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by sveme 8y ago
There could be different approaches: (i) convert to gas and store it in caverns, (ii) store it in batteries, (iii) store it in pumped hydro in Norway, (iv) turn up the load in the system, e.g., electricity-demanding processes like aluminium
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by sveme 8y ago
OT, but with the whole GDPR drama, this website has made a better effort than most to comply. However, I doubt that all the default opt-ins would be ruled GDPR-compliant.
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by sveme 8y ago
Aren‘t the ToS pulled from the web when you set it up with a google account? I doubt you‘re agreeing to two year old ToS.
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by sveme 8y ago
Regarding emails: if you‘re using gmail, there‘s obviously no point in using emails instead of using google drive. If you used emails associated with web hosting, there‘s a difference.
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by sveme 8y ago
Health insurance -> physical letter: security. Kindergarten photos: wouldn‘t want pictures of my kids to end up on the web either, maybe slight, but I guess justified paranoia. AldiTalk: anonymous phones have been illegalized by law a co
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by sveme 8y ago
I doubt that the privacy-conscious would use payback - that‘s mostly used by seniors and moms. That cash-paying people use payback does not imply that privacy-conscious people that pay cash use payback. Non sequitur.
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by sveme 8y ago
So which part of the law is ridiculous? Disclaimer: I believe the principles that are applied within the law, data autonomy, data ownership, usage-binding of data etc., are sound. And just because people have aggregated any data on people
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by sveme 8y ago
I agree on Munich - and most of its startups are in tough topics involving hardware such as robotics, IoT etc. Still believe that engineering B2B is a better fit for a startup company in Germany than the often B2C model in silicon valley.
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by sveme 8y ago
Sono Motors [1] have plastered solar cells on the car body and claim that they could be able to cover 30 km of travel per day with them. Though even 10 km would be pretty helpful in a city, which is what your calculation implies (~4-5 m^2 u
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by sveme 8y ago
Natural Language Processing could definitely allow for some context-dependent ads within an article. When reading something on the new C# 7, I'm most likely not interested in some tupperware I decided not to buy on Amazon a couple of w
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by sveme 8y ago
You want to opt out of laws? Laws are not mailing lists.
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by sveme 8y ago
Which is still less than Volkswagen builds, just to put it in scope: - World's fastest hypercar (by a VERY long margin) (Bugatti Veyron) - Heavy duty transport trucks (MAN/Scania) - luxury sedans (Audi/Porsche) - affordable s
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by sveme 9y ago
> He's ambivalent at the moment - thinks it'll go up more but probably fall in the future. He'll always be right with this assessment.
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by sveme 9y ago
Boston and Munich are about the same size; yet the public transportation system in Munich is significantly better (speed, coverage, comfort of stations and trains, accessibility) than that in Boston. That does not have to be. Instead they s
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by sveme 9y ago
Maybe you are right and I misunderstood his question. I was under the impression that he asked whether a European governmental facility could aggregate talent in some place and came up with an example where this worked and why I believe an
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by sveme 9y ago
Places like EMBL or ESO are comparatively well paid, much better than at universities. Still less than in industry, but that's the case everywhere.
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by sveme 9y ago
I'm familiar with the European Molecular Biology Lab [1] (worked there), which is one of the best research centres in cell and molecular biology as well as bioinformatics in the world. The only real prerequisite for working there is ex
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by sveme 9y ago
Syntax is often too complicated, I agree. But to me, software development is not about learning syntax but about handling and understanding complexity. Good languages support handling complexity and I really don't see a future where co
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by sveme 9y ago
Using a smartphone app, entering the transaction isn't really such a pain. Just bought a pretzel, 12 secs later I had it entered in the app. What I want in contrast is a way of tracking complex expenses like supermarket receipts, maybe
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by sveme 9y ago
You're talking about a German, highly regulated situation, which, while interesting, might not really apply to the situation in the US and more specifically at Tesla. It's apparently quite sudden and unpaid, very different from yo
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by sveme 9y ago
> considering the value that Facebook has created for society at little to no cost to its users. Would you mind listing the positives (and negatives as well) that you believe facebook created for society? I'm strongly against Facebo
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by sveme 9y ago
Deanonymization of medical data is actually pretty easy if you know a little about your target (age group, height, a set of pre-existing medical conditions limit the set of potential people considerably).
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by sveme 9y ago
Maybe different cities? I‘m in Munich.
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by sveme 9y ago
> In Germany almost every cafe, restaurant, or bar requires you pay with cash. We must be living in very different Germanys.
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by sveme 9y ago
Isn‘t it possible to formally check Simulink autogenerated code using Polyspace? Or are you thinking of something else?
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by sveme 9y ago
Appeal to authority is never a good argument for or against something.
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by sveme 9y ago
There's hard data from a study over 27 years in Germany on the decline of insects, references below: > sabertoothed In some nature protected areas in Germany, researchers [1] have reported a 75% decline in flying insects over 27 yea
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by sveme 9y ago
I agree; Facebook the social network might decay - Facebook the company holding many different things is probably not going anywhere.
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by sveme 9y ago
I'm sceptical of the monthly active users number as it also includes Facebook Messenger users that might not ever use the website or app itself. From my social circle outside the tech world, Facebook is increasingly being frowned upon
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by sveme 9y ago
Sure. That's already possible in Germany, where any company has to provide you with the details of their knowledge about you once a year for free: https://selbstauskunft.net/

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