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> wide dispersal of compatible fonts

Would you please share a link where I can download Mongolian Helvetica?

E2E encryption can be really resource consuming, especially with the amount of traffic used for video chat. You might not want this just because of a worse user experience.

> I'd say it's a better deal for the planet than Russia subsidizing gas usage in e.g. Belarus

Finland itself is heavily dependent on energy imports from Russia. So Finnish heating is not exactly carbon neutral.

If you're using Mac you could find this feature in https://macos.telegram.org/ (v 5.9.1)

This is really confusing they have two official desktop clients for MacOs.

From the link that you have provided: > The US Energy Information Administration has recommended that levelized costs of non-dispatchable sources such as wind or solar may be better compared to the avoided energy cost rather than to the LCOE of dispatchable sources such as fossil fuels or geothermal.

Since nuclear reactors are dispatchable by nature (through the use of control rods), the LCOE cannot be an accurate indicator.

> Nuclear is currently one of the most expensive forms of energy.

You'd better get yourself familiar with facts:

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

Is this the key? https://github.com/moscow-technologies/blockchain-voting/blo...

> I said that energy hungry enterprises are exempt from it.

That's not what I was arguing with. Your statement about "they now pay one of the lowest electricity prices in the world" is just terribly untrue.

> yet energy hungry industries are exempt from it. And they feel the effect: because of the growing effect of the renewable energies, they now pay one of the lowest electricity prices in the world.

Not sure about the whole world, but Germany definitely has one of highest prices for elctricity in Europe:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

The stats you have provided are the numbers for the whole electricity generation, while I was talking of the heavy industry alone. I am not an expert, but AFAIK for steelmakers in particular it is crucial to have a reliable constant power supply, which neither solar nor wind can provide (let alone steel production itself relies on coal).

I wouldn't call Germany's Energiewende a success story since Germany has the highest electricity prices in EU: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

You may call it "the lobby power" but there seems to be no choice for the heavy industry than to use coal, thanks to nuclear phase-out.

Nice try, lieutenant Petrov

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev...

I bet the Chinese as the inventors of paper would be happy to get some royalties from the Western world.

Neither the article, nor your comment provide any substantial arguments, why the language itself should be perceived as a "jewel". All you have is just some references to inspiring success stories and an appeal to authority. What is cool about Oberon, really? (Apart your Wirth-fandom)

True. Lisp has never had strong lobby among corporations (like Pascal had) and is still striving to survive. Some 30-40 years after it has been created people start to dig in the whole paradigm: "program as mathematical expression" as opposed to "program as a natural language sentence" ALGOL/COBOL/PASCAL/etc.

The article praises some features adherent to the runtime/standard library: file system, Hypertext-Based User Interface, but what does it have to do with the language itself? What about clunky COBOLique keyword set: PROCEDURE, BEGIN/END? What about FOR loops, not implemented in the original Oberon? Ironically, LISP dialects predating PASCAL-family are still alive, whereas Pascal/Modula/Oberon are dead as a dodo.

> What do we tell the taxi and truck drivers when Uber shows up with self-drivers, etc.?

Just share this link with all these people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

It's all the same old story: opposing the progress leads to the extinction.

> http://modula-2.info

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Looks really nice! Not to mention PASCAL-like semicolon-infected syntax with mindblowing features like dynamic memory allocation and CASE OF. Who would bother with this fossil crap?