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by zeroname 8y ago
Popularity is a quality in its own right. If something is popular, there are experts who know how to deal with the issues. There are clients who need issues solved. There is a market . Just take SAP, probably a pile of garbage in terms of
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Microsoft is backing C# so that probably has a bright future Not too long ago, that statement would've been seen as satirical. Microsoft has left a huge graveyard of technologies behind. They seem to be on a better track now, but
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by zeroname 8y ago
1. Who uses it and what have they done with it? 2. Is it actively maintained? (How) are issues dealt with? 3. How popular is it and what is the trajectory? I don't want to be the first person to run into all the issues. I'll let t
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Maybe in a simple model of capitalism. You may call it capitalism, but even the birds and the bees "understand" the concept of investing now for future gains. > Example: no one invests in a nuclear power plant - unless the
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by zeroname 8y ago
> That's an illusion, especially in the energy sector. It has been for decades. It's not an illusion, it's the basis of the economy. If something is known to be both useful and necessary, there is a profit to be made and
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by zeroname 8y ago
> There are no neutral organizations. That's only fair to say, therefore you must not mind me quoting some facts highlighted by "the other side": "From the viewpoint of security of supply, so far wind power in German
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Solar is not very volatile Only if you disregard the fact that that the sun doesn't shine at night .
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by zeroname 8y ago
> That's your claim. That's common sense. If something is both economically useful and necessary, it finances itself. You don't need subsidies at all, at most you need loans. > Enough people here have been thinking the
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by zeroname 8y ago
Flexibility is not the crucial issue. It's just what that large Tesla battery is good at, which is why everyone highlights it. In terms of capacity, it's next to nothing. No proponent wants to talk about that. If you just look at
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by zeroname 8y ago
> It's not 'unsolved' - it's just that it was economically not useful nor necessary nor wanted to store wind electricity in larger scales and this might be the case for another decade. Then we will see more storage co
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Germany does not have a single wind turbine in a single location. It has vast numbers of them across many locations, many of which are situated in areas with near near constant wind. Across the whole portfolio of this production resour
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Base-load power is the power that continues to be generated even when there is low demand for it. That is wrong. Base load is the minimum demand of electricity at any given moment over a time span. The base load that a wind turbine w
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by zeroname 8y ago
This is highly misleading information from the usual suspects. The total output in kWh of heavily subsidized solar/wind energy is not the issue. The problem of the "Energiewende" is that the highly volatile wind/solar
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by zeroname 8y ago
Doesn't matter, once you're past a certain age, almost nobody will hire you as a programmer. Don't build your entire career on it.
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by zeroname 8y ago
Has somebody bothered to estimate the cost of this whole process in terms of overall energy expenditure and waste of irreplacable human lifetime? Achieving a 90% redemption rate could still be 100% nonsense.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> General software development gets moved overseas and comes back all the time. General software development also isn't unionized . As soon is it is, moving overseas becomes vastly more attractive. > Software development is hard
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by zeroname 8y ago
They are doing it. Outsourcing has a cost unto itself though, just like unionizing has a cost.
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by zeroname 8y ago
You didn't address the more important point: Managers can get away with it by moving production to cheaper places. It's already happening anyway. What a lot of people don't realize is that unions can also cause wage suppre
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by zeroname 8y ago
The production value behind those "bare bones" titles is still magnitudes larger than what you had back then, while the "play time" is at least comparable. Statistics show that most people never finish the games anyway (
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by zeroname 8y ago
Virtually anybody who runs a successful business believes that a good business environment is also good for the country.
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by zeroname 8y ago
If he didn't care about the UK then why would he vocally support a Brexit? That's a clear contradiction. To put it another way, I can argue for a better business environment in my home country while simultaneously having all my bu
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by zeroname 8y ago
In the short run, Brexit will be bad for business, especially if it happens as uncoordinated as it looks now. In the long run, nobody knows, but at least there's potential to negotiate favorable deals without dealing with the EU.
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by zeroname 8y ago
Where exactly is the hypocrisy? Singapore has been touted as a model on how to organize trade after Brexit. Of course you want a trade deal with the EU after Brexit. One major problem with being in the EU is that it forces the UK to uphold
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by zeroname 8y ago
Ten people give their opinions, as requested. One person thinks you're arrogant and tells you so. You can't argue with results.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> I worry that developers will see this as an alternative to native Linux ports You should worry that developers will not see this as an alternative to native Linux ports. Ongoing support for Linux just isn't worth it, it has been
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by zeroname 8y ago
The post originally linked to a youtube video of that same guy sitting in front of a laptop, researching specs. I did watch that one. Again, even if those bananas see no other use than being dumped, that doesn’t mean they would’ve been cons
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by zeroname 8y ago
I guess "spite" might be an underappreciated factor of real-world (un-)economics.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Many times the farmers are given such a low ball offer, that is basically expecting them to sell for loss. The farmer does the obvious. Takes their produce, dump in a lake near by as garbage, because it often doesn't economic make
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by zeroname 8y ago
Actually it isn't. It's the same kind of poor research that the rant is about. Those are cosmetic specifications for supermarket stock, nowhere does it say what happens with the produce that doesn't meet them. It's simpl
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by zeroname 8y ago
> a healthy diet really can just be summed up as "eat food, not too much, mostly plants" Absolutely not. We do know enough about malnutrition to say that this statement is false. It has also been demonstrated that "zero

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