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Re: Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

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Post by BlueDingo »

LargoLasskhyfv wrote: post #240
masswerk wrote: post #208

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Cost as in efficiency. (Last time I looked, filaments were rated less efficient than direct light sources. However, they seem to become better.)

I'm using these [1] https://www.osram.com/ecat/PARATHOM%20Retrofit%20CLASSIC%20B...

I'm not versed much in these filaments but from what I know, and your link, these are just phosphor-covered LEDs, right?

What is it about your current bulbs or the filament design that makes you not classify them as LEDs? The power use looks the same and the listed CRI of >=80 doesn't inspire confidence.

Re: Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

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Post by tristor »

mikepurvis wrote: post #256
calvinmorrison wrote: post #233

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> that can encourage racial segregation. Unnamed critics state things "can" do things, while the following sentence shows there is no evidence. Then there is a follow up statement that the racial demographics show that HOAs tend to be richer (A major point of HOAs is to improve and maintain neighborhood values), and less diverse. The second part on its face might seem upsetting but, you'll find largely suburban commu…

Bloomberg is at least conventional media, though, and even right-leaning media, at that. It's a bit different from a comedian making bombastic, click-baity videos for the internet.

What makes you think Bloomberg is right-leaning? My understanding is that WSJ has been right-leaning in NY finance journalism and Bloomberg has been left-leaning, historically.

Re: Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

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Post by com2kid »

kamarg wrote: post #248
SteveNuts wrote: post #216

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Yeah but they could also seek that out on their own without an HOA.

An HOA that represents more people can get a better deal for the residents than a single home can on their own.

My HOA has 100 home owners (large town home complex), that type of buying power puts us all in a really good negotiating position.

Not to mention they save me all the time I'd spend on arranging various home services, from window washing to roof cleaning to pest removal to repaving driveways. Having an HOA means I worry about what is inside my walls and nothing else.

Re: Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

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Post by zdragnar »

adrianN wrote: post #224
product50 wrote: post #206

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You are talking as if somehow non-Americans have access to more liberties across non-government entities in their lives. If anything, Americans treasure and enjoy the most freedoms across the widest gamut of institutions vs. non Americans.

Germans for example have an expectation of privacy at the workplace. It's not allowed to monitor a German employee's web browsing on a work computer. In the US the employer can monitor them all they want.

Property rights are more "first class" than privacy rights; in the US, the idea that a company is not allowed to monitor the use of company equipment by employees is absurd- to the extent that many institutions are regulated to require it (i.e. monitoring for data exfiltration, etc).

Of course, most companies' monitoring is pretty shallow and reasonable, but there are exceptions, and I certainly wouldn't choose to work for one of the exceptions.

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Post by some-guy »

dcgudeman wrote: post #283

Posts like this are really disappointing to me. I come to hacker news to read about technology and startups. If I wanted to read about general news topics (bees, insects, glyphosate, general monsanto hate, etc...) I would frequent google news, CNN, or reddit.

You must be new to Hacker News.

Re: Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

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Post by jmknoll »

dcgudeman wrote: post #283

Posts like this are really disappointing to me. I come to hacker news to read about technology and startups. If I wanted to read about general news topics (bees, insects, glyphosate, general monsanto hate, etc...) I would frequent google news, CNN, or reddit.

Forgive the snark, but if you don't think using technology to make the world a better place is an appropriate topic for HN, you could consider getting your news from techcrunch.

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Post by alexdumitru »

zackmorris wrote: post #109

The best thing we can do on a personal level is to stop using broadleaf weedkillers like Scott's Weed and Feed and other herbicides like glyphosate (Roundup). I've been doing handyman work at my boss's house during COVID-19 and he has clover growing in his yard. He has a fair number of bees, certainly more than on my end of town which is all chemlawns. It's arguably ok to use a little weed killer by hand on dandelion…

I don't know why people hate clover. I'm planting clover along with grass, because it looks nice and helps the soil.

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

groby_b wrote: post #252
dependenttypes wrote: post #234

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That does not seem very enforceable. Surely their internal DNS server and routers keep logs for example.

The use and access of those logs is strictly regulated, and yes, it is enforced. Given that Germany has a much healthier employee representation than the US, it's much more difficult for management to slide in surveillance under the radar. (It's also rather painful if they get caught)

I wonder if those German workplace freedoms stem from a different legal system of culpability.

In some US states, for example, an employee who commits a crime using his employer’s computer has opened up his employer to civil liability. If the employer can show that the employee actively sidestepped the employer’s controls, the employer can make a good case against liability.

I wonder if anything like that can happen in Germany. If not, then employee privacy on employer-owned devices makes sense.

Re: Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

Barrin92 wrote: post #265
product50 wrote: post #206

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You are talking as if somehow non-Americans have access to more liberties across non-government entities in their lives. If anything, Americans treasure and enjoy the most freedoms across the widest gamut of institutions vs. non Americans.

Home owner associations or your average American Beauty style dystopia is much rarer outside the US because people haven't voluntarily locked themselves into suburbia. In Europe the middle class generally moves into cities and not out of them where you're for the most part left to your own devices rather than being bullied around by activist neighbours or your church parish or what have you. I mean just take a look a…

> from Steven King's small town horror, to the Truman Show, or PK Dick

And then there is The Addams Family. The 2019 film addresses their conflict with American suburbia quite well. In the end, the neighborhood accepts them. Sometimes art does not imitate life.

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