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I think the problem is that something is wrong with the ENTSO-E feed for solar and wind power in Switzerland. Data is given as "N/A" on their webpage, too, and it states that: "Due to changes to a different primary data provider, no data is published for Production Type Solar and Wind Onshore. The missing data will be published retrospectively by 28th Mar 2019."

Given that the 28th Mar 2019 has long passed, I am not very optimistic that the feed will be restored anytime soon... and unfortunately I don't know of any other (e.g. primary) public source, either.

That looks like a good opportunity for an (at least tangentinally related) big shout-out to your great electricityMap (https://www.electricitymap.org/map) website!

I wish there would be more countries covered (in particular Switzerland), but I guess you depend on the live data being provided in these countries.

I see lots of complaints about Captchas in the “real” world, too. Not regarding the centralisation etc. aspect but more regarding how painful they are to complete correctly, but there are definitely complaints.

Regarding Cloudflare, a regular user will have no idea about what Cloudflare is and what they do. If something like the OP happens to them, they will just figure “the site is broken” and move on. So there could be a large hidden number of users who have suffered from overzealous Cloudflare blocking without being able to identify it as such.

> The US has the highest cancer survival rate in the world

The US isn’t bad in that respect, but according to Wikipedia, this statement isn’t even true for the subset of countries on their list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality...

Actually the article states that the driverless rides are limited to a subset of the total Waymo test area in Phoenix, which has nothing to do with legal restrictions but with how confident Waymo is in their technology. And, yes, some (maybe a big) part of Waymo being in Phoenix is the regulatory environment, but I bet a lot is also that there is no snow and other challenging weather conditions.

I would guess that for a large set of combinations of loaned items and customers’ typical credit card limits this would probably lead your customer to quickly hit his card limit and thus to a lot of frustration.

(Also, in many cases the potential ex-post charges are unknown and theoretically unlimited at the time of purchase, think e.g. of a car rental company wanting to charge you for your speeding tickets.)

You can add "#g" to any search and it will directly redirect to Google (similar to DuckDuckGo's shebangs). This works very well on Desktop, but I agree that it's a bit of a hassle on mobile...

Note that you do not have to wait for Google: You can just start searching using Ecosia (https://www.ecosia.org/) which use their revenue to plant trees around the world and are also a "negative emissions" operation. (Yes, the results are not as good as Google's, but for me they are good enough in the vast majority of searches, and for the remaining I can still hop over to Google.)

> Both countries with socialized medicine and yet they still didn't come up with a cure.

This is misleading. The original post was about medical research, which neither in Greece nor in England is any more "socialized" than elsewhere. They might have national health services, but those buy their medicines from the same private actors as any hospital in the United States.

Also note that the original article is specifically not about profit-driven R&D but about a donation-funded, non-profit venture. The (hopeful!) success of such a venture does not really translate well into an argument for private, for-profit medicine R&D.

You could argue that it's the raw capitalistic drive of SV that is uniquely able to generate the wealth necessary for such non-profit ventures, ok, fine (there are also counter arguments to this), but this was not really the point of the original comment.

Of course, podcast ads are also the opposite of almost all the other ads on the Internet: They don't send your personal data and web browsing history to hundreds of shady companies, they don't slow down your webbrowsing, they aren't a vector to install malware on your system.

Thus, I have absolutely no problem with podcast ads, and if they allow a great podcast I like to be produced sustainably, that's awesome! The same way I also don't have a problem with ads in printed magazines or on billboards (yet; some of them already do track you, of course).

If this is really the only way to successfully shop at Amazon, I wonder why so many people are still doing that. It seems to me that it would be the role of the shop I am shopping at to perform this kind of due diligence and quality assurance.

I just hope this is a typo... ;)

Where are you getting this from? OVH very prominently advertises their DDOS protection that comes with all their products (https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/en/anti-ddos/faq.xml). In fact, they once used it to explain why they increased the prices of their VPSes (https://community.centminmod.com/threads/ovh-increase-prices...).

And they also have a lot of experience with it because they host a lot of game servers which are very prone to DDoS attacks (see e.g. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/51640/cyber-crime/tbps-...), so they are definitely “structured to offer it”.

Just note that this is nothing new and has been discussed extensively a year ago. They say it is to implement full-text search and toots will be removed after a month: https://mstdn.jp/@tootdon/99759644880024717

If their statement is (still) true, it also means that the original post is at least imprecise insofar as they do not send every post to a central server but only public ones.

Here is an interesting article about this subject, suggesting a 400m-rule for walking distance to the next stop: https://humantransit.org/2010/11/san-francisco-a-rational-st...

The city of Zurich, Switzerland recommends a tram stop every 300m-600m: https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/content/dam/stzh/vbz/Deutsch/Ue... (page 19)

Plus, it also avoids interrupting all the others in the same office.

The „time lock” approach is exactly what Apple is doing if you try to recover your Apple ID (without password and second factor).

Unfortunately, when you search on Twitter, people are going bananas over having to wait a few days to get their Apple account reset... so I definitely get why not more companies are doing this.

This is why it is important to adapt environmental policies to local circumstances: if you are living in a country where your plastic bag ends in a landfill, you will have a very different definition of what is better for the environment than if you are living in a country where the plastic bag is safely burned in a trash incinerator.

(Which is where Denmark is coming from: http://www.seas.columbia.edu/earth/wtert/sofos/Denmark_Waste...)

Do you have a source for this? It seems to be difficult to get exact numbers on this, but the BBC quotes data (for the UK and for “developed European countries”, whatever that means, so not exactly for the EU, and comparing to North America instead of just the US) that seem to suggest the opposite: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47440562

I get the same treatment (and I am also not in the EU), but I have to say: apart from this specific link not working, their "European Union Experience" seems so much more uncluttered than all the other news sites out there!

It seems to be just news articles without all the bullshit. (It redirected me to https://eu.usatoday.com/, so maybe U.S. viewers can also experience it.)

It's even better than lite.cnn.io and thin.npr.org, because it is not all text but also has some pictures to the articles, which I want to see.

And, luckily for them, they don‘t need an airport to be able to land in the city.

I also use Firefox, but this discussion should probably not be the reason to do so: Mozilla has stated that they are tentatively onboard with the approach proposed by the Chrome team: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webappsec/2019Apr...

I am not so sure about this. When you read his books or look at his Twitter feed you surely get the impression he is a self-obsessed, extremely arrogant weirdo. But when he gives e.g. a talk in person, he comes across very differently - self-reflective, engaging, emphatic and funny. As someone else has mentioned in this thread, there are really two Talebs out there...

Their comparison to and discussion of the iPhone behaviour seems to be quite disingenuous to me: The iPhone search searches websites and your phone. Apps that you have installed on your phone can register to provide search results.

If you don't have Apple Podcasts installed, you won't get any search results for "Apple Podcasts" (I tested this). And if you have another podcast player installed that supports iPhone-wide search (e.g. Overcast), you will get search results from that other podcast player.

This seems to me to be quite different from the Google search, which (from what I understand from the articles) always seems to link to Google Podcasts if you are using it on Android.

My understanding was that Goldman Sachs will have that information and they will be responsible for fraud prevention etc. -- they just won't share it with Apple.

Are you a U.S. permanent resident or U.S. citizen?

It only works for foreigners, I believe, as U.S. residents don't need I-94 forms (the old cardboard slips). I'm also not sure if it works for Canadians, as Canadians can also travel to the U.S. more easily.

That is relatively new, though. As far as I remember, in the "old days" as a foreigner you got those cardboard slips stapled into your passport which were removed again when you left the country. Today they just do this electronically and keep track of who is in the country by receiving your passport information from the airlines. (You can even check your arrival and departure history online: https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/I94/#/history-search)

I also don't see the link to the topic at hand: It's not the (debatable) "oversized bureaucracy" that has drafted and works on passing Article 13: It is national governments (see the French / German "deal" on this topic) and the European Parliament (and particularly the EPP) that are the source of Article 13 and the frustration that lead to this blackout.

I like https://appear.in for video chats with friends and family, in fact their "room"-based approach works much better there IMHO than the "call"-based approach from Skype. But appear.in is absolutely not a full Skype replacement, if you are looking for contact lists and presence and chat functionality (you can chat in an appear.in room, but it is made for video) and/or the possibility to call phone lines.

> Aren't the people you care about vaccinated?

It is not that easy. Some people cannot be vaccinated, for example measles vaccination isn't licensed for babies younger than 6 months AFAIK. So they will still be at risk from others who could have gotten vaccinated but didn't.