs that developers use to make money. You're implying that this is a somehow onesides transaction and Apple is doing developers a favour while Apple always needed third party developers as much as dev
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> Apple does that makes it possible for a developer to produce a high quality app on their phone This is not one sided at all. Historically generally Apple benefited more from developers releasing apps on their platforms than the other w

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