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So far I haven't encountered ans issues with banking apps using MicroG in Germany. Could be our banking apps are even more backward though. Also given PSD2 there is always the option of someone developing 3rd party banking apps.

I think those numbers lump the emissions from goods produced in china and exported to other countries in with the emissions from domestic consumption. So they are inflated by China's vast exports. Yet even if you use consumption based emissions, China was around Spain's numbers in 2016 and by now probably has overtaken quite a few of the European countries.

The proposed laws usually change before they are adopted. I can not ascertain how much of an impact the public consultation has. It is online though so the barrier of entry is pretty low. And even if it's completely useless it is still a good way to stay informed if the changes might impact someones business.

The EU does public consultations, usually years in advance. If those regulations are affecting your business it might be worthwhile to check their site every once in a while.

Most of these stories are probably from when the RPi cost <40$. For most of its existence it was significantly cheaper, used significantly less power and space than comparable x86 boxes.

I built one at the time. Imo the lack of auto-focus was a plus, as I'm not moving that much and hate the complete blur to refocus some cameras do occasionally.

Back then you needed a Pi Zero for USB device mode and a specific software version for this to be supported other than that it just worked.

While yes, Germany profits from the European grid to offset some of its over or under production, it doesn't really affect Germany's or France's nuclear energy production.

As you can see even at time when wind provides more than half of Germany's total energy production, the red nuclear bar remains nearly unchanged.

https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c...

If you check France's energy production at the same time nuclear energy production isn't affected.

https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/power-generation-energ...

It does affect oil, gas and coal, but hardly affects nuclear.

>The theory is that it will be used to settle inter-bank transactions once it is widely adopted by institutions.

Banks have absolutely not need of a proof of work scheme like Bitcoin, them switching to a system with the power requirements of BTC seems highly unlikely.

There can be no such thing as an ARM compatible instruction set that is not an ARM instruction set. Either it supports the necessary instructions then it is an ARM instruction (possibly super)set or it doesn't then it's incompatible.

Depends, performance wise it should be able to compete with or even outperform x86 in many areas. A big problem until now was cross compatibility regarding peripherals, which complicates running a common OS on ARM chips from different vendors. There is currently a standardization effort (Arm SystemReady SR) that might help with that issue though.

Regulatory capture can happen, but it is by no means so inevitable or incorrigible that regulation should not be attempted.

With AMD you have the clear competitors Intel and Nvidia with their respective market share, revenue and valuation. There was a real world reason for their low valuation (Bulldozer) and a real world reason for there stock to recover (Zen). Intel had been stagnant for years and their 10nm was obviously not working. With AMD's and Jim Keller's track record there was a reasonable case for them managing to catch up and their stock to rise accordingly. If those are meme arguments the whole market is a meme.