realityking

Look at the graph labelled “ Share of generation (%)” to see the (relative) decline of coal.

From the OECD report you cited:

> In Germany, the tax wedge for the average single worker decreased by 5 percentage points from 52.9% to 47.9% between 2000 and 2024. During the same period, the average tax wedge across the OECD decreased by 1.3 percentage points from 36.2% to 34.9%.

Sounds like Germany is getting better.

Yes the share of electricity produced by coal plants is going down: https://ember-energy.org/countries-and-regions/china/

So it appears they’re building more renewable capacity than coal capacity.

What do you think they should’ve done when faced with a legal warrant from the jurisdiction they operate in?

Heat pump exists. I’d rather burn gas in the (mostly existing) gas plants than put more gas pipes into the ground.

> Can you point me to said list?

There’s no list per-se. The MacBook Pro (2021 and later) is listed as supported. The M3 Pro and M3 Max are not listed as only supporting 60Hz while the M3 and M1 Pro are.

I don’t think so. My M3 Pro is on the list as supporting 120 hz but it only has Thunderbolt 4.

Also the base M4 doesn’t habe Thunderbolt 5 and it support 120 hz.

It‘s also generational. My 18yo sister in law is now applying for colleges and the word “application” immediately made her look for an app. That the whole process happened on a (not mobile friendly) website was rather surprising to her.

(English is her 3rd language)

> For someone like me who already uses a password manager for everything, passkeys seem to add no security while reducing usability and control.

One advantage of passkeys is that they’re phishing resistant. They’re bound to the website that you created them for, it’s impossible to use them for a different website.

> There was an APAC trade treaty called the TPP that Rodham-Clinton/Obama pulled out of which would have done exactly that.

I think you got your timelines crossed - it was Trump who pulled out of TPP (though Clinton also opposed it during the campaign).

I can only speak about Germany. Here the technical safety and exhaust check are mandatory every two years. The exhaust check is relative to what the manufacturer specified when they first started selling the car. No one is getting their car taken away because technology improved but you can‘t let your car degrade (or modify it) so it becomes more dirty.

For clothes Zalando is a big one.

Beyond that it gets fragmented into companies serving only a few markets. Alza, Cool Blue, and Media Markt are some that come to my mind.

> This one bit me recently when I bought a package of budget light fixtures (in Canada, from amazon.ca) and then my licensed electrician informed me that he wouldn't be able to install them as they didn't have a CE mark.

The CE mark signifies compliance with European Union standards and regulations. Why would you expect Amazon Canada to care about that?

EV certs also showed the legal name of the company that requested the certificate - that was an advantage.

Estate is a common law concept. There’s no direct equivalent in German law.

Interesting thought process. I always liked the “master” branch to a “master recording” since most branches are created off master.

Many (most) companies don’t even manage to split their application across multiple cloud regions with the same provider. Doing it across providers is an order of magnitude harder.

The $199/month/zone Business plan already offers this feature.

I regularly fly from Munich, indeed more often than from Berlin, and occasionally from Frankfurt. This doesn’t really help me understand what makes it “one of the worst in the EU”.

I just clicked through to some of the listed ships and it appears they were all flying a British flag in 1982 before being requisitioned.

It’s not at all clear to me a government would have that power about a foreign flagged vessel, even if the shipping line owning it might be British.

> To an airport that is one of the worst in EU and almost a decade late.

The delay is inexcusable but the resultant airport seems pretty good. Why do you consider it one of the worst in the EU?

> completely empty apartment without even lightbulbs

This is such an interesting cultural divide. As a German moving abroad, I was shocked to find ugly light fixtures already on the ceiling. I’d wanna make the space my own and not live with my landlords decor choices.

> Pragmatically what does the US gain from joining? From a US perspective it would just be ceding power no?

It could have created momentum for other major powers to join (e.g. Russia) and given the ICC broad authority to prosecute the crimes it has jurisdiction over.

That might have created a world where leaders act differently. What, for example, would have happened in if Syria and Russia had both been members?

It’s easy to be cynical about ideas like the ICC - the logic of power is hard to avoid - but the US working against it is definitely a major reason for its weakness.

Saying things like “first genocide since WWII” makes me not take you serious at all. Just as a single example, Rwanda genocide in 1994 saw between 500,000 and 800,000 people killed. And it’s by far not the only one in the last 80 years.

BMW’s online catalogue indeed reaches back to the 60s: https://www.bmwgroup-classic.com/en/services/spare-parts/bmw...

It took Microsoft over 5 years to release Internet Explorer 7. That’s what allowed the web to ossify around it.

For comparison, Internet Explorer 6 came 2.5 years after 5 and so did 8 after 7.

> it is not actually clear there is an antitrust issue in that market

Preempting a (potential) future competitor from entering a market is also an antitrust issue.

I had missed the announcement that this is now available for npm: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-07-31-npm-trusted-publish...

Guess I know what I’ll be doing this weekend.

No speed limit in Germany. You’re welcome do drive 300kph on the Autobahn.

Which domestic competitors do you see them favoring with this industrial policy? Sennheiser might be the only European headphone manufacturer of consequence and I doubt they have this kind of pull.