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by tjansen 7y ago
A cultural change is one way to do it. But another way is to offer compelling technology that, as a side benefit to the average consumer, is also more environmentally friendly. Examples could be Tesla (many people buy Tesla cars because th
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by tjansen 7y ago
I like the Adams Rule of Slow Moving Disasters: whenever humanity can see a slow-moving disaster coming, we find a way to avoid it. I don't doubt that we will continue to emit CO2 for a while, and the temperature will keep climbing, bu
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by tjansen 7y ago
You may have the storage to store it, but do you have the bandwidth to receive everything that's being produced?
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by tjansen 7y ago
How can you get to 100% renewables using solar and wind? We don't have the capability to store enough energy to get through a few days without wind, especially during the winter months in northern countries where solar doesn't pro
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by tjansen 7y ago
According to this paper, glass bottles need to be recycled 20 times in order to reach the same CO2 footprint as a PET bottle (UK, assuming a 60% recycling rate for PET): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/25767987
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by tjansen 7y ago
The 'Either' monad looks like a JS Promise without the asynchronicity. What he calls left/happy-path is 'resolved' in Promises, and right/sad-path is 'rejected'. I understand that using Promises for e
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by tjansen 7y ago
I miss how simple programs were in the 80s and 90s. I mean, they were a lot of work because there were no powerful libraries and you had to do almost everything from scratch. And then wait 30 minutes for the compiler each time you did a bui
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by tjansen 7y ago
People speaking different languages may think different, but most of their thoughts are lost because they can't be easily translated to English. Countries like Germany and France used to have global cultural impact, but today they are
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by tjansen 7y ago
According to Wikipedia, it was banned in Germany in 1988 ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propions%C3%A4ure ). In 1998 is became legal again because of EU regulation. If it was really a major contributor to diabetes and
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by tjansen 8y ago
That's not the kind regulation the article is mentioning. But generally, the effect of limiting the fees in a working market (and there is no indication here that the market isn't working in this particular segment) would be that
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by tjansen 8y ago
Because compliance with regulation requires additional work and thus costs money. As every payday lender has to do this, they will raise their fees.
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by tjansen 8y ago
Adding regulation without forbidding payday loans sounds to me like the worst thing you can do. In emergency situations, it can be perfectly rational to take out such a loan, despite high interests and fees. On the other hand, if you take a
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by tjansen 8y ago
Sorry, can't help for Berlin. My only advice is to speak to as many parents as possible. Ideally you talk to the Kita before the spots become officially available. Then you don't have to compete with 50 other parents, and they don
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by tjansen 8y ago
The problem with many German cities are that they are already full. Infrastructure can't keep up with the population. The building density is so high that it's very difficult to find room for more streets or rails, more schools an
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by tjansen 8y ago
I live in a different but still expensive Germany city and rent a apartment from a city-owned public housing company. The rent of the landlord's apartments is 20-30% lower than what you would pay in the free market, and in my neighbour
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by tjansen 8y ago
In Germany it works like that, at least for in-house developers in many larger companies. I got flex time and, on average, don't work more than 40 hours per week. Obviously there are some exceptions (like production issues and large re
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by tjansen 8y ago
In Germany, solar output is much lower in winter months than in summer months. Unfortunately, energy consumption is higher in winter (and will likely increase as most homes are currently heated with fossil fuels and need to switch to electr
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by tjansen 8y ago
Years ago I worked within walking distance to the office. It took only 10 minutes to walk there. I hated it. You spend all day and night in the same neighbourhood. At lunch I went to the same places I would go to at the weekends. Life just
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by tjansen 8y ago
Just google the "Scott Adams rule of slow moving disasters". Even if the climate is changing, it won't happen overnight, and there are many ways to either adjust to climate change, or to adjust the climate itself.
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by tjansen 8y ago
42, Machine learning. I discovered Coursera for me and worked through a number of courses. People say that learning is getting more difficult as you get older, but so far it is getting easier for me. When I was younger I didn't have th
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by tjansen 8y ago
There were several generations, and it seems like each country has a different version. I have seen at least three (US, NL and DE). I think the latest generation in US and DE are quite nice. But only at places with a lot of tourism people
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by tjansen 9y ago
Given the choice of either focusing on your career or your children, yes. If you'd want to focus on your career and maximize your income, would you take off a few years to take care of your children? Certainly not.
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by tjansen 9y ago
Like so many others, the article fails to acknowledge that some women (and some men!) don't mind earning less if that allows them to take are of their children. I could certainly earn more than I do today. But that would mean spending
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by tjansen 9y ago
Why? Excluding children, most pedestrians who get killed by cars didn't pay attention while crossing the street. That's the no 1 cause for adults. The other one is walking on streets without sidewalks. (sorry, ony have stats in Ge
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by tjansen 9y ago
In my case it does. I am driving a Euro5 Diesel car and live in one of those cities where they may be banned. So, yes, I need to buy a new one. Which is quite difficult, or at least expensive, because it's quite possible that cars with
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by tjansen 9y ago
There are two differences: a) It's something that I can control, as long as I stay on the sidewalk and the cars stay on the street. But I have no control over bicycles on the sidewalks (even if there is a bike lane and it's illega
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by tjansen 9y ago
I assume you're talking about US cities. Because IMHO most European cities are already far too dense. You can hardly see the sky.
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by tjansen 9y ago
Please no bicylces, they are terrible for pedestrians. I'd rather deal with cars than bikes.
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by tjansen 9y ago
Don't really know Toronto, but bikes are pretty annoying for pedestrians here in Germany as well.
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by tjansen 9y ago
Wow, this discussion is mindblowing. Working in software dev for 20 years, in Germany, and I have never seen any developer taking any stimulants. But maybe this is because only my first job was at a young startup, and I quickly learned that

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