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That's how businesses are created.

Once EVs are produced in the same volumes as combustion cars today then the price for an EV will be the same, and probably lower as EV cars are much simpler and contain less components. Right now there is probably also some markup added just because the manufacturer can charge more for an EV (status, more demand than production capacity etc).

The charging time will likely also go down further which could allow for the batteries to become smaller for most use cases and thus the price come down even more.

And on top of that, if energy prices continue to stay high, the SUV/Truck era might slowly die away and smaller/lighter/aerodynamic cars with better mileage will become the norm. Less metal and smaller motor needed means cheaper car.

But you can always change CDN provider in a few minutes, an hour or a day.

You cannot move from Twitter to SomeOtherUnknownPlatform.com or from the App Store to UnknownAppStore.com if those platforms decide they don't want you there. Well you can, but no one will ever see you again. You cannot even move to a well known platform in case your followers are not there (or don't use that OS). At least, it will take years to move them over.

"a web application that comes with a Windows installer, macOS traditional installation and a Linux RPM".

I'm curious; how do you implement this (I assume you do not use Electron)?

Wouldn't a PWA (installed PWA) make the web app integrate the way you say with desktop icons, separate window, drag & drop etc?

Burglary and robbery.

Yes, you are right, knowing the clock rate and duty cycle would be interesting to know. And knowing what the MCU is actually doing. Powering an MCU from a lemon or potato is nothing new and has been done with more than 30 year old MCU's, implementing clock's etc.

More challenging is probably to power a complete system, i.e. everything around the MCU, like driving Ethernet or WiFi or BT as well as some analog sensors and the like. Embedded MCU's do not require much and if you can spread out the computing needs over time, no big deal.

Look at Casio watches and the like which you can run for 10 years and they provide quite some features. It's okay as long as it is features that stay within the MCU/Display realm. Now, the watches which provide BT, GPS, different sensors etc kind of suck in this regard.

It's 210M for one year. He just has to wait 10 years to get it fully paid out.

Also from a user perspective there are many benefits with a software that exists on many platforms. It's often better with a slightly less good/snappy app that runs on all platforms than a perfect app than runs only on one platform. It's a feature.

It could also be said that it's a feature that the app does not 100% follow the native UI as the experience will be the same irrespective of which OS you are on.

Electric wire bus is better than tram as it does not require expensive tracks. It is also much easier to change the route. The tracks also create a lot of noise and vibration that gets into nearby buildings. Tracks are also dangerous for bicycles, and slippery for cars and trams.

There might be benefits with trams, but I do not know what.

Isn't that what calendars are for? Most of the time they are pre-installed on all OSes and they handle recurring schedules and notifications. On Linux I use Thunderbird for email with the Thunderbird Lightning Calendar [1]. I sync phone and desktop using CalDAV.

[1] https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/calendar/

Using Org mode [1] and for example EasyOrg [2] does pretty much that. You can use tags, links etc and filter and sort on text and tags. In the case of EasyOrg you would use the Agenda's List view and for the paragraphs to show up in the Agenda they have to start with TODO (or a custom state, i.e. '* DATA My link number one'). The document preview does not support filtering.

[1] https://orgmode.org [2] https://easyorgmode.com

Nice list! For using org-mode on desktop we made EasyOrg, https://easyorgmode.com. With a focus on managing todos for projects and with easy to use agenda and calendar views. More features and improvements being worked on.

Spot on.

By reducing the size and weight of the cars we use gives more than relying on magic new innovations. We use 2000kg cars to drive around a < 100kg person.

If we with the snap of a finger replaced all the coal and oil and gas we use with wind and solar power plants I'm not convinced that would be much better. Not maybe worse, but not better.

Wind mills everywhere, solar plants covering huge areas of land and a lot of metals and energy needed to construct all that. It just moves the problem around.

A small gasoline/diesel car is better than a big electric car. Or why not a small electric car such as this Citroen Ami or Zbee from Clean Motion:

https://www.citroen.fr/ami Or https://cleanmotion.se

Saving and reducing quickly now gives more than hoping for the new fancy technology being in place in 10, 20 or 3 years from now.

It takes about four years for your solar panels to pay back the co2 used to produce them.

And the co2 eeded to produce your car's batteries I do not know, but probably several years for that too.

So I doubt your daily driving is carbon neutral just yet.

An alternative to using Emacs is EasyOrg [1] which makes org mode a dash simpler to use and with a useful agenda and calendar view. Not supporting full org mode, but plenty of power for Todo list and project planning.

[1] https://easyorgmode.com

That's right. Germany exports when the sun is shining and the prices are low to Switzerland and Austria who use it to pump water up the Alps. When there is no sun in Germany, they buy it back at a high price from Switzerland and Austria who convert the stored water to electricity.

The thing is, we complain about the oil companies and at the same time we take the car to go to work, shopping, etc.

It's also the consumers who are using the oil, not only the oil companies, who are to blame at the end. If no one buys, no one will produce.

Sure, if it's cheap and readily available, people will use it no matter how bad it is.

That's why it's so important that the governments increase the taxes on oil, petrol and diesel.

Someone I know who had their house built took pictures of the construction site every day.

That way, if an issue turned up later, he could prove by showing the pics that they forgot to do something or did it in the wrong way.

I don't think you are wrong, but then some of the US GDP belongs to other countries so there are also some deductions to do.

Cisco and Ericsson did.

Well, ten years from now the S&P500 could very well be 30-40% below the current valuation.

"the bottom decile of returns for the S&P 500" I guess we have not yet seen what that means. The next ten years might show negative yearly returns.

Well if the bear does not come then a put option is useless. That's the problem OP has by being a bear.

In the pcloud Terms & Conditions they say this:

"If a European Union user of the Site or Services is located outside of Switzerland, then, for the purposes of any claim or action relating to these Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Site, or any Services, the applicable jurisdiction will be the courts that are located in the territory of residence of such European User. "

I was referring to pcloud and pcloud also have an office in Switzerland. But similar applies to Tresorit I believe, thy just have it for tax and marketing reasons.

The issue is both Tresorit and pcloud store the data outside of Switzerland. If you start using pcloud on the expectation that it's stored in Switzerland you are wrong, it will be stored in Texas or in Luxemburg. So, how can Swiss law really apply once it really matter? And secondly, who cares if it's Swiss law, it's nothing special with that.

People seem to believe there is some kind of banking secrecy that applies to data storage. On top of that, the Swiss banking secrecy does actually not exist anymore.

And looking at the Terms & Conditions from pcloud, it says: "If a European Union user of the Site or Services is located outside of Switzerland, then, for the purposes of any claim or action relating to these Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Site, or any Services, the applicable jurisdiction will be the courts that are located in the territory of residence of such European User."

So what is the point to highlight they are in Switzerland, if Swiss laws do not apply if you do not live in Switzerland? It's just false marketing.

No, I'm referring to pcloud. I'm not saying they are necessarily a bad service or anything, just that their marketing is false.

Be careful when companies market themselves as Swiss or that due to them being located in Switzerland means there is some extra layer of security or privacy.

Sure, it's a more stable country than many other countries in the world, but not much different from most EU countries for example. And privacy wise there is no difference.

Be also aware of the fact that many companies market themselves as Swiss, but all it means is they have a head office in Switzerland due to tax reasons. In one example, it's a cloud storage company, they say on their marketing page and their about page that they are based in Switzerland and under Swiss law, but if you look at the legal pages the company you sign up with are actually based in Bulgaria. Their servers are based in Texas, USA and Luxemburg, Europe and their development team in Bulgaria.

Low interest rates rather increase wealth than decrease it. Except for cash, almost all other assets increase with low interests such as stocks, real estate etc. So the wealthy generally get more with low interest rates and not the other way around. Probably also one of the reasons why it is so difficult for central banks and politicians to decide to increase the interest rates although it's most likely badly needed.

Actually with a modern Ubuntu like 20.04 there are not many issues at all. With 14.04 and 16.04, yes, it could be a bit rough with some graphics issues with some Java based programs, drivers etc.

Comparing Ubuntu 20.04 with my wife's Macbook Air M1 I do not see any differences in ease of use.

What happens to the insects passing through these things? If many or all of them die then this would be a big issue as a huge amount of air will have to pass through these things.

And that's a good thing as that increases the speed of solar adoption.

Governments should increase taxes on oil and coal (and electricity generated from oil and coal). That's the only way to speed up adoption of other energy sources.

The income from this tax could be used to build wind and solar power, energy research or paid back as incentives to people installing solar panels.