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by tjansen 5y ago
Yes, you need something like Stripe Atlas...
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> What should really scare you is the vast amount of privacy violations, data collection and tracking that is happening around the web. Even if it would scare me (it really doesn't), as an EU citizen I would care about surveillance
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by tjansen 5y ago
That stuff scares me. More than US government surveillance could ever scare me. The most likely outcome is that smaller companies just don't do business in the EU. At least before they are large enough to deal with GDPR. I am located i
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by tjansen 5y ago
Telegram's distinct feature is the lack of state surveillance. This allows activists and oppositions all over the world to use it. But not only in Belarus Hong Kong and Russia, but also in Germany...
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by tjansen 5y ago
> All three (especially PVs!) are reducing in price over time, whereas nuclear is becoming more expensive That's speculation. Nuclear could become much cheaper over time if standardized reactor designs are used. Also, I don't b
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by tjansen 5y ago
What kind of appliances can wait for several hours? The only example I can think of are cars that are being charged over night.
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by tjansen 5y ago
> unsolved waste question Why is it unsolved? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Waste_reductio...
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by tjansen 5y ago
> A mix of renewables, coupled with battery and hydrogen-from-seawater energy storage technologies, will be cheaper, less capital-intensive, easier to maintain, and far easier to sell politically. What will make it cheaper than nuclear p
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by tjansen 5y ago
50 years? I'd hope we have fusion power by then. But it doesn't look like there will be enough batteries for wind power in the next 20 years.
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by tjansen 5y ago
Well, then make it 5 days. That still needs more capacity than the global battery production per year.
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by tjansen 5y ago
> Solar, wind and batteries are cheaper and money is limited. How can you even estimate the cost of batteries? Insane amounts of batteries would be needed, capable of storing all of Germany's energy needs (including transportation a
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by tjansen 5y ago
1. Fear (nuclear waste, radioactivity, incidents, association with nuclear weapons) 2. The Green party has been born out of the anti-nuclear movement. Without them, Germany would probably use nuclear energy for most of its electricity needs
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by tjansen 5y ago
27% is a misleading number because it is the average for the whole period. On some days, wind and solar can provide 100% of all electricity. But on windstill nights, it is closer to 0%. Without having a way to store a whole nation's en
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by tjansen 5y ago
The plan is to replace them with natural gas ( https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/wirtschaft-155.html ). At least until 2040, when they want to stop using natural gas ( https://www.wiwo.de/politik/d
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by tjansen 5y ago
> The students catch covid and (we've known this for a year) usually have mild to no symptoms, but they go on to infect their parents. The dark figure is very high. I think this is not a good argument: - Vaccines have been shown to
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by tjansen 5y ago
> That is not going to make you feel any better if it is your kid who is one of these "negligible" deaths. True, but that's not a good argument. There's not enough data on the vaccine yet to be rule out the possibilit
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by tjansen 5y ago
"catch even bugs like recent log4j" How could it help with that? JNDI lookups were a documented feature of log4j. An incredibly dangerous one, but it was intended to work like that.
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by tjansen 5y ago
I love the idea. It would be nice if events (Miss Universe, Tornado outbreak) would be put on a timeline, and there would be a separate section for ongoing things (Covid, russian troops).
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by tjansen 5y ago
That should be possible if you use a web server like Apache as main application and then link the module that your scripting language requires. Not sure whether NanoVMs already support it though.
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by tjansen 5y ago
How does it spread from humans to deer? Do you have to sneeze at the deer, or be in the same room? And how can it transmit back? I thought it was an airborne virus...
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by tjansen 5y ago
If the attacker is on your computer, he can access your bank account while you are being logged in (and possibly after that, if he disabled the logoff). He just needs to copy your session cookies and use your computer as proxy to use your I
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by tjansen 5y ago
I am using Google Drive, so Office Lens won't help me. Google Drive on iPhone doesn't have a built-in scanning function (the Android app does). You need a different app for scanning. Genius Scan can export directly to Google Drive
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by tjansen 5y ago
> Now the attacker has your medical history, tax and bank statements, contracts, ... your whole life to pick and choose the ransom amount. But can't the attacker get most of that even without your PDFs? If the attacker can get acces
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by tjansen 5y ago
I just scan everything and put it on Google Drive. For a long time I used the all-in-one printer's built-in scanner (with ADF), but over the last years started I scanning with my mobile phone. On Android I used Google Drive's buil
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by tjansen 5y ago
> Are you worried about data security/malware at all? Not really. I scan everything I get on paper, and put everything on Google Drive. But it would be quite a lot of effort to dig through my hundreds (thousands?) of PDF documents t
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by tjansen 5y ago
Copilot is quite good at substituting variables and names. The question is whether you can find the claim for another company.
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by tjansen 5y ago
> Maybe historical data alone without other context isn't the best way to predict the future So how can you get people do unpleasant but necessary work without direct benefit for them? > much of the open-source world appears to f
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by tjansen 5y ago
> system where people don't have to be coerced to do things Was there ever a working system without some form of coercion? The common forms of coercion are either withholding resources (usually money), or restricting freedom (prison
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by tjansen 5y ago
We're also using Tandem ( http://tandem.chat ), which looks fantastic in comparison. Not sure exactly why. Resolution is still 480k, but the frame rate is noticeably higher, and possibly the compression rate as well.
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by tjansen 5y ago
I think nobody would have complained about the Macbook's lack of ports if Apple would have offered (and promoted!) a portable docking station and a Thunderbolt screen equivalent for USB-C. Unfortunately that never happened, and most us

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