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by sputr 4y ago
When it comes to nuclear, no story is better than the story of the Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant in Austria. It was built, finished, ready to start providing 692 MW of power. But was prevented with a referendum on 5 November 1978 by a nar
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by sputr 4y ago
For a startup like ours (great product, traction, everything, but we lack the funds to really get out there, sales wise) we would LOVE to let a reseller use a white label version in markets that we're not present yet (aka. including th
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by sputr 4y ago
I would second this – looks interesting, but the copy is a bit clunky and unclear.
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by sputr 4y ago
View your comment from the POV of the majority of the population, who aren't rich IT sector workers. There's energy poverty in Germany. A lot of it. You don't even have to go to any “3rd world” areas of the world to see it. C
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by sputr 4y ago
Load of my shoulders. As much as I hate to be beholden to Google, both my parents (in their 70s) use our gsuit account with custom domain and migrating them to a different service was … well, you know how it goes. The cost was a bit much. S
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by sputr 4y ago
This comment is not just intellectually dishonest, it's also a basic example of the core problem of our society: demonization of "others". You can have a problem with cancel culture and not be anti CRT. Who would have thought
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by sputr 5y ago
Legislative systems are massive and employ a small army of people, and such proposals take years to develop. Their current focus will become apparent in a few years.
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by sputr 5y ago
The text does not mention, in my opinion, the most toxic status game: moral superiority. If choosing money leads to working all the time, and beauty to mental problems, choosing moral superiority leads to what you started out fighting again
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by sputr 5y ago
Find a NGO that is collecting signatures. Join up. Push yourself to collect as many signatures as possible. Emulate others. No one will remember you so do all the things they tell you to do but you find super emberasing. Keep doing it until
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by sputr 5y ago
Firstly, they (aka medical leadership in most countries) did say that. Secondly the whole "horse drug" came about because people actually started taking a literal horse drug when they could not get their hands on a prescription fo
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by sputr 5y ago
"Security of property rights is a pretty compelling public interes." Is it really? You seem to be saying that public property is sacred. If that is true its the only thing ever. Everything else has "within reason" attach
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by sputr 5y ago
My argument is, that to archive your goals (which I in a way share), the strategy of securing drop-in replacements is a much, much more realistic one than the existing strategy of convincing people to give up luxury. All ecological and anti
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by sputr 5y ago
> But… I have… numerous times. Sure, I don't doubt that. The current proportion, from a quick google search, is between 1%-10% in the western world. That's after A LOT of effort and before any serious pushback. Now try doing it
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by sputr 5y ago
> Your argument is based on thinking it’s futile to resume suffering as much as possible. My argument is, that there are multiple strategies and that you are using a suboptimal, possibly at this point a counter-productive one. You will
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by sputr 5y ago
Just sent this to my colleague who organizes training/certification for our clients and constantly operates with screenshots of the app. We're a tiny company, no budget for designers, and moving too fast for them anyway. No idea i
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Dogsheep: Tools for Personal Analytics(dogsheep.github.io)
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by sputr 5y ago
As a "carnist" (first time I have seen that, it's a good choice) who would, in an ideal world, prefer not to be one: Stop focusing on things you can't change (even tho they make you look good/moral) and start focusi
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by sputr 5y ago
Are (pragmatic) views really a problem? I'm not so sure. Depends on what you are trying to achieve. If you're trying to change people's values (i.e. from "who care about the environment" to "we need to protect
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by sputr 5y ago
Ah, the Balkans :). Slovenia has a "sole proprietorship" system that's fantastic for IT professionals since it has standardized costs, which means in the end you pay 4% tax on any income up to 150k€. But you also pay FIXED &q
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by sputr 5y ago
> It seems like many journalists are failing in their primary responsibilities to keep the public informed. I would argue that that is not their primary responsibility. That is, in fact, to put food on the table. Journalists are not well
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by sputr 5y ago
Zim, the worst software I use daily. This was a weird realization. Why worst? Anything you try, except for writing text, does not work the way you would expect and usually works in exactly the worst possible way. Good luck copy/pasting
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by sputr 5y ago
> Writing it down is a way to structure thoughts and get it out of your system. Why do you feel the need to "structure thoughts" and "get it out of your system"? Asking as a way to point out that feeling the need to d
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by sputr 5y ago
The "was supposed" is the point of my comment. It wasn't. Yeah, there are a lot of systems like these who do some part of this, but it's far, FAR from a solved issue.
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by sputr 5y ago
>that GPs in particular would be replaced by a lower-cost Watson descendant Everybody is trying to replace GPs (and even specialists) with AI. But I've experienced a massive issue in healthcare that does not need an AI, just a good
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by sputr 5y ago
We call this "systemic financing" and Slovenia has had it since it's independence from Yugoslavia in the 90s. It's a stupendously bad idea. There are already hints of this: > Currently at issue are eligibility and the
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by sputr 5y ago
Current level of NO2 in our city, as measured by the official sources is 48 um/m3, with the official safe level of 200. Why is my gas stove a problem?
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by sputr 5y ago
> The conclusion is that obtaining films legally via streaming services remains the most convenient option Try living outside the US :). > What is your model for how films should get funded? I don't see the movie industry sufferi
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by sputr 5y ago
At those prices, selling your apartment and buying one for 20k USD extra, with the extra few square meters of space, would make more sense.
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by sputr 5y ago
I've been a big fan of this flag: https://www.planetaryflags.com/ It's an (open source) system of flags for the entire solar system.
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by sputr 5y ago
As non-scandinavian ... may it have something to do with the strong left/progressive lean of the population? I say this because one of the biggest problems of every single group or organization that I've seen built around progress

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