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by skrause 4y ago
France is not a socialist country.
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by skrause 4y ago
> Do they know something we don't? What China knows is that their vaccines are worse than the western ones, too many old people didn't get vaccinated at all and they don't have the hospital capacity to just ride out the
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by skrause 4y ago
> Bridges charge per use and people still use bridges! Even if there is a free bridge right next to it?
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by skrause 4y ago
Living in Germany and getting both my heating and hot water from natural gas I regulary track my gas consumption throughout the different seasons. With 1-2 showers per day in the household my daily natural gas consumption in winter is about
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by skrause 4y ago
Fracking gas is about as bad to the climate as coal because so much methane leaks directly into the atmosphere: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/frack... So Germany can just as well continue
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by skrause 4y ago
So which wireless headphones do I get for $19 like the EarPods?
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by skrause 4y ago
NS1 and NS2 each have two pipes. Both pipes of NS1 are leaking, but only one of NS2.
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by skrause 4y ago
They are mandated to pay you back if they fail to provide service. However, that doesn't help you in case of a bankruptcy. Paying months ahead is basically giving the airline an unsecured loan and lots of German consumers were hit when
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by skrause 4y ago
The main causes are the gas crisis and the fact that France has shut down around half of its nuclear reactors due to corrosion and cooling problems, so Germany now has to burn even more gas and coal for electricity exports to France.
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by skrause 4y ago
That was Germany's plan. Go to at least 80% renewable and fill up the rest with natural gas power plants that can change the load quickly. Oops.
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by skrause 4y ago
My 4th generation Kindle from 2011 didn't get a software update.
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by skrause 4y ago
Almost all of the EU's uranium also has to be imported from non-EU sources, just like fossil fuels. So it's not really better if you want actual energy independence.
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by skrause 4y ago
You still need somebody to install it for you. That's where the waiting begins.
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by skrause 4y ago
Heat pumps are not an alternative in the next few years because there are not enough available on the market. I know someone who wanted to buy one for his house in Germany and the waiting list is more than 1-2 years right now.
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by skrause 4y ago
Well, let's take a look at France: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/18/business/france-nuclear-p... > As the European Union moves to cut ties to Russian oil and gas in the wake of Moscow’s war on
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by skrause 4y ago
Saying that the production capacity is 40GWh is like saying that a factory can produce a thousand cars. And then you are asking: Per week? Per year? In total?
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by skrause 4y ago
> Also, mailbox.org forces cloud drive, video calls, etc on you. I don't need that crap. Huh? I've been a mailbox.org user for years now and didn't even know that they have a cloud drive and video calls. How are they for
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by skrause 4y ago
All the very red galaxies in the JWST image are mostly or completely invisible in the Hubble image. That’s because they’re so redshifted that they’re out of the spectrum Hubble can see. Those are the galaxies that are really far away.
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by skrause 4y ago
Yes, because all of Germany's electricity is only around 21% of its energy needs. The heat sector is more than twice of that.
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by skrause 4y ago
No. The gas is needed for heating homes and industial uses and that was already the case when Germany was using its peak nuclear power. Keeping the nuclear reactors would be almost no help with the current problem because Germany is using a
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by skrause 4y ago
In Germany it just became law three days ago that if company allows to sign up to any service online, they also have to offer an easy-to-find way that allows to cancel the service online. No more writing a letter, sending a fax or calling a
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by skrause 4y ago
My guess is that Germany still has a surplus against other euro countries, instead the money is flowing to oil and gas exporting countries. So that wouldn't help.
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by skrause 4y ago
In Germany, where the Google statistics show 64% IPv6 adoption, mobile carriers were actually the last to support IPv6, but even the last mobile carrier enabled it around a year ago. Now it's mostly businesses that are still not using
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by skrause 4y ago
The law was so strict that a clinic couldn't even mention in a single sentence somewhere on their website that they also provide abortions. This isn't about TV advertisement campaigns telling you to get your weekly abortion.
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by skrause 4y ago
Which is the same per GB price that I paid 10 years ago to upgrade my 2012 MacBook Air from 4 to 8 GB, which cost $100.
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by skrause 4y ago
Latest update about this project: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-2022-python-languag... And the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31348097
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by skrause 4y ago
A few complete, fully working example JSON configuration files for common use cases would be really useful as well.
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by skrause 5y ago
> Cookies as tech say nothing about privacy. But cookie banners do. Essential cookies that are required e.g. to store login data no not require a cookie banner ( https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/ ).
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by skrause 5y ago
China is more likely to go the Hong-Kong route ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-60474342 ), i.e. a very high death rate even with Omicron because they (unlike the UK) haven't managed to vaccinate a high p
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by skrause 5y ago
The better approach is to escalate this from just the Netherlands to the whole European Union. Then Apple can ask itself to pull out of the whole EU market (which they aren't going to do) or to comply.

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