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chess_buster··on Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
He in fact forced the founders of Tesla out of the company to call himself founder.
chess_buster··on Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/elon-musk-news-jus...
chess_buster··on Epic is turning off online services and servers for some older games
If unlicensed copying is theft, than switching off a required server is murder, I guess.
chess_buster··on Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries
Some food a poisonous when eaten raw.
chess_buster··on South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen
Germany made the allies to believe much more factories and infrastructure were destroyed than actually were. Additionally Germany has been shortly before that the scientific center of the world regarding Physics, Chemestry, Engineering… So the land of the thinkers and poets ("Dichter und Denker") obviously had a different starting point, no?

(I'm German, in case that matters).

chess_buster··on Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun
Just like your comment.
chess_buster··on Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun
Firing the employees to be able to pay interest. Like he did with the marketing team at Tesla when it was nearly bankrupt.
chess_buster··on Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun
It should be provided by the state like in Germany – where it's an insurance you pay into if your an employee
chess_buster··on In Europe, the bird will fly by our EU rules
like their's no nuance
chess_buster··on Germany Is Dismantling a Wind Farm to Make Way for a Coal Mine
The heart of the issue in Germany right now is that the conservatives (coal) and the social democrats (gas) had sabotaged the switch to renewable energies during the last decade – which was otherwise well on it's way.

This entire discussion about nuclear is just a propaganda trick by the fossil fuel industry, which knows that nuclear can't be build in time. So people will rely on fossil fuels longer because they wait for nuclear while renewables and storage are presented as unattractive.

Just like Elon did with his hyperloop adventure to sabotage high speed rail.

chess_buster··on Rooftop wind energy innovation claims 50% more energy than solar at same cost
This is the question.
chess_buster··on Vogtle Unit 3 starts nuclear fuel load
Even Sabine would not do it.
chess_buster··on Europe braces for mobile network blackouts
Oh yeah, I forgot. All of that, too.

And this is the look of the politician in question https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Peter_Al...

chess_buster··on Europe braces for mobile network blackouts
Many things:

* Blocked Biogas by imposing a limit on installed capacity

* blocked solar by imposing a limit on yearly added installed capacity (1GW)

* introduced the so called EEG-Umlage that made storage technologies unprofitable when used to store renewable energy

* introduced a shitshow of bureaucracy to prevent new solar and wind projects from coming online

* introduced another shitshow of bureaucracy to prevent new solar and wind projects from coming online on top of the existing shitshow

* undermine EU law by just not implementing it, for example regarding neighbours giving energy to each other

* introduced redicoulus "Abstandsregeln"/distance regulations, so for example open pit mines that use demolitions have an allowed min distance of 300m and windfarms 1000m

* When China poured billions into the companies forming China's solar industry, while German's companies had no help with their investments and funding

the list goes on and on and on and on...

chess_buster··on An early disruption event is starting for the Polar Vortex
Thank you.
chess_buster··on Once again so many people are led to think Wikipedia is broke and must be saved
What a smug dismissal of a comment obviously crafted with care.
chess_buster··on MemLab: An open source framework for finding JavaScript memory leaks
Can confirm, have been bitten in production. Therefore we have a lint rule that disallows `console.log` for production builds.
chess_buster··on Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?
Smalltalk 80s entire source code.
chess_buster··on YouTube-dl has an interpreter for a subset of JavaScript in 870 lines of Python
I evaluated it with my Pedantic Interpreter which only results in the `pedantic` token.
chess_buster··on The energy historian who says rapid decarbonization is a fantasy
Additionally Sektorenkopplung (the electrification of Heating and Transportation), will reduce the need for primary energy.

For example, a heatpump can produce 5MW of heating from 1MW of electricity by concentrating the heat from the environment. An electric car is 90% efficient while a combustion vehicle is about 30% efficient, roughly speaking.

chess_buster··on Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps
Thanks.

It would be great if this could be stated on the page.

I kept hackernews open in order that someone would explain to me what this actually does. Your comment thankfully fullfilled this.

chess_buster··on Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy
This burned into my brain when I was a teenager.
chess_buster··on The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. --Marcus Aurelius
chess_buster··on An interactive mechanical contraption in pure CSS
Thanks for this explanation. Very clever indeed.
chess_buster··on Decarbonisation of grids requires long-duration energy storage
No it's not.
chess_buster··on Clarus returns home in macOS Ventura
True.
chess_buster··on Xerox Star Keyboard
Apple Pages, too.
chess_buster··on Vivaldi Mail 1.0: Email client built into the browser
GitLab took libgit vom GitHub, didn't they?
chess_buster··on Rising temperatures erode human sleep globally
This might become a reality for people in india at the moment... :(
chess_buster··on Why is the nuclear power industry stagnant?
the gas plants are build BECAUSE they can switch to hydrogen produced by renewable energy. The hydrogen will be stored in the already existing gas system in form of a mix of hydrogen and methan.
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