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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-electricity-per-cap... The only other even slightly comparable country is Spain and they don't start until 2006/7. https://en.wikipedia.org…

This. Plus the fact that it would have been politically absolutely infeasible to get anyone except the Greens to agree on a coal before nuclear phase out at any point until at leas…

I don't know that because it is utterly untrue, as is easily verified by looking up plenty of available data in the German electricity mix - it's replaced by the growth in renewabl…

Germany's use of gas has basically nothing to do with nuclear energy. It's used for gas peakers (which are for now and were needed, whether some % of electricity is provided by nuc…

Conservative politicians and leaders as they label themselves and practically act in today's political landscape are fundamentally on the authoritarian and anti-civil liberties sid…

They'll have a lot of work to do, if they want to catch up with the amount and rate of "hidden authentication backdoors" all those companies (and also Cisco) have. E.g. https://www…

Compared to other Linux distribution's package tooling Arch's is pretty nice and painless, I think. Agreed with namcap/chroot - I think there should be even more mandatory checks o…

*Made by the proto2 implementor, Kenton Varda https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kentonv

Ah, so you are signalling misogyny and judging people as less just by their choice of hair-do with that term, got it.

So you're basing it all on your willful interpretation of "don't enforce federal immigration law" instead of going with any other interpretation that would not enrage you so? That …

The world demonstrates in many instances, that you do not have to have empathy with people suffering from oppression, rape, murder, etc in order to "succeed" in terms of wealth and…

Structured concurrency is also a Kotlin thing https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coroutines-basics.html#coroutine... and a Python thing https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurr…

In the long run https://github.com/google/crubit will very likely solve this for Rust even if it's a bit specific to Google's use cases right now as per readme.

Germany in its constitutional law has protections against that data being used for any other purpose or government agencies. Does that help if a new antisemitic party would take ov…

Please read again and don't put your own ideological spin on my words, please. I fully blame governments and politicians for all failures. I did not write that it's "actually" or o…

DB is only in its current state (company organization, leadership failures, organizational failures, underfunding for decades, etc) because of previous governments' failed attempts…

When you want to distinguish `MyObj??` then you'll have to distinguish the optionality of one piece of code (wherever your `MyObj?` in the list came from) with some other (list fin…

All kinds of fees (e.g. for the grid) and taxes, yes. It differs by year and depending on which surcharges were added/removed through laws. E.g. one part was for renewable subsidie…

End consumer prices are utterly unusable to determine success or failure of the Energiewende. They are also utterly useless to compare across nations, as they are made up of very d…

In my experience it's a common mistake of non-native English speakers, of native speakers of Slavic languages in particular. I see it often at work with titles starting with an int…

Public transport being massively/too popular is the only way for it to get anywhere near the level of funding it needs. That's not really a failure mode, just a symptom of the real…

It doesn't, and people slowly realize - e.g. in beer country Germany: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-alcohol-free-beer-sales-double...

Sure, let's just ignore all the issues that widespread alcohol abuse bring to societies and call them healthy. Who cares, I'm living a good life with alcohol, so everyone suffering…

That's somewhat outdated and Wikipedia even slightly alludes to it with "Some banks are phasing out girocards". "some" in reality is "nearly all". Girocard is practically dead and …

https://www.tomtom.com/traffic-index/ranking/ 30 km/h is equal to 20 min/10km, 50 km/h is 12 min/10km. So Helsinki city center is at 21km/h travel speeds, metro area at 31km/h. A s…