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by sehansen 6mo ago
Part of the reason money has such a big influence on elections is that first-past-the-post election system you have over there in the US. When voters have to make a binary choice between two participants, low-information campaigns like hit-
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by sehansen 7mo ago
Dell has the P5525QC, a 4K 55 inch screen. Here in Denmark they sell it for 8846 DKK (~$1300 USD). I use a predecessor with my Apple TV and it works great. Link: https://www.dell.com/da-dk/shop/dell-55-4k-sk%C3%A6r
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by sehansen 7mo ago
In 2025[1]: 64.3% in Sweden - 69.3% in Denmark - 55.2% in Finland. Across the EU 2.6 million BEVs were sold out of ~13 million cars in total, i.e. 20% in 2025. That's on top of 1.3 million PHEVs which is an even faster growing segment.
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by sehansen 7mo ago
There were plenty of Peugeots, Fiats, Hyundais and Geelys when I went there in 2017. The old 50s American cars were either beatifully maintained for tourist rides or easy to fix rural work-horses.
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by sehansen 7mo ago
The only things GM sells in Europe nowadays is the Corvette and the Cadillacs Lyriq, Optiq and Vistiq. Opel and Vauxhall were sold of almost ten years ago.
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by sehansen 7mo ago
German automakers are suffering because their sales in the Chinese market has tanked. Not going hard on EVs would have left them in an even worse situation. Take VW: in 2020 they were by far the biggest automaker in China with ~16% market
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by sehansen 7mo ago
Don't many of them have soldered SIMs or pure-SW eSIMs now?
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by sehansen 7mo ago
The Danish numbers normally exclude PHEVs. Not that it matters, since PHEVs are almost dead as a segment here. Over the past two years 310k BEVs were sold here, but only 6k PHEVs. The situation in Norway is very similar. And across Europe B
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by sehansen 7mo ago
Welcome to our cozy little country; I hope you're settling in well. Just out of curiosity: Assuming you're a SW engineer, did you join IDA or Prosa or did you decide to not join an union? I'd like to gathers some more datapoi
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by sehansen 7mo ago
The shareholders are responsible for the management of the company who are in turn responsible for their employees. By wiping out the shareholders in these companies hopefully other shareholders in other financial companies will demand more
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by sehansen 7mo ago
The categorization the Fed uses for NBFI is broader than private credit. E.g. if a hedge fund gives a loan to a private company, that's not private credit because hedge funds seem to have their own category. And lending backed by secur
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by sehansen 7mo ago
Hundreds of financial institutions with greater or lesser responsibility for the crash in 2008 went under in those years[0]. The shareholders in almost all of these companies lost all of their money and the responsible employees lost their
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by sehansen 7mo ago
I'm not sure I agree with your list. Aircraft: Airbus seems to be leagues ahead of Boeing, not just in the civilian market, but also in military aircraft. Just look at their competing modern military tankers: the Boieng KC-46 is a wors
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by sehansen 7mo ago
Well, the term "natural gas" is ~200 years old and was invented to distinguish it from manufactured coal gas. But other than that, you're right. It's getting tiring having to explain to people why biogas isn't &quot
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by sehansen 7mo ago
The highest non-severance number is $512,179 for the CEO in 2022. That's not particularly extreme. It's ~1/10 of what the Mozilla Foundation CEO makes.
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by sehansen 7mo ago
Gas turbines do 16% of nameplate capacity per minute without catching a sweat. 5% per minute isn't particularly extreme. --- Let me quote page 10 of your source "In brief, most of the modern light water nuclear reactors are capabl
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by sehansen 7mo ago
5% per minute is not extremely fast. Simple cycle gas turbine (peaker) plants routinely go 0 to 100% in less than 10 minutes. Nuclear plants can only hit 5% per minute in the 50 to 100% interval (per your own source). And all of this is con
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by sehansen 7mo ago
I think you're confusing the i4 (a sedan) with the ix4 (a chunky cross-over/SUV). The i4 is the same size as the non-electric BMW 4-series.
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by sehansen 7mo ago
Next to no-one has been charged since Epstein was arrested by the US and they memory-holed his files until a few months ago. There weren't anything to base an investigation on until very recently.
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by sehansen 7mo ago
Immigrating to Denmark is somewhat easy if you're an engineer. You have a set of skills that there is a recognized shortage of[0] and you'll be making more than the $70000 that qualifies you to take part in the fast-track scheme.[
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by sehansen 7mo ago
Youth unemployment is actually somewhat low in the EU at the moment. It's at around 15%, which is the level as back in 2008 before the great recession.
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by sehansen 7mo ago
From Micron, everything up to their 1-beta node is DUV. Their 1-gamma node they debuted last year is the only EUV node they have. If you bought a Micron-based DDR5 RAM stick a year ago it would have been DUV and you could get those up to DD
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by sehansen 8mo ago
A purchase transaction is a different thing from a subscription. It would be a more meaningful comparison if your example happened at Costco where you need a membership to shop. You'd get either your groceries or your $250 back, but yo
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by sehansen 8mo ago
The Guiana Space Centre isn't a proper space port? Guyane is a region of France, just like Normandy or Pays de la Loire or the 15 others.
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by sehansen 8mo ago
Dependence on Russia is quite sharply down. In Q1 2022 the EU imported 63 billion EUR worth of goods from Russia, in Q3 2025 only 5.7 billion. So down 90%. In terms of fossil fuels: - Russia isn't even in the top 6 oil supplies of the
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by sehansen 8mo ago
Needing to put in >1000 EUR in starting capital is not uncommon. The "cheapest Danish limited liability company, the Aps needs 20k DKK up front, i.e. ~3000 EUR. In Sweden an AB needs 25k SEK, ~2300 EUR. And you can always dissolve t
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by sehansen 8mo ago
The capital situation is especially dumb. There's been a lot of debate recently in Denmark about why our pension funds invest a lot of money in US venture capital funds that then invest in Danish startups that have moved to the Bay Are
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by sehansen 8mo ago
Just as much as they voted for the individual government ministers in their own country.
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by sehansen 8mo ago
1. In this case, not using the energy at all would have been better. 2. The legislature of a sovereign polity would have, and be able to delegate, that right. If and when the legislature should make use of that right is a political question
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by sehansen 8mo ago
In this case they aren't destroying the unsold winter coats so they can keep doing this under the new law.

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