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Why then are you trying to justify invasive hidden cameras in more places? Really, why not just use the existing solutions? This push for « convenience » is how we ended up with mi…

but then you are not present, you are distracted by a computer. Just because that computer does not have a clunky monitor, doesn't mean that you aren't any less distracted. Some of…

I am an electrical engineer based in Ontario, Canada. I'm very interested in the energy transition, especially the shift to electric vehicles, electric heat and the opportunities t…

this economic output comparison is brought up often, without proper context. During the time that the British were looting India, the industrial revolution happened. That also help…

India's total exports are in the same ballpark as the Netherlands, a country with half the population of the city of Bombay. India may not be a poor country, but GDP doesn't captur…

I see now why people downvote your comments. Please, if you do not understand the indian caste system, don't use that term, even in the context of a comparison. This is like compar…

Most highway exits in Ontario, Canada and some part of the US have highway exit ramps where the right lane widens into two, one exiting and one continuing. The two lanes are not ma…

would you say that a swiss german and someone from Hamburg have more in common than someone from Bavaria and someone from Helsinki?

these conversations are always incredibly frustrating. On one extreme are people who believe that white people are inherently better than black people because of some genetic inher…

Your argument ignores one important aspect - incentives. English is the global lingua franca, hence the incentive to learn English is incredibly strong. Outside of Germany, what ex…

sad to see this downvoted because it is very much true. European society loves to pretend that they are these progressive, enlightened people. In reality, what they are is just bet…

no, that's not true. The nation of Germany might not have existed, but the ethnic groups who would later define Germany very much did.

There is yet another angle that people don't like to discuss because it is uncomfortable. Every European nation state is built around ethnicity as the bedrock of society. This make…

i am curious - why are you not in favour of adding regulation? The point of most good regulation is to avoid consumer-hostile situations like this.

right, but back in the 90s, the onus of maintaining a working copy of any software was on you. Now, Sony simply reaches into you home and can deny you access to software/movies you…

at least in Ontario, fines, starting at $ 25,000.

Your latter point is legally incorrect. The protected term in Canada is “engineer”. If someone calls themselves an engineer without a P.Eng, that’s an offence.

i strongly suggest you look this up before making claims like this. Nearly 60% of china's electricity demand in 2025 was met by coal generation.

china is building coal plants because china has coal deposits. Please can you answer the question of where China is supplying its growing electricity demand? it is mostly coal or n…

way to miss the point. What use is hundreds of hours of weather records when the climate is changing in ways we do not yet understand? "somewhere" on the continent being windy is u…

yes, i am. Are you aware of the context of this bat killing "problem"? it is almost entirely a problem for older, unregulated wind farms in Germany. The "problem" has a simple solu…

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the comment you replied to is a homophobic dogwhistle. The tech sector is rife with blatant homophobia, racism, and a false sense of intellectual superiority. Hacker News is an exc…

no, this is not an "actual" problem. It is a problem in the sense that it happens, but not at a meaningful enough scale. The bats and birds is an issue that the oil and gas industr…

every single one of Ember's analyses are based on historical situations. That is certainly useful, and serves to demonstrate an important point - that wind and solar make economic …