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They sold batteries on trains? I remember there used to be a pay phones on some German trains but they were using the analogue C network, which shut down in 2000.

Why should I do that? I remember the time w/o cell phones and it was horrible. I never want to go back.

at that point the Earth will also be uninhabital and gone and if we found a new planet to live on, there will be another sun.

That is not really the point, it doesn't matter if there is 4 or 40 or 400 billion tons of uranium, the point is that it is finite. At some point, there is none, or better there is no more usable ressources available. This can be shifted with technology and better knowledge but it is still finite. And that is all the point I wanted to make.

you forgot to mention that those 23 m high containment vessels are places in in a pool which of course have to be much bigger than that: "The reactor and containment vessel operate inside a water-filled pool that is built below grade."

We'll see of this is in any way or form sustainable, especially since uranium is also a finite ressource.

I don't know yet, in the announcement they didn't qualify what open source means for them. Will the complete client be open source? Will only parts of the client be open source? what about the server? which license will be used? We'll have to wait and see if this is useful or just marketing for the company.

I think the author really misunderstood the term "active hours"

HTML in email is awful but sadly in most place it has won. In Apple Mail you can't attach pictures to plain text email w/o them being converted to HTML again. Gmail behaves completely different. And on Android you can't really deal with fixed lines of plain text emails.

But what is even worse is, that most clients create extreme awful HTML, Outlook comes to mind. In a few version they put in the font-family "sans-serif" instead of sans-serif. Which meant the fall back would fail.

When the suspension rail was build, Wuppertal was one centre of the German steel production, so steel was available. I don't know how much of the original structure survived World War 2 but it should be more or less original from the original construction. But I'm kinda curious now. I will ask the WSW for a comment.

The problem with those alternative employee representation is, that there are not protected according to the "Betriebsverfassungsgesetz" (business constituational act). which can be very important if it comes to a conflict with the employer.

I'm a Google One subscriber and so far I have only bad experience with Google's user support, so I'm not surprised that it isn't any better with G Suite. Bit sad though.

I can't imagine how this is going to work with the GDPR in place? How should someone give their consent to this data collection and how do you remove it again?

All that I wanted to say is: not all PDF documents are created equal, some are really well and some are just awful.

That is created using LuaTeX and I'm sure the sources behind that PDF document are carefully crafted and LuaTeX works really well. But if you would do the same document with the same amount of images in Microsoft Word and create a PDF document is would be much much bigger and it won't load that quickly.

I will take the last part back, if someone can prove that I'm wrong about Word and PDF documents.

The British Government also published two years ago they reasons against using PDF https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2018/07/16/why-gov-uk-content-should...

An odd witness for the very true issues people have with Google Search. Google is crediting all websites it uses information from. It might be sad for such a site but I wonder how the creator thought that this is sustainable. Sites with biographical data for famous people already existed and for them adding net worth information is easy. So if not Google had kill them, they might have being killed by IMDb oder Wikipedia.

instant payments were just introduced in Germany, it is weird if you get the money the same day someone wire transfered it to your account. Wire transfers are very common in Germany, checks are almost gone. But these instant transfers are really new. Before those transfers were cleared once a day, I think.

I think we also should finally abandon the idea that companies are only here to make a profit and should ignore all other factors when doing business. That doesn't mean they should make no profit at all but it means that they also should consider external costs as if they were internal ones. This is true for the environment, privacy, data protection, employees, and many other things.

I read an analysis about Wal-Mart it was mentioned that employees are required to ask every customer within 3 feet. Maybe that has changed in the last 16 years.

Oh I would also be very confused since Aldi is the pioneer when it comes to shopping in peace and w/o frills in Germany.

I think some believe this was the reason why Wal-Mart failed in Germany. They brought this "can I help you" with them and German customers rather went to Aldi & co where they could shop in peace.

I get this, I usually ignore this bubble on website and I ignore it even more when it pops up and pretends to chat with me. So, I'm glad someone tried to remove it and got even better results.

two different issues. Google is not deleting Danish music, just blocking them in Denmark. Because they don't want to agree on the higher costs for the rights. The topic is rather complex but honestly, I think the issue is not really YouTube but the contracts between musicians and record labels, if those were more fair musicians would earn a lot more, even if YouTube paid less to the record companies. But this rather off-topic.

I think that is the point.

Maybe, Google should be forced to create a separate tab for the knowledge graph and other tools. like they are doing it for images, the news, or videos. when I want to search the web, I want to search the web.

Because I see the issues with this. I also think those information have a value for users.

If the German app would have been less privacy aware, it wouldn't even had 16 million downloads in Germany. The decentralised approach was and is the only one which at least worked a little bit.

I remember a story that Leland Stanford asked what is needed to found a university and the answer was 200 million dollars. What they didn't tell him, that it also takes 200 hundred years.

Universities are a longterm project, if a university is good or not, is something you don't really realise while you are there but when you are finished and try to use your knowledge.

I focused mostly on the parts I have some or a lot of knowledge about: energy and tranportation/mobility. I simply can't rule out that in the other fields Thiel might have an opinion I would share if I knew more about those topics.

Where I agree with him is the issue of real wages stagnation and even decline in the US and in other countries. Sadly, I don't think we would agree on the cause.

I guess, with SV you mean Silicon Valley? I live nowhere near that place. I also don't work in IT. And I hold a degree in economics.

Oh, than his views on innovation are even more wrong than I thought. Most progress, most innovation is the result of incremental progress. Sometimes you can see a leap forward, which usually comes that someone puts several incremental innovations together and combines them in the right way.

Yeah, ITER is not really a fast project. Weirdly enough there is also Wendelstein 7-X in Germany, which is also mostly funded by the German government is way ahead of other fusion project. No idea if this research will lead to a power source or not, but I'm pretty if it does, those power plants will be subsidised by the government.

China did what Germany did in the 19th century and Japan did after World War II but differently. Germany and Japan copied and made own things until they were experts and made better things than the original. China did that differently, they invited western companies through cheap labour and made officially those things, copied it then and became experts and eventually made their own products, which at least as good or better than the originals.

It is also helpful, that the Chinese government can just do things w/o any meaningful interference. In the 1960s and 70s, German cities wanted to build huge motorway like road through the city centres, which would have destroyed the cities, many of those project could be prevented from happening. Thiel would have critised those protests as a barrier for progress. Like he does, when he is mentioning zoning laws prevented a high-speed railway in San Francisco.

I disagree with Thiel on almost every page on this document. And I don't know which topic to really critise. Like his view on regulation, which he calls a burden. I don't want to live in a world w/o regulations, I want to know what is in my food, I want to know that the devices I use are safe. We could see what happens, when regulation fails, when two 737MAX crashed due to the fact that Boeing was able to hide MCAS from the FAA and the FAA let Boeing go forward with the plane.

At one point Thiel is quoted with "The public transportation systems don’t work." Which is a bold and false statement, because public transportation can work extremely well. And in the source they don't even talk about public transportation but about Uber, which I think is a failure and pointless and not really innovative at all. Services like Uber existed long before Uber, Uber just put an app on it instead of a phone call. Also Thiel complaints about parking. That he can't think of any other modes of mobility than a car, it rather telling.

His definition of progress and innovation is not technical or defined by quality of life but merely what he as an investor can earn money from it. This is very visible when Thiel dismisses incremental progress with wind turbines and photovoltaic cells.