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A shame, as a Spaniard my German boss always said that I was more German than him...never sure as to take it flattering or otherwise.

Of course he said if I was to be a German I would be from Berlin....apparently those folks can make a public budget work.

This was around the financial crisis. Not this one upcoming, the last one.

I am not saying I am against nuclear. I am just against "private" nuclear benefits, public insurance.

Your answer is off topic and full of prejudice.

yes, and hopefully all of them will be set up in his garden and his children kindergarten.

Because why somebody else should bear the risk of a nuclear disaster.

This is nonsense. State/society is the last backstop, the last resort insurer in nuclear risk. Why shall we insure nuclear risks so Mark gets richer with more clicks ? again socializing the costs and privatizing de profits.

Not in my backyard.

tax any money received using stocks as collateral, as personal income.... as that is how they get the money they spend.

I am shy to admit I used visicalc on an HP-85.....1980 ?¿? maybe...I learned the periodic table with a basic program I made on that piece of art.

if fancy a bit more of capability, dockerized opnsense and just play right with your vlans. One cable is enough into your switch...did I said managed... and your opn/telco eth exit.

I am not using Twitter, not buying a Tesla and I am definitely not going to Mars. Positive !!

not any longer. My edge 70 required weeks to uninstall bloatware, taboola and all that crap. Eventually settled with netguard to kill any non approved outgoing connection. It has been a real pain. Changed my view on moto completely. I have been a happy user of a Motorola one for 6 years...

>> And—like any other payments directly from readers—micropayments would be a multiplier for advertising, not an alternative.

WTF, no way

>> no drug like attention ... help develop the habit....

Mark Z. again ??

legit advertisers ?¿?

Are there any ?? taboola and their ilk unremovable apps ? anybody wants their heads blow up?

>>The survival of legit sites depends on how quickly marketers can level up to stuff

Bonkers. Legit sites depend on reaching financial independence on legit valuable content that people want to read.

It is true that I look to this from an EU perspective. I am biased

Time ago a colleague and I pitched YC for compsate.com, basically a wallet (real money, forget crypto) based system ( no subscriptions ) for news/content micropayments system. The idea was based on no adds, no tracking, read news like you buy a newspaper at the kiosk. Pay 2 orders of magnitude more for each article you read (than what ads provide per page), your choice. Replenish wallet at will.

Logging into a system (acquiring an ID token in the process), then browse freely to any news site and read any content, including pay-walled which would be paid out of your wallet. All near real time. Small amounts would drive down risk of fraud, that could be as well controlled by the selection of news stand that can join.

Pay for what you read, compensate for the value of what you read, make your news source independent (at least financially).

We fail the pitch but I believe it still is doable and preferable for the media if they would set up such a platform together. You know the commons....sometimes wins.

whats different from stirlingpdf ?

After 17 years I dropped Synology recently. I sold my 2 NAS. Company changed focus. Did not like the walled garden and old linux base.

I moved to a second hand beefed-up laptop and a terramaster disk pack connected vi USB. Same wattage.

It does take some effort, but now it is done. I like to tinker anyway. I pulled up Proxmox with a bunch of containers doing SMB/SNF per share.

Just like with Synology, I just look a regular emails with successful backups. edit: typos

colmi ring + gadgetbridge

https://gadgetbridge.org/

off with their heads !!!!

Proxmox is a gem that deserves far more recognition. In light of vmware actions specially. There are many industrial companies with distributed manufacturing outputs that do not need to run many 00's of servers/VM/containers on site that would benefit substantially from jumping boat into proxmox. EDIT:typos

~carrier---> cellco.

When you ROAM, you traffic abroad is routed to your home country ( for security reasons among other things) and then off to the internet from there. You can check that your public IP, when roaming, is an IP from your cellco.....unsure if there are any changes with 5G though.

You are not bypassing any firewall as your traffic is actually happening at home. If you access local sites, traffic is coming from home.

I always thought nuclear was an all or nothing. Massive thermal inertia and hours days? to fully come online from cold start. Even if it is not coming up form cold start, this type of power balancing is new to me.

This should kill combined cycle role in the electricity mix to counterbalance renewables swings ? am I missing something ?

Hi,

We are running the above survey to better target our new product.

We want to analyze many facets of “the need”. From Clayton Christensen’s “what do we hire this stuff for”, to sensibilities around topics that influence our selection of media or willingness and reasons to pay for content.

Moving from a paradigm of mostly free ( or rather I haven’t got a clue of how am I paying for this but the deal seems good ) to I make a choice as to what is valuable for me, I understand this is the hard work of somebody and it deserves to be compensated if I want it to be to the standards I expect.

It is 73 questions. If you think that is going to be exhausting , thanks for reading up to here. No need to continue. We value your time.

Understanding the right levers is paramount for us. It ain’t easy or we ain’t smart enough without so many questions.

Currently 85% of respondents are male...it’s totally unbalanced. I wish some ladies had the opportunity and willingness to fill out the survey.

It is in 5 languages. Choose wisely. There is probably at least one that is right for you :-)

Many thanks to all of you who took the time to read to this point.

For those who will take the survey to the end, may the fairies bless you.

Big Thanks

Julian C.

I presented a similar project to YC Winter 2020. A project a friend of mine and me were working on.

Good move from YC to reject us.... 10M,USD backed by NYT and started already 12 months ahead of us....need to improve my google skills.

I love the concept, what can I say. I want to pay for the services/content I get. However I am in no way willing to sell my soul to a bunch of marketeers.

The model is broken, trying to move a printed press model to the web. A new model is required.

Now, coming form the other side of the pond, I have to say that our approach was substantially more privacy minded. This is the Aquiles heel of the proposal on my perspective.

Unfortunately there is no privacy laws in the US or they are simply rendered void by anybody pretending to wear anything better than a boy scout badge. An absolute joke. Maybe California sets the tone for a change.

I wish they succeed. When theinquirer.net closed last year, I doubled down on taking the idea forward. I wish I could have been compensating them over these years and they would be still in business.

JC