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by tehabe 10y ago
I'm suggesting that companies like Google should have a plain-text option. Long term goal is be to get rid of HTML, at least in my utopian mind as in it will never happening in reality.
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by tehabe 10y ago
I wonder if the usage of plain-text mails would reduce phishing or increase it?
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by tehabe 10y ago
Incomplete models are incomplete. It completely ignores the ways on which the mentioned transport should take place. It ignores that you usually don't have one place from which everybody starts but multiple places to other multiple pla
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by tehabe 10y ago
I have a distinct boy cries wolf feeling about this. There might be a point but it isn't that bad or the point is about something complete different.
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by tehabe 10y ago
If I could just change one thing in education. I would outlaw multiple choice questions.
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by tehabe 10y ago
For the USSR the RBMK design had two advantages. 1. You could refuel it while the reactor was running. 2. It could supply needed Plutonium for nuclear weapons.
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by tehabe 10y ago
I still remember this. When it happened I was 7 years old and I was living in Germany. The town were I was living in blocked all playgrounds for weeks. And my parents warned me more about picking stuff up from the ground. I actually never k
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by tehabe 10y ago
I think the Japanese are working on those because they need them for cleaning up Fukushima.
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by tehabe 10y ago
I think I heard that the long term plan is to remove all material from the reactor. But I don't when and most importantly, I don't think anyone has a clue on how to remove the material from the reactor.
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by tehabe 10y ago
The East German nuclear plants went offline pretty quick after the unification. And yes there are a few natural gas plants, they would actually much better now than those annoying coal plants which were build recently. They are faster and w
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by tehabe 10y ago
IIRC he wasn't a big fan of the phase out. We had to force him. Also natural gas is mostly used for heating in Germany. Something the German nuclear power plants never could provide.
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by tehabe 10y ago
I think that is a fair point. But as the report mentions, trucks and busses are fine. Because with those it apparently not an issue to add Diesel exhaust fluid to the mix. But I can't imagine that the usual drivers want the hassle with
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by tehabe 10y ago
The car maker lobby VDA even says today that stricter emission standards are not needed. Btw, the chairman of the VDA is Matthias Wissmann, wo used to be the German transport minister.
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by tehabe 10y ago
This could really the death blow for the Diesel engine in cars. Over a decade people have promoted the Diesel as a cleaner, more efficient fuel for cars and car makers spent billions to improve the engines and apparently even more in market
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by tehabe 10y ago
"Killing Chrome Apps" is actually a good thing, at least for the an open web. It means, that apps on the web are supposed to be on the web and not packaged in the browser. Google has said that this was a temporary measure. Essenti
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by tehabe 10y ago
Pay your taxes. Most cancer research funding comes from the government. And hopefully the results of this research will be available for all people.
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by tehabe 10y ago
Reminds me indeed on the idea on some Libertarians, who believe we all steal from each other. So making every legal would result in that you get an equilibrium in which everybody gives up something voluntary and nobody steals anything. This
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by tehabe 10y ago
Replacing them with coal plants is indeed stupid and indefensible. But shutting them down was the right choice. Some of them were in a bad shape. In one plant, Krümmel I think, they even had trouble getting replacement parts. Another one, i
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by tehabe 10y ago
Possible maybe, there was a project called Desertec, but it is pointless. The advantage of renewable energy is the possibility of a decentralised energy supply.
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by tehabe 10y ago
The actual electricity is getting cheaper in Germany, what drives the prices are the grid usage costs and other elements. One thing which drives me nuts is a cost sharing scheme for renewable energy. Actually a good idea but it has a flaw.
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by tehabe 10y ago
Except it isn't really true. The share of coal in the German energy mix is decreasing too. There was a hike in 2013 and 2014. And the construction of new coal plants in the last 10 years was big mistake but nevertheless, the switch to
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by tehabe 10y ago
But spaghetti sauce can be switched for your next meal if it taste bad. A school not so much, if attended a bad school for a while you might not be able to catch up on a good school, or you have to start over again, or they don't even
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by tehabe 10y ago
Actually I think it will be cheaper than today's system. Also it will be paid for by everybody and since all school are equally good it is much easier to get good teachers. A good teacher is needed to integrate academically weak pupils
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by tehabe 10y ago
Education is more than just learning how to read and write, if you think that makes me an SJW, I'm one. I also think that locally run schools, either by the government or by the municipality give the people back their agency. How much
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by tehabe 10y ago
Well, but only for those who attend those schools. My point is, that school markets leave winners and losers. Losers who have to go to awful schools and winners who get the best education ever. If that is what you want, okay. But I want the
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by tehabe 10y ago
To limit a good education to "It doesn't take years to check if a child can read and write." is condescending. Free markets might work for some things well, for education they don't, not in development countries nor in d
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by tehabe 10y ago
That is a naive idea. Profit means the investors are getting a value from their investment. If the customers are getting a value remains to be seen. Especially in education we are talking about years. Unlike a restaurant where you know afte
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by tehabe 10y ago
School choice means competition among schools. Which leads to winner and losers. So you will get bad schools. The only way to avoid this is, to have only good schools, nation wide. So that the best school is the one in your district.
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by tehabe 10y ago
I understand the procrastination argument but if it is not some (social) website it is something else. People who tend to procrastinate will do it anyway. At least this is my personal experience.

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