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Most immigration happens between neighboring countries e.g. the biggest immigrant group in Los Angeles are Mexicans. If you exclude neighboring countries Zurich has a foreign born …

> Germany has still over 100 active coal-fired power plants No, Germany has 97 coal BLOCKS in its power plants (down from 150 in 5 years), but those are NOT all active. Also German…

The article is not about turboprop but about open-rotor engines which are a modern variation of propfan engines.

Those are turboprop like the A400m or C-130. The article is about open-rotor engines which are a modern variation of propfan engines.

> In a calm cloudy winter week all renewables and battery storage are totally screwed. Hydro doesn’t really care about a calm cloudy winter week and is the reason my state was 100%…

Are collision avoidance system and automated emergency braking not standard in the US? Here in Switzerland basically every new vehicle has them.

> Also, by closing operating power plants, Germany weakened European energy production at the time when we geopolitically need it the most. Ironically that was France which needed …

Switzerland as well: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/trade-policy/swiss-post-tempora...

It's in line with very high COL countries like Switzerland, but higher than most other OECD countries. The biggest cost factor is also not the housing itself but care/nursing.

This is for seasonal energy storage with only 1 charge and discharge per year. It competes with water reservoirs not with batteries.

The national sausage of Switzerland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervelat

> Yes, they can be substituted but they're definitely a staple in good German Hausmannskost. Maybe not so much in the South: Swabia subsists almost entirely on Spätzle noodles and …

The article is from a non english speaking country. Siri was (and sometimes still is) really horrendous in some languages, so that might explain the trash talking. For example I ha…

Zeiss and ASML currently have no competitors in the EUV lithography space as everyone else dropped out. (There was a big switch from lenses to mirrors) I won't rule out a direct co…

That would only replace TMSC. Zeiss and ASML would be still in the supply chain.

Spotify and the iPhone were independently launched around the same time. Spotify back then was developed as the answer against illegal alternatives.

I'm working in the laser marking/engraving field, we actually discussed G-code internally but in the end decided against it as it was not suitable for our product. (Too many laser …

Apple pays out roughly the same percentage to developers as does Spotify to artists. As Apple pays almost nothing to developer the DMA seems a step in the right direction.

Apple probably will be able to continue to charge 99$/year for their developer kit.

a) This is explicitly forbidden b) Apple is free to act as payment provider, but can't force businesses to use it. If they decide to do it anyway: In case a gatekeeper does not com…

Concrete is rarely used nowadays (at least in Germany). Usually the metal profiles are just rammed into the ground, if the ground is too loose they are screwed in and gabions are u…

There is no mandated billing method, but the ability to pay without registering an account is mandated. Additionally every charger has a unique id with a QR code. Usually you eithe…

None of the countries in the article were ever colonized by France.

There is definitely some patent, exclusivity agreements and protectionism going on. But the bigger factor is, that the semiconductor supply chain is very deep and development is VE…