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Nobody suggests moving to 100% solar. Some off-grid homes do it, but generally there are multiple complementary power sources available. There is no assumption that any single powe…

The "subsidy" (Einspeisevergütung) is a fixed price paid for power sold to electricity providers, for those who don't want the complexity of taking part in the energy market. It wa…

The market rate is the expected compensation in a certain market, usually based on location, and it's a range rather than a single value. If it was the highest compensation, everyo…

Governments print money, high frequency traders extract money. They would say that they provide liquidity to the market as a service.

Very few things are purely technical decisions. In this case, it’s about centralized vs. distributed electricity generation (or freedom vs. dependence if you want to state it that …

Pasta is actually a relatively low GI food, due to long starch chains. Like fiber, some of the (resistant) starch acts as food for the microbiome of the gut. There’s a theory that …

The LLM does not prove anything (it cannot reason). It generates Lean code, and conveniently, in Lean, the code is also the proof. It’s not merely a model of the stated system, it …

Even if you reduce it to that, you still endorse (or at least accept) the side effects of the production of what you eat. If you eat meat, you are okay with the effects it has on c…

VPNs are generic networking/security tools that can also be used for things like circumventing geoblocking. Cryptocurrency doesn’t have a lot of use cases outside of money launderi…

> No dude. Most things are not, in fact, political. When I enjoy a meal, that isn't political. When I hang out with my family and friends, that isn't political. When I sit down to …

It’s probably pointless to argue, but there was never a lot of nuclear power in Germany to begin with. This is just turning energy policy into culture war.

In practice, repairs affect the water resistance, and Apple Store employees will confirm that to you. They just don't want to say so in the product description as it would raise do…

Comparable or not, the Fairphone 6 costs less than half of my iPhone. I don't think the price is an issue.

Low friction is cool but it leads to tons of abuse

In a way, that's true. Drinking a lot of juice, or soft drinks, is not ideal, and when I see an overweight person drinking straight from a large juice bottle, that reaffirms my bel…

Laypeople are changing how “AI” is used in common language, like they previously did for “algorithm” and “crypto”. The textbook definition of AI is a system that solves problems th…

So you’re saying that it’s naive to expect a company to care whether they are facilitating a genocide in one of their growth markets? You must be fun to work with

Her book is exceptional. You won’t get these insights anywhere else and it’s surprisingly entertaining.

They live in a bubble and don’t understand that getting rid of jobs is not universally seen as a good thing. If you haven’t read it already, I can recommend “Careless People”, this…

Since he spent Euros, he must be somewhere on the EU. This is a GDPR violation and I bet he can reach actual people that are able to help by mailing their GDPR legal contact.

What are you using instead of Homebrew?

The "doing things correctly" mentality is the root of so many problems. Bureaucracy, "German engineering" (overengineering), cargo-culting, CYA, error culture, ...

By the logic of the article, a circuit breaker for the DB query would act as a fallback for the fallback. A path that would be executed in production even less frequently, and whic…

Look at his other tweets, he seems to be a sociopathic extremist