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How about Volvo giving away their patented 3-point safety belt design for free to all competitors? https://techandmedialaw.com/open-patent-rights-for-seatbelts... (edit: sorry, re-…

The article reminds me on smart and competent people, that in addition to being smart lack the feeling for social norms and empathy. Yes, they tend to unnecessarily run into argume…

It was very obvious that Trump is a highly corrupt and incompetent person at the second term election. His voters do not disappear when he is in prison, neither would the US reputa…

He isn't really hitting an opponent though, he is mainly hitting the U.S.

I wonder whether frogs have a tale about how humans behave on a warming up planet.

As bank I'd look into these 4.x % of loans where the machine learning disagrees. This headline feels like 20 years old though, except for calling it "AI".

> There are no situations in which every participants wins. There are always "losers" as long as there are finite resources. How about the comparative advantage that Ricardo develo…

This is a visualization tool of an IPCC study where you can compare various climate scenarios. All the data and publications are available there too: https://hotspots-explorer.org/…

When receiving the vaccination in Austria, I was told to avoid physical activity or sports for three days. The nurse told that a befriended doctor was treating a couple of patients…

Sure, none of them native though.

Thank you, this comes in handy and was really missing! It's sad that the newest phone supporting lineage 17.1 and a swappable battery is from 2015. Another nice feature would be to…

I'm not sure whether you are serious. But if you are: There are not many people who agree on your opinion, otherwise the share price would be way higher.

Not at all. Even the ECB is buying company bonds since the financial crisis. The first "source" I found is in German only unfortunately: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wertpapierkau…

The bailouts that are happening now will increase the state debts, so no, they did not pay all of this in taxes already.

> Please, don't exaggerate. I am a software developer who uses Linux exclusively since about 2000 and has contributed indirectly to Debian. Last week I wanted to setup Debian on my…

> I don't wanna tango :( What do you want to do?

That's a great opportunity to build similar code-hosting platforms (and other software/services) outside of the US. Just for political reasons many people might like to switch...

How do you come to this conclusion, and what exactly do you mean by "free software community"? Github/Microsoft? There are quite some free software projects that use their own code…

My interpretation: Only 42 % of the emitted CO2 stays in the atmosphere[1], the rest is soaked up by land and ocean. The article only relates to the CO2 in the atmosphere. [1] http…

"The Planet Now Has More Trees Than It Did 35 Years Ago" (Nature publication): https://psmag.com/environment/the-planet-now-has-more-trees-...

> The analysis found there are 1.7bn hectares of treeless land on which 1.2tn native tree saplings would naturally grow. > Crowther’s team calculated that there are currently about…

I'm working as software developer at the energy/climate department of a research institute[1]. It's a think-tank that also consults policy makers. The scientists here do lots of mo…

I work as software developer in the climate research field. According to the researchers here, during the past decades the problem has been being played down by science. Prediction…

While I agree about not wanting nuclear waste, a sea level rise of one meter within 20 years is way above the general scientific prediction. In the last 17 years the rise was prett…