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by skrause 3y ago
> Also no, no EU ISP blocks sites without specific orders from government bodies. In my country the government ban list is public, with explanations given for each site, and every ISP must enforce it. And in Germany there is no "g
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by skrause 3y ago
> In most other EU countries you'll be laughed out of the court with such demands. In many other EU countries DNS-based blocking of various piracy sites is just standard procedure by ISPs, so courts aren't even asked. In Germ
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"Business openings, events, and upcoming industry and infrastructure developments" is exactly what I would want from local news. However my local news basically consists of reporting what crimes happened in my area (republishing t
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by skrause 3y ago
Most scales are rather inaccurate (it maybe 1 kg accuracy at best) and your weight fluctuates throughout the day. Daily weighing at least allows you to calculate an average with trends and to see the fluctuations. It's a good informati
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by skrause 3y ago
As someone who is mostly neutral on nuclear power: The pro-nuclear fanboyism I see on Hacker News and large parts of Reddit is mostly as irrational as the anti-nuclear culture in parts of Germany. Any thread that mentions "energy"
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by skrause 3y ago
Just 1.6 GW for 11 billion euros and a 14 years delay... Meanwhile Germany has added 2.65 GW of solar power in Q1/2023 alone: https://www.pv-magazine.de/2023/04/20/photovoltaik-zubau-im-...
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by skrause 3y ago
> are building more Fun fact: In the last 20 years France has reduced its nuclear power output by just about the same total amount as Germany. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/nuclear-energy-generation...
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by skrause 3y ago
No it's not. Bavaria's prime minister Söder is a populist and there are state elections this year, he only says that because he knows that the federal government will say no. In fact check out what he said in 2011: > In Bavari
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by skrause 3y ago
Cookie banners exist not because of the GDPR, but because of Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive ( https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX... ): Member States shall ensure that the use of electro
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by skrause 3y ago
> You can't see both Mexico and Europe on a globe at the same time, but you can on a map. Of course you can, try it in Google Map's globe view.
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by skrause 4y ago
And yet Germany has fewer CO2 emissions per kWh of electricity produced than the USA.
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by skrause 4y ago
I live in Germany and honestly didn't notice any difference. I heated my home normally and it also didn't feel colder in other places I visited.
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by skrause 4y ago
> Simply put there is no right or wrong way to write English Gud tu nou.
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by skrause 4y ago
Spanish has as much accent variation as English and has managed to develop a reasonable spelling where you know how to pronounce a vast majority of words just by reading them. The spelling doesn't have to be phonetic, just consistent.
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by skrause 4y ago
It seems like you haven't followed Germany's laws for a while. It's now mandatory that you can cancel the say way you signed up, so if you allow people to sign up online you have to allow them to cancel online. All contract
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by skrause 4y ago
I used https://www.privoxy.org/ around 2002-2005, before adblockers as browser extensions existed. Proxy based adblocking was much easier when basically no website used SSL.
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by skrause 4y ago
It depends on your radiators and insulation. As a rule of thumb modern air-to-water heat pumps have a good efficiency up to a water temperature of 55 C. That can be enough if you have radiators with a large enough surface and no terrible in
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by skrause 4y ago
Ah yes, wasting energy is totally okay as long as there is something else that uses more energy.
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Really depends on the country. In Germany the payments you get out of it are related to the ones you put into it and are separate from the taxes.
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by skrause 4y ago
Such a big thread of people complaining that their bluetooth headphones connect to the wrong device or not at all and how you could use third-party software to (maybe) fix it. And then there's me who still uses headphones with cables.
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by skrause 4y ago
I simply use the "Blank New Tab Page" extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blank-new-tab-page... This gives me back the good old about:blank new tab page. I use the URL bar to search for
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by skrause 4y ago
> When major health officials tell you that a covid vaccine will stop you catching covid and stop transmission, then to find out we were lied to. The mRNA vaccines did protect more than 90% of the vaccinated against symptomatic infection
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by skrause 4y ago
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. When you fearmonger just about anything some predictions might be somewhat correct, most aren't. Eric Feigl-Ding also claimed that monkeypox could be airborne [1] and would be the next big pand
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Mastodon.
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Or go the usual Microsoft route: 1. First have an telemetry.opt-out setting with the default value of "false". 2. Wait a few versions and then switch to telemetry.enabled with a default value of "true". And then just ign
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by skrause 4y ago
Well, how experienced are you in Albanian law to come to the conclusion that it's a "clear case"?
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It's a weird thing so say that a higher electricity consumption equals to "vastly higher living standards" when the higher consumption might just be in part because of badly insulated homes.
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From experience with my family members the common steps with an air fryer are usually these: 1. Buy an air fryer. 2. Try it a few times. 3. Tell everyone in the familiy, at the work place and on social media how awesome an air fryer is. 4.
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The EU at least can't just introduce taxes: https://european-union.europa.eu/priorities-and-actions/acti...
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The initial release of zstd by Yann Collet was in January 2015 and he started working for Facebook in June 2015.

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