pizzapill

> it’s a fact that they chose politics over CO2 reduction

True but the timeline is:

2002 - Ban of construction of new nuclear reactors and limitations on the normal operating life of existing reactors to 32 years. Last shutdown ~ 2021.

2010 - Government wants to increase the limit of some newer reactors to ~2030-2035.

2011 - Fukushima. 77% of Germans are against a increase of the operating life of the remaining reactors, 48% want all turned off immediately. Government (in a election year) goes with the opinion of a vast majority of Germans.

So the current exit was planned since 1990-2000. Municipal power plants have planned for increase in demand and invested billions. The need for renewables increases spending & investment enormously (after our wise government killed of solar in the early aughts and handed technological leadership to China).

With this years election the Green party will probably be the second most powerful party in Germany. A party that was founded with the goal to end German reliance on nuclear power and bombs.

Yes it is hard, can you provide comparison data from < 2000 and the search words you used? Is the Y axis price or usage?

Do you have a source for your claims? I mean its obvious that renewables are dependent on the weather, but that's no issue since a neighbour can always produce & Germany is building up power storage capacity. Including a fat line to Norway where Germany sends wind power and receives renewables power when there is a need.

Additional the German power grid is super stable, black- or brownouts simply don't happen.

> This causes the electricity price to routinely go negative because our neighboring countries don’t want to have it either.

This has and probably will always happen. For example Aluminum smelters are getting paid to burn electricity almost since the beginning of the industrialization, otherwise this industry wouldn't exist.

> What a failure. And what a failure that people still fall for that exportweltmeister lie

So building up massive renewable capacity while starting to sell more and more of it is a failure to you? Either your expectations are crazy high or very low...

2002 was the last year Germany imported more power than it exported:

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/153533/umfrag...

Germany is replacing nuclear/coal with wind/solar energy:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energiemix#/media/Datei:Energi...

(grey = wind, red = nuclear, black/brown = coal)

Both nuclear and coal are shrinking since ~ 2000 and both sources of energy have been replaced by renewables since then. Currently ~40% of power produced in Germany comes from renewables. Wind energy has become #1 source of power from 0 twenty years ago.

RSpec has none of that, a typical example from the first page of their documentation:

  RSpec.describe Widget do
    example do
      expect(described_class).to equal(Widget)
    end
  end

Pretty non-meta.

I think the CCC has a strong ethos to not work for such agencies but I'm sure many members do it, either because they are agents or because of other incentives.

> One notable difference is a much closer connection to e.g. intelligence services.

Some CCC hackers had a pretty good relationship with the Russian KGB. They got information about a wide range of US military secrets including details about the Space Defense Initiative (SDI). They were so successful that they wound up dead and a movie was made about them. Since then the CCC has to be heavily infiltrated by all kinds of Intelligence Services.

The factory is located somewhere in Brandenburg. There is a difference in building a factory on farmland vs. a house block in a large city.

To counter this a little, there is a jelly fish Turritopsis Dohrnii which is biological immortal. Those jelly fish and sponges (which can get very old too) are very, very old/successful species.

From the twitter link posted here it seems that "their" field of study is tattoos. The video of the talk of the impostor has a slide in the background with Victorian era tattoos. Seems like they both take them very seriously.

Sure but there are other dangers, some of this stuff has to be cooled. It has to be guarded. The place to store it has to be secure from all kinds of influences we can't control etc. To cite wikipedia:

> However, even a storage space hundreds of meters below the ground might not be able to withstand the pressures of one or more future glaciations with thick sheets of ice resting on top of the rock, deforming it and creating internal strains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository

We have made surprisingly little progress in the regard of long term storage, because the timespans involved and the potential dangers are not manageable by humans atm.

The question is do we want to put more on the pile or not? If the alternative is to destroy our planets with coal and co the answer should be clear.

But take Germany for example. We've built up wind energy from 0 to more output than nuclear energy in 15 years. I think this is preferable to nuclear energy which is not that dangerous but has the potential to become a unmanageable catastrophe at some point.

When we look at global warming there are two nations that need to act. China and the US, producing around 50% of Green House Gases. Both have more wind, way more space and potentially more money than Germany (China announced last year that they are gonna spend 1.5 Trillion USD in the next decades to become greener).

There is zero chance that we can communicate anything at those timespans. As I already wrote we have trouble to tell what happened 4000 years ago (how were the Pyramids build exactly?) and that is just a blink of an eye when compared to a million years.

Ancient Egypt was a super advanced civilization continuously existing for 4000 years! Yet shortly after the decline nobody could read Hieroglyphs anymore.

We don't know what the future holds. Lets say in 50 years a low intensity Gamma Ray Burst hits earth and destroys all digital information but fries only half of all living creatures. The survivors dig trough the trash of the past to get to the rare earth metals they need to rebuild their civilization and find this really neat bunker with those funny signs...

The half life of Plutonium is ~24k years. That's way beyond a time frame we have any grip on. Then its still very, very dangerous. Uranium (nuclear fuel) has a half life of 200k - 4.4 million years. Then its half as dangerous.

CO2 has a half life of ~ 10 years in our atmosphere btw.

We are talking about time frames that are many times longer than the existence of modern humans as a species. We have absolute zero clue what most humans did 200k years ago, we have only little knowledge what humans did 4000 years ago. How can you expect us to communicate with a world in eight hundred thousand years, or 1.6 million years? We don't even manage to get any of the nuclear waste out of our oceans we put there 40 years ago.

One very simple metric to improve search results is testing how long a user visits a site. When users search for something, click a link and return to google seconds later you can assume that the result did not match what the user was searching for.

To add to this: those were highly sought after specialists with a lot of privileges. This had consequences that sound strange to us nowadays.

Stonemasons were heavily involved in medieval diplomacy, since everybody in power needed them to build or repair fortresses. They could travel freely between kingdoms that were at war with each other and exchange messages between the respective rulers.

As much as I like most of what he does nowadays I always wonder how many years of technological progress we lost due to Microsofts shenanigans.

This is the doing of a company that gave us Internet Explorer 6 & Office Macros.

Microsoft prioritized user experience over security for the longest time of their existence and I think they had a little bit of success with it :)

Walking simulator is a genre like Jump & Runs/Platformers (Super Mario Brothers).

SAP - Price for the base package of a couple million. Price of customization can bankrupt international corporations.

Ca. 370 Mio. USD

Germany is not in the five eyes. Its a Commonwealth thing. The US is doing mainly industrial espionage in Germany and drag net mass surveillance...

I've read that in multiple docs back then but since you observed this it could've been false. The rationale I had for it was that there are many sites with completely independent subdomains or technical resources like asset being served by subdomains. Buying established Domains and scraping old content does not rely on Subdomains. Affiliate, ads or your own product can be placed on the TLD. I dont doubt you tough and I think I will try it sometimes. Old school fun

deepl.com works way better than Google translate. At least for German => English

I doubt you find much about alcohol consumption in this law since in Germany you are allowed to drink in public at 16 years old (14 with your parents)

I've had a small stint into SEO in 2012 and Im pretty sure that Google treated Subdomains as their own entity back then. I would be suprised if this changed in the meantime.

> MATTE SCREEN

Some of the old thinkpads had a display where you could turn off the backlight outside and use the sunlight.

Those NVIDIA fanboys. I have a AMD RX 480 which heats my room just as good.

Urheberrecht vs. Verwertungsrechte...

> Copyright should neither be transferable in whole nor in part. Rather, the author should only be able to grant someone else the right to use the work in a certain way.

Nach dem geltenden Recht kann das Urheberrecht als Ganzes und in seinen Teilen (z. B. das Vervielfältigungsrecht, das Aufführungsrecht) abgetreten werden. Nur die aus dem Urheberpersönlichkeitsrecht erwachsenden Befugnisse, wie z. B. das Recht, Entstellungen des Werkes zu verbieten, sind unübertragbar. Der Entwurf sieht - wie das österreichische Recht - von einer derartigen unterschiedlichen Regelung der Übertragbarkeit der einzelnen urheberrechtlichen Befugnisse ab. Das Urheberrecht soll zukünftig weder im ganzen noch teilweise abtretbar sein. Vielmehr soll der Urheber einem anderen nur das Recht einräumen können, das Werk in bestimmter Weise zu nutzen. Das Urheberrecht selbst verbleibt dabei, belastet mit dem Nutzungsrecht, dem Urheber. Hierdurch wird sichergestellt, daß der Urheber auch dann, wenn er die wirtschaftliche Auswertung seines Werkes einem anderen überläßt, stets eine gewisse Kontrolle über das weitere Schicksal seines Werkes behält.

http://www.urheberrecht.org/law/normen/urhg/1965-09-09/mater...

deepl.com english translation:

Under the applicable law, copyright may be assigned in its entirety and in its parts (e.g. the right to reproduce, the right to perform). Only the powers conferred by the moral right, such as the right to prohibit the distortion of the work, are non-transferable. Like Austrian law, the draft refrains from such a different regulation of the transferability of individual copyright powers. In future, copyright should neither be transferable in whole nor in part. Rather, the author should only be able to grant someone else the right to use the work in a certain way. The copyright itself remains, burdened with the right of use, the author. This ensures that even if the author leaves the economic exploitation of his work to another person, he always retains a certain control over the further fate of his work.

Germany is a very special case. AFAIK you can't lose the right to things you create here, that means the "copyright" (Urheberrecht) of code you create will always belong to you. You can't sell it or lose it in any other way. Your employer "only" has the right to use it without limitations. I would not draw conclusions based on the situation in Germany, since the law could be wildly different.