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by silvester23 7y ago
I would strongly assume that them claiming 100% RES means they have bought so-called Guarantees of Origin (GoOs) [1]. You can only sell GoOs to the extent that you actually produce energy, so while the actual energy that eons customers rece
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by silvester23 7y ago
I actually got a cookie banner, of course with the close button hard to find.
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by silvester23 7y ago
> Also I think all the people expelled for hate speech in EU could gain asylum in US. Who was expelled from the EU for hate speech?
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by silvester23 7y ago
The last two paragraphs of the article address exactly that issue - that it's hard to tell whether the direction of Go development is decided solely by the Go core team or by Google as a corporation.
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by silvester23 7y ago
At the very least, I would assume most bus time tables are written to reflect the worst case scenario regarding traffic lights. That alone should make the actual average waiting time lower than the theoretical one.
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by silvester23 7y ago
These are playable races and character classes from Warcraft III (and the expansion The Frozen Throne). Most of these probably also appear in World of Warcraft, though I cannot say for sure. As to why this file is in the top directory of th
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by silvester23 8y ago
I actually once (kind of) fixed a permanent startup blue screen on my years-old LG G3 by putting the motherboard in the oven. It worked again for ~2 months, which gave me plenty of time to backup all local data. Then the blue screen returne
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by silvester23 8y ago
Not disagreeing, but to be fair, Helvetica Neue (neue meaning new in German), did not age well either. I would assume the creators are aware of that, maybe even choosing that name to be in the tradition of Neue.
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by silvester23 8y ago
Yeah, but that still does not mean that most English speakers come from China. It might be true, but it does not follow directly. That's like saying the most popular social media site in China also has to be the most popular social m
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by silvester23 8y ago
> the most famous actress in China, which is to say, the most famous actress in the world That's a non sequitur, isn't it?
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by silvester23 8y ago
That sounds a lot like a slippery slope fallacy.
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by silvester23 8y ago
No need to wonder, just read the article. Spoiler: He only uses instagram.
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by silvester23 8y ago
I assume what Half-Life 2 did was more advanced, but there was iMUSE way before that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMUSE
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by silvester23 8y ago
> Everybody already has copyright-directive-warning-fatigue. If that is you experience, I think you might be living in a bit of a bubble (as we all do, arguably). Anecdotally, I know quite a few people who seem to be pretty unaware of th
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by silvester23 8y ago
Well, it is explicitly stated in the linked statement that > “Wikipedia’s articles are neutral, [but] its existence is not.” You might disagree with that position, but if you expect Wikipedia as a platform to be neutral, you have not bee
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by silvester23 8y ago
It depends on the market design of course, but generally, if too many energy providers did not match their consumption with generation (or bought power), that could lead to power outages. Concerning the 'late fees': if your consum
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by silvester23 8y ago
Working in the same sector, I can confirm this. We try to offer pretty much any half-way reasonable interface to our clients for that exact reason, be it spreadsheets or csv via mail or SFTP, REST APIs or a web interface.
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by silvester23 8y ago
Minority Report (at least the film) has self-driving cars.
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by silvester23 8y ago
As far as I'm aware (I'm not exactly central to our information security processes), it is more of the latter. Due to the amount of electric power we control, we, as a company, have been deemed critical infrastructure by the state
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by silvester23 8y ago
Electric utility and energy trading.
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by silvester23 8y ago
Glad to see them doing well. Working for a company that legally cannot use services that are not self-hosted can be quite a challenge and Mattermost really is a godsend in that regard.
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by silvester23 8y ago
Sometimes there is an unplanned need to merge, for example if one lane is closed due to construction or an accident (as I think is indicated in the video).
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by silvester23 8y ago
> He claimed that he had two Ph.D.s: his Highsmith-related dissertation, from Oxford, and one from the psychology department of an American university, for research into Munchausen syndrome. There’s no evidence that Mallory ever undertoo
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by silvester23 8y ago
I think you replied to the wrong link, you are probably looking for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19016362
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by silvester23 8y ago
The first paragraph seems to imply that they played this lottery for 6 until they (I guess) changed the rules in 2018.
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by silvester23 8y ago
That's completely independent from an increase in price though, isn't it?
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by silvester23 8y ago
Not exactly what you are looking for and I'm sure there are better examples that I don't know of, but Cologne is made up of concentric rings and at least has one park ring. https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9363