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cipher_system··on German environmental groups file objection against Tesla gigafactory permit
TBF we have a claim that highly poisonous gas might escape.

I have no idea if thats true, how big the risks are or if things already have been cleared in the normal procedures.

This isn't the first factory in Germany and one would hope they know how to build them safely but who really knows.

cipher_system··on French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’
For Sweden and Germany all (guess >99%) of the french speakers speak english way better then french. The amount of english we're exposed to is so massive and the french is basically non-existent.

This is such a useless egoistic move from the french, just accept that english is the lingua franca.

cipher_system··on India's holiest river Ganges is swollen with Covid victims
I'm sorry to hear that. The number of cases has been difficult to compare between countries since everyone measures differently but the number of deaths are in many countries extremely accurate and even though it differs a bit each year it still gives a good measure of how bad it is.

Do you know if this is reported and compiled accurate in India?

cipher_system··on U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passes $35 bln water infrastructure bill
Yes, and digging and replacing pipes is expensive. I wonder how much is spent on maintenance and upgrades normally in the US. How much extra money is this really?
cipher_system··on Niall Ferguson: The Next Global Disaster Is Already on Its Way
Wouldn't it make a lot of sense to locate a bat born Corona virus research center in a region with a lot of bat born Corona viruses?
cipher_system··on Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ from Covid Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe
I got a call today from my district health care center and they told me I have an appointment for Saturday. Took no more than a couple of seconds and only required me to press one button.

Super convenient and it was so much easier than booking a covid test through our health regions app.

I work with web stuff but often dislike using it, maybe someday we can make it so that it's as easy as receiving or making a call.

cipher_system··on We mailed one hundred letters to test the postal service
Assuming price stays the same that means half the revenue, almost the same fixed costs and probably slightly lower marginal costs.

There is always a limit on how much money you can get from the government so they would have to save on expenditure with the decline.

It's nice to have but it can't be considered critical anymore. Bills, paychecks and other important mail needs to be delivered digitally, there's no turning back.

edit: parcels and legacy papers still need to work everywhere though and that is worth some public spending, but if you live in the middle of nowhere you have to accept longer deliveries on fewer days of the week.

cipher_system··on Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos
I always assumed they would be available as long as Apple or iTunes doesn't go under. Guess i'm not a reasonable consumer but luckily I haven't spent much money on them.
cipher_system··on Node.js 16 Available Now
We have a similar setup and it works pretty good, the only thing missing is the auto generated clients and that sounds like it could be really useful. What are you using there?
cipher_system··on Node.js 16 Available Now
I can never remember if i'm using promise-sleep, sleep-promise or any of the other available packages. Or if they stop working on a node upgrade. Also nice if people use and do the same simple things across projects.

The most common stuff I like to be part of the standard lib, either node or javascript, but it works fairly well now I guess so no biggie.

cipher_system··on Proud Boys and other far-right groups raise millions via Christian funding site
Assuming there's only two directions in your example. Do you really think the slope is only slippery on the right side?
cipher_system··on An argument that nuclear power makes the climate crisis worse
Everyone always says nuclear is expensive but what if the world (or significant portion of it) decided to go all in and build enough nuclear to replace fossil fuels in the next 2 decades. What would the price be then?
cipher_system··on Ask HN: Is there a book that teaches you dark patterns of office politics?
Just focus on solving problems for people and be a person that people like to be around.

Also learn to communicate properly, both in speech and writing. No one appreciates short common words substituted by numbers or single letters.

cipher_system··on How to Efficiently Choose the Right Database for Your Applications
+1 for aiven.io, works fantastically well and you don't need a DBA any more.
cipher_system··on The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try
What was the presenter wrong about?

And can't both be true? Developed countries need to reduce per capita emissions and developing countries need to reduce capita increase. 1000 * 1 = 100 * 10 and 2000 * 1 > 100 * 10.

Also on the plus side, reducing excessive population growth will reduce local resource need and thus local resource wars.

cipher_system··on The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try
I would say plastic bans only reduces ocean plastics on the tiny margin if the country has a well developed waste management system, which most European countries has.

Coming from a country importing garbage to use as fuel in combined power and heating plants I see no major problem with some countries exporting garbage.

China imported plastics to recycle, not throw into their rivers. They stopped because the learned that the health cost exceeded the tiny profits that industry made.

With that said, banning some kinds of plastic use under certain circumstances is a good thing. For a sustainable solution we still need to figure out recycling, correctly used, plastic is an awesome material.

cipher_system··on Everything About React Server Components
Yeah I never really understood this. Another example, my PS4 Pro can render the most beautiful games smoothly but the main interface with just a few icons is laggy as hell. Whats up with that?
cipher_system··on 'Megascale' structures that humans could one day build
At first, I just thought it was some kind of exotic accent but I have had no problem understanding him and english is not my first language. In fact, I find his speech quite enjoyable.

So to anyone unfamiliar with his work, do not let this stop you from watching, it's awesome if you are in to this kind of stuff.

cipher_system··on Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 600M doses
Maybe some vaccines are more expensive to produce? Do we know the profit margins on each of these vaccines?
cipher_system··on Show HN: Readsql – convert SQL to most human readable format
Me neither, when copying uppercase sql i always lowercase everything. But I can understand that some people are more used to that format even though I find it obsolete.

In any case, it is objectively not more human writeable.

cipher_system··on Show HN: A simple, plain, minimal, classless CSS for simple, plain HTML pages
Many projects place the demo link in the top right About box. Thats the first place I look at, demo first, readme second.
cipher_system··on U.S. contributes 5 times more ocean plastic than previous estimates
That only reduces the problem a bit though, it's not a sustainable solution. We also need to produce plastics that can and will be recycled. Taxation and legislation could be drivers for improvements.
cipher_system··on “A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclear power plant creates”
The debate and outrage have been about whether this is a good deal for Sweden or not.

Proponents claim that we've created a new base industry with new jobs. In parts of Sweden there is good access to clean power and the cool climate makes these centers relatively energy efficient.

Opponents claim that, excluding the temporary build phase, very few jobs are created. Since power isn't limitless and these centers use a lot there is now no space left for other industries that create a magnitude more jobs per MWh. These centers also pay low taxes on the electricity so their overall contribution to society is minuscule compared to the resources they consume.

cipher_system··on How to Type 3x Faster
Wow, I've been annoyed for as long as I've had a smart phone that it never could input my e-mail in an easy way. And then it was this easy all along, thanks!
cipher_system··on The Airline Industry's Meltdown
The global aviation industry is only around 2% of the global CO2 emissions so i'd say it's more of a mini elephant.
cipher_system··on One Man’s Trash
Sometimes I dream of getting rid of all stuff and quit my boring IT job and become a goat herder somewhere. But I have no idea how to herd goats or where to do it and I'm afraid i'll change my mind and miss my comfy enterprise bullshit job where I get paid a shit ton for doing almost nothing.
cipher_system··on Covid-19 Round 2 is Here
It sure sounds like a lot but historically its not, not yet anyway.

This is a graph of historical deaths in Sweden which has a similar death rate as the US. https://twitter.com/PanData19/status/1297919439212552193/pho...

While this year isn't over yet there has been years in my life time with worse death rates that went by completely unnoticed. Looking back in a couple of years I don't think people are gonna say that a lot of people died this year.

cipher_system··on Why it matters where COVID came from
Sure but we also need to figure out how to reduce the risk of pandemics occurring at all. There will be different measures required for natural and engineered pandemics.

There are enough people on this earth to be able to focus on more than one question.

cipher_system··on Spotify reportedly fighting with employees about hosting episodes of Joe Rogan
> One could easily argue that Joe does in fact not debate many of his guest and instead allow them to use his show as a platform if they so desire.

I haven't watched a lot of JRE but in general I see nothing wrong with people having the time to layout their thoughts and opinions more or less uninterrupted for an extended period of time and then listen to rebuttals and debate in comments or separate blog posts, videos etc.

The other end is political debates or interviews with opinionated journalists where they barely have time to say a sentence at a time. This doesn't have to be bad but a lot of time its just bickering and platitudes. It doesn't provide much depth.

cipher_system··on Bill Gates made his fortune through sheer robber-baronry
Strange, i've used macOS and Chrome for more than ten years now and can't remember ever seeing that.
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